The list of outstanding artists selected to receive Berlin residencies in 2022 is now set:
Visual Arts
Patricia Belli, Nicaragua
MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa & Nare Mokgotho), South Africa
Tuli-Mekondjo, Namibia
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Poland
Zoncy Heavenly, Myanmar
Film
Burak Çevik, Turkey
Paula Maria Gaitán, Colombia / Brasil
Shireen Seno,Philippines
Literature
Anuk Arudpragasam, Sri Lanka
Jay Bernard, United Kingdom
Volha Hapeyeva, Belarus
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Uganda
Maaza Mengiste, Ethopia / USA
Faruk Šehić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Music & Sound
Merche Blasco, Spain
Nandita Kumar, India / New Zealand
Elaine Mitchener, United Kingdom
Bárbara Lázara, Mexico
The artists were selected by the following expert jury panels:
Visual Arts: Zoe Butt, curator & artistic director Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City; Mariana Castillo Deball, artist & professor, Berlin; Miguel A. López, curator, writer and researcher, Lima; Nontobeko Ntombela, department head, art history, Wits University, Johannesburg; Alya Sebti, curator & director ifa Galerie, Berlin; Joanna Warsza, co-curator of the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale and Program Director of CuratorLab at Konstfack University, Berlin.
Film: Ines Johnson-Spain, Filmmaker, Berlin; Birgit Kohler, co-Director Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., Berlin; Zhenhua Li, Founder of Asiatischer Künstlerverein, Film curator for Art Basel Hongkong & Founder of Laboratory Art Beijing, Zurich / Beijing; Maria Mohr, filmmaker, Berlin; Cristina Nord, Director Berlinale Forum, Berlin; Can Sungu, Artistic Director, bi’bak & Sinema Transtopia, Berlin.
Literature: Ibou Diop, literary scholar, Berlin; Lena Gorelik, writer and journalist, Munich; Federico Italiano, poet and literary scholar, Vienna; Verena Lueken, writer and critic, Frankfurt; Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, literary scholar, San José / Berlin; Mathias Zeiske, literary mediator and curator, Berlin.
Music & Sound: Ata Ebtekar, musician (aka Sote) & curator, Tehran; Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen, managing director & artistic director, Ultima, Oslo; Rebekah Heller, musician & curator, New York; Luka Mukhavele, musicologist & musician, Weimar; Elke Moltrecht, musicologist & curator, Berlin; Susanna Niedermayr, Editor & Co-Producer ORF Ö1 Zeit-Ton & Co-Curator, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, Vienna.
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program awards internationally highly regarded fellowships. Since 1963, over 1000 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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