IMRAN SIDDIQUI

13 AUG - 04 SEP ‘18

Switzerland: Zürich

SARAH SINGH

02 - 09 JUN ‘18

Switzerland: Various places

GAUTHIER TOUX TRIO

NOV - DEC ‘18

India: Various places

GEORGE J STEINMANN: THE SOUL OF REMEDIES

NOV ‘18

India: Delhi / Bengaluru

SEMINAR IN TAIPEI

07 - 18 AUG ‘18

Taiwan: Taipei

LONG NIGHT OF LITERATURES

28 SEP ‘18

India: Delhi + two more citiesSHIVARAJU B.S.

(AKA COP SHIVA)

OCT - DEC ‘18

Switzerland: Zürich

AZIZULLAH HAZARA

15 AUG - 30 SEP ‘18

Switzerland: Geneva

STUDENTS' BIENNALE

SEP - OCT ‘18

India: Various places

INDIAN CERAMICS TRIENNALE

31 AUG - 18 NOV ‘18

India: Jaipur

LAURENCE RASTI

NOV ‘18

Myanmar: Yangon

MARCEL ZAES

31 MAY - 28 AUG ‘18

India: Delhi / Imphal / Bengaluru

RUBY HEMBROM

JUL ‘18; SEP ’18

Switzerland: Zürich / Grisons / Basel

ALINE VEILLAT, THE SOIL SONG

SEP - OCT ‘18

India: Kalga, Himachal Pradesh

LUCIEN DUBUIS AND REGULA SCHWAB

17 SEP - 22 OCT ‘18

India: Delhi / Bengaluru / Jaipur / Puducherry

JANA JAKOUBEK

OCT ‘18

India: Bengaluru / Chennai / Ahmedabad

EF_FEMININITY

DEC ‘18

India: Goa + two more cities

REPORTAGEN

OCT ‘18

Switzerland

SHIRANA SHAHBAZI

22 OCT ‘18 - 13 JAN ‘19

India: Delhi / Mumbai / Rajasthan Sri Lanka: Colombo

GATI JOURNAL AND WRITING LAB

OCT ‘18

India: Delhi

SONJA FELDMEIER

DEC ‘18 - JAN ‘19

India: Delhi / Kolkata

PHOTO KATHMANDU

12 OCT - 16 NOV ‘18

Nepal: Kathmandu

LUDICIOUS ZÜRICH GAME FESTIVAL - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

OCT ‘18

Switzerland: Zürich

PROGRAMME FOR 2018

JUL - DEC ‘18

Season Two

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Gati Dance Forum's upcoming annual journal that will address

questions of the body and the performative will feature

contributions by Swiss writer Rahel Leupin, and writers from

South Africa, Egypt and Brazil. Supported by Pro Helvetia's

liaison offices, this edition of the journal will focus on the

theme 'Strategies of Resistance'.

Partners: Gati Dance Forum, Pro Helvetia Cairo, Pro Helvetia

Johanesberg, COINCIDENCIA – Swiss & South American

Cultural Exchanges (2017-2020)

A chance for gaming professionals from the region to attend

Ludicious Zürich Game Festival in January 2019. The video

game industry and development convention consists of a

programme aimed at providing exposure and skill

development for game developers.

Artist-in-Residence (Research) – Sonja Feldmeier, a

multimedia artist will observe and engage with the idol-

sculptors of Bengal. The artist is concerned with issues

like politics and constructions of identities.

Chris Leuenberger and Marcel Schwald will premiere

EF_FEMININITY in India at the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa,

and two other cities. The performance brings on stage a

gender-diverse ensemble of four performers examining the

concepts of femininity, hyper-femininity and effeminacy.

Partner: Serendipity Arts Festival

Artist-in-Residence (Studio) - Performer-composer Marcel

Zaes will traverse through Bengaluru, Delhi and Imphal,

collaborating with local dancers and musicians, conducting

workshops and premiering his solo album ‘Pulsations’ in India!

Partners: Nachom Arts Foundation, swissnex India

Artist-in-Residence (Research) - Sarah Singh, Founder

Director of Panorama Punjab, a new international arts

initiative based in Punjab, travels across Switzerland to

explore possible collaborations for the next edition of

the festival.

Ceramic artist Jacques Kaufmann will present an installation,

and collaborate with Nalemitha, a traditional Lippan Kaam

mural clay art expert from Bhuj, Gujarat. Linking two varied

practices, this collaboration will see a new approach to

materials at the interface of ceramic sculpture and earthen

architecture.

Partners: Contemporary Clay Foundation and Jawahar Kala

Kendra

Pro Helvetia has invited Nimmy Raphel, resident actor-

director and performer at Adishakti, Puducherry, to attend

a seminar at the Taipei Arts Festival. The seminar is a space

for intensive knowledge exchange between twelve

international performance practitioners.

Partner: Taipei Arts Festival

Artist-in-Residence (Research) - Imran Nafees Siddiqui,

a theatre artist from Pakistan on a residency in Zurich to

experience contemporary theatre practices in Switzerland

and envisage future collaborations between the two

countries. Imran presently heads the Institute of Performing

Arts and teaches theatre.

Artist-in-Residence (Research) – Azizullah Hazara, an artist

from Afghanistan, on a residency at the Embassy of Foreign

Artists in Geneva. His focus will be an exploration of issues

faced by Afghan migrants living in Switzerland, and the socio-

political fabric and how these shift with the idea of migration.

Partner: Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva

Artist-in-Residence (Research) -

Ruby Hembrom, Founder and

Director of Adivaani - an archiving

and publishing initiative - will be in

Switzerland to explore a range of

ideas on the crossroads of literature

and oral culture, and documentation

of these present in archives.

An exhibitory platform which runs

parallel to the Kochi-Muziris

Biennale, the Students' Biennale

reaches out to government art

colleges across the country working

with an experienced curatorial team.

The objective is to look at the

different art educational institutions

and tap into the potential of the

students.

Partner: Kochi Biennale Foundation

& FICA / Foundation of Indian

Contemporary Art

MARCEL ZAES

Music

SARAH SINGH

Visual Arts/Design

RUBY HEMBROM

Literature

INDIAN CERAMICS TRIENNALE

Visual Arts

SEMINAR IN TAIPEI

Theatre

IMRAN SIDDIQUI

Theatre

AZIZULLAH HAZARA

Visual Arts

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STUDENTS' BIENNALE

Visual Arts

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LAURENCE RASTI

Visual Arts

GAUTHIER TOUX TRIO

Music

GEORGE J STEINMANN, THE SOUL OF REMEDIES

Visual Arts

SONJA FELDMEIER

Visual Arts

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Artist-in-Residence (Research) - Jana Jakoubek, Artistic

Director at Fumetto, Lucerne, back in India for the second leg

of her Research Residency. Travelling to Bengaluru, Chennai

and Ahmedabad, she will plot future collaborations in the field

of comic art and graphic novels for the Fumetto Comic

Festival 2019 in Lucerne.

Artist-in-Residence (Studio) - Cop Shiva aims to establish

a dialogue between the tradition of Swiss documentary

photography and his own practice, during his Studio

Residency. His works have been influenced by the principles

of the ‘Kollegium Schweizerischer Photographe’ that

indigenised a new visual language.

Partner: Rote Fabrik

Swiss magazine Reportagen to carry freelance journalist

Sharanya Deepak's piece on journalism and reporting in

small town India. The pitch was selected after a call for

applications.

Partner: Reportagen

Artist-in-Residence (Studio) - While in India, Shirana

Shahbazi's lenses will scan the landscapes and motifs of

Delhi and Rajasthan before zooming in on Mumbai. She will

also lead a workshop for young photographers in Colombo,

Sri Lanka.

Partners: KHOJ International Artists’ Association & Theertha

Artists Collective

Photo Kathmandu to see Swiss participation from Foto

Museum Winterthur and an intriguing, topical exhibition by

photographer Laurence Rasti, ‘There are no homosexuals

in Iran’.

Partner: Photo Kathmandu

Artist-in-Residence (Research) -

Lucien and Regula - musicians with

their style ranging from Baroque to

Future Rock, on a journey across

Delhi, Bengaluru, Jaipur and

Puducherry to explore, jam and

perform with musicians practicing

diverse styles and sounds.

The Long Night of Literatures is an

evening of literary encounters in

diverse European languages. Like

the previous editions, a Swiss writer

will be in the line-up too.

Partners: Austrian Cultural Forum,

Embassy of Czech Republic,

Hungarian Cultural Centre, Instituto

Cervantes, Polish Institute, Embassy

of Portugal, Embassy of Switzerland

Artist-researcher, Aline Veillat will

present ‘The Soil Song’ (working

title) which explores different

artistic thoughts about our relation

to soil, central to life on earth.

Aline aims to develop a project in

collaboration with the villagers,

involving their myths and contingent

relation with soil.

Partner: KYTA (Karma Yatri Travel

and Art)

LONG NIGHT OF LITERATURES

Literature

ALINE VEILLAT, THE SOIL SONG

Visual Arts

SHIVARAJU B.S. (AKA COP SHIVA)

Visual Arts

JANA JAKOUBEK

Visual Arts/ Literature

REPORTAGEN

Literature

SHIRANA SHAHBAZI

Visual Arts

PHOTO KATHMANDU

Visual Arts

SEP

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Pro Helvetia New Delhi Swiss Arts Council D-9, Gulmohar Park,

Second Floor,

New Delhi - 110 049

India

T: +91 11 41825636

F: +91 11 41825637

E: newdelhi@prohelvetia.in

Laurence Rasti to present a talk

about her body of work and engage

with a community of young

photographers in Myanmar. Her

photographs question the notion of

identity and codes of beauty. Born

to Iranian parents, Laurence lives

and works in Geneva.

Partners: Myanmar Deitta, &PROUD

George J. Steinmann, an artist and

mediator who furthers the dialogue

about our living environment, will be

on a research-based project at

KHOJ. The second leg in Bengaluru,

in collaboration with swissnex India,

will include a talk by Steinmann.

Partners: ARTPORT_making waves

and swissnex India

Swiss jazz trio Gauthier Toux will be

on a three-city tour to perform in

festivals and clubs in the region as

well as give a workshop. Led by

French pianist Gauthier Toux, the

trio has developed a unique jazz

sound, both complex and lyrical.

GATI JOURNAL AND WRITING LAB

Dance

LUDICIOUS ZÜRICH GAME FESTIVAL - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Gaming

LUCIEN DUBUIS AND REGULA SCHWAB

Music

The programme is subject to change. Please visit the online version on www.prohelvetia.in for updated information.

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