Pro Helvetia

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is seeking to fill the part time Innovation and Transformation Specialist position (60%–80%), in Zurich from 1 October 2024.

Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is looking for a Head of Pro Helvetia New Delhi to start 1 December 2024.

For its Global Network & International Affairs Sector, Pro Helvetia are looking, as of 1 January 2024 or by arrangement, for a Head Staff Office Global Network & International Affairs (80%).

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is looking to support research-based and process-oriented programmes that foster exchange between art, science and technology involving organisations in Switzerland and across the world.

Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is launching a call for applications under the heading ‘Expanding Perspectives’. Coming in the wake of previous programme ‘Multiply Perspectives’, its aim is to find projects that enable critical reflection among a variety of social groups and contribute to a diversification of voices in debates around Swiss artistic and cultural production. In the case of international collaboration projects, at least 50% of the artists and cultural practitioners must be Swiss or based in Switzerland.

Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia are offering a joint residency for two artists, one from Switzerland and one from India. The residency will take place April - May 2023 in Bengaluru, and September - October 2023 in Geneva.

Pro Helvetia Johannesburg launches an open call for the co-creation of new work between musicians based in regions addressed by Pro Helvetia Johannesburg (Southern, East, Central and West Africa) and Switzerland. Projects should be realised between December 2022 and the end of November 2023, and leverage existing connections between collaborators.

Pro Helvetia Cairo seeks to recruit researchers to conduct a comprehensive landscape analysis of individuals, collectives and institutions in the Arab region, whose work lies at the intersection of art, science, and technology. The research period runs from 1 October - 20 December 2022.

The City as Forest Residency Programme offers immersion for research and experimentation, meant for artists and scientists interested in developing their work in the urban environment of Rio de Janeiro. The programme will run 16 May – 4 June 2022 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Applicants from Brazil, Germany and Switzerland are invited to apply.

With the call for applications ‘Multiply Perspectives’, the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia aims to support projects that seek innovative ways of thinking critically about art and culture and about their function in society as part of their thematic focus on Critical Reflection. To be eligible for funding projects need a connection with Switzerland.

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia is launching a new call to support the development and testing of new frameworks and methodologies for working internationally. The ’To-gather’ International Collaboration call supports 2–3 year collaborations between arts practitioners, cultural organisations and institutions in Switzerland and their counterparts in the regions of the Pro Helvetia liaison offices.