Culture Prize 2025: Anisa Djojoatmodjo inspires Winterthur with music

Culture Prize 2025: Anisa Djojoatmodjo inspires Winterthur with music

Winterthur, Schweiz - Congratulations to Anisa Djojoatmodjo! The talented musician, who lives as a guitarist, singer-songwriter and producer in Winterthur, is awarded the city of 2025. Only a week ago the city council of Winterthur announced this joyful news that Djojoatmodjo received with great surprise and joy. For almost a decade, she has been thriving with the Zurich drummer Hannah Bissegger in the band Ikan Hyu. The duo, which was founded in 2016 at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), has a very special style of music that she herself describes as "Elastic Plastic Space Power Gangster Pop". Class = "Source_1"> Winterthurer Zeitung reports that Ikan Hyu appeared in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and that they have given over 50 concerts before their first mini album was released in 2018. Her most recent work, the full album "Oasis", was released in 2023 and received positive reviews.

djojoatmodjo, who grew up in Bandung, Indonesia and in the Zurich Oberland, describes Winterthur as her home while visiting Indonesia. Her bilingual origin is another aspect that affects her music. Her commitment to musical education is particularly noteworthy: she has been heading a band workshop for young "Finta" people at Helviarcockt for three years and is committed to the fact that women and inter-, non-binaries, transpens and agenders are heard in the music scene. In addition, Djojoatmodjo will be a member of the music commission of the pop loan of the city of Zurich from 2024, which gives its influence in the cultural scene additional weight. City of Winterthur Has djojoatmodjo as musician and funding New talents recognized, and their award is more than justified.

diverse awards in view

The City of Winterthur's cultural prize is endowed with CHF 10,000 and is awarded annually to people or institutions who have made a particularly well deserved manner in the city's cultural life. On the same opportunity, Julia Toggenburger is also awarded the sponsorship award, which is also endowed with CHF 10,000. Toggenburger, a versatile artist from Winterthur, has worked in different disciplines such as poetry, prose and music and receives the award for her socially relevant work. Tages-Anzeiger that the honors are ceremoniously presented in November 2025-an appointment that is already in the calendar should.