Description

Every year, the City of Munich awards six scholarships for visual arts, each worth 8,000 euros. The aim of the scholarships is to support artists at the beginning of their professional careers. The grants are awarded on a project basis, i.e. for a specific work project. Artists should be given the opportunity to realise a project with the scholarship that can provide an important impetus for their artistic development. As part of the scholarship programme, a Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize for Fine Arts is also awarded on the recommendation of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, which supports young artists under the age of 30 who have already attracted attention with their artistic work.

Prerequisites

To apply for a scholarship, applicants must have completed a relevant academic programme. Students are not eligible to apply. Applicants must live in the MVV catchment area and the focus of their work must be in Munich. The artistic quality and feasibility of the submitted projects are decisive criteria for funding. Previous artistic careers are also taken into account when assessing the project.

A jury appointed by the City Council prepares a decision proposal. The City Council decides on the basis of the jury's proposals in a closed meeting.

Only one project proposal can be submitted at a time.

Required documents

The application must be submitted in one PDF:

• fully completed application form
• Artist CV: education, exhibitions, prizes, scholarships, etc. (maximum one page)
• detailed and concrete description of the proposed work with project outline
• Cost plan with information on financing (costs for technology and materials, artistic fees, etc.)
• Examples of previous artistic work
• specialist references and reviews, if applicable

Submission by e-mailanstipendien-bildendekunst@muenchen.de

All documents must be submitted in a single PDF to the Cultural Department by 24 March 2025, 11.59 pm.
The PDF must not exceed a total size of 5 MB and must be named as follows Surname_Project_Title_StipBK25

Submission by post: If it is not possible for you to send the application by e-mail as a PDF, in exceptional cases you can send seven copies of your documents by post by midnight on Monday, 24 March 2025 (the date of receipt, not the postmark, applies) to:

Cultural Department of the City of Munich
Department 1 / Scholarships Visual Arts
Burgstraße 4
80331 Munich

Submission by fax is excluded. Incomplete applications and applications that are not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered. The Cultural Department accepts no liability for the documents submitted.

Legal basis

The award is decided by the City Council of the City of Munich on the recommendation of an independent jury.