With the KVOST Scholarship and the Claus Michaletz Prize, Kunstverein Ost continues its targeted promotion of artists with biographical roots in Eastern and Central Europe—including a residency in Berlin and a solo exhibition in fall 2026. The application deadline is 17. April 2026.
Image above: Courtesy of KVOST
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. 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 2026.
The application documents are now available: KVOST Scholarship
Application deadline is 17. April, 2026.
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, the Romanian artist Larisa Sitar in 2023, the Polish artist Magdalena Ciemierkiewicz in 2024, and the Georgian artist David Apakidze in 2025.
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.
