Deadline: 1-Mar-23
Pro Helvetia is currently accepting applications for its Visual Arts Grant Program to promote the professional contemporary Swiss visual arts with a view to ensuring their diversity as well as their national and international reach.
Pro Helvetia supports the creation of new artistic works, the dissemination of Swiss art and culture outside Switzerland and cultural exchange in Switzerland. As a national foundation, Pro Helvetia supplements the promotional activities of Swiss cantons and municipalities and supports only projects that are cross-regionally or internationally recognised. In the visual arts, Pro Helvetia supports fine arts, photography, new media, performance and architecture.
Categories
- Work Grants: Pro Helvetia supports the creation of new works in the visual arts, photography or architecture. To be eligible for funding, applicants must provide a track record of independent, proven and cross-regionally recognised professional practice as well as have completed professional training. The work should contribute to advance the applicant’s artistic practice.
- Research Grants: A research grant offers artists, photographers and architects the opportunity to pursue in-depth research and implementation processes.
- Production Grants: A production grant supports the creation of a new work.
- Grants for production with presentation: A grant for production and presentation supports the production of a new work as part of its first public presentation.
- Emerging artists projects: grants for art spaces
- Pro Helvetia promotes emerging artists in cooperation with established institutions in Switzerland and abroad. The projects supported must be aimed at artists and cultural practitioners who demonstrate great artistic potential with a view to a national or international career and must help them establish themselves in Switzerland’s artistic scene as well as in small and medium-sized cultural institutions and on digital platforms (hereinafter referred to as art spaces). This is intended to make it easier for artists to enter the art scene and to gain initial exhibition experience.
Funding Information
- Work Grants:
- Research Grants: Artists may apply for grants of up to max. CHF 5,000.
- Production Grants: Artists may apply for grants up to max. CHF 25,000.
- Grants for production with presentation: Artists may apply for contributions up to max. CHF 25,000.
- Emerging artists projects: grants for art spaces
- Art spaces may apply to Pro Helvetia either with an annual programme (for grants of up to CHF 15,000) or for individual project grants (up to CHF 5,000).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for support, projects must
- have a clear connection to Switzerland
- be of nationwide importance
- be adequately co-funded by other public or private means
For more information, visit Pro Helvetia.