Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2023-24
Dear friends of Künstler:innenhaus Büchsenhausen,
In the 21st year of its existence, the Fellowship Program for Art and Theory brings projects into focus that are highly topical in our current times, which are characterized by growing antagonisms and shifts in identity politics. After reviewing over 110 submissions for the Fellowship program 2023-24, an expert jury consisting of Valentina Bonizzi (artist, Tirana), Margarethe Drexel (artist and member of the advisory board, Innsbruck) and Andrei Siclodi (director of the Künstler:innenhaus) invited Agil Abdullayev (Baku), Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter (Chișinău) and Hori Izhaki (Berlin / Tel Aviv-Jaffa) – the artist duo, who had been awarded the fourth fellowship, had to cancel their participation at short notice for reasons beyond our control – to work on their projects in Büchsenhausen:
Agil Abdullayev will transform his extensive four-year field research on queer cruising culture in Azerbaijan and some of its neighboring countries in the Caucasus region and Central Asia into a video work.
Through decolonial practices of writing and discursive reflection, Tatiana Fiodorova-Lefter will question her own (post)Soviet identity formation in a particularly unstable habitat in terms of realpolitik: the Republic of Moldova, located between Ukraine and Romania.
Identity politics and virtualized memory culture are central themes in the work of Hori Izhaki. Born and raised in Israel in an Arabic Jewish family with roots in Morocco and Iraq, the artist will address questions of postmemory and identity construction by drawing on her own experiences in different cultural contexts.
The fellows will present themselves, their work and their projects in the context of the Start Up Lectures 2023-24 on Friday, 26 January 2024 in Büchsenhausen.
More upcoming events:
* Büchsenhausen Focus Weeks 2024 (5 – 26 April 2024)
* Final exhibition of the Fellowship program 2023-24 in the Kunstpavillon of the Künstler:innen Vereinigung Tirol (May-August 2024)
Further up-to-date information on our fellowship program and our events can be found on our website, on Facebook, on Instagram and in our newsletter.
We wish you exciting and insightful experiences with the Büchsenhausen Fellowship Program for Art and Theory!
Andrei Siclodi & Team