Curatorial Fellowship 2026/2027

Open call: Curatorial Fellowship 2026/2027 at HBK Braunschweig. Application deadline: August 17, 2025, 11:59pm.

Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) is an internationally oriented, academic university of the arts with the right to award doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. With around 1,000 students in the fields of fine arts, art education, performing arts, design, visual communication, art history and media studies, HBK is one of the largest art schools in Germany. Every year, the fellowship programme Braunschweig Projects offers seven artistic and one curatorial stipends on behalf of the state of Lower Saxony.

HBK Braunschweig is now accepting applications for a twelve-month curatorial fellowship starting on April 1, 2026.

Goals of the fellowship are: 
To enrich the curatorial practice at HBK Braunschweig by developing and realising a curatorial concept for the final exhibition of the Braunschweig Projects programme 2026/2027. The curatorial fellow will therefore take part in the jury meeting to select the artistic fellows of Braunschweig Projects and will work closely with the selected artists during the course of the programme.

To develop a curatorial project that is ideally connected to a museum, a collection, a scientific or a cultural institution in Lower Saxony. The project draft should consider research, preparation and implementation, the calculation, communication and possibly an educational or accompanying programme.

While the curatorial fellow can draw on the university's attractive network, the stipend offers great opportunities for the realisation of own ideas. Close cooperation and a connection to the work of the academic and artistic staff and especially the students of HBK is desirable. At the end of the funding period, a short final report should provide information about the activities undertaken.

A prerequisite for a succesful application is that the applicant has already gained initial curatorial experience (at least three years).

Funding is provided in the form of a stipend totalling €1,500 per month over a period of twelve months. A studio apartment in Braunschweig, designed for one person, will be made available rent-free for the duration of the fellowship. A contribution of €200 per month towards incidental living costs will be charged. Funding begins on April 1, 2026. Access to the studio apartments is from April 15, 2026. The fellowship holder is expected to spend at least eight months during the HBK lecture period on site in Braunschweig. Participation in the Welcome Weeks, which take place from April 20–30, 2026, is mandatory.

A subsidy of up to 4,000 EUR will be provided to support the exhibition activities. A budget of 2,000 EUR is available for travelling.

A scholarship cannot be granted if the applicant has a regular income from third parties (e.g. work grants, salary payments) or state funding during the funding period.

Applications close on Sunday, August 17, 2025, 11:59pm. For more information and to apply, please visit the open call on the HBK website.