Fellows of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2021

Posted on 11/12/2020 Under News

Thank you to all july and nominator to consider my proposal and give this precious opportunity!

Visual arts expert jury panel:Raphael Chikukwa, curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Gridhtiya Gaweewong, artistic director, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok; Iman Issa, artist, Berlin; Lisette Lagnado, curator, 11th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art; Shubigi Rao, artist, curator, Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2020, Kerala; Franciska Zólyom, director Foundation Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

Announced on 25.11.20 at https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/

The list of outstanding artists selected to receive Berlin residencies in 2021 is now set:

Visual Arts:
Olivia Botha, South Africa
Guerreiro do Divino Amor, Brazil
Shadi Habib Allah, Palestine / U.S.A.
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Zimbabwe
Pallavi Paul, India
Sutthirat Supaparinya, Thailand

Film:
Albertina Carri, Argentina
Elia Suleiman, Palestine / The Netherlands
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand

Literature:
Taqi Akhlaqi, Afghanistan
Miguel Bonnefoy, Venezuela / France
Athena Farrokhzad, Sweden
Francesca Melandri, Italy
Fernanda Melchor, Mexico
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenya

Music:
Robert Machiri & Memory Biwa, Zimbabwe / South Africa / Namibia
Yara Mekawei, Egypt
Zsolt Sőrés, Hungary

The artists were selected by the following expert jury panel:

Visual Arts: Raphael Chikukwa, curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare; Gridhtiya Gaweewong, artistic director, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok; Iman Issa, artist, Berlin; Lisette Lagnado, curator, 11th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art; Shubigi Rao, artist, curator, Kochi-Muziris Biennial 2020, Kerala; Franciska Zólyom, director Foundation Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

Film: Birgit Kohler, co-director Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin; Karina Griffith, media artist and cinematologist, Berlin; Maria Mohr, film maker, Berlin; Cristina Nord, director Berlinale Forum, Berlin;
Enoka Ayemba, film curator and media consultant, Berlin; Biene Pilavci, film maker and actress, Berlin

Literature: Robin Detje, author and translator, Berlin; Ricardo Domeneck, literary critic, São Paulo / Berlin; Dominique Haensell, literary critic, Berlin; Anna Jäger, curator and translator, Berlin; Barbara Wahlster, author, journalist and critic, Berlin; Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, literary critic, Berlin

Music: Jessica Ekomane Etoua, musician, composer, sound artist, Berlin; Gregor Hotz, executive director Musikfonds, Berlin; Luka Mukhavele, musicologist and musician, Weimar/Mozambique; Emeka Ogboh, sound and installation artist, Berlin/Nigeria; Kirsten Reese, composer, sound artist, professor UdK, Berlin; Ute Wassermann, vocalist, composer, sound artist, Berlin

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program awards internationally highly regarded fellowships. Since 1963, over 1000 outstanding international visual artists, authors, filmmakers, composers, and sound artists have been invited to live and work in Berlin. As part of its long-term support of artists, works by current and former guests are presented at the daadgalerie in Kreuzberg as well as at partner institutions in Berlin, around Germany and also abroad.

For further information, please contact Silvia Fehrmann, Director Artists-in-Berlin Program (presse.bkp@daad.de)