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The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia has commissioned a team of architects comprising Mounir Ayoub, Vanessa Lacaille from the Laboratoire d’architecture in Geneva as well as Fabrice Aragno and Pierre Szczepski to create the Swiss Pavilion exhibition at the 2020 architecture Biennale in Venice. Their project was chosen out of 51 applications. It deals with the …

Every March, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco opens its doors to game developers. At the world’s most important computer games fair, Pro Helvetia will be presenting one of the largest national delegations ever under the SwissGames label. Three studios have already received «Honorable Mentions» for the GDC Best In Play Award. Its …

At the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, artist duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz will transform the Swiss Pavilion into a vast immersive installation. Entitled «Moving Backwards», the project explores, in a time of massive backlash, resistance practices, combining guerrilla techniques, postmodern choreography and urban dance, as well as elements of …

Switzerland is the guest of honour at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2019, to be held at the beginning of April. This represents a unique opportunity for the vibrant and diverse Swiss children’s and youth book scene to present its creations to an international audience. The centrepiece of Switzerland’s contribution as guest of honour is …

On 17 and 18 January 2019, the Centre Culturel Suisse (CCS) will present its new programme. It has been devised by Jean-Marc Diébold, CCS director since 1 October 2018, and Claire Hoffmann, head of visual arts programming. The programme launch gives carte blanche to performers Delgado Fuchs, who have invited musicians, performers and dancers to …

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is, for the first time, supporting the set-up of long-term partnerships between Swiss and European institutions, organisations and festivals in the realm of performing arts. Such cooperation agreements provide Swiss performing artists with greater geographic scope for their activities beyond the confines of linguistic and political borders, and boosts …

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is presenting contemporary Swiss design on two platforms in London this September. At the London Design Biennale, the Swiss contribution demonstrates an artistic and reflective take on the shaping of friendly relations. At the London designjunction, seven young Swiss studios from the domains of interior and product design will …

The curator of the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Charlotte Laubard, appointed by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, has announced she is developing an exhibition with artists Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz. Curator and art historian Céline Eidenbenz is responsible for next year’s «Salon Suisse» at …

Twenty authors from the German, French and Italian speaking parts of Switzerland have been awarded a work grant this year by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. The support gives them financial leeway to concentrate on a literary project. A total of 93 Swiss authors from all linguistic regions of the country applied for a …

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is delighted to announce that this morning the Swiss Pavilion has been awarded the Golden Lion for best national participation at 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. This internationally renowned award is for the first time given to the Swiss Pavilion. The Golden Lion distinguishes the …

On Friday, 25 May 2018, the President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset will open the exhibition to be shown at the Swiss Pavilion during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Following a public competition, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia has commissioned Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg …

Curator and art historian Claire Hoffmann has been appointed by future director Jean-Marc Diébold as head of programming for the visual arts, design and architecture at the Centre culturel suisse in Paris. From January 2019, together with the new management and staff of the Centre culturel suisse, she will support Swiss artists in disseminating and …

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is organising Switzerland’s national contribution to the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019, and has launched a competition for this. The winning project is now definite: The arts studio Fragmentin from Lausanne and the architecture firm KOSMOS architects based in Geneva will represent Switzerland in Prague with …

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is sending a pan-Swiss delegation of young designers to the world-famous Furniture Fair in Milan. Under the heading SWISS ❤ DESIGN, six aspiring Swiss design studios will display their products at a large-scale exhibition in Palazzo Litta. The Swiss presence also features on the Swiss Design Map Milano, which …

Since 2006, cities, cantons and Pro Helvetia have been joining forces to improve the prospects of internationally established Swiss dance and theatre companies by means of three-year support contracts. Sixteen companies now stand to benefit from such a «cooperative support agreement» for the 2018–20 period. According to the terms of the support agreements, the municipalities …