Photo-Work-Scholarship

Program description

The Kommunale Galerien Tempelhof-Schöneberg are offering the HAUS am KLEISTPARK photography scholarship. The scholarship is endowed with €5,000 and is awarded to photographers who live and work in Berlin for the realization of a photographic project.

The aim of the scholarship is to support artists and expand the Haus am Kleistpark's contemporary photography collection. Support is given to contemporary documentary photography in the broadest possible interpretation of the term, from classic auteur photography to conceptual approaches. The project proposals to be submitted should deal with the Tempelhof-Schöneberg metropolitan district. An independent photographic perspective on the district as an urban living space of a diverse society is desired. Architectural as well as cultural and social processes can be reflected artistically within the framework of the scholarship.

Institution

Haus am Kleistpark

The exhibition venue known as Haus am Kleistpark is considered one of the largest and most traditional municipal galleries in Berlin. Two other locations are affiliated with it: Haus am Kleistpark | Projektraum and the Galerie im Tempelhof Museum. Until 2016, it also occupied exhibition spaces in the Galerie im Rathaus Tempelhof. As non-commercial spaces for the mediation of contemporary art, the municipal galleries stand for cosmopolitanism, experimentation and artistic discoveries at a high level. Local-urban reference and intercultural exchange are combined with the inclusion of global contexts. Their tasks as municipal galleries are cultural district development, the promotion of artists, basic work for the art sector, as well as the sustainable accompaniment of current issues in discourse.

Deadline

Submission deadline: Tuesday, November 28, 2024, 3 pm.

The documents can also be handed in personally from November 22, 2024 at Haus am Kleistpark, Grunewaldstr. 6/7, 10823 Berlin, 2nd floor. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 11 am - 6 pm. Information telephone 90277-6964.

Funding period

The applicant selected by the expert jury has approx. 9 months to realize the project idea (an individual agreement is made depending on the project).

Funding types (non-commercial)

Scholarship

Funding criteria

• Only professional photographers who live in Berlin are eligible to participate, as the scholarship is a form of local support for artists.
• Scholarship holders from previous years can only participate again after four years.
• The grant is awarded for a current project that is in progress or planned. The secondary utilization of a completed work is excluded.
• The photographs in the application portfolio are insured up to a maximum replacement value of € 250.
• Documents that are not complete or not submitted on time will result in exclusion.
• By submitting the documents, the applicant acknowledges the conditions of the awarding authority

Application type

Download form, by mail

Application procedure/documents

When compiling your application documents, please bear in mind that
the jury will be able to form an impression of
the quality and continuity of the applicant's work to date, the project idea submitted to
and the potential of the photographic realization within a reasonable period of time.

Please submit:

• Curriculum vitae (max. 1 page A4)
• Abstract of the project idea (max. 400 characters)
• Detailed text on the project idea (max. 2 pages A4)
• Sample photograph of the project: a photograph must be attached that gives an impression of the project idea to be realized. It must be labeled as such (incl. technical details: printing method, dimensions).
• Comparable series/photographs of an already realized project as proof of the applicant's photographic qualifications. Please no originals, preferably printouts/prints in photo folders (max. 1 page A4) or small publications.

The written attachments 1 - 5 must be completed and enclosed with the submission, as well as the sample photograph for the project (point 4) and comparable photographs (point 5). The call for entries with the attachments can be downloaded from the website.

A presentation in paper format is required. Online or video presentations cannot be considered.

Jury/Decision-making body

An expert jury selects the scholarship holder. Maren Lübbke-Tidow will chair the jury this year.

Assistance/Downloads

You can read the complete invitation to tender here.

Funded by

Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Office

Funding area

District