Balmoral News: Call for Applications
Call for Applications: Balmoral Scholarships and Scholarships of the Rhineland-Palatinate for 2008
Application Period for 2008 Scholarships: 15 May to 15 July 2007
Application Deadline (date of postmark): 15 July 2007
Residential Scholarships at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
15 May 2007 is the starting date of the application period for Balmoral Scholarships in Bad Ems. Seven residential scholarships will be awarded, six of those to artists. In order to promote the dialogue between research and art, this year, for the first time, one of the scholarships will be awarded to a junior scholar of the humanities (preferably in the field of Art Theory). Working in agreement and close cooperation with the Künstlerhaus and the artists holding a scholarship, s/he will play an active part in the organisation and the activities of the institution. Additionally, Balmoral will award a project grant to allow a selected visual artist to realise a project elsewhere. This will eventually be presented at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.
The scholarships and the project grant run for six months each. The scholarships are endowed with 1,200 Euros per month and include free accommodation at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral.
Requirements for Entitlement
Candidates for a Balmoral Scholarship may include artists from the fields of painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, graphic art, design, photography, video, as well as new media, landscape art or nature art. Applicants will be required to possess a degree in art and to have continuously worked as artists for at least three years. Artists of all ages and nationalities are invited submit their application. The art theory scholarship will be awarded to a person no older than 35 years of age or a person who graduated within the last five years. In order to enable artistic dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration, candidates are ideally required to speak German, English and French.
Foreign Exchange Scholarships
The six-months scholarships in London and New York will be awarded exclusively to artists from the Rhineland-Palatinate region. As part of an exchange with the Chinese province of Fujian, twinned with the Rhineland-Palatinate, the Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral offers, for the first time, two scholarships of two months each for an exchange visit to China (Xiamen and Fudzhou). These Foreign Exchange Scholarships are endowed with 500 Euros per month.
Since 2005, Balmoral has also been in charge of the Scholarships awarded by the Rhineland-Palatinate:
– two six-month scholarships for the Cité internationale, Paris
– one five-month scholarship at Wiepersdorf
– one three-month scholarship for the Centre dart contemporain de Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, Burgundy
Candidates for these scholarships have to fulfil further requirements in addition to those detailed above. See internet.
Allocation of Scholarships
Scholarships are allocated by an selection committee of experts who will pay particular attention to the development potential of the applicant’s artistic / theoretical work. Once the scholarships have been awarded, the members of the selection committee are made public in the press.
Application forms and further information are available in pdf format on our hompage: www.balmoral.de/stipendien
Bad Ems, May 2007
Dr. Danièle Perrier
Geschäftsführende künstlerische Leiterin
Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Tel. 02603/9419-0
Fax 02603/9419-16
info@balmoral.de
