[spectre] (fwd) Schloss Balmoral Scholarships: Call for applications

Andreas Broeckmann ab at mikro.in-berlin.de
Mon May 11 13:47:25 CEST 2009


Künstlerhaus
Schloß Balmoral

BALMORAL ANNOUNCES!

Call for applications for the Balmoral 
Scholarships and the Foreign and Exchange 
Scholarships for 2010

Application period for 2010 scholarships:
May 15 to July 18, 2009 (date of postmark)

<http://www.balmoral.de>http://www.balmoral.de


I. International Residence Scholarships at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Six residence scholarships will be awarded to international visual artists.
The scholarship lasts 6 months. All of them begin 
in April 2010 and are endowed with 1,200 euros a 
month and include free accommodation at the 
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

II. National Project Scholarship
The project scholarship, which is not tied to any 
site, will be awarded to a national visual 
artist. The project scholarship lasts for 6 
months and begins in April 2010. It is endowed 
with 1,200 euros a month.

Applicants for the project scholarship must be 
permanent residents of the Federal Republic of 
Germany. The artistic project should be capable 
of realization within the scholarship period of 6 
months so that it can be shown at the annual 
exhibition of the scholarship holders.

III. Curator Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
To foster dialog between research and art, 
Balmoral awards a residence scholarship to a 
young scholar in the humanities (preferably art 
theory) for a curatorial project to be developed 
by the scholarship holder and the Künstlerhaus 
Schloß Balmoral.

The scholarship lasts 6 months and begins in 
April 2010. It is endowed with 1,200 euros a 
month and includes free accommodation at the 
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.

IV. Foreign and Exchange Scholarships
The following attractive 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
* Two six-month scholarships for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
* One five-month scholarship for the Künstlerhaus 
Schloss Wiepersdorf in the state of Brandenburg
* One three-month scholarship for the École 
Nationale Supérieure d'Art Dijon, Burgundy

The foreign and exchange scholarships are endowed 
with 1,200 euros a month - 1,500 euros a month 
for the Cité des Arts.

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

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 made known after they make their 
selection.

Additional information and PDF application forms 
will be available on our homepage 
<http://www.balmoral.de>http://www.balmoral.de 
from May 15, 2009 on.

Applications must be made with these application 
forms. Other applications will not be considered.

Dr. Danièle Perrier
Business Managing Artistic Director

Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Tel. 02603/9419-0
Fax 02603/9419-16
<mailto:info at balmoral.de>info at balmoral.de
<http://www.balmoral.de>http://www.balmoral.de



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