Contact
Artists-in-Berlin Programme
German Academic
Exchange (DAAD) Prgramm
Berlin office
Markgrafenstr. 37
D-10117 Berlin
Fon: +49 (0)30 20 22 08 20
Fax: +49 (0)30 20 41 26 7
Berlin Artists-in-Residence program
Purpose/Activities
The Berlin Artists-in-Residence program (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) is one of the most renowned international programmes supporting artists. Each year some 20 grants are awarded to international artists in the fields of visual arts, literature, music, film as well as dance/performance for an approximately one-year stay in Berlin. In its more than 45 years of existence the programme has made a significant contribution to the international representation to contemporary art in Berlin.
From the very beginning the Berlin Artists-in-Residence program has defined itself as a forum for artistic dialogue which extends beyond cultural, geographical and, certainly, beyond political borders. This forum is effective and vigorous not only through the work and presence of the artist living in the city, but also through the approximately 100 events ayear which the Berlin Artist-in-Residence program hosts in conjunction with its guests in Berlin and other locations, and not least, by the international juries of experts in the four sections who decide upon the invitations to be issued.
The expressed intention of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence program is to create wave off extending far beyond the capital city. Close cooperation with various cultural institutions, museums, literary, music and film festivals has led to a sustained nationwide influence: many guests remain in Germany after their grants and so enhance the cultural scene, for example as temporary lectures at colleges of art and universities in the Federal Republic. In this way, standpoints of the international artistic avant-garde are mediated not only in Berlin, stimulating both aesthetic and political discourse.
