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DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and Artis, New York and Tel Aviv, have established a collaboration to offer fully funded residencies to practitioners from Israel in the field of visual arts, performance, and curation. The artists and curators will be in residence for up to three months in art institutions such as, Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt, Forecast Berlin and universities such as Universität der Künste Berlin, Humboldt University and Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. Invitations have already been issued to the curator and architect Eran Eizenhamer, the artist and curator Hadas Kedar, the visual artist Nira Pereg, the curator Mayaan Sheleff and the performance collective Public Movement have already been invited. Further invitations will follow.

Artis is an independent, nonprofit, contemporary art organization dedicated to supporting contemporary artists from Israel and contributing to a global conversation about art and culture. Artis works with artists and curators who ask questions and explore complex narratives, striving to move beyond replicating national language, assumptions, or preconceived notions in a manner that is responsive, responsible, and in exchange with the international art community in thoughtful, new ways. Artis is committed to ensuring artist-centered opportunities for artists and curators from Israel regardless of religion, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identification.

The residencies are funded by the Federal Foreign Office as part of the DAAD Arts and Media programme.

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

Thanks to funding from Research and Competence Center Digitalization Berlin (digiS) and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, parts of our audiovisual archive have been digitized. Mapping the Archive now makes selected works freely accessible online for the first time. A map of Berlin shows the places that the Fellows were particularly interested in during their stay in the 1970s to 1990s. Mapping the Archive explores the Fellows relationships and movements through Berlin, thus tracing a previously invisible chronicle of the city.

www.mappingthearchive.de

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/

Lucent Shores features Mario Verandi‘s electroacoustic music compositions produced between 2002 and 2017. The album complement’s Verandi’s Orillas Distantes – Distant Shores, an album released in 2001 that contains his early electroacoustic music works (1995 – 2000). The two albums reveal the composer’s strong background in the tradition of acousmatic music whose roots go back to the musique concrete of the 1940s. Mario Verandi explores with intensity and imagination the use of recognizable sound sources in combination with electronic transformations of these same materials blurring the boundaries between real and abstract soundworlds.
The production was supported by the Artists-in-Berlin Program.

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Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are pleased to announce the start of a joint project, OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices, and an open call for artist residency applications from sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in southern Africa.

Under the sign of dialogue, exchange and cooperation, OSCILLATIONS aims to support artist residencies; sonic installations and exhibitions; listening and reading sessions; broadcast and podcast content; and workshops and archive experiments in Berlin, Cape Town and cyberspace.

This Open Call for Residencies is aimed at sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in southern Africa. Directed at mid-career sound artists, the Berlin open call, partly supported by the DAAD Arts & Media Program, includes three residencies, each for a period of two months. In Cape Town, the call includes two two-month residencies for mid-career practitioners and two one-month residencies for entrants new to the field of sonic inquiry and practice. Residencies can be taken up in the June 2023 – March 2024 period.

Further information and Open Call for Residencies

Oscillations is a project by the Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (Cape Town), and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst (Berlin)

Funded within the Fonds TURN2 der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Funded by Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Supported by the DAAD Arts & Media Program, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)

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