Braunschweig University of Art (HBK) is an internationally oriented, academic university of the arts with the right to award doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. With around 1,000 students in the fields of fine arts, art education, performing arts, design, visual communication, art history and media studies, HBK is one of the largest art schools in Germany. Every year, the fellowship programme Braunschweig Projects offers seven artistic and one curatorial stipends on behalf of the state of Lower Saxony.
HBK Braunschweig is now accepting applications for a twelve-month curatorial fellowship starting on 1 April 2027. Application deadline is 4 October 2026, 11:59 pm.
Goals of the scholarship are
- to enrich the curatorial practice at HBK Braunschweig by developing and realising a curatorial concept for the final exhibition of the Braunschweig Projects programme 2027/2028. The curatorial fellow will therefore take part in the jury meeting to select the artistic fellows of Braunschweig Projects and will work closely with the selected artists during the course of the programme.
- to develop a curatorial project that is ideally connected to a museum, a collection, a scientific or a cultural institution in Lower Saxony. The project draft should consider research, preparation and implementation, the calculation, communication and possibly an educational or accompanying programme.
While the curatorial fellow can draw on the university’s attractive network, the stipend offers great opportunities for the realisation of own ideas. Close cooperation and a connection to the work of the academic and artistic staff and especially the students of HBK is desirable. At the end of the funding period, a short final report should provide information about the activities undertaken.
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