Our Team

Rahel Leupin is passionate about making arts and cultural policies more inclusive. For more than twenty years she has worked as a performing arts curator, arts funder and manager in Switzerland, the US and Denmark. She is a specialist in contemporary dance and theater and regularly consults for Swiss institutions, developing new funding and collaboration formats for artists, cultural workers and audiences. She holds a doctorate in Performance Design from Roskilde University.

Markus Baumann has many years of experience in the promotion, production and implementation of projects in the fields of film, visual arts and music, as well as in cultural mediation. He is committed to the inclusion of immigrant artists and authors in the Swiss cultural landscape. Participation of artists and dialog at eye level are basic prerequisites for the successful and sustainable implementation of projects.

Roberto Hacaturyan is an ethnomusicologist and musician. He studied and performed as a multi-percussionist in Ghana, Cuba, Brazil and several countries in the Middle East. His research focuses on transcultural musical developments. Hacaturyan has collaborated with a range of artists both on stage and in the studio.

Anastasia Alexandrova supports artlink as a programme manager and specialist in visual arts. She has more than fifteen years of experience as an art historian and cultural coordinator, collaborating with state and independent cultural institutions as well as publishing houses in Russia and Switzerland. In addition to her degree in art history from the Russian State University for the Humanities, Alexandrova holds a BA in Conservation of Modern Materials and Media from the Bern University of the Arts and has worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Anna Haselbach has been communicating and campaigning with NPOs such as Public Eye, HEKS/EPER or Caritas Switzerland for over ten years. She was also co-editor-in-chief of the online magazine ‘das Lamm’ and worked as a political secretary for a labour union. Haselbach holds an MA in English and German Languages and Literatures from the University of Zurich. Passionate about the transformative power of language and images, she is particularly interested in the role and responsibility of communication in the decolonisation of international cooperation.

Matthias Dellsperger translates artlink's activities into financial figures. He gained his many years of experience at various NPOs, cantonal institutions and SMEs. His business education and further specialised trainings complete his portfolio of competences. In his spare time, Matthias is a passionate musician and producer, releasing creations that are at the intersection of electronica and guitar.

Malaya del Rosario is passionate about helping creative ecosystems thrive. As an arts and culture specialist for the past 15 years, she has worked with galleries, governments and institutions like the British Council, growing their impact through strategy and partnerships. She has managed cultural programmes in Southeast Asia and the UK and writes about contemporary art, creative economy and cultural policy. She holds an MBA in Arts and Cultural Management from the Institut d’études supérieures des arts (IESA) and Paris School of Business.

Virginia Kargachin grew up in northern Argentina. She assists artlink in different projects such as Weiter Schreiben Schweiz and the artlink Directory. She has worked promoting Latin American cultural productions in Switzerland as an associate member of the Latin American Center Zurich and is interested in fostering intercultural competences in group dynamics. She holds an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Zurich.

Nadina Bazzi is responsible for communication and outreach at artlink. She majored in Anthropology and Media Studies at the University of Basel. Bazzi is interested in looking into how the dynamics of the Swiss cultural landscape can be made more inclusive. Particularly drawn to projects developed in a collaborative process she manages the initiative #seinodernichtsein, which seeks to provide social security for artists.