Nouveaux commanditaires Suisse/Neue Auftraggeber:innen Schweiz
Maison des Arts du Grütli
Rue du Général-Dufour 16
CH-1204 Genève
info@nc-na.ch ↗

Charlotte Laubard
Mediator Fine Arts
French-speaking Switzerland Network

Swiss-French Charlotte Laubard (*1974) is co-founder and mediator for Nouveaux commanditaires Suisse. She has taught art theory and history at HEAD – Geneva since 2013 and led its Visual Arts Department from 2017 to 2023. Former director of CAPC Bordeaux (2006–2013), she has worked in major international institutions and curated numerous exhibitions, including the Swiss Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.
c.laubard@nc-na.ch ↗ +41 76 323 11 44

Yasmin Naderi Afschar
Mediator Fine Arts
Swiss German Region Network

Yasmin Naderi Afschar is a Swiss-Iranian curator, author, and mediator based in Zurich. Since 2021, she has been mediator for Nouveaux commanditaires in German-speaking Switzerland and, since August 2025, co-directs the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art. She also co-organizes LE FOYER – In Process, a nomadic discussion series on artistic processes. She was curator at Aargauer Kunsthaus (2018–2021) and led Kunsthalle Mainz ad interim (2023–24).
y.afschar@nc-na.ch ↗ +41 76 407 89 47

Ysaline Rochat
Mediator Performing Arts
French-speaking Switzerland

With extensive experience in cultural leadership and performing arts programming, Ysaline Rochat focuses on practices that pave the way for new artistic languages. Since 2025, she has been Deputy Director of Arsenic – Centre for Contemporary Performing Arts (Lausanne) and mediator specializing in performing arts for Nouveaux commanditaires Suisse. She co-directed the festival Les Urbaines (2017–2023) and regularly acts as a writer, moderator, or jury expert.
y.rochat@nc-na.ch ↗

Benoît Antille
Mediator in Visual Arts
French-speaking Switzerland

Benoît Antille is a curator, researcher, and associate professor (HES) at the École de design et haute école d’art du Valais (EDHEA), active in the field of visual arts. His research focuses on the relationships between contemporary art, territorial development, and local communities, particularly in rural contexts. He has coordinated artist residency programs, serves as an expert on public art projects, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam on project-based practices in the art world. He was notably curator of the Ferme-Asile art center in Sion (2003–2009), co-founder of the independent space MAXXX-Project Space in Sierre (2012–2016), and a lecturer at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD, 2015–2020)
b.antille@nc-na.ch ↗

Anna Roberta Goetz
Mediator in Visual Arts
German-speaking Switzerland

Anna Roberta Goetz is a curator working in the field of visual arts. Her interests focus on artistic strategies that question hierarchies, narratives, and dominant structures in society. She was co-curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennial (2025), curator at the Marta Herford Museum (2022–2023) and at the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (2013–2017). She also served as project manager for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2013) at the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), and worked as an independent curator between Mexico and Europe from 2017 to 2022. Alongside her curatorial practice, she writes for journals (also as an editor) as well as for art magazines, and teaches at various international art academies.
a.goetz@nc-na.ch ↗

Simon Würsten Marin
Mediator in Visual and Performing Arts
French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland

Simon Würsten Marin is an art historian, independent curator, and lecturer, working at the intersection of visual and performing arts. His research explores the connections between artistic practices, activism, and countercultural phenomena. He has organized numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad, published texts in specialized magazines, and regularly collaborates with art schools. He currently teaches at ECAL. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Zurich (2023–2025), co-curator of the 4th Foodculture Days Biennial in Vevey (2023), and assistant at the Institute of Art (Institut Kunst) in Basel (2017–2019).
s.wmarin@nc-na.ch ↗

Michèle Pralong
Mediator in Performing Arts
French-speaking Switzerland

Michèle Pralong is a dramaturge, stage director, and author, active in the field of performing arts. Her work focuses on contemporary forms of writing and dramaturgy, as well as on production conditions and ecological issues in theatre. From 2006 to 2012, she co-directed GRÜ / transthéâtre Genève with director Maya Bösch. From 2018 to 2021, together with Julie Gilbert and Dominique Perruchoud, she developed Vous êtes ici. Une série au théâtre, a stage-based utopian series co-produced by sixteen Geneva theatres and interrupted by the pandemic. From 2023 to 2025, she was dramaturge for the Projet vert pilote, a laboratory led at POCHE / GVE on the sustainability of scenography. She is currently co-editor-in-chief of the Journal de l’ADC and regularly teaches at La Manufacture – University of Performing Arts of Western Switzerland.
m.pralong@nc-na.ch ↗

Marie Gyger
Coordination
+41 77 520 52 41
m.gyger@nc-na.ch ↗

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