NEW FOLKWANG RESIDENCY

In 2021 Museum Folkwang and the Neuer Essener Kunstverein initiated Neue Folkwang Residence – an artist-in-residence programme. Two places will be awarded every year to international artists covering in both cases a five-month period in Essen. The residency also includes a solo show at Neuer Essener Kunstverein and Museum Folkwang in the context of the “6 ½ Weeks” series. The artist-in-residence programme is enabled by the Folkwang-Museumsverein and the Olbricht Foundation and is sponsored by Vonovia.

The combined house and studio is located in Essen’s Eltingviertel, a district close to downtown, the university and the central railway station. Here the artists live and work in a multi-storey modernized building dating from 1883 boasting 170 square metres of space. The Neue Folkwang Residence enables artists to bring their know-how and art to bear in other contexts, to establish networks in the region, and to focus single-mindedly on advancing specific projects. The programme is also intended to intensify the interaction between international artists and the local art scene and to reinforce Essen’s position as a centre of output by the visual arts.

SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS
2024: Ang Ziqi Zhang und Ngoc Nau
2023: Leyla Aydoslu und Won Oduk Cha
2022: Kate Mackeson und Valentina Triet
2021: Olu Ogunnaike und Min Yoon

The artists in residence are nominated by an international commission, which changes its composition every year. The final selection is made jointly by the museum and the Kunstverein.

ADVISORS
2025
Bernardo de Souza, freier Kurator und Kunstkritiker, Madrid
Claudia Zini, Direktorin KUMA International, Sarajevo
Chiara Nuzzi, Kuratorin, ICA Mailand
COBRA, XYZ Collective, Tokio
Piero Bisello, Conceptual Fine Arts, Brüssel
Conor O’Shea, SydneySydney

2024
Eunice Tsang, Current Plans, Hong Kong
Anna Maria Strauß, Leitung Goethe Institut, Litauen
Lena Fritsch, Kuratorin, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Cobra, XYZ Collective, Tokio
Chiara Nuzzi, Kuratorin, ICA Mailand
Piero Bisello, Conceptual Fine Arts, Brüssel

2023
Anais Duplan, freier Kurator, New York
Melanie Bono, Leiterin Goethe-Institut, Seoul
Nicola Trezzi, Direktor Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Wouter De Vleeschouwer, Convent Art Space, Gent
Francesca Zedwitz, Sundy, London
Chiara Nuzzi, Kuratorin, ICA Mailand
Lisa Offermann, LC Queisser, Tiflis

2022
Jochen Volz, Direktor Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo
Hu Fang, freier Kurator und Kunstkritiker, Guangzhou/Peking
Michal Lasota, Stereo, Warschau
Ethan Assouline, Künstler, Paris
Francesca Zedwitz, Sundy, London
Fatima Hellberg, Direktorin Kunstverein Bonn

2021
Philippe Pirotte, ehemaliger Rektor Städelschule Frankfurt
Yvette Mutumba, Kuratorin Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Jochen Volz, Direktor Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo
Ilaria Leoni, Ermes-Ermes, Rom
Karin Laansoo, Leitung, KAI Art Center, Tallinn
Fatima Hellberg, Direktorin Kunstverein Bonn
Henning Bohl, Künstler, Wien
Valerie Knoll, Direktorin Kunsthalle Bern

In the form of the Neuer Folkwang Residence Museum Folkwang is reviving the long tradition of its former guest-house in Essen-Werden. The first artists came in 1971 and for several decades it accommodated numerous international guest artists and scholars who exhibited and researched at Museum Folkwang and in the region.

Made possible by Folkwang-Museumsverein e.V and Stiftung Olbricht

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