The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships offer artists and cultural professionals in the field of Urban and New Contemporary Art the time, the space and the resources to devote themselves to an artistic project within the framework of a given thematic complex (and in accordance with the Fresh A.I.R. funding guidelines of the Stiftung Berliner Leben).
During their stay, the scholarship holders have the opportunity to gain new impetus, to develop their art and to gain important experience for their future careers. Up to 13 scholarship holders will be invited to Berlin for six months for each class.
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:
For questions about the scholarship, please write an email to FreshAIR-office@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.
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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:
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:
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:
With the Fresh A.I.R. scholarships, the Stiftung Berliner Leben supports:
General Requirements
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.
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.
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