TIHC is a Basel-based Swiss non-profit building permanent, verified infrastructure for the cultures of the Global South and its diaspora through the Archive, the Library, Sessions, and the wider programme around them.
Choose your level
Give directly, join as a member, or open a patronage conversation. The right choice is the one that fits your relationship with the work.
Open · Any amount
A direct gift is the simplest way to help TIHC build and maintain the work. Choose the amount on Payrexx.
Swiss donation receipts and tax attestations: see the FAQ below for the applicable threshold and treatment.
Annual · Community + benefits
CHF 150 a year, CHF 60 for students. Membership supports the general programme and comes with member benefits. It is separate from formal voting membership of the association.
The fuller benefits programme opens next year. Join now and you're part of it from day one.
Structured · CHF 5,000+
For individuals, family offices, corporations and foundations. Patronage can support a specific programme, a wider system, or a multi-year institutional commitment.
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Why now
TIHC is building the infrastructure that lets cultural knowledge remain findable, citable, connected and useful beyond a single exhibition, event or generation.
The work of artists, researchers and tradition keepers is not made more durable simply because it exists. Documentation has to be built.
The Archive and Library create public-facing structures through which knowledge can be encountered, studied and connected across places.
Support lets TIHC accumulate slowly rather than treating each programme as a one-off event.
What your support builds
Support can follow the programme that matters to you, or remain unrestricted so TIHC can place it where it is most useful.
Curated convenings experimenting with third spaces and temporary social infrastructure for proximity to ideas.
Visit Sessions →A mobile, relational knowledge infrastructure, itinerant across Switzerland and Europe rather than fixed to one room.
Visit the Library →The Observatory for Living Cultural Systems: a growing collection of Cultural System Dossiers.
Visit the Archive →Reciprocal artist mobility between Europe and Africa, with the emphasis on production rather than tourism.
Group and solo exhibitions, commissions and standalone works such as Dotzerosix.
Public panels and closed studio dialogues cutting across the programme, filmed and released publicly.
Patronage
Patronage is for individuals, family offices, corporations and foundations who want a more defined relationship with TIHC and the work it is building.
TIHC leadership replies personally. You do not have to know the right structure before you get in touch.
The Patronage Dossier
A 40-page account of TIHC's five-year institutional plan, patronage structure and founding relationships, shared directly with prospective patrons.
Beyond a financial gift
Expertise, literature, infrastructure, relationships and material collaboration can also move the work forward.
Recommend a text, donate a volume, or support an acquisition through the Library's submission protocol.
Contribute a text →Tradition keepers, researchers, museums, private and corporate collections, curators and translators can take part directly.
See how you take part →For cloud, compute, data, storage and cybersecurity companies: cash, product, people or consultancy can support the infrastructure.
Partner with the Archive →If your own space can hold a room, TIHC can design a Sessions- or Library-style activation and bring the practitioners, including a Chapter built alongside your own material practice, where that practice genuinely belongs inside the research question.
Enquire →A private patron community entered through significant patronage and personal invitation. Not a ticket you can buy.
Visit the Circle →An independent, research-grade audit of a collection's cultural composition and gaps, formatted for board and disclosure use.
Enquire →Before you reach out
Only the questions that materially reduce hesitation sit here. Everything else belongs on the relevant programme page.
Yes. TIHC is a registered Swiss association under Art. 60 of the Civil Code, Handelsregister Basel-Stadt CH-270.6.001.097-2, UID CHE-313.446.252, based in Basel. It is reviewed by the cantonal tax authority to keep its non-profit status.
No. TIHC membership is a community and support membership: an annual fee that supports the general programme and comes with benefits. It does not carry voting rights at the general assembly or a seat on the board. Formal association membership is separate.
Donations and patronage from Swiss residents are generally treated as tax-deductible under applicable cantonal rules. Membership fees are a fee for benefits and are not treated as a donation. Supporters outside Switzerland should check the rules in their own jurisdiction.
Named work. Support can underwrite the room and practitioners behind a Session, fieldwork and research behind an Archive dossier, Library acquisition and development, or a broader institutional commitment. TIHC can also discuss multi-year and in-kind structures.
Use the request form above. TIHC reviews each request personally and sends approved recipients a personal link by email. You can then share that link with people in your own network who may find the dossier relevant.
Yes. TIHC is open to conversations with cloud, compute, data, storage and cybersecurity companies about cash, product, people or consultancy support for the Archive infrastructure. See the Archive partnership section for the current request.
It is a private patron community entered through significant patronage and personal invitation. It is separate from annual membership. See the Collectors Circle →
Yes. You can direct a gift to a single programme or system, split a commitment across several, or give generally and let TIHC allocate it.
Founding the infrastructure
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