Apply Artists on Photography Contest 2025

The Artists on Photography Contest 2025 portal are now open, Artists on Photography. Open call for a collaboration between art and science, Artists on Photography is a new initiative by the Photography Collection which seeks to enhance its historical holdings by introducing current perspectives from artists and academics in the fields of gender theory and postcolonialism. This fellowship will be awarded annually over a period of five years commencing in 2025 to one artist and one academic, judged by an expert jury. There is no age limit. apply here

Application Deadline: 10 February 2025, 11:59 PM

Each year, one artist from anywhere in the world with an existing archival practice drawing on found footage and collections will receive a grant to carry out a commission. In tandem, a researcher will be invited to consider the same topic from an academic standpoint. Both will complete a research stay in Munich.

The outcome will be a new work of art, a publication sharing the work created by the artist and the researcher, and an exhibition once the museum has reopened.

Topic

The cleft between the photographic objects which dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and computer-generated images which have become prominent over the past three decades has been widening in a new era defined by artificial intelligence. Yet again, photography finds itself confronted with a fresh challenge.

How did earlier generations view photography? How has our understanding of the medium changed with the shift from analogue to digital photography, and now with the advent of computer-generated images? Which social practices have been introduced in an era of smartphone photography, virtual reality, and AI? Which photographic objects have drifted out of focus, disappearing into depositories? What light can those objects shed on the present day and how might we rediscover them?

What’s the theme?

• new perspectives on travel and souvenir albums of the 19th century

What can I win?

• one year project to develop new art work and research one of the broadest photography collections in Europe

What can be submitted?

• concepts for new artwork based on a historical collection; motivation letters to research and write on the collection from a contemporary perspective

How to enter

Applying as an ARTIST?

• Make sure to upload a concept PDF for a proposal for a new work based on the Photography Collection holdings including moods to give an impression how the work could look like; (budget, timeline-indication, project proposal for a new work based on the Photography Collection holdings including 10 moods to give an impression how the work could look like)
• an existing archive-based project as a reference;
• and a CV including a list of exhibitions and publications (on the profile section)

Applying as a RESEARCHER?

• a published sample text of a maximum of ten pages in English or German;
• one single jpg file of your choice for technical reasons
• a CV including a list of publications (on the profile section);
• A research statement describing their interest in this year’s focus on travel and souvenir albums.

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