Helvetia Art Prize

The Helvetia Art Prize is a platform dedicated to supporting graduates of Swiss art schools as they enter professional artistic practice, offering prize money and an exhibition at Liste.

This year, a dedicated booth presents the work of prize winner Kelechi Amaka Madumere, whose installations, drawings, and object-based works explore the entanglements of violence, childhood, and social power structures. Drawing frompersonal experience, the artist connects individual narratives with collective realities through layered material constellations that address questions of history, belonging, and structural inequality.

Kelechi Amaka Madumere (*2000) lives and works in Lausanne. She graduated from HEAD Genève and is the recipient of the 2025 Helvetia Art Prize. Recent presentations include exhibitions at Halle Nord, Geneva, and CAN Centre d’art Neuchâtel.