Stiftung

The House of Electronic Arts Foundation launched its activities on 1 January 2011 with the aim of enabling the establishment of the eponymous institution and therefore create a venue for the mediation, promotion and documentation of electronic arts on regional, national and international levels.

Foundation Board

The foundation presidency is currently held by Annette Schönholzer, independent consultant and owner of connect the dots GmbH. Further members of the Foundation Board are Claudio Beccarelli, Head of the Department of Culture of the Christoph Merian Foundation; Nikki Böhler, multiple-time founder at the intersection of digitalization and society, and co-founder of Intersections, Zurich; Eva Pauline Bossow, Independent Consultant for Business and Strategy Development, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Transfer; Regula Steinemann, lawyer at Furer&Partner, Basel; Robert Sumner, Associate Director of Disney Research Zurich and Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich; Bernard Vischer, lawyer and partner at Schellenberg Wittmer, Geneva; Thomas Wenk-Werthemann, tax expert and partner at Hoffmann & Partner AG in Basel.

Advisory Board

The newly appointed advisory board is composed of persons from the arts and culture sector, as well as from the technology, media, research/science and economic sectors. The board will advise museum management on fundamental professional and practice-oriented questions, planning and content-related orientation, and will support the profile and objectives of the museum.

The members of the advisory board are: Georg Bak, Curator and consultant; Bruno Bolfo, Collector and co-founder of ICA Milano; DooEun Choi, Art Director, Hyundai Motor Company; Haro Cumbusyan, Entrepreneur and collector, founding director of collectorspace; Sarah Kenderdine, Director of the EPFL Pavilions and Head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology; Ariane Koek, Independent Strategic Consultant, Creative Producer, Curator and author; Anika Meier, Curator and author; Sandra Nedvetskaia, Partner at Thora Contemporary; Abir Oreibi, Colelctor, investor and CEO, Lift Global; Joanna Philipps, Head of the Restoration Centre Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf; Christopher Salter, Professor for Immersive Arts and Director of the Immersive Arts Space at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK); Christian Simm, Head International Relations Office, University of Zürich; Valentin Spiess, Founder and Chairman iart ag; Joachim von Heimburg, Innovation Architect

The honorary advisory board is elected by the Foundation Board of the HEK to serve for a period of four years and meets at least once a year.