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Between the Worlds

Announcement of a working scholarship in Worpswede

The project

The year 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Worpswede artist Bernhard Hoetger. As a person difficult to grasp, as an artist stylistically oscillating, ideologically and politically vacillating between extreme positions, he is an iridescent and equally irritating artistic personality who to this day raises questions and questions and puzzles to this day: poses riddles. Under the title Zwischen den Welten (Between the Worlds), a survey exhibition will take place at the Große Kunstschau Worpswede on the occasion of his anniversary, explicitly linking his art with our present and juxtaposing his work with current artistic positions. A guiding question is how art can build bridges, connect worlds, cultures and people and open up creative freedom. For the world we live in today is characterized as much by the richness of pluralism and polyphony as by ever-deepening rifts and conflicts between cultures and lifestyles, worldviews and political camps. At the same time, we face historically unique challenges that we can only master in a global community of responsibility. That is why it is more important today than ever to facilitate dialogues and clarify shared values. The title deliberately leaves open which divides can be bridged, which free spaces can be created and which worlds and cultures can be connected. cultures can be connected. For the challenges and possibilities are manifold and neither Hoetger's art nor our near future can be reduced to only one possible explanation. Based on these questions, an artistic impulse for the exhibition is to be developed in the scholarship, which starts from the examination of Bernhard Hoetger, but does not necessarily have to refer to him in the implementation:

Critical reflections are explicitly desired here.

The scholarship

For this purpose, the Worpswede Museums and the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede jointly award a working scholarship. A total of three months is planned three-month working phase, which is to take place on site. The scholarship includes a living, material and travel expenses of € 2,500 per month. a total of € 2,500 per month. The three-month fellowship can be arranged flexibly in flexible and, if necessary, also split into several work phases in the period between between June 1, 2023 and November 30, 2023, in any case, a stay in July and August is mandatory. worps. .w. ede themuseums During the fellowship, support in terms of content and organization is provided by the artistic directors of the artists' houses is guaranteed. An essential part of the fellowship is the close exchange with the curators of the anniversary exhibition Bernhard Hoetger. Between the Worlds with regard to a desired participation in the exhibition. A separate budget is envisaged for its realization. budget will be provided for its realization.

The application

Please submit your application by 19.03.2023 to the following e-mail address: stipendium@worpswede-museen.de The call for applications is aimed at professionally working artists in the visual arts. A degree from an art academy or a comparable institution and/or proof of a institution and/or proof of permanent activity as a professional artist (solo exhibitions, catalogs, regular exhibitions in art institutions). There is neither a restriction regarding place of residence, artistic techniques and/or approaches, nor age limit. Children or partners are welcome after consultation and for a small additional fee. Documents to be submitted in PDF format (max. 15 MB): Curriculum vitae, portfolio of previous artistic work, first project outline.