Our Offices & Partners Abroad

For detailed information please click on the offices and cultural centres below. For further information on the headquarters in Zurich please go to: www.prohelvetia.ch

Artist Year: 2020

Music, Research Trip

Flee Project | Research Trip

Olivier Duport: Born in 1989, Oliver Duport is a graduate of Science Po as well as the University of Helsinki. After an assignment for the Austrian Embassy in Brussels, he joined the French Institute in Berlin in 2015 where he worked in collaboration with the Bureau Export. In Germany, he initiated Le Rituel, a platform …

16.12.2020
Research Trip

Joël László | Research Trip

Joël László was born in Zürich in 1982 and lives in Basel, where he studied Middle Eastern Studies and History. He works as a writer, playwright and translator. For the Basel based Lenos publishing house, he is currently translating a novel from Arabic to German. His plays include «Lullaby for Baran» which won the audience …

01.06.2020
Studio Residency

Chadi Messmer | Studio Residency

After having participated in a lot of different musical projects, Chadi decided at the age of 21 to pursue a career as a professional musician and joined the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts. He completed his studies in Bachelor of Arts in Music  in 2017 and two years later in Master in Music …

21.08.2019
Studio Residency, Visual Arts

Sonia Kacem │ Studio Residency

Sonia’s practice has been characterized by voluminous in situ, ephemeral or permanent sculptures/installations, which attempt to redefine abstraction, its formal identity and its narrative scope. She, collects images, forms, stories, which she uses to manipulate ideas and materials, in order to deploy pallets of colors and shapes in which the body is brought to wander. …

Studio Residency

Aly Khamees │ Studio Residency

Aly Khamees, born in Cairo (Egypt). Growing up in a local area (Matareya) he enjoyed street dance, this passion led him to a general desire for dance and he has decided to become a dancer. Years later he joined a street theatre team “Hala”, and had a golden chance to have direct contact and interactions …

Studio Residency

Ali Tnani │Studio Residency

Born in 1982 in Tunis, Ali Tnani is a Tunisian contemporary artist based in Tunis. He received his Masters in 2007 from the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-arts of Tunis and has since exhibited widely and participated in international residency programs. A leading practitioner in the field of conceptual art, Tnani is known for his multimedia …

Upcoming maintenance work

The application portal myprohelvetia will be updated from 1.1.-7.1.2024. Due to these changes, open applications must be finalized and submitted via the current online portal (myprohelvetia.ch) by the latest 23:59 on 31 December 2023. Until this date, the deadlines and criteria outlined in the current guidelines and calls for applications apply. New applications can be created and submitted in the application portal as of 8 January 2024.