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DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Formation1963
Legal statusresidential artists’ program
HeadquartersBerlin
Region served
Berlin
Leadership
Katharina Narbutovic
Website[1]

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program (German: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD) Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). The Ford Foundation’s ‘Artists in Residence Program’, which began in 1963, was the forerunner of the Artists-in-Berlin Program. The program’s first guests included Ingeborg Bachmann and the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz. Bachmann arrived in Berlin at the beginning of May 1963, and to start with resided in a guest studio belonging to the Berlin Academy of Art, located on the Hanseatenweg in the Hansaviertel district of the city. Gombrowicz took a studio nearby, resulting in a good deal of interaction and collaboration between the two writers. Both later based work on their time in Berlin – Bachmann in a fragmentary essay titled Witold Gombrowicz (1964), and Gombrowicz in his Notes on Berlin (1965). Bachmann described herself as both ‘grateful and resentful’ on receiving the program grant – grateful for its year-long ‘monetary blessing’ but resentful at being ‘tied down to one place’, especially one that ‘stinks of sickness and death.’ Even so, she remained in Berlin long after her time with the program had expired, staying until 1965, and wrote most of her novel Malina while she was there.[1] In 1965 the DAAD took over the running of the program, and renamed it the Artists-in-Berlin Program. It now gained additional support from the German Federal Foreign Office and the Senate of Berlin. Hansgerd Schulte, president of the DAAD from 1972 to 1987, called it ‘the jewel in the crown’ – a unique entity amongst the many programs run by the DAAD.[2] In 2013, the program is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary. This will be marked by a two-day celebration hosted at the Berlin Academy of Art, featuring performances from Antjie Krog, Sjòn, Jennifer Walshe and Phil Collins, among others. A 50th anniversary countdown blog Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). Between 1963 and 2013, around 394 visual artists have taken part in the program. They include Jorge Castillo (1969), Daniel Spoerri (1973), Joel Fisher (1973), Richard Hamilton (1974), Duane Hanson (1974), Christian Boltanski (1975), Lawrence Weiner (1975), On Kawara (1976), Jannis Kounellis (1980), Nam June Paik (1983), Erwin Wurm (1987), Ilja Kabakow(1989), Nan Goldin (1991), Marina Abramović (1992), Rachel Whiteread (1992), Damien Hirst (1993), Andrea Zittel (1995), Pipilotti Rist (1996), Douglas Gordon (1997), Allan Sekula (1997), Rineke Dijkstra (1998), Steve McQueen (1999), Mark Wallinger (2001), Mona Hatoum (2003), Shahzia Sikander (2007), Tim Lee (2009) and AA Bronson (2013). Due to the extremely high demand for grants in this field, the program no longer takes on applications from individual artists – they must instead be sought out and suggested by a committee. In all other fields, potential guests are welcome to apply on their own initiative. The program has also hosted 334 writers. They include the aforementioned Ingeborg Bachmann (1963), Peter Handke (1968), Ernst Jandl (1970), George Tabori (1971), Lars Gustafsson (1972), Friederike Mayröcker (1973), Stanislaw Lem (1977), Gyorgy Konrad (1977), Margaret Atwood (1984), Gao Xingjian (1985), Carlos Fuentes (1988) Susan Sontag (1989), Cees Nooteboom (1989), Antonio Lobo Antunes (1989), Harold Brodkey (1992), Wladimir Sorokin (1992), Imre Kertesz (1993), Ryszard Kapuscinski (1994), Richard Ford(1997), Jeffery Eugenides (1999), Laszlo Vegel (2006), Svetlana Alexievich (2011), Liao Yiwu (2012) and Erik Lindner (2012). Around 282 composers have received a program grant for music. They include Iannis Xenakis (1963), Igor Stravinsky (1964), Isang Yun(1964), Krzysztof Penderecki (1968), Gyorgy Ligeti (1969), Morton Feldman (1971), John Cage (1972), Ani Pärt (1981), Luigi Nono (1986), La Monte Young (1992) and Olga Neuwirth (1996). 105 filmmakers, such as Yvonne Rainer (1976), Istvan Szabo (1977), Andrei Tarkowski (1985), Jim Jarmusch (1987), Alina Rudnizkaia (2011), Sebastián Lelio (2012) and Xiaolu Guo (2012) have also participated in the program. The first grant for dance and performance was awarded in 1989, and the program has since welcomed 13 such artists, including Wendy Perron (1992). [3]

The daadgalerie

From the very beginning, the Artists-in-Berlin Program was intended to provide more than just funding and accommodation. Its mission was to connect isolated West Berlin with a wider cultural and creative world. As such, the program coordinators invited guest artists to city events, introduced them to influential figures in the German cultural scene, and ensured that they were able to publically perform and display their work.[4] To give these activities a concrete physical focus, the daadgalerie was created in 1978, providing the program’s artists with a set platform for their creative activities. To begin with, it was based in silent film star Henny Porten’s former villa in the Kurfürstenstraße, in what was then West Berlin. However, in 2005 it was moved to new premises in the Zimmerstraße, close to Checkpoint Charlie in the centre of Berlin. It continues to host a wide range of events, including readings, concerts, film showings and performances.

Further reading

  • Deecke, Thomas (1975). 10 Jahre Berliner Künstlerprogramm. Berlin: DAAD.
  • Siano, Wolfgang (1988). Balkon mit Fächer – 25 Jahre Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. Berlin: DAAD.
  • Neubauer, Hans-Joachim (2001). Zeitenwechsel – das Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD und seine Gäste (1988-2000). Berlin: Bostelmann und Siebenhaar.



References

  1. ^ Schlinsog, Elke (2005). Berliner Zufälle: Ingeborg Bachmanns „Todesarten“-Projekt. Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 48–52. ISBN 3-8260-3120-2.
  2. ^ Hellmann, Friedrich W. (2000). Spuren in die Zukunft. Bonn: DAAD. p. 124. ISBN 3-87192-750-3.
  3. ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogamm – Guests". Website of the Artists-in-Berlin Program. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  4. ^ Kostelanetz, Richard (2001). A dictionary of the avant-gardes. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93764-7.
  • 1. ↑ Ford Foundation Annual Report 1963, financial year from 1 October 1962 to 30 September 1963, p49.
  • 2. ↑ Elke Schlinsog: Berliner Zufälle: Ingeborg Bachmanns „Todesarten“-Projekt. Königshausen & Neumann, 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3120-2, S. 48–52.
  • 3. ↑ Friedrich W. Hellmann (ed.): Spuren in die Zukunft, Band 3. DAAD, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-87192-750-3, S. 124.
  • 4. ↑ Jessica Schulte am Hülse: Hier sind die Großen der Kunst zu Hause. In: „Die Welt“ vom 5. Oktober 2008.
  • 5. ↑ DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program – Guests 1963-2013
  • 6. ↑ Richard Kostelanetz (ed.): A dictionary of the avant-gardes, Routledge, London 2001, ISBN 0-415-93764-7
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