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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
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        • ©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