Africa-Press – Namibia. Three Namibian artists Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Hage Nasheotwalwa Mukwendje and Nesindano ‘Ques’ Namises recently returned home after several intensive months in Germany on the Akademie Schloss Solitude residency programme.
This programme promotes Namibian artists to integrate them into new artistic networks and make their work visible to a wider German and international audience. The second round will see artists from Germany coming to Namibia in February 2022 to live and work there for four months.
Namibian artists in the field of visual arts (production and mediation), literature/journalism and digital practice, with a specific interest in the areas of restitution/reparation, cultures of remembrance and digital colonialism are invited to apply for the residency until 19 December 2021.
This fellowship will be awarded for the period 1 May to 31 August 2022. The programme will organise three residency fellowships to run over four months each for artists, writers/journalists and practitioners from the digital field in Namibia.
The fellowship programme will encompass events such as readings, exhibitions, discussions and workshops as a form of output for audiences in Namibia and Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
The residencies are organised in the framework of a two-part workshop series, curated by Namibian artist and historian Memory Biwa, which initiates a collective approach to the history of colonial relations between Namibia and Germany, and develops new artistic narratives on this topic.
The fellowship includes a free, furnished living/working studio, including electricity, water and heating; a monthly fellowship grant of €1 200 (approximately N$21 458); travel expenses for arrival and departure (on a one-time basis); project funding and one-off materials subsidy as well as health insurance.
The application material is submitted online and should include a project outline that deals with the topics of restitution/reparation, cultures of remembrance or digital colonialism in an artistic way as well as a short biography and informative portfolio or documentation of previous artistic work.
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