Open call: Akademie Schloss Solitude residency
Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, has opened applications for its international and transdisciplinary artist-in-residence programme.
The open call runs until 30 November 2023. The programme is designed approximately 65 residency fellowships of six to 12 months in duration from 2024 to 2026.
Akademie Schloss Solitude’s wide-ranging fellowship programme promotes the interrelationship of art and science across all disciplines and fields of practice. Its unique model affords artists and scientists valuable freedom to develop their work and perform research in both a physical and digital context.
Residencies at Akademie Schloss Solitude enable fellows to devote themselves to their research projects under favourable material and intellectual conditions.
International artists are invited to apply from the following spheres of practice:
- Aural and physical – music and performing arts.
- Visual – visual arts and media.
- Digital – digital art, gaming, digital journalism, digital publishing.
- Spatial – architecture and design.
- Textual – literature and language.
- Societal – education, mediation, theory.
- Scientific – humanities, social, natural and economic sciences.
Requirements
- Fellows are obliged to spend at least two thirds of their fellowships at the Akademie.
- All fellows must have their permanent residence in Stuttgart for the fellowship’s duration (obligation to register residence).
- Applications from students enrolled in degree programmes will not be considered. PhD students may submit applications.
- Applications of artist groups are possible.
- Knowledge of either German and/or English and/or French is a prerequisite for application.
Double applications to the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg gGmbH (Arts Foundation Baden-Württemberg) and the Akademie Schloss Solitude are not permitted.
Applicants whose applications are refused during a specific selection procedure may send in applications during two other rounds (maximum).
Application rounds for Solitude fellowships are held every two years. The jury awards a maximum of 65 fellows. Forty-two live/work studios and three guest studios are available.
Scholarships are usually awarded for a period of six, nine or 12 months.
Benefits
The fellowship includes the following benefits:
- A free, furnished living/working studio including electricity, water and heating.
- A monthly fellowship grant of €1 200.
- Travel expenses for arrival and departure (on a one-time basis).
The Akademie also offers optional additional benefits which are adjustable in accordance with the current budget situation:
- Transport expenses subsidy for the carriage of materials, tools, instruments and books to Stuttgart and from Stuttgart to the fellow’s home town.
- Project funding and one-off materials subsidy.
- Health insurance in the case of non-EU fellowship candidates.
How to apply
- Applicants are invited to apply online on the application platform of Akademie Schloss Solitude.
- Find more detailed information about the fellowship programme here.
- Questions will only be answered by email at apply@akademie-solitude.de.
View the original call here.
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