Examples for grants 2024

Simon Deppieraz, born in Morges in 1984, studied fine arts at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne. His work is regularly exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently in solo exhibitions at the Galleria Daniele Agostini in Lugano, the Galerie Durflon Racz in Bern and the Archiraar Gallery in Brussels, as well as in group exhibitions and art fairs, including Art Rotterdam and Art on Paper in Brussels. The artist creates objects, sculptures, site-specific installations, prints and drawings. His work is based on an interest in duality, the balance of opposing forces and structural systems. The allegory of suspended time or the freezing of the moment are characteristic aspects of his sculptures and installations.

Visual arts: Simon Deppierraz receives a promotion grant of CHF 10,000.

The HLS is the digital encyclopedia of Swiss history. The academically compiled articles and captions appear simultaneously in German, French and Italian, with a selection also in Romansh. The aim of the project «Focusing on distant eras: key topics of the Stone Age» is to communicate the latest research findings on the beginnings of human history in what is now Switzerland to the academic research community and the public. In Switzerland, cultural developments in this period from around 1.5 million years ago to 2200 BC are particularly rich and documented by a wide range of archaeological finds.

Heritage conservation & archaeology: The UBS Culture Foundation is supporting the HLS with a project grant of CHF 15,000 for the development of new articles on the Stone Age.

«Queen of the Stone Age» (WT) is a road movie following Swiss archaeologist Bettina Schulz-Paulson and her research family across Europe with the aim of exploring mysterious European megalithic sites. The archaeologist is part of a global movement calling for a paradigm shift in the understanding of human history. She is determined to prove that migration and ethnic mixing 7000 years ago could have been the basis for a pan-European culture. The film provides a vibrant insight into the life of the unusual researcher, shows the spectacular locations of her travels and highlights the sociopolitical issues associated with her theses: Have mobility and migration always been the catalyst for the development of civilization?

Film: The UBS Culture Foundation is supporting Catpics AG with a production grant of CHF 25,000 for the documentary film «Queen of the Stone Age».

With the aim of increasing the visibility of female conductors in the music world, the UBS Culture Foundation introduced a biennial acknowledgement grant in 2022. In 2024, the acknowledgement grant went to Zurich-born Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer, who has made a crucial impact on Swiss music with her diverse work. The successful conductor can be heard regularly in established concert halls in Switzerland and is in demand internationally as a guest conductor. She is the founder and music director of Swiss Orchestra and artistic director of Andermatt Music. In addition to her concert activities, Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer publishes works in the field of reception and interpretation history and is dedicated to the discovery, research and revival of lost Swiss musical works.

Music: The UBS Culture Foundation honored conductor Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer with an acknowledgement grant of CHF 25,000.

«Echi di Storia» is the first history festival in the canton of Ticino, organized by ATIS, Associazione ticinese insegnanti di storia. The festival’s premiere took place from 6 to 9 June 2024 in Lugano on the theme of “Coraggio” (courage) and its role as a subject and object in history and included lectures, panel discussions, interviews, meetings with schools and film screenings. The festival aims to take a multidisciplinary and multi-layered look at Switzerland’s past and present. It is intended to be a platform for the comparison of different perspectives and to enable a close look at the special characteristics of Switzerland and its linguistic and cultural particularities. At present, the country is in an important phase of historical, economic and geopolitical transition.

Humanities & cultural sciences: The Echi di Storia Festival 2024 was supported with a project grant of CHF 5,000.

The diverse Rhaeto-Romanic culture needs to be given more visibility in the lowlands. The Cultura Rumantscha en la Bassa association organizes «Festivalet» as a colorful and sonorous community event in Zurich, home to the largest Romansh-speaking community in the lowlands. The aim of the event is to show that Romansh is not only alive in the valleys of Graubünden but also in the diaspora, and to offer Rhaeto-Romanic artists a shared platform in German-speaking Switzerland. At the «X-Tra» event venue on Limmatplatz, you can experience not only Pascal Gamboni and Mattia, the shooting stars of the Romansh music scene, but also choral singing, readings, art and culinary delights. The event will take place on 20 and 21 June 2025.

Priority project: The UBS Culture Foundation is supporting the first edition of «Festivalet» with a grant of CHF 30,000.