Organizer Information
Lothringer 13 Halle is the City of Munich's municipal art space for international contemporary art, founded in 1980 in a former industrial building in the Haidhausen district of Munich. Since then, it has operated under the auspices of the city's Department of Arts and Culture, hosting exhibitions, residencies, and transdisciplinary formats within roughly 700–800 square meters of exhibition and studio space. Since 2025, the institution has been directed by the Bulgarian artist and curator Kalas Liebfried, whose programming connects contemporary artistic practice with pressing social questions.
Artist-in-Residence Munich is the international residency programme of the City of Munich, operating across two properties — Villa Waldberta and Ebenböckhaus — and providing artists, curators, and scholars with time, space, and financial support for research, production, presentation, and exchange.
Title & Description
Open Call for Three Transdisciplinary Residencies — Curating Journalism (3 positions, each for 3 months)
Lothringer 13 Halle and Artist-in-Residence Munich are jointly awarding three transdisciplinary residencies for professional cultural workers whose practice sits at the intersection of art, journalism, and curating. During their stay at Ebenböckhaus, the residents will develop an independent project with a research-based or investigative approach, as an integral part of the research and exhibition project Curating Journalism. The organizers are seeking proposals engaging with research, documentation, archival work, publishing, or new forms of critical public sphere, and that build new connections between journalistic, curatorial, and artistic practice.
Curating Journalism treats freedom of the press and artistic freedom as complementary conditions of a democratic public sphere. It investigates how research, documentation, analysis, evidence production, contextualisation, montage, and public mediation can be connected within the art space — understood not merely as a site of presentation but as an active structure — in response to growing pressures on journalism worldwide, including repression, disinformation, and algorithmic and AI-driven distortions of the public sphere. The project brings together newly produced artistic works, positions from recent art history, and journalistic investigations, documents, and audiovisual materials within a shared curatorial framework, and will be opened and accompanied by an international symposium whose contributions will be published in July 2027 by Wolke Verlag.
Theme
Curating Journalism — the residency projects are an integral part of this wider research and exhibition project, which investigates the proximity between journalistic, curatorial, and artistic practice. Particularly welcome are projects that draw on ongoing or completed journalistic investigations and translate them into spatial or publication-based forms; that collaborate with international investigative networks, editorial teams, or investigative collectives; that test forms of testimony, forensic investigation, evidence production, or archival work under conditions of disinformation, repression, or media invisibility; or that develop experimental formats operating between exhibition, research, publication, and public mediation. The organizers specify they are not looking for projects that merely address or illustrate journalism as a subject — the focus is on practices, procedures, methods, and formats, and their transformation in the context of art and the public sphere.
Categories
- Curatorial Practice
- Journalism
- Research
- Archival Practice
- Publishing
- Interdisciplinary Arts
- Residency
Eligibility
- Applicants must have their primary place of residence within Europe and outside Bavaria
- Eligible countries: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom
- Applicants must demonstrate an independent professional practice in the fields of art, journalism, curating, or comparable transdisciplinary fields
- A good command of English and/or German is required
- Applications must be submitted personally; applications submitted by third parties will not be considered
- Applicants who have previously participated in a residency at either Villa Waldberta or Ebenböckhaus are not eligible
- Applications from collectives or teams are not eligible
- Open to applicants of all nationalities, religions, genders, sexual identities, age groups, and social backgrounds
- Selected applicants must fulfil all contractual requirements of the City of Munich as the operating body of the residency programme
Program Benefits & Awards
- A monthly stipend of €1,300 per resident (total of €3,900 for the three-month residency), as part of the Artist-in-Residence Munich programme
- Production funding of up to €1,400 per resident (upon agreement), split as up to €600 for a public event at Ebenböckhaus and up to €800 for the presentation of the project at Lothringer 13 Halle
- Accommodation at Ebenböckhaus free of charge
- Reimbursement of travel expenses (economy class) of up to €350 within Europe, covered by Lothringer 13 Halle
- Access to a workspace at Lothringer 13 Halle throughout the residency
- Ongoing accompaniment from the teams at Ebenböckhaus and Lothringer 13 Halle during the research and working process
- Participation in a public event at Ebenböckhaus
- Presentation of the project as part of Curating Journalism at Lothringer 13 Halle
- Inclusion of residency projects within the wider Curating Journalism exhibition and symposium framework, with contributions potentially published in the July 2027 edited volume by Wolke Verlag
Application Fee
None
How to Apply?
By email to opencall@lothringer13.com
Key Dates
- Application Deadline: 10 August 2026
- Applicants invited for online interview announced by: 30 August 2026
- Interviews: 7–11 September 2026
- Final Selection Communicated: 21 September 2026
- Residency Period: 8 January – 26 March 2027
- Publication of symposium contributions (edited volume, Wolke Verlag): July 2027
Location
Munich, Germany
Additional Details
- An initial selection will be carried out by Lothringer 13 Halle; based on this pre-selection and shortlist, final approval is made by the Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich.
- The residency period cannot be postponed, significantly shortened, or divided into separate periods.
- Ebenböckhaus is not wheelchair accessible, and due to limited residential capacity it is not possible to accommodate partners, children, or other family members during the residency.
- Email communication is unencrypted and may have security vulnerabilities; further data protection information is available at artistinresidence-munich.de/de/datenschutz.
- Selected applicants will receive a separate residency agreement and must fulfil all contractual requirements of the City of Munich.
- Content-related questions: opencall@lothringer13.com. Questions related to Ebenböckhaus: air-m@muenchen.de.