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What’s next_Compass

[Translate to English:] What's next_Studio

The support programme with a focus on your social, cultural and economic development steps

As a transition to professional practice, the 12-month programme What's next_Compass enables graduates from the disciplines of Art Education, Design, Film, Fine Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre, and Transdisciplinary Studies to sharpen and refine their individual profiles, network with practitioners and lay the foundations for building a sustainable career in the arts.

The programme focuses on the driving forces and needs of the participants to create a socially, culturally and economically sustainable basis on which to develop their own practice. Artistic and entrepreneurial topics come together. 
The aim of the programme is for participants to have discovered and explored possibilities and opportunities for themselves over the 12 months and to be able to strategically take the next steps in their development.

What’s next_Compass is supported by the City of Zurich and the Righini Fries Foundation.

What kind of support is offered to participants?

  • Methodological workshop for mapping your own practice
  • Development of your action plan with regard to social, cultural, and economic objectives
  • Inputs and workshops around the theme of entrepreneurial thinking and acting in an artistic context
  • Peer-to-peer exchange opportunities with participants of the programme
  • Personal consultations, mentoring and networking with practitioners from the field
  • Joint events and exhibition opportunities
  • Personal ZHdK email address
  • Continuation of your Adobe licence at the current conditions
  • Subsidised studio space from the City of Zurich at the Mediacampus Zurich
  • Campus Card for access to the infrastructure at Toni Campus (workshops, photo cluster, editing rooms, equipment hire, etc.)

For whom?
We are looking for BA and MA graduates from all disciplines of the ZHdK up to two years after graduation who are interested in developing their work in an inter- or transdisciplinary context. We particularly support graduates who want to reflect on and test new working methods and ways at the interface between artistic or design ideas and entrepreneurial practice.
It is not possible to be enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's programme at the ZHdK and participate in this programme at the same time.

Programme dates
1 September 2025 - 31 August 2026

Jury 2025/26
Michelle Akanji
Itay Blaish
Claudio Bucher, Z-Kubator
Malin Fluri, Z-Kubator
Kathrin Frauenfelder, Righini-Fries Foundation
Mirjam Skal, What's next_Compass 2023/24 alumna
Navid Tschopp

Applications for the 2025/26 programme are closed.

Z-Kubator contact
Malin Fluri, +41 43 446 20 47

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Participants 2024/25

Rovere Gianna
Patrocinio Francisca 
Bass Luca
Canziani Nicola 
Dragan David
Jüngling Margaretha 
Kohler Pascal
Macdonald Grace 
Pellaud Lily 
Popa Oana 
Rohr Jason 
Röllin Mara 
Rossetto Massimiliano 
Roth Joël 
Schneider Juliana
uantuzten theaterkollektiv (Brändle Jana, Guntern Melanie, Olivia Stauffer)
Zürrer Selina

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Previous participants

Participants 2023/24

Ammer Caroline
Bat-Erdene Gabriyel
Dridi Giuliana Beya
Ermuth Léa
Gschwend Ramona
Han Jiaxi 
Huber Jorim Emanuel 
Jókay Pablo 
Kopytsia Alina
Lascandri Zainab
Michaud Emmanuel
Monney Alexeï Aad
Nicolas Gaétan
Rilliet Valentin
Skal Mirjam 
Todisco Andrea Francesco

Participants 2022/23

Antonova Olga
Borgunska Mercedes
Del Santo Gaia
Duboutay Noé
Ferrari Simona
Gerber Serafin
Gysi Moritz
Hwang Niki Yelim
Lüthi Elio
Madrid Rodrigo Toro
Maurmann Linus
Rebord Jeremy
Schuler Barbara
TonThat Rachel
Walsh David
Zwicker Shannon

Participants 2021/22

Bargetzi Amélie
Baumgartner Seline
Blaish Itay
Diggelmann Sophie
Eisenbach Jakob
Hess Giulia
Inauen Mirjam Blanka
Ji Hae Young
Köberle Johannes
Müller Daniel
Obieta Fernando
Risi Simon
Schätzle Heiko
Schwager Carlo
Semadeni Anita
Voigt Robi
Zybinska Paulina

Participants 2020/21

Céline Arnould
Lisa Biedlingmaier
Lara Dâmaso
Balca Ergener
Amir Garibovic
Tereza Glazova
Friederike Helmes
Markéta Jáchimová
Sibel Kocakaya
Milena Langer
Meret Mache
Valentina Minnig
Julia Nusser
Andri Schatz
Flavia Senn
Dimitrina Sevova
Sabrina Tannen
Timo von Gunten
Andreas Weber

Participants 2019/20

Claudia Baena
Sonja Berta
Oliver Brunko
Anne-Gritli Faulhaber
Anne-Laure Franchette
Philip Frowein
Nadia Hauri
David Knuckey
Claudia Marolf
Dominic Oppliger
Jaira Peyer
Denys Shantar
Elza Sile
Gabriele Spalluto
Jana Vanecek
Tania Villiger
Dave Walker
Paulo Wirz

Participants 2018/19

Adriatik Ajvazi
Jérémy Ayer
Céline Brunko
Priscille Jotzu
Annamaria Kozma
Maya Lama
Eva Linder
Angi Nend
Jeroen Singer
Sandra Staub
Claudia Stöckli
Aurélie Strumans
Raphael Stucky
Romain Mader
Alexandra Wohlwend

Participants 2017/18

Paloma Ayala
Alexander Barthelmie
André Deloar 
Laura Ferrara
Nicola Genovese
Dominik Hodel
Ana Hofmann
Thomas Knüsel
Samuel Koch
Karin Kurzmeyer
Marion Ritzmann
Jeff Rossi
Miriam Rutherfoord
Joke Schmidt
Aljoscha Thomas

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Insights into the studios at Mediacampus Zurich

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Photography Studios Mediacampus Zurich: © Marcel Rickli

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Impressions Open Studio Night 2025

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