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    What’s next_Compass

    [Translate to English:] What's next_Studio
    • Participants 2024/25
    • Previous participants
    • Insights into the studios at Mediacampus Zurich
    • Impressions Open Studio Night 2025

    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

      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

        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

          Insights into the studios at Mediacampus Zurich

          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus
          • ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus ©Marcel Rickli, Studios City of Zurich, Mediacampus

          Photography Studios Mediacampus Zurich: © Marcel Rickli

            Impressions Open Studio Night 2025

            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK
            • Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK Open Studio Night 2025. Image: © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK

            Images : © Jennifer Anger, ZHdK