Akademie Schloss Solitude/City of Stuttgart: ‘Zwangsarbeit/en – Work Force/d’ Residencies in Vi[...]

Akademie Schloss Solitude/City of Stuttgart: ‘Zwangsarbeit/en – Work Force/d’ Residencies in Visual Art and Art in Public Space (Germany)

Akademie Schloss Solitude and the Coordination Office for Remembrance Culture of the City of Stuttgart are awarding two artistic residency fellowships, each lasting six months, for the period from July 2026 to June 2027. The fellowships are open to both international artists and artists based in the Stuttgart region working in the fields of visual art and art in public space. The aim is to produce a site‑specific artistic work in public space that fosters mediation and accessibility to one or more concrete sites of forced labour for the city’s residents.

Mediation and accessibility are central to the project. In addition to producing a site‑specific artistic work, the fellowship requires at least two accompanying public events during the residency, designed to address different target groups and to test a variety of participatory formats. The immediate neighbourhoods of the sites of remembrance are also to be actively involved.

The call is open to national and international artists who are willing to engage artistically with specific historical sites of forced labour in Stuttgart and to develop new forms of remembrance culture. Applications from collectives are unfortunately not possible.

The fellowship includes:

• a six-month stay in Stuttgart, optionally divided into two periods
• a monthly stipend of 1,300 EUR
• a furnished live/work studio at the Akademie Schloss Solitude
• one-time reimbursement of travel expenses for arrival and departure
• project funding of 5,000 EUR per fellowship (for research and production)
• coverage of health insurance costs for non-EU citizens
• exchange with an international, multidisciplinary community of fellows
• participation in events organised by the Akademie
• support with local and regional networking
• access to the workshops (wood, metal, video editing/VR) and libraries of Akademie Schloss Solitude