[artinfo] Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral: Call for Applications

Csóka Edina ecsoka at mucsarnok.hu
Mon Apr 26 10:40:13 CEST 2010


e-artnow presents: Call for applications for the Balmoral Scholarships and the Foreign and Exchange Scholarships for 2011Call for applications for the Balmoral Scholarships and the Foreign and Exchange Scholarships for 2011

Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz fur Kultur

 
Contact
info at balmoral.de


Address
www.balmoral.de
Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
Villenpromenade 11
56130 Bad Ems
Germany 

Info
Application Deadline: 
July 2, 2010 
(date of postmark) 
 
 
  
I. International Residence Scholarships at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral

Six residence scholarships will be awarded to international visual artists.

Each scholarship lasts 6 months. All of them begin in April 2011 and are endowed with 1,200 euros per month and include free accommodation at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.

Eligible to apply for the International Residence Scholarships at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral are international artists of any age from the disciplines painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, printmaking, design, photography, video, new media and landscape art.


II. Project Scholarship



The project scholarship, which is not tied to any site, will be awarded to a visual artist. The project scholarship lasts for 6 months and begins in April 2011. It is endowed with 1,200 € per month.

Eligible are international applicants with permanent residence in the Federal Republic of Germany. The artistic project should be realized within the scholarship period of 6 months so that it can be shown at the annual exhibition of the scholarship holders in Bad Ems, Germany.


III. International Curator Scholarship at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral

To foster dialog between research and art, Balmoral awards a residence scholarship to a young scholar in the humanities (preferably art history) for a curatorial project to be developed by the scholarship holder and the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.

The scholarship lasts 6 months and begins in April 2011. It is endowed with 1,200 € per month and includes free accommodation at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.


IV. Foreign and Exchange Scholarships

The following scholarships are offered exclusively for artists who were born in, studied in, or live in Rhineland-Palatinate:

• One six-month scholarship for TrAIN, University of the Arts London
• One six-month scholarship for New York (Flux Factory)
• Two six-month scholarships for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• One five-month scholarship for the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in the State of Brandenburg
• One three-month scholarship for the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art Dijon, France

The foreign and exchange scholarships are endowed with 1,200 € per month.


Preconditions

The preconditions for all scholarships with the exception of the curator scholarship are a completed course of study in art (M.F.A.) and one to three years (depending on the respective scholarship) of continuous artistic work after the conclusion of the studies.
Applications are also possible for autodidacts distinguished by special artistic achievements, as documented by exhibitions and prizes.

The curator scholarship is awarded to persons who are no older than 35 or whose university degree (at least M.A., preferably Ph.D.) was completed no more than 5 years ago.

To foster artistic dialog and interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge of German, English or French is expected. For the Curator Scholarship, the mastery of the German language and good knowledge of English of French is essential.


Awarding of Scholarships

A jury of specialists will award all of the scholarships, taking into consideration the developmental potential of the applicant’s artistic or theoretical work. The names of the jurors will be published after the selection.

Additional information and PDF application forms will be available on our homepage http://www.balmoral.de from April 26, 2010 on.

Applications must be made with these application forms. Other applications will not be taken into consideration.


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