Language:
English, German, French
Founded:
1989
Duration:
2 to 6 months
Paid by host:

Stipends are 1,500 euros per month, minus approximately 100 to 200 euros for rent and operating expenses. The stipend for collectives is 1,000 euro per person, but a maximum of 3,000 euro minus rent and operating costs. Travel, insurance or material costs will only be covered in exceptional cases (in case of scholarship approval and need, please contact us).

 

The period of the residency, with a duration between two to six months, can be chosen according to agreement and availability. The fellowship requires that the grant holders reside and work at Künstlerdorf during the period of the residency. During the stay, the premises and infrastructure of the Künstlerdorf can be used.

 

The selection of fellows is made by expert juries according to the following criteria and weighting: quality of the previous work, quality and plausibility of the project for Schöppingen, program contributions (interaction / community building).

Application guidelines:
Deadline:

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Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen

Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen

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Description

Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen is housed in two listed manor houses from the early 19th century. A total of six apartments for authors, six residential studios for visual artists and two larger residential units with several bedrooms are available. The Künstlerdorf also has event rooms, an exhibition hall, a gallery, a small cinema, a library as well as a workshop and a garden.

 

They view their spaces as social spaces in continuous transformation. Each social space is related to ideas, techniques, materials and practices linked to the work of our fellows and their projects. All of them are open to the local community through workshops, concerts, readings, exhibitions, meetings, and gatherings with fellows.

Outcome

The fellowship is not designed as a production fellowship and there is no obligation to present work results. However, there is the possibility to use exhibition and presentation facilities. In addition, they welcome the voluntary co-organization of events, in the form of lectures, readings, workshops or the like.

Studio Information

WORKSHOP
[Materials Social Space]
Wood, metal, clay, concrete, silkscreen printing, photo lab, sculpture, engraving, and so on.

 

GARDEN
[Greeen social space]
Eat, create, reflect and heal from the seeds they sow and the fruits they harvest. The garden is a laboratory for creation, reflection and well-being.

 

LIBRARY
[Poetical and Theoretical social space]
Their idea is to create a social space that, from the field of literature, allows them to promote new poetic, theoretical and even graphic and plastic approaches to writing.

 

GALLERY
[Transdisciplinary and media social space]
In the future they see this space as a transmedia space, right now it’s amazing for photography, performance, small concerts and even an opera.

 

EXHIBITION HALL
[Exhibition social space]
High ceilings, large entrances of light, two rooms. For 33 years this has been the space for exhibiting all kinds of individual and collective artistic projects in the Künstlerdorf.

Accommodation Information

The Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation is located in two listed manors from the early 19th century. There are a total of six apartments for authors, six studio apartments for visual artists and two larger apartments with several bedrooms. Accommodation for family members can be provided by arrangement and availability.

The size of the 6 apartments is between 26 and 60 square meters, the size of the two house apartments is between 46 and 58 square meters. The living and sleeping facilities are integrated into the apartments.

A small kitchen is available.

Technical Information

The Künstlerdorf is further equipped with event rooms, an exhibition hall, a gallery space, a small movie theater, a stage room and various workshops.

Location

Schöppingen is located in the western Münsterland (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), close to the Dutch border. The cities of Münster and Enschede/NL are each half an hour’s drive away.

 

The Westmünsterland is predominantly flat and invites you to cycle along castles and park landscapes. While agricultural land still dominates the landscape today and the region was characterized by a mono-structure just a few decades ago, economic development has progressed toward today’s broad mix of industries.

 

Not only the neighbourhood to the Netherlands characterizes the cross-cultural setting of the place. The stationing of a NATO unit on the Schöppinger Berg gave Schöppingen a positive swing in the population curve from the 1960s to the 1980s. With the fall of the German-German border in 1989, the former barracks housed GDR repatriates and subsequently emigrants from the former Eastern Bloc countries in a supra-regional reception centre. From 1992 to 2022, the barracks site was a central accommodation facility of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the initial reception of asylum seekers and war refugees.

 

With the establishment of the NATO barracks, a guidance base and a launching base for air defence missiles also went into operation in 1963. In the meantime, the Münster University of Applied Sciences has set up an antenna test site here. Radio amateurs use the site of the former fire control area, among other things, to participate in European and worldwide amateur radio competitions. Since 1992, the Schöppinger Berg has been dominated by a wind turbine.

 

Cultural attractions close to Schöppingen are the State Music Academy in Heek, the Center for Literature at Hülshoff Castle in Havixbeck and the Rock and Pop Museum in Gronau. The varied regional history becomes visible, for example, in the kult Westmünsterland in Vreden or in the LWL-Industriemuseum TextilWerk in Bocholt.

Contact information
Addresses

Feuerstiege 6
48624 Schöppingen
Germany

Email
info [at] stiftung-kuenstlerdorf.de