Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2025

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS / SCHAUFLER RESIDENCY@TU DRESDEN 2025

The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden - a joint project of the TUD Dresden University of Technology and THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION - is offering a six-month Artist in Residence at the interface of art and science position for the year 2025, which is connected to the university's Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections. Since 2020, the following artists have been nominated for the internationally renowned residency at the University of Excellence: Lena von Goedeke, Rosa Barba, Esmeralda Conde Ruiz, Anton Ginzburg, and Christian Kosmas Mayer.
The Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden was initiated in 2019 with the aim of researching and communicating the complex relationship between humans, machines, technology, and the world from the perspectives of the social sciences, humanities, and art. The two pillars of the project are a graduate college, the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden, and an artist-in- residence programme, the Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden. The theme „Data↔Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities“ is at the center of the Lab's second funding phase (2024-2027). By this we mean technical and cultural mediations of reality through data that significantly shape society and living environments. The Lab´s residency programme offers dedicated and internationally active artists or artist groups from the fields of media art, conceptual art, performance, etc. the unique opportunity to artistically explore the above-mentioned central theme. They have the chance to work together with a cooperative community of researchers in the context of the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden and to draw on the resources of the University of Excellence and our cooperation partners for artistic and creative productions.

The Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden includes:
- Access to a competitive array of institutes and workshops for artistic research
- A stipend of € 3,000.00 (net) a month for 6 months (in the period between February and December 2025)
- A studio at TUD Production support up to € 10,000
- Solo exhibition in fall 2025 with a artist book by a respected fine arts publishing house (Sandstein Verlag, Dresden)
- Assistance finding accommodation

Until December 1, 2024 artists are kindly invited to apply with concepts for projects to be completed in 2025 at TUD at Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden. Projects should focus on the interface between art and science, explicitly artistic intelligence and its implications for society and the culture of objects. The selection of the artist is made by the Residency´s selection committee.
By accepting an artistic proposal, we invite the chosen artist or artist groups to develop and realize the project in cooperation with the SchauflerKolleg@TU Dresden as well as scientists and scholars from TUD in 2025. Lectures, talks and workshops within the framework of the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden as well as a guest seminar at the Dresden University of Fine Arts are part of the residency.