The URBAN NATION Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, a Berliner Leben foundation project which opened in 2017, is expanding its role as a museum that promotes international exchange within the field of urban and new contemporary art, thanks to the artist in residence scholarships. A total of 13 fellows will be invited to work in Berlin for a period of 6 months.
The Artist in Residence scholarships offer artists and creatives from the field of urban and contemporary art the time, space and resources to dedicate themselves to an artistic project based on the foundation’s funding priorities. Those awarded with scholarships will be given the opportunity to receive new impulses during their stay and to further their artistic development within Berlin’s cultural scene, while also gathering important experience for their future careers.
A new living environment, coupled with the contact and interaction with other artists, provides ideal conditions for developing one’s own creativity and kickstarting new artistic creative processes.
The artist in residence scholarships will be awarded for 6 months from October 2019 to March 2020. 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 office-artist-in-residence@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.
Thanks to the Artist in Residence scholarships, the Berliner Leben foundation creates conditions for artistic project development through its URBAN NATION project. Funding will be provided for project ideas that are expressed through artistic means, and those which fulfil at least two of the following three funding priorities:
Location specificity
Social commitment
Originality
With Artist in Residence scholarships, the Berliner Leben foundation supports:
General Requirements
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 scholarship. Applicants will be notified of the decisions, but not the reasoning.
For questions about the jury or the scholarships, please write an email to office-artist-in-residence@stiftung-berliner-leben.de.
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