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Committed to cultural exchange and artistic collaboration between Switzerland and Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

20/07/2026

🌐 Selected artists for residencies in 2027

The annual residency programme is a cornerstone of Pro Helvetia’s work. This year, we are thrilled to have received 202 applications through our annual open call. These are carefully considered by experts from our Shanghai office and the head office in Zurich. Special attention is given to the clarity, coherence and engagement with the regional context and the local scene of each submission, as well as the positioning of the residency experience meaningfully within the artist’s overall professional trajectory. We wish them a fruitful exchange set to gain inspiration, establish networks, and generate new projects.
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🔗 Find more information on residencies, the selected artists and their projects here: https://prohelvetia.ch/en/whats-on/selected-artists-in-residence-2027/
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📅 The call for residencies in Switzerland and the regions of the liaison offices is open once a year, from 1 January to 1 March.
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Visual © hesign

09/07/2026

🎋 Róng Design Library Calls for Residency!
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Deadline: 1 September 2026
Residency date: One month in 2027
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In collaboration with Pro Helvetia Shanghai, the Róng Design Library invites two to four designers from Switzerland to spend a month near Hangzhou. The selected designers will be able to research and study traditional Chinese handicrafts and materials (bamboo, silk, mud, copper, paper, etc.) and apply the techniques they learn in their practice.

Apply now: https://www.ronglibrary.com/en/resident/swissopencall

08/07/2026

🎮 Open Call: She Got Game

Are you an emerging game developer ready to thrive in the game industry? We’re excited to launch the latest edition of She Got Game, a mentoring programme designed to promote equal opportunities and support women in leadership roles in the Swiss and international gaming industry.

This programme is designed to break down barriers to access, qualification, networking and visibility for women in the game industry. It offers participants 1:1 online mentorship with industry experts, online lectures to hone their skills, a supportive community of emerging female game developers, a chance to participate in an international game design festival, project visibility and a stipend.

Who is eligible?
The call is aimed at anyone identifying as a woman. Eligible participants include game developers or studios who have completed their training or founded a company (as a legal entity) less than seven years ago.

An online information session about the programme will take place on 5 August from 2-3 PM CET. More information on eligibility criteria (such as eligible countries, etc.), registration for the info event and application 👉 link: https://prohelvetia.ch/en/find-support/game-design-emerging-talents-she-got-game-3/

Deadline: 1 September 2026

📷 Graphic by Emma Strydom

22/06/2026

Open studio @ PROGR Bern

Join us for an evening with artists-in-residence Li Yingdi and Sama Alshaibi, currently hosted at the Residency.ch apartment in PROGR. They will present their ongoing projects, offering insight into their current research and artistic processes.

🗓 Tuesday, 23 June 2026, 18:00
📍 Residency.ch Guest Apartment, PROGR West, 4th floor, Bern
🥂 With apéro riche

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About Li Yingdi

Based in Beijing, Li Yingdi is a writer working primarily in nonfiction while also exploring fiction. Her work centers on contemporary youth, emotional life, and everyday experiences. Her debut narrative nonfiction book The Runaways (2024) explores the psychological worlds of young people. She is currently working on a novel focused on emotion and memory, continuing her exploration of realism and the subtle inner lives of modern individuals.

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Please RSVP to me by 21 June. We look forward to seeing you there ✨

17/06/2026

Across the breadth of projects supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, ecology has emerged not just as a thematic trend but also as a sustained field of inquiry, one that cuts across artistic disciplines, cultural contexts, and modes of collaboration. To reflect this growing focus, we have initiated a dedicated series in the What’s on section of our website.

Our June newsletter brings together a selection of our most recent ecologically engaged endeavors:

Post-Carbon 1.0-3.0, Who Owns Nature?, Murmurs of the Pearl, Rockfall and Birdsong, Queere Tiere, Dialogue with Ice

Rather than offering singular narratives, these projects open spaces for attention: to interdependence, to invisibility, and to the fragile continuities that shape our shared world.

Read more: https://prohelvetia-shanghai.cmail20.com/t/i-e-zulgg-mlhdyvtk-u/

12/06/2026

Public Ground: In The Urban-Rural Continuum
Pop-up Exhibition and Conversation
Curator: Gong Chenxi (artist-in-residence at ZAZ)

Venue: ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich
Exhibition: 17 June, 14:00-20:30
Conversation: 18:30-20:30
Free entry

Participants: Atelier Wo-Land; Fichter+; Martino Pedrozzi; Schneider Stoner; studio we architettura; Chair Of Architectural Behaviorology ETH; Architecture of Territory ETH

Gong Chenxi [China] is the founder of Atelier Wo-Land. Her Intervention in Yangshantou Village was shortlisted for the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award and recognised as highly commended for AR Public awards. She understands the architect as a kind of anthropologist — someone whose practice is grounded in understanding for the sake of imagination. Through site-specific interventions, analytical mapping, and teaching, she seeks to awaken perception and activate the often-overlooked ties between space, landscape, history, and collective life.
More about the curator: https://www.atelierwoland.com/

20/05/2026

🧩 Co-creation and artistic practice
🔗 What is the foundation of an equitable collaboration? How does working together influence artistic practice? What challenges do partners encounter along the way? Partners from five supported co-creation projects share their experiences.
💡 With the measure co-creation, Pro Helvetia supports projects that are jointly developed by Swiss artists and their counterparts in the regions of its liaison offices. The measure is designed to strengthen artistic practices that have emerged through earlier residencies, research trips or independent collaborations and to give them time, continuity and space to unfold.
⌛ Application deadline: 1 June 2026
Find the full article and more information on the co-creation measure on our website: https://prohelvetia.ch/.../co-creation-and-artistic.../
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1/5: HeveaHub – Alexander Amir Khan (Switzerland) and Katia Fagundes (Brazil)
© Courtesy of the artists
2: SEESAW – Jasmine Morand (Switzerland) and Shaymaa Shoukry (Egypt)
© Laetitia Gessler
3: Tuning, digital instruments and post-traditional music in Africa and Europe – Basile Huguenin‑Virchaux (Switzerland) and Samuel Karugu (Kenya)
© Kilele Summit
4/7: Hallucinations of an Artifact – Jonathan O’Hear (Switzerland) and Mandeep Singh Raikhy (India)
© Venus Maku Thokchom
6: Wen Keng We Meet? – On Connection – Stirnimann-Stojanovic (Switzerland) and Keng Chen (China)
© Courtesy of the artists, Gessnerallee, Zurich, 2026

14/05/2026

In our May newsletter, we turn our attention to a vibrant and growing dimension of cultural dialogue: the presentation of Swiss artists in China through the format of exhibitions.

Over the past months, we have witnessed a remarkable range of projects that go well beyond the mere display of works: Julian Charrière, David Moser, Pauline Agustoni/ Ivo Allgoewer/ Léon Félix/ Noemi Niederhauser/ Reto Pulfer, and Elisa Shua Dusapin. Genuine exchange happens when artists are present to meet local audiences and hold events that transform a static presentation into a living conversation.

Here, we're glad to share a handful of such moments across visual art, design, and literature.
Read more: https://prohelvetia-shanghai.cmail19.com/t/i-e-ziukitl-mlhdyvtk-n/

06/05/2026

⏪ Annual report 2025
In 2025, Pro Helvetia supported around 6,800 arts and culture projects in Switzerland and in 113 other countries around the world, thereby making a crucial contribution to the fostering of professional Swiss arts and culture production and its international dissemination.
Find more project examples and information on our activities in 2025 in our annual report 👇
https://prohelvetia.ch/en/annual-report-2025/

📷 credits
4 KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE © Nicholas Schärer
5 BRICKS – Chorale for bricks and bodies © Carlos Mario Lema
6 © IceCrack Games
8 Palais de Tokyo © Copyright Vivian Suter, Courtesy Karma International, Zurich; Gladstone, New York / Bruxelles / Seoul; Gaga, Mexico DF; Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Credit : Aurélien Mole
9 © Holger Menzel
10 © Agnese Bedini / Alessandro Saletta / DSL Studio

16/04/2026

🖇️🖇️🖇️ Open Call: Fumetto-Tandem 2027 🖇️🖇️🖇️

Fumetto and Neubad Luzern, in cooperation with Pro Helvetia, bring together two comic creators from Switzerland and abroad for a comic residency: One Swiss and one international comic artist will be invited to the “Fumetto-Tandem”, a three-month collaborative residency.

For the 2027 edition, this residency will be held in cooperation with Pro Helvetia Shanghai - Swiss Arts Council and Post Wave Comics (Beijing).

Open call link: https://www.fumetto.ch/info/news?item=open-call-tandem-2027
Application deadline: 15 May 2026

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