Application requirements for a residency fellowship

(please read carefully):

You are aged up to 35 years, or you have completed a university or college degre
e within the last five years.
You have completed your academic studies.
Please note that applications from those still enrolled in degree programs durin
g the application round will not be considered. Graduate students may submit app
lications.
A limited number of fellowships are awarded regardless of the applicants' age. D
ecisions relating to the above will be made by the responsible juror.
Would you like to apply as part of an artist group? In this case, each group mem
ber must fill in an application form on their own behalf. However, the various a
pplications must be sent in a single application/mailing with the joint work sam
ples. Artist groups applying online are asked to upload the same materials and r
efer to the group application.
Knowledge of German, English or French is a prerequisite for application.
If you have applied for a fellowship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Wrttemberg (Bad
en-Wrttemberg Art Foundation), whose application procedure runs at the same time,
you may not apply for an Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship.
Former fellows of the Akademie Schloss Solitude cannot apply again.
The Solitude fellowship is a residency fellowship. At least two thirds of the fe
llowship period must be spent at the Akademie.
All fellows must have their permanent residence in Stuttgart for the fellowship'
s duration (obligation to register residence).
Applicants whose applications are refused during
may send in applications during two other rounds
ed to register and pay the application fee (it's
o return of materials). This fee applies only to
countries (see list of countries).

a specific selection procedure

(maximum). Applicants are oblig
an administration fee) of
15 (n
applicants from industrialized

International artists are invited to apply from the following disciplines:

? Architecture (design, landscape architecture, urban planning)
? Visual Arts (including performance art)
? Performing Arts (stage design, dramatic texts, dramaturgy, musical theater,
performance, direction, drama, dance)
? Design (fashion, costume, product and furniture design, visual communication)
? Literature (essay, criticism, poetry, prose, translation)
? Music/Sound (interpretation, sound installation, sound performance,
composition)
? Video/Film/New Media (incl. video installation, fiction and documentary)
as well as in the art, science & business program:

? Humanities
? Social Sciences (with a focus on culture and the politics of space)
? Economy/Economics (with a focus on urban policy)
? Culture & Law (with a focus on authorship)
The independent jury consists of the jury chairman Kaiwan Mehta and eleven speci
alist jurors who independently allocate the fellowships for their respective dis
ciplines.
The eleven specialist jurors for this year's application round are:
?Architecture: Brett Steele, London/United Kingdom; Visual Arts: Desire Machine
Collective, (Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya ), Guwahati/India; Performing
Arts: Galin Stoev, Sofia/Bulgaria, Paris/France; Design: Ute Meta Bauer, Singapo
re; Literature: Ranjit Hoskote, Mumbai/India; Music/Sound: Jennifer Walshe, Dubl
in/Ireland; Video/Film/New Media: Nancy Adajania, Mumbai/India; Humanities: Kaiw
an Mehta, Mumbai/India; Economy/Economics: Edward Soja, Los Angeles/USA & London
/UK; Social Sciences: Ackbar Abbas, Hong-Kong, Irvine/USA; Culture & Law: Lawren
ce Liang, Bangalore/India.
At the beginning of a new application round, the Akademie stipulates a new centr
al topic within the context of its art, science & business program which is desi
gned to include not only fellows from all disciplines, but external specialists
too. The Akademie views art, science and business as complementary rather than s
eparate activities, which interact dynamically and encourage mutual productivity
. To this end, fellows are selected in the fields of art, science & business, in
ternal and public events are organized and publications are released. All fellow
s artists, scientists and economists
are free to participate in projects related
to the central topic.
Following a suggestion by the current jury chairman, Kaiwan Mehta, the Akademie
will be organizing its art, science & business program around the central topic
Biography and the Production of Space. With this central topic, the Akademie wou
ld like to initiate a comprehensive interdisciplinary discussion about the produ
ction of spaces
which can be physical, virtual or imaginary
as an individual as
well as social phenomena with implications in economy, art, literature, and scie
nces.