Fresh A.I.R.

Information

The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships will be awarded for 12 months. The value of the scholarship amounts to a total of up to 2,100 euros per person, per month. This amount is broken down, as follows:

• Rent-free living (including electricity and Wi-Fi) of up to 1,000 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Cost of living subsidy of 700 euros per month for the duration of the stay.
• Materials costs according to the budget plan as part of the project application amounting to a maximum 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

Information

The Fresh A.I.R. scholarships of the Stiftung Berliner Leben offer art and cultural practitioners the time, space and resources to devote themselves to an artistic project. Up to 13 European artists are invited to the artist‘ residencies in Berlin Schöneberg for 11 months. The current call is for the 9th year starting in January 2024 and ending in December 2024.

Thematic Call – »UNSUPERVISED: Childhood Dreams & Fantasy Rebels«

In the 9th edition of the artist scholarship, emphasis will be placed on the topics of play and childhood. Under the title »UNSUPERVISED: Childhood Dreams & Fantasy Rebels«, the focus is on play as a creative force and culture-forming factor and connects with the potential of childhood.

Funding will be provided for:

• projects that incorporate playfulness and children’s worlds of fantasy and imagination, and that experiment with children’s pictorial languages and narratives,
• projects in which children’s ways of playing are reflected and staged as a concept to perceive the world with autonomous rules,
• projects in which childlike play spaces will be generated, which are aimed at creative production with children, and awaken children’s joy in playing,
• projects that artistically ventilate philosophical approaches to play or production-aesthetic theories on the connection between art and play.

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 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 guideline.

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.
Application deadline is Monday, 6th February 2023.

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Jury

Selection is made by a rotating selection committee. The decision of the selection committee 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 decision, but not the reasoning.

A heartfelt thank you to the previous members of our selection committee:

Janine Arndt (Artistic Director Fresh A.I.R.) | Dr. Hans-Michael Brey (Board of Foundation Berliner Leben) | Heike Dander (Executive Curator LUMAS Gallery) | Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich) | Prof. Susanne Weirich (University of Duisburg-Essen) | Katrin Göhler (Fundraising Manager Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V.) | Sven Harke-Kajuth (Head of Digitalisation & Corporate Services, Gewobag) | Dr. Larissa Kikol (Independent art critic and historian) | Dr. Heiderose Langer (Former Managing Director of the Erich Hauser Art Foundation) | Dr. Noor Mertens (Art Museum Bochum) | Prof. Dr. Helen Koriath (Art-Historical Institute, Osnabrück University) | Prof. Dr. Barbara Kaesbohrer (Art Educational Institute, Osnabrück University) | Dr. Olena Lykhovodova (Curator of Ukrainian Programme at the Goethe-Institute in Exile in Berlin) | Tim Renner (Former State Secretary for Culture in Berlin) | Jan Sauerwald (Former Director URBAN NATION Museum) | Paul Spies (Chief Curator of the State of Berlin at the Humboldt Forum) | Prof. Dr. Melanie Ulz (Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University), Dr. Silke Vry (Art historian and children’s book author) | Yasha Young (Former Director URBAN NATION Museum)