Hessian Cultural Foundation
The Hessische Kulturstiftung is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity established in 1988 by the German state of Hesse and has its seat in Wiesbaden .
Task
The foundation supports Hessian museums, exhibition halls and art associations and other institutions of the visual arts, libraries and archives by awarding grants for purchases, exhibitions and catalogs. It also performs tasks of promoting young talent in the field of visual media by running a program with travel and studio grants for artists in the visual media.
Scholarship program
The scholarship program is aimed at artists who were born in Hesse, who have lived in Hesse for three years (retroactive to the application) and / or who have completed a full degree in fine art (or a comparable degree) at a Hesse university or art academy. It was designed in analogy to a postgraduate scholarship for young scientists and provides for one-year stays in one of the foundation's own residential studios in Paris, London, Istanbul or New York. In addition, free travel grants can also be applied for. A total of eight studio grants and six travel grants are awarded every two years.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hessian Ministry for Science and Art: Deskription Hessische Kulturstiftung ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Painting, graphics, installation and sculpture, photography, film, video and mixed media
