Residency Opportunity: Minnesota Edvard Munch House Residency (Warnemünde, Germany)

Residency Opportunity

The Edvard Munch House, in collaboration with Springboard for the Arts, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, American Composers Forum, and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota, invites visual artists (including printmakers), writers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists located in Minnesota to apply for a 4 to 6 week Artist Residency at the Edvard Munch House in Warnemünde, Germany.

Residency Support

• A stipend of 3000 Euro (for a 4 week residency) or 4000 Euro (for a 6 week residency)
• Round-trip travel costs from Minnesota to Germany
• Opportunities to connect and collaborate with local artists
• A public presentation, reading, performance or exhibition
• Composers may collaborate with a local music Academy or local musicians, while printmakers will have access to a printing press at a nearby art school.

Resident Expectations

Residents are expected to engage thoughtfully with the site and its context, work independently, and share their artistic practice and work with the public. Upon completion of the residency, the artist will present their work and offer reflections on the residency at the University of Minnesota at an event organized by CGES.

About the Edvard Munch House & Warnemünde

The Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch lived in this 17th-century fisherman as house on the Baltic Sea from May 1907 to October 1908. Since 1998, after a restoration that preserved its historic character, the Edvard Munch House has become a cultural center and a residency for artists working in all media. It has an exhibition space, a small library, two apartments, a garden, and a sunroom. The seaside town of Warnemünde is part of the City of Rostock, an old Hanseatic University City of 200,000 people, located in North-East Germany. The Baltic Sea coast is a region shaped by shifting borders, layered histories, ecological precarity, and transnational movement.

Theme

Rather than referencing Edvard Munch through stylistic quotations, we invite artists to engage with the enduring relevance of his existential and psychological inquiries. We welcome proposals that respond to contemporary social and political realities (forms of resisting oppression, belonging and estrangement, vulnerability, embodiment and atmosphere, resonance between self, society and environment).