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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!

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 The digital archive of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program comprises selected historical documents from the program’s analogue archive holdings accumulated since the program’s inception through today.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).

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program Supports Twelve Cultural Projects Abroad

On the initiative of the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Foreign Office, the International Relief Fund for Organizations in Culture and Education was set up in 2020 with various partners to support organizations from culture and education abroad in dealing with the anticipated effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Given its visible effectiveness and the ongoing urgency, the partners have decided to re-launch the International Relief Fund in 2021 and expand the funding amount and funding period. From September 2021 to February 2022, funds totaling around six million euros will be distributed to selected cultural and educational organizations in fifty-nine countries. The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program will again be participating in this consortium in 2021 and will support twelve cultural projects with its own program priorities. The projects were selected from twenty-seven submitted proposals.

Thanks to this funding program, twelve organizations will be able to implement their projects between September and December 2021 with a focus on further training for cultural practitioners, archival work, and the organization of fellowship programs in the fields of literature, film, and visual arts. Also listed are twice-supported projects that already received funding during the first phase of the Relief Fund.

Abuja Literary Society, Abuja, Nigeria: “ALITFEST” – Abuja Literary and Arts Festival

Beirut DC, Lebanon: “Maskoon Fantastic Lab“, continuing education for filmmakers

Asociación Cultural Bisagra, Peru: “Commoning Future”: discursive platform for arts practitioners

Archivo de la Memoria Trans, Buenos Aires, Argentina: archive for transgender history

Fold Media Collective Initiatives, Colombo, Sri Lanka: „Colomboscope“, festival for contemporary art

Les Archives Bouanani, Rabat, Morocco: inventorying the archives of director Ahmed Bouanani

Malaysia Design Archive, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: archive of Malaysian visual culture

Más Arte Más Acción, Nuquí, Chocó, Colombia: “Reactivating the Territory for Coexistence”

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale, Ghana: “Tech Class”

SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico: fellowship program for arts practitioners

Studio Klampisan, Banyuwangi, Indonesia: „Mama’s Imagination Kitchen“: artistic research, lectures, videos

Fundación TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica; fellowships for Central American cultural workers

The funded organizations are characterized by their, in some cases, long-term collaborative partnerships with former fellows of the Artists-in-Berlin program. Their local work is supported with 252,000 euros from funds from the German Federal Foreign Office.

Background:
The International Relief Fund 2020 was set up in 2020 on the initiative of the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut together with partners in order to quickly support organizations from culture and education abroad in dealing with the anticipated effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Federal Foreign Office provided around three million euros in basic emergency aid, which was increased to approximately six million euros in 2021. The Goethe Institute coordinated the selection process and the allocation of funds. Cultural organizations and private foundations from Germany also added further funds or participated with their own projects including the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, the German UNESCO Commission, the S. Fischer Stiftung, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Siemens Foundation. www.goethe.de/hilfsfonds

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier awarded the Belarusian Nobel laureate in literature Svetlana Alexievich the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany on June 15 in Bellevue Palace. Especially in her works “War Has No Female Face” and “The Last Witnesses” she impressively portrays the atrocities of the Second World War and the suffering of the civilian population.
Svetlana Alexievich is a Fellow of the Martin Roth Initiative at the DAAD’s Berlin Artists-in-Residence Program.

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

As of May 20th you will have the chance again to visit Matana Roberts’ installation, We Hold These Truths. In this immersive work, Roberts is dealing with the turbulent political events of the past year in the US. The entrance is free. Please book a slot in advance.

The video documentation of Matana Roberts’ immersive sound and video installation “We Hold These Truths” is online now! After a successful opening, the exhibition at daadgalerie unfortunately had to be closed again to the public. Enjoy the video instead and hopefully see you soon at daadgalerie!

The video recordings of Emre Dündar’s Portrait Concert are online now!

Récit ductile (2017-2019) 16‘
for clarinet and string quartet

Vagabond III (2020) 10‘
for flute, accordion and violoncello

Parergon to »De vulgari eloquentia« (2017/2020)
for speaker, contrabass clarinet, keyboard and electronics
World premiere

Soirée gothique (2018) 25’
for soprano and ensemble
on poems by Emily Dickinson

Recorded live at Ultraschall Berlin – festival for contemporary music on January 23rd, 2021 with Ensemble KNM Berlin and guests.

camera+editing: Eunice Maurice + Ursula Böckler

Music is the central theme of Turkish composer Emre Dündar’s work. For many years he has collected sonic memories, vocal recordings, sounds, phonetic peculiarities and melodies of the countless dialects and, in some cases, dying languages of Turkey, which he then incorporates into his music.

A selection of his works has been presented to Berlin audiences for the first time in an ultraschall Festival portrait concert, organized in cooperation with the Artists-in-Berlin Program. Ensemble KNM performed this chamber concert under the direction of Titus Engel and featuring soloists Theo Nabicht (bass clarinet) and Eva Resch (soprano). For the piece Parergon to de Vulgari Eloquentia, Emre Dündar also performed on stage.

Concert information can be found here.

Emre Dündar was music division fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2020-21.

Listen online now: Portrait concert Emre Dündar

Portrait Emre Dündar on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Hörspielmagazin (in German)