Akademie Schloss Solitude

Akademie Schloss Solitude A public-law foundation that offers an interdisciplinary and international fellowship program for artists, scholars, and scientists.

Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international and transdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Program and has supported approximately 1,800 young artists from more than 120 countries since opening its doors in 1990.

For this , we are happy to introduce current fellow kiana rezvani () and their upcoming performance at tanzhaus nrw in ...
04/09/2026

For this , we are happy to introduce current fellow kiana rezvani () and their upcoming performance at tanzhaus nrw in Düsseldorf on September 11, 2026. The performance is part of the 8th edition of the festival »Claiming Common Spaces VIII«.

kiana rezvani (born in Western Iran, currently based in Berlin) is an artist, choreographer, and researcher whose choreographic and performative work combines dance, text, video, and voice. Their artistic practice centres on forgotten, untold, hidden, and suppressed stories and narratives. Weaving together personal and collective memories and uncovering specific parallels and intersections, kiana’s works create new relations and spaces of possibility. Their practice critically engages with colonial and imperialist constructions while opening spaces of poetic resilience.

kiana is a 2026 fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in the Aural & Physical sphere of practice.

Their performance »Untitled (briefly here bright)« – marked by life in a moment of continuing violence and destruction – dwells on conditions of exhaustion, tenderness, and stopped time. Dance becomes a letter – reminiscing, cautious, patient, and introspective – unfolding through small gestures of continuous attention and listening.

The choreography stays close to what is almost imperceptible: a body tilting, a gaze held, a shifting of weight, a remote, trembling voice. Without resolution or culmination, »Untitled (briefly here bright)« inhabits presence as a fragile state. Tenderness becomes a way to confront collapse; intimacy becomes a form of bearing witness. What remains after loss is a fragile return to life, to practice.

📍 tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
📅 September 11, 2026, 7:30 pm

Images : Performance »Untitled (briefly here bright)« by kiana rezvani.
Photo 1: Dirk Rose, Photo 2 & 3: Spyros Rennt

Warm invitation to the workshop series »Game(s) Changer – Süße Felder« 🎲A workshop series for everyone aged 16+ who want...
03/09/2026

Warm invitation to the workshop series »Game(s) Changer – Süße Felder« 🎲

A workshop series for everyone aged 16+ who wants to rethink the rules of the game! 🧩

What happens when games change?
What happens when we change the rules?

Over the course of five Saturdays, we’ll play, experiment, hack, remix and reinvent games. We’ll take a closer look at how games work, challenge their rules, develop new ones and create our own game ideas from scratch.

No previous experience needed – just curiosity and a willingness to play.

This year’s theme: agriculture, food & sugar. 🌱

From fields and farming to trade, sweets and global production chains, we’ll explore the stories hidden behind sugar. We’ll look at everything from locally grown sugar beet to global systems of production and consumption.

Together, we’ll play games, bend the rules, design game materials and invent new ways to play.

FIRST DATE:
Saturday, September 12, 2–8 pm 🗓️
Where: Deutsches Landwirtschaftsmuseum Hohenheim, Garbenstraße 9, 70599 Stuttgart
Topic: »Beet Sugar in the Region«

More info about the following dates can be found here: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/event/workshopreihe-games-changer-suesse-felder/

Design: Hiroko Tanahashi

//Call for Applications //Marie-Zimmermann-Stipendium für Dramaturgie 2026/2027 🎭️Die Akademie Schloss Solitude schreibt...
02/09/2026

//Call for Applications //
Marie-Zimmermann-Stipendium für Dramaturgie 2026/2027 🎭️

Die Akademie Schloss Solitude schreibt das Marie-Zimmermann-Stipendium für Dramaturgie 2026/2027 aus!

Das Stipendium richtet sich an besonders talentierte Nachwuchsdramaturg*innen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, die ihre künstlerische Recherche weiterentwickeln, neue Ideen erproben und sich mit Künstler*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen verschiedener Disziplinen austauschen möchten.

Das Stipendium umfasst:
🔴 eine einmalige Förderung in Höhe von 5.000€
🔴 einen zweimonatigen Aufenthalt an der Akademie Schloss Solitude
🔴 ein kostenfreies, möbliertes Wohn- und Arbeitsstudio
🔴 Raum für Recherche, Reflexion und die Entwicklung neuer Projekte
🔴 ein internationales und transdisziplinäres Arbeitsumfeld

Bewerben können sich deutschsprachige Dramaturg*innen bis 40 Jahre. Voraussetzung sind Interesse an künstlerischer Recherche, experimentellem Denken und interdisziplinärem Austausch sowie gute Englischkenntnisse.

Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Oktober 2026, 18 Uhr CET 🚨

Die Bewerbung erfolgt ausschließlich über die Bewerbungsplattform der Akademie Schloss Solitude, mehr Info hier: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/news/call-for-applications-marie-zimmermann-stipendium-fuer-dramaturgie-2026-2027/



Design: Stegmeyer Fischer Creative Studio

NEW SOLITUDE BLOG ENTRY // »The Magic of Unexpected Connections« ✨What can happen when we leave space for the unexpected...
01/09/2026

NEW SOLITUDE BLOG ENTRY // »The Magic of Unexpected Connections« ✨

What can happen when we leave space for the unexpected?

Moving between sound, performance, writing, and installation, Julio Cann González’s transdisciplinary practice brings together different times, places, and encounters – often in surprising ways.

In our latest blog entry, Patrick Urbani (.a.t.rick_u) speaks with Julio about the role of relationships and openness in his work, the connections that emerge along the way, and why these can be just as important as the finished work itself.

Read »The Magic of Unexpected Connections« on our website. Link in bio 🔗

Image: Julio Cann González in his studio. Photo: Patrick Urbani

If you're in or around Warsaw, you should definitely visit the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (), our fir...
27/08/2026

If you're in or around Warsaw, you should definitely visit the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (), our first cooperation partner in the Solitude Exchange Network (formerly known as the Eastern European Network). Their current exhibition, »This Cat Was Drawn During the War«, features alumnus Ivan Moudov. 🐈‍⬛

The exhibition brings together artworks created in the context of war and its lasting impact on society. At its core are questions about how images shape our perception, how artists respond to moments of crisis, and whether art can still open up spaces for dialogue and reflection when the world seems increasingly polarized.

As part of the Eastern European Network, Ivan Moudov () spent three months at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2008, in cooperation with the Inter Space Media Art Center in Sofia, Bulgaria. His artistic practice is rooted in conceptual and contemporary art and draws on his master’s degree in mural painting.

Image: © Honorata Martin/Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Warm congratulations to Wilhelm Sasnal (), who will receive the City of Siegen's Rubens Prize 2027! 🎉Sasnal was part of...
26/08/2026

Warm congratulations to Wilhelm Sasnal (), who will receive the City of Siegen's Rubens Prize 2027! 🎉

Sasnal was part of the first generation of participants in the Solitude Exchange Network (formerly known as the Eastern European Network), launched in 2002. The Solitude Exchange Network is an international artist-in-residence exchange program between the Akademie Schloss Solitude and partner organizations in several Central and Southeastern European countries. Wilhelm Sasnal arrived at the Akademie in April 2002 for a three-month residency through a collaboration with the Center for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw/Poland (). 💫

Born in 1972 in Tarnów/Poland, the artist works as a painter, filmmaker, photographer, and comic artist. Since the 1990s, his work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions, most recently in 2026 at Espaces Louis Vuitton in Munich/Germany.

In his work, he repeatedly draws on motifs from art history, media images, and his own photographs. More recently, his paintings were based on current photographs from the devastated Gaza Strip and Iranian nuclear facilities.

Images:
1: Wilhelm Sasnal, 2026. Photo: MGKSiegen, Pawel Garynik
2: Wilhelm Sasnal, »Nuclear Facility in Iran«, 2021, courtesy of the artist
3: Wilhelm Sasnal, »Patmos«, 2017, courtesy of the artist

NEW SOLITUDE BLOG ENTRY // »Staying Awake as a Signal for Consciousness, Resistance and Solidarity«What does it mean to ...
24/08/2026

NEW SOLITUDE BLOG ENTRY // »Staying Awake as a Signal for Consciousness, Resistance and Solidarity«

What does it mean to stay attentive – to each other, to distant struggles, to the earth itself? 💬

Sharmila Samant’s () personal yet political project asks precisely these questions.

Dedicated to the memory of the artist Tushar Joag, the work traces the path of the sunrise across continents, connecting voices from around the world. In doing so, it becomes more than a memorial: a reflection on care, empathy and the power of staying present in times that demand attention, solidarity and action.

Read more about »Staying Awake as a Signal for Consciousness, Resistance and Solidarity« by Sabrina Ahm on the Solitude Blog: https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/staying-awake/

Image: »Staying Awake: Towards the Thresholds of a Shared Dawn«, © Akademie Schloss Solitude

Solitude friends, fellows and followers in and around Berlin: make sure to visit the exhibition »We Make Years Out of Ho...
21/08/2026

Solitude friends, fellows and followers in and around Berlin: make sure to visit the exhibition »We Make Years Out of Hours« by Solitude alumna Lina Lapelytė.

With her performance piece, Lina Lapelytė () transforms the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof () into a space for collective action and singing. 🎶

The work transcends the boundaries between sculpture and performance, and between the individual and the collective. Through the active involvement of the audience, this participatory format underscores the concept of the »open museum« as part of the Hamburger Bahnhof’s 30th anniversary.

Lina Lapelytė is an artist living and working in London/Great Britain, and Vilnius/Lithuania. She holds degrees in classical violin, sound arts and sculpture. Her performance-based practice is rooted in music and flirts with pop culture, gender stereotypes, aging and nostalgia.

Lina was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2016, together with Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, with whom she developed the opera »Sun & Sea (Marina)« during their time at Solitude. The opera was presented at the Venice Biennale in 2019, where it won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation, and has since been presented worldwide.

🗓️ On view: until January 10th, 2027
📍 Where: Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Invalidenstraße 50, 10557 Berlin

Images: © Lina Lapelytė. VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / art/beats, Florian Mag.

// »Towards a Communal Multispecies Ledger« How can digital tools be subverted to uncover invisible labor?In Ahmedabad...
19/08/2026

// »Towards a Communal Multispecies Ledger«

How can digital tools be subverted to uncover invisible labor?

In Ahmedabad, thousands of cows move through the city each day, sustained by forms of labor that remain largely unseen. During the four-week Web Residency »Polymorphic Futures«, architect and researcher Pavan Vadgama turned towards these invisible infrastructures with »CattleDAO«, a project situated between architecture, political theory, and decentralized systems. In this project he deals with the question of how care, accountability and liability can be reimagined by embedding non-human lives into the civic system.

Reflecting on questions of care, authorship, and civic belonging, he considers how blockchain technologies might register collective responsibility without reproducing the logics of surveillance and extraction they often carry.

Read more in the interview »Towards a communal multispecies ledger« between Pavan Vadgama, Barbara Cueto, and Sarah Donderer on our website, link in bio! 📎

Image: Pavan Vadgama, »CattleDAO«, 2026, screenshot

For everyone in and around Brandenburg, we have an exhibition tip to share! Alumna Nadja Schöllhammer is part of the exh...
18/08/2026

For everyone in and around Brandenburg, we have an exhibition tip to share!
Alumna Nadja Schöllhammer is part of the exhibition »The Pilgrim’s Progress – Wundersame Wege der Zeichnung« at Galerie am Klostersee in Lehnin. ✏️

The exhibition takes its title and inspiration from John Bunyan’s famous allegorical story »The Pilgrim’s Progress«, first published in 1678. It follows a pilgrim on a journey filled with obstacles, detours, and adventures before reaching his destination. In a similar way, the exhibition invites visitors to embark on a journey through the drawings, encountering unexpected paths and discoveries along the way.

Nadja Schöllhammer creates drawings, three-dimensional wall works, and installations made of paper and organic materials. In her works, she interweaves collective fantasies with her own inner mental space, creating maze-like image structures. Tactility, immediate sensory perception, material transformation, and ephemeral structures are important aspects of her work. She is interested in non-rational forces that emerge at the moment when control is lost and beauty turns into subliminal violence. 🗯️

Schöllhammer was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2008/2009 in the field of visual arts.

🗓️ On view: until August 29, 2026; Finissage on August 29, 3 pm
📍Where: Galerie am Klostersee, Zum Strandbad 39, 14797 Kloster Lehnin

Images:
1. »Prozession IV«, Detail, 2026
2. »Prozession IV«, 2026
3. »Prozession V«, 2026
4. »Prozession V«, Detail, 2026
All images © Courtesy of the artist.

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