“A wonderful production and research scholarship! Being able to spend two weeks from morning to night, undisturbed, without restrictions and open-ended, trying out and producing with a wide range of papers and foils was a great gift and an exciting material study. I felt reminded of “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf, read years ago, and miraculously fulfilled for me now.
Pola Sieverding, Paper Residency! Scholarship holder 2018
Paper Residency! Call for applications for 2024 starts
The artist-in-residence programme Paper Residency! – supported by Canon, d’mage and Hahnemühle – will once again offer four artists from all over the world the opportunity to work freely with paper in 2024 and create new impulses. The residencies are aimed at visual artists who either already have experience with sculptural paper work or who have an idea or concept of what they would like to do with paper. The theme for 2024 is “Transformation”. The application deadline is 15 January 2024 at 12 noon.
The Paper Residency! programme was created to leave the familiar behind and explore new creative territory. Since 2018, it has offered four artists a year the opportunity to work intensively with paper in Berlin or Munich. Well-known scholarship holders have included Rosemarie Trockel, Thea Djordjadze, Pola Sieverding, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili and Monica Bonvicini.
The aim of the Paper Residency! is to allow the artists to work completely freely with paper. Tearing, crumpling, burning, dissolving or eating paper – everything is allowed AND encouraged. The materiality and structure, the behaviour and the incredibly diverse potential of the material should be consciously experienced in all its facets, analysed and then transformed into sculptural formats.
Hahnemühle offers large-format artist paper and Digital FineArt Papers and the studio atelier d’mage in Berlin provides the technical equipment in the form of large Canon IPF printers for a fortnight at a time, while a light-flooded studio without technical equipment is available for three weeks in Munich’s Werksviertel. High-quality Hahnemühle paper is also provided for all residents.
The total value of paper and prints for all residencies amounts to around 60,000 euros.
In addition, a flat or an artist flat-share in Munich will be financed for the duration of the residency in Berlin and pocket money will be provided in Munich.
The residencies take place every year from July to August. There are no restrictions on applications with regard to country, place of residence, education or age. The application documents can only be submitted online within the specified application period.
The prerequisite for participation is to engage with the material paper in a sculptural way during the residency. One object from the works created during the residency will be included in the museum collection of the Haus des Papiers and will be presented in the autumn/winter exhibition of the same year.
The Paper Residency! is sponsored by the companies d’mage, Hahnemühle and Canon Germany. All current information about the residency programme and the application process can be found on the website www.paperresidency.com.
