The Kunstverein Ost is announcing this year’s KVOST Stipendium, which is awarded in combination with the Claus Michaletz Preis since 2022. The 10,000 Euros prize is established in memory of the publisher and founder of the Secco Pontanova Foundation, Claus Michaletz. The full amount of the prize money goes to the scholarship holders.
Image above: Exterior view KVOST; courtesy: KVOST, Berlin; photo: Bernd Borchardt.
Together with the KVOST scholarship, which includes an artist in residency in Berlin with a subsequent solo exhibition at KVOST, the awarding of the Claus Michaletz Preis enables further, sustainable support for the artists. The scholarship is aimed at artists whose biographical roots lie in Central and Eastern Europe / the former Eastern Bloc.
With the grant, KVOST invites artists to trace the complex network of meanings of Leipziger Strasse / Dönhoffplatz and its surroundings or delve into other geographical and biographical aspects of the East. The works created in this process will be presented in a solo exhibition starting with Berlin Art Week in September 2025.
The application documents are now available: KVOST Stipendium
Previous scholarship holders were the Romanian artist Vlad Nancă in 2019, the Portuguese artist Cristina Ferreira-Szwarc in 2020, the Ukrainian artist Olena Pronkina in 2022, in 2023 the Romanian artist Larisa Sitar and in 2024 the Polish artist Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz.
About KVOST
Kunstverein Ost – KVOST for short – was established in 2018 and is dedicated to promoting artists from Central and Eastern Europe or whose life and work are shaped by the former Eastern Bloc.
Application deadline: Thursday, 17. April 2025.
WHERE?
KVOST
Leipziger Strasse 47,
Eingang Jerusalemer Strasse
10117 Berlin
