HELGA 2025 – Cross-border narrat­ives

Friday, Novem­ber 14

Swiss Professional Meeting for Scenography and Spatial Communication 

Prices

Professional CHF 55
Student CHF 15
Sponsorship
(1 entry pro + 1 student entry)		 CHF 70
Pioneer
(1 entry + support for HELGA)		 CHF 95
ICOM Member CHF 45

Theme and Program 2025

HELGA 2025 invites us to exam­ine the “border” as a narrat­ive device in sceno­graphy. Inspired by the concept of “cultural border-cross­ing”, parti­cipants will consider borders as complex, inter­de­pend­ent cultural and social constructs. Cross­ing these bound­ar­ies becomes a creat­ive act at the heart of culture that is under­stood as dynamic, rela­tional and perform­at­ive. 

We welcome diverse forms of trans­gres­sion or blur­ring of bound­ar­ies: between real­ity and fiction; among artistic discip­lines; between audi­ence and space; between object and audi­ence. Equally intriguing are the some­times subtle divid­ing lines between differ­ent insti­tu­tional rationales or the profes­sional self-percep­tion of prac­ti­tion­ers. 

10h30

Optional part.
Registration required, limited places. Free.		 Workshop on light with ERCO or guided tour of an exhibition at mudac

To participate, please write to: magali.conus@plateforme10.ch
13h00 Welcoming participants
13h30-13h40 Welcome address by Marco Costantini, Director of mudac
13h40 – 13h50 "Dialogue between a chief curator and a scenographer from mudac"
Jolanthe Kugler and Magali Conus
13h50 - 14h20 "We are in the show biz: Museum exhibitions and suspense"
Ariane Karbe, Independent curator and museum consultant
14h25 – 14h40 Presentation of the professional association for scenography professions in Switzerland
15h15 – 18h00 "Let's Play"
A participatory and interactive moment
Case Studies by professionals and students
Food design by Raphaël Lutz
18h00 – 21h30 Mentoring, discussions and meetings between professionals and students
Aperitif at Le Nabi

Call for papers: Case Stud­ies

To make this day a success, we are launch­ing a call for papers and are look­ing forward to your parti­cip­a­tion.

Have you recently pushed beyond your profes­sional limits and gained valu­able new exper­i­ences worth shar­ing? Perhaps an unusual collab­or­a­tion or a content-chal­len­ging encounter? Some­thing that posit­ively shif­ted your profes­sional outlook and led you to redefine your own prac­tice? Do you have a project that ques­tions, pushes, dissolves or redefines exist­ing bound­ar­ies, fitting perfectly with HELGA 2025’s theme? 

If your approach pushes estab­lished bound­ar­ies, ques­tions tradi­tional frame­works or opens up new profes­sional perspect­ives, we’d be delighted if you presen­ted it briefly at HELGA. This call is also open to students at Swiss univer­sit­ies.

About HELGA

Created in 2012 as an exchange plat­form for the Swiss sceno­graphy community, HELGA has since become a key forum and meet­ing point for profes­sion­als in sceno­graphy and spatial commu­nic­a­tion. 

After events in Lucerne (2012–2014), Zurich (2015–2017), Basel (2018–2021) and again Lucerne (2022–2024), HELGA will for the first time take place in the French-speak­ing part of Switzer­land. The host for 2025–2027 will be mudac in Lausanne, emphas­ising sceno­graphy’s import­ance for its own exhib­i­tion activ­it­ies and foster­ing exchanges among profes­sion­als across linguistic borders. 

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