Centro de Residencias artísticas de Matadero Madrid and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program announce a Research Fellowship for curators and cultural producers for the period May – July 2023 in Madrid. The call is addressed exclusively to cultural professionals residing in Germany.
The Research Fellowship for Curators and Cultural Producers aims to support approaches to curatorial practice through a two-month residency in Madrid between May and July 2023 with the following objectives:
– Promote research and reflection related to knowledge production in the artistic and curatorial fields.
– Support research and reflection on the engagement with memory, the use of archives, the relationship between art and geopolitical contexts.
– Promote artistic and cultural practice through research and the professional development of curators and cultural professionals, as well as the mobility and internationalization of curators and cultural professionals.
– To establish links between the different protagonists of the art scene in Spain and Germany.
The fellowship is made possible through the DAAD special program Arts and Media in collaboration with Matadero Madrid, the Goethe Institut Madrid and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and is aimed at cultural practicioners living and working in Germany.
Matadero Madrid defines itself as a transdisciplinary production space where the different disciplines of the arts, humanities and sciences have their place. It has a program of artistic residencies to support curatorial activity in a very broad sense in terms of its target groups and public: artists, researchers, thinkers, cultural and transdisciplinary actors.
The residency program is carried out at the Centro de Residencias Artísticas of Matadero Madrid, whose main objective is to support the artistic creation and research processes of visual artists, musicians, film producers, curators, writers and/or researchers, both individually and collectively, with financial resources, tools and institutional mentoring. Centro de Residencias Artísticas provides residents with work spaces, facilitates the production of their work, research and shared learning with other residents and actors.
More information: Center for Artists in Residence | Matadero Madrid
Benefits:
– Travel costs (round trip travel between your place of residence in Spain and Germany)
– 4,000€ residency allowance (which includes fees, total living expenses during the residency and total production expenses for the realization and development of the research)
– Up to 2,000€ for accommodation rental expenses upon presentation of a budget and/or invoice to Madrid Destino
The fellowship is exclusively for cultural professionals residing in Germany. The selected curator will live at the Centro de Residencias Artísticas of Matadero Madrid with other local and international artists and cultural workers, as well as with other partners and projects. The fellow is expected to be open to this space of hospitality, conviviality, personal and professional exchange and mentoring.
The language of communication is English.
At the same time, a guest residency of a cultural precticioner living in Spain will take place in Berlin in connection with the activities of the Berlin Artists’ Program.
The selection will be made by a jury consisting of a representative of the Centro de Residencias Artísticas Matadero Madrid and the Berliner Künstlerprogramm as well as an independent expert. The submitted project outline is decisive for the selection.
Applications should be sent by e-mail only with the following documents:
(1) a letter of motivation in which the research interest in the Matadero Madrid and the goal of the on-site exchange are made clear (max. 300 words).
(2) A project outline for a specific research project in the context of the stay (max. 2000 words), including images and timeline.
(3) a curriculum vitae (max. 200 words)
(4) Portfolio of past projects (max. 6 pages)
All documents must be submitted in PDF format, file size max. 9 MB.
Please send all documents to: residency.berlin@daad.de
DEADLINE for applications is 23 January 2023, 12:00 CET.
