Aug 19, 2024

The new generation of fellows from 2024–2026 has been selected

Design: Stegmeyer Fischer Creative Studio

Design: Stegmeyer Fischer Creative Studio

The Akademie Schloss Solitude is pleased to announce the names of the 64 selected fellows for the 2024 to 2026 period. They were chosen by fifteen international jurors, who were nominated by the jury core group consisting of Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, Neo Muyanga, and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga.

Over a time span of three months, 7,510 artists and scientists from more than 140 countries registered on the application website to receive information about the application process for the selection of the 19th Solitude generation.
Among them 4,063 candidates submitted their application. The jury awarded a total of 55 fellowships to 64 applicants from 34 countries, including seven artist collectives. As is often the case with artists and scholars, who tend to be highly mobile, many fellows do not live in the country where they were born and raised; often, they maintain residences in more than one country.

With the finalisation of the selection process, the fellowship program of Akademie Schloss Solitude has been defined until the end of 2026. Starting in October 2024, the first fellows of the new generation will arrive. Additional arrival dates are scheduled for April and October 2025, as well as April 2026.

The next application round for the general residency program of Akademie Schloss Solitude will most likely take place at the end of 2025. The exact dates will be announced in due time.

Solitude-Stipendiat*innen 2024–2026

Visual (visual arts and media)
Jurors: Sehr Jalil, Rheim Alkadhi, Renan Laru-an
Abdul Halik Azeez, Sri Lanka
Agustina Comedi, Argentina
Caroline Douville, Canada
Ali El-Darsa, Germany/Lebanon
Rana Hamadeh, Netherlands
Louis Henderson, France/United Kingdom
Hiba G. Isleem, Palestinian Territories
Sonia Keshavarz Hadad, Iran
Collective Marie Skeie & Motaz Habbash, Norway
Benigno Mangovo, Angola
Mohsin Shafi, Pakistan
José Morbán, Dominican Republic
Marco Pando, Netherlands
Irene Piloya, Uganda
Noriko Tomita, Japan

Aural & Physical (music and performing arts)
Jurors: Mwenya Kabwe, Michaela Melián
Lily Abichahine, Lebanon
Tini Aliman, Singapore
Julio Cann Gonzalez, Mexico
Collective ALIVe: Alena Starostina & Ivan Nikolaev, Germany/Russia
Bongile Gorata Lecoge-Zulu, South Africa
Collective Maryam Ghiasi & Alireza Mirmohammad, France/Iran
Collective Rencontres Plurielles: Magali Dougoud & Yollande Yowa Ngoy,  Switzerland/Democratic Republic Congo
Anna Lublina, Germany/USA
Mert Moralı, Germany/Turkey
Kiana Rezvani, Germany/Iran
Linda-Philomène Tsoungui, Germany

Spatial (architecture and design)
Jurors: Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Dubravka Sekulić
Kenneth Boa-Amponsem, Ghana
Hanieh Fatouraee, Turkey/Iran
Elise Hunchuck, Germany
Andy Lee, USA
Atsuko Mochida, Japan

Digital (digital art, gaming, hacking, computing, digital publishing)
Jurors: Daphne Dragona, Neema Githere
Hiba Ali, USA
Bakma Collective: Bilge Emir, Özge Çelikaslan & Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Germany/Turkey/Lebanon
Miriam Hillawi Abraham, Ethiopia
Miriam Humm, Germany
Rosemary Lee, Portugal

Societal/Communal-based work (education, mediation, theory)
Jurors: Anjalika Sagar, Sylvia Winkler
Jean M. Borgatti, USA
Agnieszka Kilian, Germany/Poland
Peter Okotor, Nigeria
Collective PALs Research Group: Faye Harvey, Fine Bieler & Veronika Varga, United Kingdom/Germany/Hungary
Sharmila Samant, India

Textual (international literature and language)
Juror: Stacy Hardy
CHAOS Collective: Mohammad Ohadi Haery & Melika Shokri, Iran
Uttaran Das Gupta, India
Ramona de Jesús, Germany/Colombia
Sibongakonke Mama, South Africa
Mayra Alejandra Rodriguez Castro, Germany/Colombia

Textual (German literature and language)
Juror: Selim Özdogan
Jeannette Hunziker, Switzerland
Nils Ketterer, Germany
Seda Tunc, Austria

Scientific (humanities, social, natural and economic sciences)
Jurors: Joshua Berson, Shaka McGlotten
Nazia Akhtar, India
Swati Arora, United Kingdom/India
Luisa Azevedo, Brazil
B Camminga, South Africa
Madeline Routon, United Kingdom/USA
Mauro Suarez Torrico, Argentina

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