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Announcement Fellows 2025

The list of outstanding artists selected to receive Berlin residencies in 2025 is now set.
From about one thousand four hundred applications from 120 countries, four independent and international jurys awarded the following positions:

Visual Arts
Hoda Afshar, Iran
Essa Grayeb, Palestinian Territories
Hira Nabi, Pakistan
Alejandra Pombo Su, Spain
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, USA

Film                             
Flora Dias, Brazil
Wanjiru Kinyanjui, Kenya
Yeo Siew Hua, Singapore

Literature                  
Julia Cimafiejeva, Belraus
Nastaran Makaremi, Iran
James Noël, Haiti
Norman Erikson Pasaribu, Indonesia
Claudia Rankine, USA
Geetanjali Shree, India

Music & Sound        
Dror Feiler, Sweden
Interspecifics, Mexico
Isuru Kumarasinghe, Sri Lanka
Okkyung Lee, South Korea

Press Release Fellows 2025

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New release: Pisitakun Kuantalaeng Compilation MIDDLE SOUND #01

On November 27, 2023, the compilation MIDDLE SOUND #01 is published. Pisitakun Kuantalaeng (music & sound fellow 2023) invited sixteen international musical artists to reinterpret protest songs from their home countries. The online album will feature the resulting tracks along with background information on the original songs and artists involved. The release is part of Kuantalaeng’s larger project THE THREE SOUND OF REVOLUTION examining the connections and variances between global protest movements where music often plays a central role. A further iteration of the project will be presented at CTM Festival 2024 – SUSTAIN in collaboration with the Artists-in-Berlin Program.

With contributions by: Abadir (EG), Teya Logos (PH), Gabber Modus Operandi (ID), Pisitakun (TH), Wanton Witch (MY), Neo Geodesia (CB), WAQ WAQ KINGDOM (JP), Odete (PT), Ale Hop (PE), Carla Boregas (BR), Ruhail Qaisar (IN), fatalism (GR), Hui Ye (CN), PNIKY HTUT AUNG (MM), HURA (IR), Tanat Teeradakorn (TH)

Mastered by: Enyang Urbiks, Urbiks Music GmbH
website conception & realization: José Fernandes
supported by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

https://threesound.org/

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Fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2023

The list of outstanding artists selected to receive Berlin residencies in 2023 is now set. From about five hundred applications from 88 countries were selected:

Visual Arts              

Esvin Alarcón Lam, Guatemala
Helena Uambembe, South Africa
Sam Vernon, USA
Jiyoung Yoon, South Korea

Film
Gustavo Vinagre, Brazil
Susana De Sousa Dias, Portugal
Radu Jude, Romania

Literature

Lana Bastašić, Bosnien

Amanda Lee Koe, Singapur

Nhã Thuyên, Vietnam

Rajesh Parameswaran, USA

Cristina Rivera Garza, Mexiko

Kinga Tóth, Ungarn

  

Music & Sound       

Ting-Jung Chen, Taiwan

Pisitakun Kuantalaeng, Thailand

Muqata’a, Palästinensische Gebiete

Sonja Mutić, Serbien/Kroatien

The artists were selected by the following expert jury panel:

Visual Arts: Nana Adusei-Poku, assistant professor in African Diasporic Art History, University of California Berkeley; Daniel Garza Usabiaga, curator and researcher, Mexico City, Nida Ghouse, visiting lecturer at Princeton University and co-artistic director of the Singapore Biennale 2022, New York / Berlin; Angela Harutyunyan, associate professor, American University, Beirut; Paula Nascimento, architect and curator, Luanda; Haegue Yang, artist and professor, Städelschule, Berlin / Seoul

Film: Enoka Ayemba, film curator and scholar, Berlin; Enrico Ippolito, journalist and author, Berlin; Birgit Kohler, co-director, Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Berlin; Maria Mohr, filmmaker, Berlin; Ines Johnson-Spain, filmmaker, Berlin

Literature: Yevgeniy Breyger, poet, translator and editor, Frankfurt a.M.; Olga Grjasnowa, writer, Berlin; David Hugendick, literary editor and journalist, ZEIT ONLINE, Berlin; Benjamin Loy, literary scholar, critic and translator, Vienna; Samir Sellami, literary scholar and critic, Berlin; Eva Tepest, writer and journalist, Berlin

Music & Sound: Ketan Bhatti, composer, musician & artistic director, Trickster Orchestra, Berlin; Ash Fure, composer & artistic co-director, The Industry, Boston / Los Angeles; Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen, executive & artistic director, Ultima, Oslo; Talía Vega León, cultural Manager, director and curator of Radical Sounds Latin America, Berlin; meLê yamomo, researcher, theatre maker and composer, Amsterdam / Berlin; Du Yun, composer and performer, New York City

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program awards internationally highly regarded fellowships. Since 1963, over 1300 outstanding international visual artists, authors, filmmakers, composers, and sound artists have been invited to live and work in Berlin. As part of its long-term support of artists, works by current and former guests are presented at the daadgalerie in Kreuzberg as well as at partner institutions in Berlin, around Germany and also abroad.

For further information, please contact Silvia Fehrmann, Director Artists-in-Berlin Program (presse.bkp@daad.de)

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In memory of Peter Nestler

Peter Nestler, the first director of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program from 1965 to 1970, died in Berlin several days ago at the age of ninety-three. It was largely thanks to his initiative that the artists-in-residence program, launched by the Ford Foundation in West Berlin in 1963, continued to evolve. His involvement in culture and politics and his personal powers of persuasion are what turned the residency program into the Artists-in-Berlin Program. Tirelessly committed to “cultural and intellectual bridge-building,” his work was essential to the evolution of West Berlin and German cultural scenes. He was always emphatic that “independent, personal engagement outside of official political bodies and agreements help prepare the climate and ground for interstate relations.” Peter Nestler laid an important foundation for the Artists-in-Berlin Program and thus for local and international cultural work. The DAAD and the Artists-in-Berlin Program are deeply indebted to him for his contributions.

Quote: Peter Nestler, draft article for “Diplomatischer Kurier”, ca. 1970. Source: DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Archive

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Publication by Mahmoud Khaled out on February 1st, 2022

This book is an extension and continuation of an artwork titled Proposal for a House Museum of an Unknown Crying Man by artist Mahmoud Khaled, in which he imagines a house museum for an anonymous person who has entered Egypt’s queer history as an “unknown crying man” and iconic image.

Mahmoud Khaled was able to continue and complete his work on the performative publication A Book on a Proposed House Museum for an Unknown Crying Man during his residency as a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020 and 2021.

With texts by: Sara El Adl, Bassam El Baroni, Edwin Nasr, Hannah Elsisi, Lina Attalah, Ismail Fayed, Hicham Awad

The book is edited by Mahmoud Khaled & Sara El Adl, published by DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and was designed by Engy Aly.

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Yearbook 2021

The full yearbook 2021 is online now.

“Against the backdrop of numerous crises, time spent on a residency program becomes all the more valuable. Finding one’s own rhythm, struggling for the right word, working on precise images, questioning circumstances, and the craft of artistic production take on a new quality: every sound, every line, every gesture anticipate an encounter with the audience. During the pandemic in Berlin, our fellows wrote new novels, screenplays, and compositions, designed publications, and created exhibitions and sound projects.” Silvia Fehrmann, Head of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

The team of the Artists-in-Berlin Program invites you to scroll through these 128 yearbook pages and recap a difficult as well as inspiring year.

Thanks to all our friends, fellows, and collaborators, to our funders and supporters – see you in 2022!

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Launch of the Digital Archive / Publications

The digital archive of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is now online with an initial selection of digitized publications. The digital archive of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program comprises selected historical documents from the program’s analogue archive holdings accumulated since the program’s inception through today. The archive is being cataloged and digitized in chronological stages; the first phase covers the period from 1963 to 1978, the year the daadgalerie opened.

The digital archive is intended to serve as an impetus for deeper engagement and provide new access and a greater volume of information on various contexts related to the program.

The cataloguing and digitization of holdings from the artists’ program archive was made possible by funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe for the digitization of objects of cultural heritage of the State of Berlin and the Research and Competence Center Digitization Berlin (digiS).

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Open doors at daadgalerie

As of today, you can visit us without a negative test certificate and without booking a time slot. The current exhibition – an immersive sound and video installation by Matana Roberts – is running until June 27th. Free Entrance! More information on the piece here