Studio Programme

Atelier im Schokoladenmuseum von Claus Richter
Foto: Claus Richter

In 2003 Kölnischer Kunstverein together with the Imhoff Foundation launched a studio grant programme that offers twenty working spaces to young artists in Cologne. Ten studios are located on the upper floor of Die Brücke and a further ten studio spaces are provided by the Cologne chocolate museum with the generous help of the Imhoff Foundation. Apart from the studio spaces, the stipendiaries are given the opportunity to present their work in presentations, concerts and readings at the Kunstverein and make their work accessible to a wider audience. This programme titled Antenne Köln allows Kölnischer Kunstverein to improve working and living conditions of young artists in Cologne. In Summer 2011 ten new artists have moved into the studios at Die Brücke. Please be aware that we cannot consider any applications at the moment.

At the moment following artists have a studio grant:

Andri Bischoff, Michael Bollhöfer, Eli Cortiñas, Owen Gump, Adam Harrison, Andreas Hirsch, Katharina Jahnke, Pauline M'barek, Johanna von Monkiewitsch, Oxana Omelchuk, Claus Richter, Marion Ritter, Timothy Shearer, Anja Sopic, Johannes Stankowski, Stephanie Stein, Pipo Tafel, Shigeru Takato.

The new participants in the grant programme of the Imhoff Stiftung will move into their studios at the Chocolate Museum in April 2012:
Daniel Ansorge, Marianna Christofides, Tobias Daemgen, Rodrigo Lopez Klingenfuss, David Ostrowski, Barbara Schüttpelz, Sarah Szczesny.

Past participants in the studio programme include:

Kamal Aljafari, Rosa Barba, Merlin Bauer, Heike Beyer, Alexandra Bircken, Tanja Bogo, Matti Braun, Manu Burghart, Daniel Burkhardt, Adam Butler, Yvonne Cornelius, Simon Denny, Thea Djordjadze, Anja Dreschke, Michaela Eichwald, Robert Elfgen, Tim Elzer, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Gesine Grundmann, Thea Gvetadze, Kirsten Hinkler, Hofmann & Lindholm, Uschi Huber, Olaf Karnik, Niki Kern, Viola Klein, Manuela Leinhoß, Kristina Leko, Marc Matter, Angela Melitopoulos, Almut Middel, Jugoslav Mitevski, Bernadette Mittrup, Christian Naujoks, Hans Nieswandt, Andreas Reihse, Ralf Schauff, Mark von Schlegell, Heike Sperling, Monika Stricker, Jószef Szolnoki, Lee T. Taylor, Oliver Tepel, Anja Theismann, Stephanie Thiersch, Britta Wandaogo.

The studio programme is kindly supported by the Imhoff Stiftung. The studios at Die Brücke are kindly supported by Fay Projects, Kreissparkasse Köln, Sparda Bank West eG.

Shrutti Garg, Mumbai in motion

Artist-in-Residence
Since 2008 the Kunststiftung NRW (Art Foundation of North Rhine Westfalia) is supporting an international exchange and realising a six-monathly residence in Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Mumbai for artists from North Rhine-Westfalia. As a countermove, international artists is given the opportunity to reside in North Rhine-Westfalia. The grant's objective is to get to know the art world and it's development at the face of the respective place, to make and accentuate contacts, to exchange ideas and to give new impulses to the art world at home after returning. Being a partner to the Kunststiftung NRW, the Kölnischer Kunstverein is since this year providing its apartment for artists to the scholarship holders. The first one residing at the Kölnischer Kunstverein was the Indian artist Shruti Mahajan from Mumbai in 2010, the young photographer Shrutti Garg (*1987) was a guest at the Kunstverein from January to July 2011.