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

Projects Supported

Regional Arts Programme

"No Street Vendors" (2017) by Kombo Chapfika © Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival 2017
ANT Adaptation, SDC

Announcement: ANT Adaptation Fund [Zimbabwe & Zambia]
Multi-discipline, SDC

Waza radio goes on the air
SDC, Visual Arts

Njelele launch mujejeje: A sonic programme tracing transnational music histories
Multi-discipline, SDC

The Subterranean Imprint Archive explores technopolitics in Southern Africa
"No Street Vendors" (2017) by Kombo Chapfika © Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival 2017
ANT Adaptation, Open Call, SDC

Call for Applications: ANT Adaptation Fund (Zimbabwe & Zambia)
Literature, SDC

Exploring independent publishing at WAZA Art Centre
Breathing Space, Contours, East Africa, Literature, SDC

The Writivism Interlude Programme takes space to regroup, recap and refocus
SDC, Professional Exchange

Open Borders: DR Congo – Mozambique
SDC, Research Residency

Afro Ndi Luso Research Residency: An Approach into Ancestral Interpretation
SDC, Multi-discipline

Njelele Art Station launch Concepts of Love
Music, SDC

Bakolo Music International share rumba music with the world
Performing Arts, SDC, Theatre

Performing through the Pandemic takes theatre online
SDC, Music

Nzango Artist Residency goes virtual for the One Country project
Artist in Residence, SDC, Visual Arts

Artist-in-residence at Nafasi Arts Space: Aristote Bestaleel Mago & Mwamba Chikwemba
SDC, Music

Cross Cultural Brass Band Collaboration (CCBC)
Dance, SDC

From Lubunga: Sello Pesa and Humphrey Maleka on residency at Studios Kabako
SDC, Visual Arts

Atelier Picha adapts for distance learning with the Market Photo Worksop
Stories from our Programme, Multi-discipline, SDC

Lindiwe Matshikiza: “My world is bigger; I think of myself as an artist in Africa as opposed to a South African artist”
Breathing Space, Contours, Digital Arts, SDC, West Africa

Physical Chaos, Digital Calm – a virtual exhibition imagining new artistic frontiers
Visual Arts, SDC

The 4th Boda Boda Lounge
SDC, Visual Arts

Modzi Arts Gallery presents Stary Mwaba at the online edition of FNB Art Joburg
SDC, Dance

Closed physical borders – opening new creative boundaries! Dancing towards KANDA YETU
Theatre, SDC

NZARA:HUNGER – A multimedia adaptation of a Zimbabwean folktale
Dance, SDC

DEUS NOS ACUDI by Pak Ndjamena
SDC, Research Residency

In pursuit of Mtendere: a research project by Kresiah Mukwazhi
SDC, Music

Afr(indi)an fiction: A sonic dialogue conceptualised by Kinsmen
SDC, Visual Arts

Kampala Biennale 2020: Get up Stand up!
SDC, Visual Arts

Emerging Painting Invitational 2020
Multi-discipline, SDC

Sira / Rusting: experimental virtual residency
SDC, Research Residency

Mufhiri by George Mahashe explores copper traditions in central and southern Africa
SDC, Literature, Theatre

Savanna Trust: Writer’s Residency and Mentorship 
SDC, Theatre

Savanna Trust hosts 4th Southern Africa Theatre Camp online
SDC, Digital Arts

Powering up young digital art curators for Fak’ugesi Festival 2020
Lorin Sookool and Sumalgy Nuro. Image: Franziska Kas, Cape Town (SA) and Zurich (CH)
SDC, Performing Arts

Mixed Not Diluted: A research project in search of likeness beyond difference
SDC, Research Residency, Visual Arts

Bag Factory virtual Luso-Linkup curatorial residency
SDC, Visual Arts

The Botswana Pavilion: Collective Ties
Multi-discipline, SDC

Studios Kabako’s Letters from the Continent
Multi-discipline, Performing Arts, SDC

PACE: Entangled is going online to connect performing arts from Africa with the world
Dance, SDC

Garage Dance Ensemble creates video masterclasses for Namibian trainers
SDC, Theatre

The AMAVUSO Project: An all-female cast explores the ‘Blesser/Blessee’ phenomenon
SDC, Dance

Ebhudlweni Arts Centre: Artist in Residence online intervention
Digital Arts, SDC

Hetsika: Virtual Winds
Music, SDC

Akum artist management workshops
Multi-discipline, Dance, SDC

danceGATHERING – This is the end: The future is black
Music, SDC

Jorge Henriques on residency at International Library of African Music
SDC, Performing Arts

Theatre beyond borders by Compagnie La Seringu’arts
SDC, Visual Arts

Sbonelo Luthuli on residency at Nafasi Art Space
SDC, Dance

Wezile Mgibe takes The Politics of Displacement to Zimbabwe
Music, SDC

Flying Bantu Ceasefire Roadshow tour February-March 2020
Multi-discipline, SDC

International Symposium of Another Roadmap School Africa Cluster
Music, SDC

SADC musicians to light up the stage at Sauti za Busara 2020
Performing Arts, SDC

nora chipaumire at Fari Foni Waati 2020
SDC

Announcement: 2020 ANT Mobility Funding Recipients
Visual Arts, SDC

Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial
Dance, Professional Exchange, SDC

African festival directors gather for exchange of practice Steamroom programme during KINANI
SDC, Performing Arts

Nkateko Priscilla Masinga takes Wither/With Her to LitFest in Harare
Music, Professional Exchange, SDC

Swiss and regional professionals head to Accra for Music in Africa ACCES
SDC, Multi-discipline

Lineo Segoete on residency at Njelele Art Station
SDC, Street Art

Breeze Yoko on residency at Njelele Art Station
SDC, Dance, Professional Exchange

Dance professionals from the region gather in Maputo for Kanda Yetu
SDC, Digital Arts

African Robots Market Hack at Maputo Fast Forward 2019
Visual Arts, SDC

Modzi Art Gallery: Marketplace at FNB Art Joburg
SDC

Call for Applications: ANT Mobility Fund 2020
SDC

Appel à candidatures: Fonds de Mobilité ANT
SDC

Convite à Apresentação de Candidaturas: Fundo de Apoio à Mobilidade ANT
Visual Arts, SDC

Lagos Biennale
Visual Arts, SDC

Young Congo Biennale
Visual Arts, SDC

Lubumbashi Biennale
SDC, Music

Austebza Tours Africa (SADC Edition)
SDC, Multi-discipline

AfroLuso Residency 2019 artists
Multi-discipline, Music, SDC

Ncoko: Conversation as Art
SDC, Digital Arts

Fak’ugesi African Digital Residency artists 2019
SDC, Music

Celebrating makhoyane at Nzango Artist Residency
SDC, Artist in Residence

Naadira Patel on residency at Is’Art Galerie / La Teinturerie
SDC, Multi-discipline, Visual Arts

Festival d’Art Urbain 2019 6th edition
SDC, Performing Arts

Collectif d’Art-d’Art and Modzi Arts present Overstaying
SDC, Music

Joint tour: Siti & The Band and Berita AfroSoul
Dance, SDC

Mhayisa Productions take ‘QHAWE’ to Haba na Haba dance festival in Dar es Salaam
Epheas Maposa (Zimbabwe), 'Untitled'
Visual Arts, SDC

The Emerging Painting Invitational Prize launches
SDC, Research Residency

ROUTES FOR ROOTS: Poetics of place among Lesotho’s shepherd subculture
Professional Exchange, SDC

La Teinturerie Skills & Knowledge Exchange Workshop with Kim Yip Tong
Visual Arts, SDC

Five Photographers: A Tribute to David Goldblatt
SDC, Visual Arts

The Imaginarium in Windhoek
Multi-discipline, SDC

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Residency 2019 #OWNOURFORCE
Multi-discipline, SDC

RAP UP: News from the Regional Arts Programme
Professional Exchange, SDC

Modzi Arts: Grow to Share International Partnerships
Music, SDC

Up Close and Personal with Moreira Chonguiça
SDC, Performing Arts, Professional Exchange

Savanna Trust: Southern Africa Theatre Collaborative
SDC, Visual Arts

Butcheca and Option Dzikamai artists in residence at Nafasi Art Space
Multi-discipline, SDC

Vela 6911 & tectonik:TOMBWA by Victor Gama and Stacy Hardy
SDC, Research Residency

thirdspace research residency
SDC, Perfomance Art

My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival
SDC, Visual Arts

Alexandre Kyungu studio residency at Bag Factory Artists’ Studios
Multi-discipline, SDC

João Renato Orecchia Zúñiga travels to DRC for sonic mapping project
Multi-discipline, SDC

RAP UP: News from the Regional Arts Programme
SDC, Dance

SOLD TOO! by Themba Mbuli and Trixie Munyama
Multi-discipline, SDC

Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) Live Art Workshop
Dance, SDC

ReRouting Arts Festival
SDC, Artist in Residence, Visual Arts

Kresiah Mukwazhi: Residency and workshop at Nafasi Art Space
Perfomance Art, SDC

Lovatiana Rakotobe and Géraldine Leong Sang collaborate on ‘Ndao hiara handihy’
SDC

Announcement: 2019 ANT Mobility Funding recipients
SDC

Call for Applications: ANT Mobility Fund 2019
Music, SDC

Ujeni Records takes Malawi to Watana Festival 2018
Perfomance Art, SDC

Nástio Mosquito ‘Respectable Thief’ at ICA Live Art Festival 2018
Multi-discipline, SDC

Points of Engagement
Multi-discipline, Artist in Residence, SDC

Fak’ugesi African Digital Residency goes trans-continental in 2018
SDC, Performing Arts

Collectif d’Art-d’Art on Residency at Modzi Arts
Music, SDC

Soundz of the South: Hip Hop and Transitions
Multi-discipline, SDC

Pro Helvetia at Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2018
Dance, SDC

Time & Space: The Marrabenta Solos
Theatre, SDC

ZOO and CulturArte celebrate their 20th anniversary with Southern Africa tour
SDC, Performing Arts

Francois Knoetze at Kinact 2018
Theatre, SDC

Bongani Masango tackles the meaning of freedom in post-colonial Africa in ‘Liberation’
Visual Arts, SDC

Of traps and tropes, curated by John Fleetwood as part of the Tunisian international photography festival, Kerkennah #1
Music, SDC

The Tune Recreation Committee presents The Future Is Now: SADC Tour May 2018
Music, SDC

Matchume Zango launches “Wata M’Cande” at HIFA 2018
Performing Arts, SDC

Savanna Trust hosts the SADC Theatre Camp
Music, SDC

Denderah Rising with Georgia Anne Muldrow + Thandi Ntuli Quartet + The Monkey Nuts live in Jo’burg
Multi-discipline, SDC

Vilho Nuumabala at Edge of Wrong 2018
Performing Arts, SDC

Collaboration between Africa | Nosy Art Exchange and The Center For The Less Good Idea
Digital Arts, SDC

Pro Helvetia at 2018 edition of Afropixel
SDC

Announcement: 2018 ANT Mobility Funding recipients
Music, SDC

Press Play: Shapeshifters – a collaboration between Umlilo (SA) and Sean K (NAM)
SDC

Convite à Apresentação de Candidaturas: Fundo ANT de Apoio à Mobilidade
SDC

Appel à Candidatures: Fonds pour la mobilité ANT
Visual Arts, SDC

I MAKE AFRICA | HARARE
SDC, Perfomance Art

KINANI: Re-connecting Identities
Visual Arts, SDC

Being Her(e) curated by Paula Nascimento & Violet Nantume
Perfomance Art, SDC

Comum: Madagascar – Mozambique
Multi-discipline, SDC

I am Gule! SIDWADL’imask
Fine Art, SDC

Kudzanai Chiurai: We Need New Names
Multi-discipline, SDC

Festival d’Art Urbain 2017 4th edition
Multi-discipline, SDC

(rhythmanalysis) from within, without and against
Multi-discipline, SDC

Live Arkive
SDC, Theatre

Espiritualidade na rota de Xenofobia- Spirituality in the xenophobia route
SDC

Call for applications: Afro Luso Curatorial Training
SDC

3rd Space Symposium: Decolonising Art Institutions
SDC, Music

In the Key of Marimba
SDC, Visual Arts

Agathon Mapemba: Misambwa
SDC, Multi-discipline

Fak’ugesi Festival’s Digital Africa Residency
Visual Arts, SDC

Usakos — Photographs Beyond Ruins travels to Maputo
SDC, Music

Joel Karabo Elliott’s Roots Grown Deep into Mozambique
Music, SDC

Maskandi Marrabenta Tour
Performing Arts, SDC

Swiss and SADC presence at ASSITEJ Cradle of Creativity
SDC, Multi-discipline

Southern African Festivals Development Project
Music, SDC

Colagem Co!
Visual Arts, SDC

Being and Becoming: Gender Politics, Race and Identity in the Creative Space
Performing Arts, SDC

FITI XIV Festival Internacional Teatro de Inverno
Music, SDC

Afrikan Freedom Principle Composers Workshop
SDC, Performing Arts

Modjadji at the Magnet Theatre
Fine Art, SDC

Georges Senga Assani presents his first solo exhibition in SA
SDC, Performing Arts

Dwayne Kapula: I am Gule
Music, SDC

SA Roy & The Forest Jam Band tour Southern Africa
SDC, Multi-discipline

Southern Africa Theatre Development Camp
SDC, Fine Art

Cristiano Mangovo’s first solo project
SDC, Music

BakTu Musik: Kgalagadi Soul Tour
SDC, Music

Collabonations II & Tschuku Tschuku
Dance, SDC

Redefining… homework
Music, SDC

Simba and Milton Gulli perform at Sauti za Busara Festival
Music, SDC

Carine Tredgold of Busara Promotions: Stage Management and Design Training
SDC

SDC supported projects: October 2016
SDC

SDC supported projects: September 2016
Perfomance Art, SDC

Buhlebezwe Siwani on her residency
Music, SDC

Amandla Freedom Ensemble Presents – Born to Be Black
Fine Art, SDC

Being and Becoming: Complexities of the African Identity
Perfomance Art, SDC

Lindiwe Matshikiza and Daniel Sixte collaborate around Grace