Akademie Schloss Solitude
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The Akademie Schloss Solitude is a foundation under public law. The main aspect of the Akademie is to promote mainly younger, particularly gifted artists by means of residency fellowships and also by organizing events and exhibitions by its residents. The Akademie Schloss Solitude is subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg
(Lottery).
The artists are living and working in ready-furnished studios, that are located in the adjoining buildings of the Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
. The internationality of this institution, the interdisciplinarity in the work, which is the result of scientific and artistic exchange, and the openness to novelties are significant characteristics of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
The next application round will take place between July and October 2010 for the fellowships during the time period 2011-2013. For further informations please see the homepage of the Akademie Schloss Solitude (see address below).
Angela Butterstein (Press and Public Relations), Anita Carey-Yard (Archive and Library), Sibylle Eidenhardt (Cafeteria), Martha Fauser (Cafeteria), Horst Kaag (House and Facilities Technician), Christa Ley (Cafeteria), Ernst Ludwig (Workshop Director), Claudia Mitev (Press and Public Relations), Silke Pflüger (Grant Coordinator), Marieanne Roth (Event Coordinator), Klaus Thieringer (Administrative Director), Anne Vollenbröker (Assistant for art, science & business), Julia Warmers (Program Coordinator for art, science & business), Inge Wohlgemuth (Secretary)
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
(Lottery).
The artists are living and working in ready-furnished studios, that are located in the adjoining buildings of the Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
. The internationality of this institution, the interdisciplinarity in the work, which is the result of scientific and artistic exchange, and the openness to novelties are significant characteristics of the Akademie Schloss Solitude.
Fellowships
The Akademie Schloss Solitude is granting fellowships since 1990. They are granted every 24 months in different terms (from 6 to 12 months). Artists from all over the world can apply for a fellowship of following artistic disciplines: Architecture, Design, Literature, Music/Sound, Performing Art, Video/Film/New Media and Visual Art. Humanists, natural scientists and economists can apply for the »art, science & business« program.The next application round will take place between July and October 2010 for the fellowships during the time period 2011-2013. For further informations please see the homepage of the Akademie Schloss Solitude (see address below).
Jurors Generation 12 (2009/2011)
- Chairman of the Jury: Philip Ursprung (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Architecture: Beatriz ColominaBeatriz ColominaBeatriz Colomina is an architecture historian. She came to Columbia University from Spain in 1982. She then moved on to Princeton University's School of Architecture in 1988, later to become its director of graduate studies...
(Princeton, USA) - Design: Yves BéharYves BeharYves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate. He is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999...
(San Francisco, USA) - Literature: Mircea CartarescuMircea CartarescuMircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, then he worked at the Writers'...
(Bucharest, Rumania) - Music/Sound: Lucia RonchettiLucia RonchettiLucia Ronchetti is a contemporary Italian composer.-Biography:Lucia Ronchetti studied composition and computer music at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and took part in composition seminars with Sylvano Bussotti at the Scuola di Musica of Fiesole and with Salvatore Sciarrino at the...
(Rom, Italy) - Performing Arts: Christoph SchlingensiefChristoph SchlingensiefChristoph Maria Schlingensief was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author. Starting as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies...
(Berlin, Germany) - Visual Art: Dan GrahamDan GrahamDan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....
(New York, USA) - Video/Film/New Media: Sarah MorrisSarah MorrisSarah Morris , is a British-born American artist.-Education and exhibitions:Morris double majored in Semiotics and Political Philosophy at Brown University, graduating magna cum laude...
(New York, USA)
- Economics: Caroline Gerschlager (Vienna, Austria)
- Humanities: Hans Ulrich GumbrechtHans Ulrich GumbrechtHans Ulrich Gumbrecht, best known as "Sepp" Gumbrecht, is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor on Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German, and Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and Zeppelin...
(Stanford, USA) - Natural sciences: Vadim Bolshakov (Boston, USA)
Board of trustees
- Representatives from the sphere of art: Hedwig Fijen, Werner Fritsch, Joerg Mainka, Erik Ona, Ilma Rakusa, Gabriele Roethemeyer, Hans-Joachim Ruckhaeberle, Karin Sander, Thomas Schadt, Klaus Schrenk, Manuel Soubeyrand, Ursula Zeller.
- Representatives from the public sphere: Udo Dahmen, Horst Franke, Philipp Haußmann, Michael Hutter, Ludwig Krapf, Uli Mayer-Johanssen, Ruediger Muengersdorff, Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Lothar SpäthLothar SpäthLothar Späth is a German politician of the CDU.From 30 August 1978 to 13 January 1991 he was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg, serving as President of the Bundesrat in 1984/85.Later on he worked for Jenoptik AG until 2003...
, Willi Steul, Anke te Heesen, Bernt Graf zu Dohna - Representatives from virtue of office: Heiderose Berroth, Susanne Eisenmann, Helen Heberer, Sabine Kurtz, Susanne Laugwitz-Aulbach, Brigitte Loesch, Christoph Palm, Nils Schmid
Staff
Jean-Baptiste Joly (Director of the Akademie)Angela Butterstein (Press and Public Relations), Anita Carey-Yard (Archive and Library), Sibylle Eidenhardt (Cafeteria), Martha Fauser (Cafeteria), Horst Kaag (House and Facilities Technician), Christa Ley (Cafeteria), Ernst Ludwig (Workshop Director), Claudia Mitev (Press and Public Relations), Silke Pflüger (Grant Coordinator), Marieanne Roth (Event Coordinator), Klaus Thieringer (Administrative Director), Anne Vollenbröker (Assistant for art, science & business), Julia Warmers (Program Coordinator for art, science & business), Inge Wohlgemuth (Secretary)
External links
- http://www.akademie-solitude.de/
- Solitude-wiki