Revealing science
SNSF Scientific Image Competition
Whether abstract or documentary, abundant or minimalist, images of live scientific research offer fresh insights into the world, challenge our imagination and inspire thought. The four hundred works submitted to the SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2025 reflect the diverse and evolving nature of research, as well as the multiple perspectives of the people who carry it out. They reveal novel, spectacular and unsettling visions, shed new light on the familiar, and invite us to question what meets our eye with curiosity and humility.
In collaboration with the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
The competition categories
1. Object of study
2. Women and men of science
3. Locations and instruments
4. Videos
The 2025 jury
President
Tanja Gesell, biologist and artist, University of Vienna (Austria)
Members
Emanuela Ascoli, head of photography and exhibitions of National Geographic France (France)
Lizzy Brown, Managing Media Editor, Nature (U.K.)
Patrick Gyger, director of Plateforme 10 (Switzerland)
Andri Pol, photographer (Switerzland)
Tess de Ruiter, art-science curator, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
© Matti Barthel, Guido Schreurs, Alain Amstutz, Concours FNS d’images scientifiques | SNF-Wettbewerb für wissenschaftliche Bilder
Students of the Institut littéraire/Literaturinstitut (HKB) have written texts inspired by the exhibited images from the SNSF Scientific Image Competition: you can find them here. A collaboration with Michel Layaz, writer and professor at the HKB.
NMB, Neuhaus
NMB, Neuhaus
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