Open Call for Three Transdisciplinary Residencies (3 positions, each for 3 months) on Curating Journalism
Application deadline: 10 August 2026, 11:59 pm (CET)
Monthly stipend: €1,400
The Residency
Lothringer 13 Halle, in cooperation with Artist-in-Residence Munich—the residency programme of the City of Munich—is awarding three transdisciplinary residencies to professional cultural workers whose practice operates at the intersection of art, journalism, and curating.
During their stay at Ebenböckhaus, residents will develop an independent project with a research-based or investigative approach, as an integral part of the research and exhibition project Curating Journalism. We are looking for proposals that engage with research, documentation, archival work, publishing, or new forms of critical public sphere, and that establish new connections between journalistic, curatorial, and artistic practice.
Projects are particularly welcome that:
- draw on ongoing or completed journalistic investigations and translate them into new spatial or publication-based forms;
- collaborate with international investigative networks, editorial teams, or investigative collectives, or develop such connections during the residency;
- test forms of testimony, forensic investigation, evidence production, or archival work under contemporary conditions of disinformation, repression, or media invisibility;
- develop experimental formats that operate between exhibition, research, publication, and public mediation, without being fully contained by any of these categories.
We are not looking for projects that merely address or illustrate journalism as a subject. The focus is on practices, procedures, methods, formats, and their transformation in the context of art and the public sphere.
Throughout the residency, the teams at Ebenböckhaus and Lothringer 13 Halle will support the residents in their research and working process. Each resident will also have access to a workspace at Lothringer 13 Halle.
The residency includes participation in a public event at Ebenböckhaus, as well as the presentation of the project as part of Curating Journalism at Lothringer 13 Halle.
About the Project
Curating Journalism understands freedom of the press and artistic freedom as complementary conditions of a democratic public sphere. Their solidarity is a central cultural task of democratic societies.
The point of departure is the proximity between journalistic, curatorial, and artistic practice: research, documentation, analysis, evidence production, contextualisation, montage, and public mediation. The project investigates how these procedures can be connected within the art space, aesthetically expanded, and translated into new forms of public perception. The art space is understood here not merely as a site of presentation, but as an active structure in which these perspectives become productive.
The urgency of this question arises from the increasing endangerment of journalism as a cultural form—as a practice of research, contextualisation, testimony, and public mediation whose conditions are coming under growing pressure worldwide. Repression and censorship in authoritarian systems, attacks by far-right actors, targeted disinformation campaigns, algorithmic distortions of digital public spheres, and AI-generated content endanger journalistic work and the reliability of public information.
The research and exhibition project brings together newly produced works and positions from recent art history, as well as journalistic investigations, documents, and audiovisual materials, within a shared curatorial framework. The focus is on new works that connect artistic practices, journalistic research, and international investigative networks. The residency projects are an integral part of Curating Journalism and will be presented in the context of the overall project.
An international symposium with partner institutions from the fields of journalism, curatorial studies, and fine arts will open the project and accompany the development of the residencies through panels, lectures, workshops, and lecture performances. The contributions will be published in July 2027 as an edited volume by Wolke Verlag.
Grant & Support
Each of the three selected residents will receive:
- a monthly stipend of €1,400 (€4,200 in total for the three-month residency) as part of the Artist-in-Residence Munich programme of the City of Munich;
- production funding of up to €1,400 per resident, available upon agreement: up to €600 for a public event at Ebenböckhaus and up to €800 for the presentation of the project at Lothringer 13 Halle;
- accommodation at Ebenböckhaus free of charge;
- reimbursement of travel expenses.
Requirements
- Applicants who have previously participated in a residency at either Villa Waldberta or Ebenböckhaus are not eligible.
- Applicants must have their primary place of residence within Europe and outside Bavaria: Eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
- Applicants must demonstrate an independent professional practice in the fields of art, journalism, curating, or comparable transdisciplinary fields.
- A good command of English and/or German is required.
- Applications must be submitted personally. Applications submitted by third parties will not be considered.
- Selected applicants must fulfil all contractual requirements of the City of Munich as the operating body of the residency programme. Successful applicants will receive a separate residency agreement.
- Further information can be found in the FAQ (Artist-in-Residence Munich)
Note: This call has been edited for formatting purposes. To read the full listing and apply, please visit the link below.
Image credit: 100 Days:The Forced Labourers of Evros, ©FAIA, 2026. Via Lothringer13 Website
