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    ZHdK Project Funding

    • ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects
    • ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Student Projects
    • Funded Student Projects
    • Projects funded in 2025
    • Funded Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects
    • Projects funded in 2025

    ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects

    Via its ZHdK Fund, the International Dossier supports international projects by ZHdK lecturers or mid-tier staff that address issues of cultural diversity and thereby create added value for the internationalisation of the university and its students. 

    Funding is provided for selected projects that contribute to the development of formats or processes in the field of intercultural collaboration.

    Note: There are currently no further Calls planned. Updates regarding a possible continuation of the project funding will be published here. 

    ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Student Projects

    Via its ZHdK Fund, the International Dossier supports international student projects that exhibit a high level of artistic and creative quality, and/or facilitate cultural transfer and address cultural diversity. 

    Funding is provided for selected projects that contribute to the development of formats or processes in the field of intercultural collaboration.

    Note: There are currently no further Calls planned. Updates regarding a possible continuation of the project funding will be published here. . 

    Funded Student Projects

      Projects funded in 2025

      • Port Blockades in the Mediterranean | Laurie Ubezio | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Beyond the Text | Amirhossein Samimi | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      Projects funded in 2024 | Mercator Foundation Switzerland

      • Bayo Bayo | Nina Fritz | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Final party – fête finale | Donia Sbika | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Maid’s Room – a space where collision and combination coexist | Yoo Ra Hong | Department of Fine Arts

      • Gaelic Poetry of Nature | Zoé Kendall | Department of Fine Arts

      • Echoes of Cultures: Building Bridges in Jeju Island | Jung Hyun Nam | Department of Fine Arts

      • Museum.Delivery/Set | Kirill Agafonov | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Hypnopedia | Carlos Ronda Mas | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2023 | Mercator Foundation Switzerland

      • Learning N’Ko | Klervie Mouho | Department of Design

      • Passagères | Camille Briffod | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too | Urša Kastelic, Shannet Clemmings | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • International artistic exchange Croatia – Switzerland | Leandra Agazzi | Department of Fine Arts

      • Seasons in Tibet | Ni Daodao | Department of Fine Arts

      • Roots, Relations, Recollection | Yue Wu | Department of Fine Arts

      • Plotting Knowledge Flows – Art Schools | Engy Sarhan | Department of Cultural Analysis

      Projects funded in 2022 | Mercator Foundation Switzerland

      • A Part (of you) | Theresa Ihrler | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Salt / ملح | Yumna Al-Arashi | Department of Fine Arts

      • Strange Days | Giuliana Dridi | Department of Fine Arts

      • Ipragaz, The Neighbourhood Expands Inward | Yusuf Orhan | Department of Fine Arts

      • Impermanent Earth | Rachel TonThat | Department of Fine Arts

      • Framed Wormhole: Taiwanese Artists On Kunst-Surfer | Chiara Giardi | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Possibility of an Island | Ani Eki Özdemir | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Ծիրան և նուռ - Apricot and Pomegranate | Simona Winkler | Department of Cultural Analysis

      Projects funded in 2021 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Die Stadt, die es noch gibt [The city that still exists] | Marvin Meckes | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • “Herkunft” [Origin] – theatre experiments in virtual spaces | Jasna Miletic | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Collaborations between artists and local associations in Dietikon Projektraum | Kim Anni Bassen | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Transformations | Allam Fakhour | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Red, Blue, And Family Letters | Jiaxi Han | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Zora i ja - Zmijanjski Vez | Sandra Seb | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Folk music elsewhere – a sound journey through Mongolia. “Juuz” meets overtone singing | Laura Moser | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2020 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Across Sexualities | Julie Crantelle | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • The Lord of the Rings – Part I | Zarah Maria Mayer | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Chagrin Valley | Nathalie Sarah Berger | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Jerusalem Assorted | Charlotte Oeken | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • I Stood On A Mountain And I Saw All The Earth | Aurelio Ghirardelli | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Invasion! – Theater Performance | Jasna Miletic | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Dead end in the Land of Odysseus! | Serhat Ertuna | Department of Fine Arts

      • “Zwischen” | Ishita Chakraborty | Department of Fine Arts

      • Der Bernhardiner von Marrakesch | Roman Selim Khereddine | Department of Fine Arts

      • Common Grounds | Tereza Glazova | Department of Fine Arts

      • Approaching Public Spaces In Mexico City Through Performance | Catherine Duboutay | Department of Fine Arts

      • Spin-Off / Sainthood Of The Shadows | Shamiran Stefanos | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Hyperobject: Intersubject | Yris Apsit | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Jerusalem Diary – ein Stück für 24 Stimmen | Rosanna Zünd | Department of Music

      • Workshop Creative Senses | Karolina Eurich | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2019 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Entangled – Critical Thinking, Design And Education | Chhandak Pradhan | Department of Design

      • Çohu – Steh auf! | Céline Stettler | Department of Design

      • Familia – Eine Begegnung zwischen Daressalam und Zürich | Theresa Ihrler | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Aphrodite | Giorgi Sakhelashvili | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Moving On To No(w)where | Carolin Sanders | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Talking Ghosts | Julia Skof | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Bloque Surreal – The Surreal Blocks Of Little Medellín | Laurin Bigler | Department of Fine Arts

      • The Green Spirits | Axel Crettenand | Department of Fine Arts

      • Bayefall – Mysticism As A Form Of Resistance | Adji Fatou Amdy Dieye | Department of Fine Arts

      • Material Culture | Mirjam Inauen | Department of Fine Arts

      • Amazonia – The Aesthetics Of Planetary Urbanization | Sarah Jacky | Department of Fine Arts

      • The iBear Movie | Michael Reinhold | Department of Fine Arts

      • Tectonic Shifts / Metabolic Rifts | Daniel Schwartz | Department of Fine Arts

      • QFA Questions For Artists – Questions For Anyone | Ilona Stutz | Department of Fine Arts

      • Betweeners: A Forum For New Approaches To Knowledge Mediation | Corinne Gisel | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Gemeinsam Gestalten (Kreativwerkstatt 4.0) | Laura Hew | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Woven Stories | Samira Vogel | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Mountain Music | Travis Reuter | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2018 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Project Circleg | Simon Oschwald, Fabian Engel | Department of Design

      • Palms On Balconies – A Visual Study Of Contemporary Houses From Romania Built For Representation | Reinhard Schmidt | Department of Design

      • Modiano Monologe | Christian Eckstein | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Mussie's Room | Felix Hergert | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Things Falling Apart | Daniel Loepfe | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Schmock II | Charlotte Oeken | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • No Leg Birds | Sonja Berta | Department of Fine Arts

      • Mauvaises Herbes | Anne-Laure Franchette | Department of Fine Arts

      • Beauty Salon | Emma Lou Hermann | Department of Fine Arts

      • Half An Island | Katarzyna Nowak | Department of Fine Arts

      • Into The Voice – Zurich | Alicia Olmos Ochoa | Department of Fine Arts

      • Stationery: A Language Puzzle | Ya Mu Wang | Department of Fine Arts

      • The manifold inexhaustible path from a thousand encounters and transformations of undulipodia | Sarah Züst | Department of Fine Arts

      • Kreativ-Werkstatt 2.0 | Laura Hew | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Lá e Cá (here and there) | Silvan Kälin | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Turkish Delights | Ferhat Türkoglu | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Therese & Thomas | Lydia Zimmermann | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • My Grammar And (Y)ours? | Miwa Negoro | MAS Curating    

      • Welcome to School. The meaning and possibilities of elementary music making with young people in the asylum procedure | Sibylle Dubs | Department of Music

      • Kiribati: music of an invisible people | Luca Magni, Jan Kohl | Department of Music

      • The Moon And I | Benedek Sulyok | Department of Music

      • Translating Bodies. A Transdisciplinary Performance By The Present | Samuel Toro Pérez | Department of Music

      • Tumbleweed | Xenia Wiener | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2017 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Contrast Comparison Of Farsi And Latin Type Characters | Ali Soltanolamaei | Department of Design

      • The Art Of Sniper – A Research | Yannik Böhmer | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Strandzha | Aleksandra Davydova | Departement Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Caesar Goes Africa | Thokozani Kapiri | Departement Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • What Kind Of Flowers Do You Have (Arbeitstitel) | Céline Maria Brunko | Department of Fine Arts

      • The Visit (Arbeitstitel) | Sandra Bühler | Department of Fine Arts

      • Kosovo – A Truly Non-Affirmative Research | Susanne Hefti | Department of Fine Arts

      • Resisting In Art | Tina Reden | Department of Fine Arts

      • Satire Taxis | Paloma Ayala | Department of Fine Arts

      • In Times Like This: 100 Improvements For The City Of Zurich | Katherine Patino Miranda | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Sin Currículo México | Vincent Scarth | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • A life in the bubble – Život u balonu | Kim Schelbert | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Metaphorai Teleportation & Transformation Services | Eirini Sourgiadaki | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • The Gift Exercise: Invitation 2 | Nina Willimann | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • “On the edge” – music from the new world | Luca Magni | Department of Music

      Projects funded in 2016 | ZHdK-AVINA Funds

      • Jail Chat | Raphael Matthias Ammann | Department of Design

      • Status N | Julia Felber |  Department of Design

      • Lipstick Tehran | Larissa Holaschke | Department of Design

      • DoCare | Manuela Zellweger | Department of Design

      • No Promised Land | Raphael Bondy | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Semiramis | Jonas Egloff | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Diamonds in the Sand | Emanuel Hohl | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Transit Altstetten | Taylan Uysal | Department of Performing Arts and Film

      • Techno Is Our Folk Music | Nicola Genovese | Department of Fine Arts

      • Begin the Beguine | Katja Lell / Yannick Steiner | Department of Fine Arts

      • 不着边齷 – I Cannot See | Matthias Liechti | Department of Fine Arts

      • Fondacija Ambar | Maya Minder | Department of Fine Arts

      • Fidel Castro Died Yesterday | Thomas Moor | Department of Fine Arts

      • Perform Interdependency – Participatory And Collaborative Strategies In The Arts | Nathalie Stirnimann | Department of Fine Arts

      • Labitzke Farben | Diana Bärmann | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Ausschaffen (Arbeitstitel) | Hanna Gerig | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Pretext Quartet | Fabian Gutscher | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • An alternative history of Swiss chocolate | Franziska Meierhofer | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • voChabular | Svenja Obrist | Department of Cultural Analysis

      • Meleté | Soma Salat-Zakarias | Department of Music

      • Cross The Borders! | Karin Schmid | Department of Music

      • Kollektiv IиTERиATIOиAL Totem in Hong Kong (ZH) | Kai Ju Zhang | Department of Music

      Funded Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        Projects funded in 2025

        ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • The Arts Performance Center Tsumeb in Namibia | Christian Berger | Department Music
        • ZHdK students in Music education make music with children from the Federal Asylum Centre in Zurich | Edith Stocker | Department Music

        Projects funded in 2024

        ZHdK Fund for Intercultural Faculty and Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • Creating Neighbourhood | Barbara Liebster | Department of Design
        • Utopies – tu fais ce que tu peux | Marcel Wattenhofer | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Lighting For Diverse Skintones | Pierre Mennel | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Sonic Encounters | Stefanie Lorey | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Sense of Place | Johanna Vieli | Department of Fine Arts

        • Stories that educate us. Artistic interventions as a productive interaction between education and the public for more participation and dialogue | Sophie Vögele | Department of Cultural Analysis
        • Introduction of the Master study programme “Audioengineering” and the Bachelor study programme “Singing” at the Yared School of Music, Addis Ababa | Andreas Werner | Department of Music

        • Listening Across the Borders | Diego Alberto Kohn | Department of Music

        Projects funded in 2023

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty Projects

        • Mining Map – Zürich | Nadia Fistarol, Sarah Burger | Department of Performing Arts and Film
        • “Catastrophe And Performing Arts: Past, Present And Future” | Stefanie Lorey | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Art Encounters Biennial | Marie-France Rafael | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Diverse Realities | Basil Rogger | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Building “IMMSANE” India | André Bellmont | Department of Music

        • Choral Music in South Africa | Markus Utz, Ernst Buscagne | Department of Music

        Projects funded in 2022

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • Linking Cultures | Larissa Holaschke | Department of Design

        • Limbo Expedition – Marseille 2022 | Lea Nathalie Michel | Department of Design

        • ACT Performance Festival | Nicola Genovese | Department of Fine Arts

        • To Learn To Listen To Learn – The Museum School | Paulo Wirz | Department of Fine Arts

        • ZHdK and post-migrant society | Sophie Vögele | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Prishtina-Lab | Caroline Baur | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2021

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty Projects

        • New Green Land | Michael Simon | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Mon Ch3rix | Rabea Ridlhammer | Department of Fine Arts

        • Dams – Explorations Of Industrial Buildings In Russia And The Swiss Alps | Irène Hediger | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • What Is Cultural Participation? | Sophie Vögele | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2020

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty-/Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • Ready, Steady, Play! | Mela Kocher | Department of Design

        • Light My Fire | Karin Seiler | Department of Design

        • Imagine Art Being Nature | Johannes Willi | Department of Design

        • RANEPA x ZHdK | Jonas Vögeli | Department of Design

        • Ideen von Hilfe | Mira Sack | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Clayism And The Mother House | Dominique Lämmli | Department of Fine Arts

        • Sustainability As A Quilt | Donatella Bernardi | Department of Fine Arts

        • Art, Criticism, And Civil Society IV | Jörg Scheller | Department of Fine Arts

        • Art Education In Context | Judit Villiger | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Trading Identities | Barbara Naegelin | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • radioQWAS | Rada Leu | Department of Cultural Analysis
           

        Pilot Call Digital Excursion

        • Digital Drawing Excursions To Fellow Human Beings | Serge Pinkus | Department of Design

        • Linking Cultures | Peter Vetter, Katharina Tietze | Department of Design

        • Digital Study Trip To Guatemala | Mona Chirie Mijthab, Stefano Vannotti | Department of Design

        • Digital Studio Visits | Marta Riniker-Radich, Annemarie Bucher | Department of Fine Arts

        • Workshop on “The Nature of Intelligence – The Intelligence of Nature” | René Bauer, Heather Barnett, Andreas Kohli, Nuria Krämer | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2019

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty-/Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • The Dakar Case – Exploring An Emerging Example Of Creative Industries In Africa | Larissa Holaschke | Department of Design

        • Zine In Japan | Nadia Graf | Department of Fine Arts

        • artmatters – ein Austauschprojekt für angehende Kunstpädagog:innen aus der Schweiz und aus den Ländern des Südkaukasus | Judit Villiger | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Exchange And Project-Based Collaboration With Addis Ababa University | André Bellmont | Department of Music

        Projects funded in 2018

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty-/Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • Kooperation mit Institut National des Arts Kinshasa | Simon Grab | Department of Design
        • APN Thinking Out Loud Workshop | Gabrielle Schaad | Department of Fine Arts

        • International Summer School in Sukhumi | Jörg Scheller | Department of Fine Arts

        • Chambarak | Franziska Koch | Department of Fine Arts

        • www.artistcontact.ch | Andrea Zimmermann | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Tic Tac | Kaspar König | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Curating - Explored With A Camera | Ronald Kolb | Continuing Education Centre
           

        International Activities

        • Continuing Education Programme “Design Thinking and Innovation Week by ZHdK and HKDI” | Regula Stibi, Michael Krohn | Department of Design

        • International Design Workshop masterclass | Karin Zindel | Department of Design

        • CAS Design Cultures – study trip Hong Kong & Shenzhen | Stefano Vannotti, Nina Bruderer, Danica Zeier | Department of Design
           

        2015 – 2018 Arts for Change

        • Frugal Design | Annina Gähwiler | Department of Design

        • Hic et Nunc | Karin Seiler, Antonio Scarponi | Department of Design

        • Montes de Nosotros | Andrea Roca | Department of Design

        • Projet Ensemble | Peter Vetter | Department of Design

        • Cooperation project between Zurich University of the Arts and institutions in Ouagadougo, Burkina Faso | Markus Gerber, Mira Sack | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Partnership project between Zurich University of the Arts and SP Theatre School (SPTS) in São Paulo, Brazil | Res Bosshart, Peter Ender, Marcio Aquiles, Rodolfo Garcia, Christopher Kriese | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • InOctober – International Network for Contemporary Public Art | Franz Krähenbühl | Department of Fine Arts

        • Professional Field Assessment for Artists and Designers | Andrea Zimmermann | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • The Transformative Power of Cities: Art and Design in the Context of Urban Change Processes | Basil Rogger, Janine Schiller | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • QWAS - Migrating Dialogue | Rada Leu, Peter Traenkle | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Crossing Boundaries Musically | Ranko Markovic, Christian Berger, Maria Rapp | Department of Music

        • Internationalisation@home | Edith Stocker | Department of Music

        Projects funded in 2017

        ZHdK Fund for International and Intercultural Faculty-/Mid-Tier Staff Projects

        • ZHdK Adviser | Susanne Marti, Robert Wettstein | Department of Design

        • Håøya, Materializing Past Into Future | Sabine Harbeke | Department of Performing Arts and Film

        • Recycle Hong Kong | Jürgen Krusche | Department of Fine Arts

        • DeNeutralize | Daniel Kurjakovic | Department of Fine Arts

        • Extraterritorial Site-Specific Research | Sofia Bempeza | Department of Fine Arts

        • Art And Crisis | Donatella Bernardi | Department of Fine Arts

        • Art, Criticism, And Civil Society | Jörg Scheller | Department of Fine Arts

        • Kunstbetrachtung transkulturell | Katrin Luchsinger | Department of Cultural Analysis

        • Zuhören und lernen vom globalen Süden | Sebastian Dieterich, Elke Bippus | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2016

        • Neuland | Christian Imhof | Department of Design

        • Exchange & Cooperation Chisinau-Zurich | Jörg Scheller | Department of Fine Arts

        • Slow Spicy Curatorial Practices | Kaspar König | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2015

        • Design Lab Brazil – Learning from the Informal | Karin Zindel | Department of Design

        • KŌRYŪ 交流 | Marianne Mueller | Department of Fine Arts

        • Manual For Intercultural Exchange | Felix Stalder | Department of Fine Arts

        • “Tradition” – A Contemporary Dance Artistic Research | Jens Badura, Aleksandra Dziurosz, Anton Rey | Department of Cultural Analysis

        Projects funded in 2014

        • Start Up Bangalore | Christian Berger, Maria Rapp | Department of Music

        Projects funded in 2013

        • Exchange with the Witwatersrand (WITS) University of the Arts | Colette Baumgartner | Department of Performing Arts and Film