Akademie Schloss Solitude
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Akademie Schloss Solitude is an international and transdisciplinary Artist-in-Residence Program and has supported approximately 1,800 young artists from more than 120 countries since opening its doors in 1990.
#webreswednesday // Interview with web resident Laura Fong Prosper on »Methods of care towards bodies of water« See: https://bit.ly/4wXwbmB Image: Laura Fong Prosper, »A River for Life«, 2026, screenshot. #akademiesolitude #solitudefellows #polymorphicfutures
On July 15, 12 pm (UK GMT), current fellow Swati Arora (@swatiarora) invites artists, scholars, and activists, to collaboratively explore border-thinking and border epistemologies during an online workshop. More info: https://www.psi-web.org/on-smuggling-infrastructures-for-spatial-justice/
Our #FellowFriday series is back, this time with a special focus on the Namibia-Baden-Württemberg Residencies! Joscha Steffens explores hidden communities in game worlds, focusing on avatar identity and the blur between play and reality. Image: Joscha Steffens, photo by Inga Kerber
Our #FellowFriday series with focus on the Namibia-Baden-Württemberg Residencies is going for round 2! Tweyapewa Mbendeka Ndapandula is a Namibian contemporary artist and educator whose work explores memory, cultural identity, and the visual politics of place. Image: Tweyapewa Mbendeka Ndapandula
Friends, fellows, and followers in and around Berlin are invited to join Solitude alumnus Sarnath Banerjee at Hansabibliothek on June 14, 4 pm for a presentation on the unexpected encounters that shaped his graphic novel »Absolute Jafar«. 🗓️ Images by Sarnath Banerjee.
Little REMINDER for our upcoming event »Open Solitude« on June 27, make sure to mark the date in your calendars! 🚨 Join us on Saturday, June 27, 2 to 10 pm for this year’s Summer Edition of the »Open Solitude«. More details about the program will be announced soon – stay tuned! Design: Basics09
This week, we’re highlighting a new project by Solitude alumnus Viron Erol Vert, on view at Kunstverein Arnsberg. His temporary installation »Colours Between Earth and Sky« can be seen through September 30, 2026. Image: ©️ Viron Erol Vert, »Colours Between Earth and Sky«
Great news: Alumna Ana Mendes is part of the exhibition »Good Collecting, Bad Collecting – 150 years of the Natural History Museum Vienna«! 🥳 Mendes turns herself into a museum exhibit, questioning classification and representation. Image: © Madis Luik #solitudefellows #akademiesolitude
Did you know? The Solitude Fellowship is open not only to artists, but also to scientists and researchers. Current fellow Jean Borgatti recently co-authored an article on traditional pottery-making in the Benin Kingdom published in the research journal »UMẸWAẸN«. All photos by Jean Borgatti.
It has been exactly 20 years that Katharina Hinsberg was a fellow for visual arts at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Tomorrow, on May 20 she returns to Stuttgart as part of the event »echo lot« at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. © »Ring-Teilringe« by Katharina Hinsberg, (2024)
We want to share an event happening this weekend with you! 🥳 »TRANSLATION // PERFORMANCE« with current fellow Anna Lublina as part of a performance. When: May 17, 5 pm Where: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Reuchlinstr. 4B Photo: Rodra Burruss https://kuenstlerhaus.de/inhalt/translation-performance-2/
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart | TRANSLATION // PERFORMANCE
“Translation in a global world is not only literary but also profoundly performative, embedded in how ideas and gestures, sounds and voices transform and move.” -Avishek Ganguly and Kélina Gotman in the introduction of Performance and Translation in a Global Age
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Former Web Resident Johanna Bruckner (2019) shows her work »The Perfect Perfect Dirty« at theGate Festival from May 18 to 22! 💫 Image: © The Perfect Perfect Dirty, Johanna Bruckner
We are happy to share that Sonia Mehra Chawla (Solitude fellow in 2019 & 2022) has received a fellowship and project grant for visual arts/research for the year 2026–2027 from ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Germany! Image: Artists portrait, courtesy Gallery Espace, New Delhi
For this week's edition of #FellowFriday we are happy to introduce the artist Anna Lublina, whose performance and social praxis works draw on ancestral bodies, notions, and rituals in order to embody a radically diasporic and anti-nationalist future.
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Бабушка | BAb(oo)shka is an interdisciplinary performance that begins with my grandmother telling a true story—chosen by her—in Russian onstage. Her humorous anecdotes about Jewish oppression are then contemporaneously translated into gibberish, into klezmer music, and into a puppet melod...
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This weekend, the Venice Biennale 2026 opens, and we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our contributing Solitude alumni Manuel Mathieu, Anca Benera, and Arnold Estefán, who will present their work at the Biennale. Image: © Manuel Mathieu. Photo: Jeanne Tétreault, 2026.
Great news! Former fellows Philip Widmann and Marwa Arsanios are part of the European Media Art Festival 39 at the Kunsthalle Osnabrück! The European Media Art Festival 39 is running until May 25, 2026. 🥳 Image: Marwa Arsanios, still from »Who is Afraid of Ideology?« 2021, courtesy the artist
We would like to spread the news: Alice Miller´s book »Here & Thereafter« has been published on April 28, 2026! 🎉 In her fourth poetry collection, Alice Miller explores the intersection of personal and political. Miller was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2015/2016. Image: Alice Miller
Former fellow Mert Moralı is part of the event »Die Lange Nacht der Musik von Zuhause« by Staatsoper Stuttgart! 🎉 When: April 30, 2026, at 10 pm Where: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Schloßplatz 2, 70173 Stuttgart Image: Mert Moralı, photo: Merve Ergün #akademiesolitude
Current Solitude fellow Yuri Umemoto is part of the closing concert »Lichtspielscene« at the PODIUM Festival Esslingen! 🥳 Yuri Umemoto creates works ranging from stage performances to recordings. Photo by Sophia Hegewald
Final Concert of the PODIUM Esslingen Festival with Yuri Umemoto
Akademie Schloss Solitude and PODIUM Esslingen are pleased to present the composer Yuri Umemoto and his work as part of their collaboration in the final concert Lichtspielscene at the PODIUM Esslingen Festival on May 9, 2026. Yuri Umemoto is currently a joint fellow of both institutions.
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We’re excited to share that current Solitude fellow Peter Okotor and former fellows Karina Pino Gallardo and Peter Weigand will contribute to the event »Kirchen × Kunst × Gemeinschaft: Welche Räume brauchen wir für ein neues Miteinander?« at St. Maria Stuttgart on April 25–26.
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St. Maria als … agiert an der Schnittstelle von Kirchenraum und öffentlichem Raum. Mit einem vielfältigen sozialen und kulturellen Programm schafft St. Maria als … einen Ort persönlicher Begegnung und gemeinsamer Aktivität. Ab April 2026 bespielt St. Maria als … den Kirchenvorplatz mit Ide...
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New on the Solitude Blog! What does it mean to stay awake together? Sharmila Samant’s gathering »Staying Awake: Towards the Thresholds of a Shared Dawn« traced the sunrise from Fiji to Stuttgart in memory of late artist Tushar Joag. Image: »Staying Awake: Towards the Thresholds of a Shared Dawn«
Staying Awake as a Signal for Consciousness, Resistance and Solidarity
Across continents and time zones, a group of artists and friends remain awake together, following the slow passage of dawn as it crosses the globe. Sharmila Samant’s personal yet political project »Staying Awake: Towards the Thresholds of a Shared Dawn« asks what it means to stay attentive to ea...
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Check out the latest Solitude Blog contribution by Alina Sarnatska on the meaning of »luck« in a reality shaped by uncertainty, danger, and constant adaptation. Image: Alina Sarnatska
I had good luck today
On February 24, 2022, life changed drastically for the people of Ukraine. At 5 a.m., the Russian military launched its full-scale invasion, targeting infrastructure, cities, and civilians. Playwright and war veteran Alina Sarnatska provides insights into 48 hours of daily life in Ukraine in the afte...
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Congratulations to our Solitude alumna Silke Hofmann on being awarded the Bavarian State Prize 2026 for her work »Embrace«, which she also developed during her Solitude fellowship (2023–2024)! 🎉 Read more about it on the website. 📎 Image: Eva Jünger, EXEMPLAmünchen #akademiesolitude
Designing Care(fully)
How is it possible to design clothing that actively supports and protects those who wear it, reflecting their lived realities? How could the clothing industry respond to people’s diverse and health-related needs? These questions run through the work of designer and researcher Silke Hofmann, whose ...
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We are happy to invite you to the exhibition opening »RESTLESS« by current fellow Hiba G. Isleem! Exhibition Opening: April 28, 6 pm ⏰️ When: April 29–May 2, 2026 🗓️ Where: Barn of Akademie Schloss Solitude📍 Image: Exhibition view »RESTLESS«, Hiba G. Isleem
The event series »shindig« by current Solitude fellow Lukas Beyer is going for round #7! Pianist Mai Kawano performs works by Yuri Umemoto, Ben Nobuto, and Lukas Beyer. Saturday, April 18, 2026, 9 PM 🗓️ Kunstraum 34, Filderstraße 34, Stuttgart 📍 Image: Yuri Umemoto, Mai Kawano #akademiesolitude
We’re excited to share two event tips from the Solitude community featuring former fellow Anna Gohmert⭐️ »STERBN ÜBEN – DAS LEBEN ALS 5-AKTER« When & Where: April 12–24, 2026, MAKkultur, Marktredwitz »WO TREFFEN WIR UNS HEUTE NACHT?« When & Where: April 26–June 27, 2026, Café Limbo, Weinstadt
Check out the latest Solitude Blog contribution, where Germany’s top travel writer Helge Timmerberg and Solitude fellow Nils Ketterer share how their conversations and studio experiments at Akademie Solitude evolved into the podcast »Angst und Schrecken«. Read more on the SOLITUDE BLOG!
fear and loathing at the Akademie
Last winter, Germany’s best-known travel writer Helge Timmerberg came to Akademie Schloss Solitude to visit his friend Nils Ketterer. What started as a short trip turned into something more – Timmerberg quickly fell in love with the place, the artists, and even the pizzeria down the hill. During...
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Join us on April 18 at 3 PM at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, for Solitude fellow Marie Skeie's sensorial walk »Sage Passages: Sensescape of Places and Memories« followed by the atmosphere »Terra Alchimia – Landscape in the Making« by anima ona as part of »Metabolic Futures II The Politics of Smell«.
»Metabolic Futures II – The Politics of Smell«
Mit Gesprächen über das soziale Leben der Bienen, Smellscape-Spaziergängen, Biodaten-Vertonungen, Diskussionen zur olfaktorischen Plastizität und Weinverkostungen.
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SAVE THE DATE: Exhibition »Dreaming Beyond AI: Portals Behind the Algorithm« by the ifa Gallery Stuttgart with works by current Solitude fellows Hiba Ali and Solitude alumnus Mac Andre Arboleda! 🎉 Opening: April 25, 2026, 7 PM Duration: April 25, 2026 – August 30, 2026
Group exhibition »Dreaming Beyond AI: Portals Behind the Algorithm« at the ifa-Galerie Stuttgart featuring works by current and former Solitude fellows Hiba Ali and Mac Andre Arboleda
NewsGroup exhibition »Dreaming Beyond AI: Portals Behind the Algorithm« at the ifa-Galerie Stuttgart featuring works by current and former Solitude fellows Hiba Ali and Mac Andre Arboleda
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For all Solitude friends and fellows in and around Stuttgart: former fellow Niki Matita will be in southwest Germany for a few days! SAVE THE DATES 🗓️ APRIL 10, 206: Concert at Sunny High in Bad Cannstatt 🪩 APRIL 12, 2026: Workshop at Freies Radio Wüste Welle in Tübingen 🎧 Image: Niki Matita
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