Fresh A.I.R.

Information

The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships will be awarded for 6 months. The value of the scholarship amounts to a total of 1,900 euros per person, per month. This amount is broken down, as follows:

• Rent-free living (including electricity and Wi-Fi) of around 1,000 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of living subsidy of 500 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of materials subsidy  of 300 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of travel subsidy (fares within Berlin and surrounding areas) of 100 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Coverage of the second home tax for the duration of the stay.

For questions about the scholarship, please write an email to FreshAIR-office@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.

Funding Priorities

With the Fresh A.I.R. scholarships, the Stiftung Berliner Leben creates conditions for artistic project development. The sixth class (10/2021 – 03/22) will be all about migration. »VOICES OF MIGRATION« opens three thematic fields of action: »FRAMING«, »(RE)TELLING« and »LIVING«. Voices from different perspectives are made audible and visible in the various aesthetic and artistic forms of expression. Funding will be provided for project ideas in which one of the three thematic focuses is expressed through artistic means.

1. »FRAMING«

In »FRAMING«, the first thematic field of action, artists and cultural practitioners are invited to visualize in their project how cultural difference is negotiated in contemporary social debates.

Funding will be provided for:

• Projects that reflect ideas and attitudes about one’s own or foreign cultural identities,
• Projects that critically discuss media representations of migration,
• Projects that address theoretical models of migration artistically.

2. »(RE)TELLING«

In the second thematic field of action »(RE)TELLING«, artists and cultural practitioners are invited to examine the current situation of new immigrants and to give people with migration experience a voice in their artistic project. The artistic presentation of worlds of experience and projection, of life situations and perspectives, and of desires, longings, and memories is at the center of this thematic unit.

Funding will be provided for:

• Projects that intend the participation of persons with migration experience or migration experts,
• Projects that emphasize personal life stories and personal perceptions,
• Projects that promote transcultural dialog between members of the home and the host society.

3. »LIVING«

City stories are always connected with stories of migration, in which migrants and their second or third generation descendants become visible in many different ways, (co-)designing and acting. In »LIVING«, the third thematic field of action, the focus will be on places designed by people from different cultural backgrounds that at the same time offer space for the development of diverse life strategies.

Funding will be provided for:

• Projects that make cultural identity visible in urban contexts,
• Projects that take a critical look at urban development issues,
• Projects that artistically reflect the heterogeneity of migrant living environments.

Application

With the Fresh A.I.R. scholarships, the Stiftung Berliner Leben supports:

• artists from EU member states residing outside of Berlin,
• artists from Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway
• artists from the field of Urban and New Contemporary Art, and
• artists seeking cross-genre exchange with art forms of Urban Contemporary Art.

General Requirements

• The project must be clearly recognizable as a current and unpublished project and meet the quality standards of the program.
• There is a residence requirement.
• Grant applications and grants from third institutions must be communicated.
• Each scholarship holder commits to prepare and implement a workshop.
• Each scholarship holder undertakes to attend events of funding partners and the UN Museum (for example, readings, panel discussions, talks, etc.).
• Each fellow agrees to attend a final presentation of works.
• There is a willingness for cultural and artistic exchange with the Stiftung Berliner Leben and the Berlin area.
• Further conditions and exclusion criteria can be found in the funding guidelines.

The scholarship has no age limit. It is irrelevant whether the applicant has a university degree or not. Scholarships are awarded to individuals. Former scholarship holders of the Fresh A.I.R. scholarship are excluded from reapplying.

Jury

Selection is made by a rotating jury. The decision of the jury is final and may not be challenged. There is no legal claim to the awarding of a Fresh A.I.R. scholarship. Applicants will be notified of the decisions, but not the reasoning.

For questions about the scholarships or the jury , please write an email to FreshAIR-office@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.