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Liaison office of the Swiss Arts Council in India, which aims to coordinate Pro Helvetia's activities in South Asia.

02/10/2026

Thilini Perera, Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Geoffrey Bawa Trust, works across design, exhibition-making and cultural practice. Since joining the Trust in 2019, she has shaped exhibitions, programmes and publications exploring architecture through questions of identity, culture, politics and spatial practice. In 2023, she conceived and curated The Order of Nature, a q***r installation that introduced new perspectives on Bawa’s work.

Her research explores how architectural and cultural institutions can become spaces for contemporary research, experimentation and exchange — revisiting what we inherit through the questions of the present, while making space for perspectives and practices beyond established architectural discourse.

During her research trip, Thilini Perera will also engage with spatial practitioners from various liaison offices. The trip starts with two days at the Biennale del Territorio in Lugano, at Villa Saroli, where the Instituto Internazionale del Archittetura is based.

15/09/2026

Illustrator and picture-book author Carla Haslbauer, based in Basel, Switzerland, creates imaginative worlds inspired by nature, the underwater world and childhood memories.

Where Do Ideas Come From?

A creative workshop for ages 10–12 exploring imagination, inspiration and the world around us.

20 September | 4–5:30 PM
Museum of Goa, Pilern

Carla will also be at Bookaroo, Sunder Nursery, New Delhi on 3 & 4 October, including:

How Did You Think of That?
4 October | 11:30 AM–12:15 PM
The Arches, Sunder Nursery

Illustrating for Children
Panel discussion | 4 October | 12:45–1:30 PM
Amphitheatre, Sunder Nursery

With Pakhi Senshekhar and Kripa B, moderated by Ruchira Das.

05/09/2026

Tanvi Mishra will be at PlaTform 26 in Switzerland.

A photo editor, curator, writer and educator, her practice explores rights and representation in image-making, refusal as a visual strategy, and the shifting boundaries between truth and fiction. Her work sits at the intersection of politics, culture and social justice, foregrounding kinship and solidarity as tools to imagine alternate, reparative futures.

Her current research focuses on refusal and its relationship to visibility, particularly in the context of ongoing colonialities. She examines photography’s limitations in illustrating complicity and implication, asking how images might move beyond representations of suffering to consider the structures, causes and perpetrators of power.

31/08/2026

Meet Thị Hoàng Thư Nguyễn, a Geneva-based textile designer specialising in hand felting and knitting. With a passion for ancient techniques and intricate patterns, her practice brings traditional craftsmanship into conversation with contemporary design.

During her residency in Vietnam, Thị Hoàng Thư Nguyễn will explore the connections between Vietnamese textile traditions and contemporary practice, looking at how techniques such as weaving, embroidery and tie-dye are preserved, passed down and reimagined across generations.
The residency will result in documented research and new textile designs that bring heritage and contemporary creativity into dialogue.

Photo Credits: Thu Nguyen

26/08/2026

A cultural practitioner, author, curator and educator, Alakananda Nag works at the intersection of image-making, archives and cultural practice. Through Absent Archives, she explores forgotten and underrepresented histories and finds new ways to engage with archival silences.

During her research trip, she will meet Swiss curators, archivists and cultural practitioners to explore how Swiss institutions work with absence, fragmentation and living memory, and exchange approaches to archival and curatorial practice.

25/08/2026

Are you a game developer who identifies as a woman? 🎮

Meet Srushti Paranjpe, a 2026 mentee, game designer and illustrator from India. Her project ‘Aatpat Nagar’ reimagines local folklore through a story-led game inspired by a unique festival from her hometown.

One week to go! Applications for the 2027 programme close 1 September 2026 at 23:59 CEST. Link in bio for more.

Ready to take your game practice further?

24/08/2026

Ground Control by Studio Eidola reflects on Ladakh’s emerging lithium frontier through a field of survey-like markers, made from locally gathered twigs and marigold-dyed wool. Referencing the tools and visual language used to investigate territory, the installation imagines a possible future shaped by mineral extraction.

At the same time, its materials remain rooted in the present: wool, pastoral practices, seasonal grazing routes and generations of knowledge tied to the land.

The work asks what happens when a landscape valued for its cultural and ecological life begins to be seen through the lens of what lies beneath it.

31/07/2026

Catch Paloma Canonica at Drukyul’s Festival of Literature and Arts

Swiss illustrator Paloma Canonica will be at the Drukyul’s Festival of Literature and Arts in Bhutan this August, leading a hands-on workshop and joining a conversation with a Thimphu Comics illustrator.

Piecing it Together (Collaging Workshop)
🗓️ 3 August | ⏰ 9:15–10:45 AM

Let Me Draw You A Story (Conversation)
📍 Royal University of Bhutan, Main Auditorium
🗓️ 3 August | ⏰ 2:50–3:20 PM

These events are part of Let Me Draw You a Story, presented by ThinkArts in partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan under the Sustainability with a Plus initiative.

23/07/2026

Yumna Al-Arashi is an artist, filmmaker, and writer whose practice explores the intersections of history, identity, and power. Through evocative visual storytelling, she reclaims forgotten narratives, confronts colonial legacies, and reimagines the representation of women, the Arab world, and the environment. Rooted in myth, memory, and resistance, her work bridges centuries-old traditions with the urgencies of the present.

This August, Yumna Al-Arashi will present two public conversations in India:

📍 1 August | 5:45–6:30 PM Image Worlds: Hybridity Bicentennial Symposium India International Centre, New Delhi Yumna will present Proposal for a War Memorial. Co-organised by PhotoSouthAsia and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.

📍 13 August | 3:00 PM Kochi Biennale Foundation – Let’s Talk Series School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai.

20/07/2026

✨AiR 2027

We are glad to share the selected participants to our Artist in Residence (AiR) Programme 2027!

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Photo credits:

Akshay Mahajan ©️ Kapil Das
Jagdish Moktan ©️ Deniz Bedir
Johanna Lier ©️ Mario Kwast
KreativKonsum, courtesy the artists
Poonam Jain ©️ Daniel Rodríguez
Simon Aubert & POL ©️ Titouan Massé

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