Oct. 7, 2025
How do machines shape our everyday lives, our infrastructures and our futures? How do technologies entangle with natural systems, labor and memory? These are the questions at the core of ‘Mensch Maschine: Mechanic Ghosts & Entangled Realities,’ the 2026 fellowship program offered by the JUNGE AKADEMIE, VISIT, the E.ON Foundation and E-WERK Luckenwalde. The international program will award four fellowships to artists across all disciplines, with a focus on sound, performance, film and literature. Each fellowship provides €20,000 in funding for research, travel, production and presentation of new artistic work.
Fellows will be hosted in a three-month residency from April to June 2026, either at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin or at E-Werk Luckenwalde. Alongside studio practice, the program includes open studios, joint retreats and a public Autumn School from September 1st to 5th, 2026, offering opportunities for exchange with peers, invited experts and wider audiences.
The initiative seeks artistic projects that engage critically and imaginatively with the relationship between humans, machines and ecological systems—projects that address spectral infrastructures, petro-cultural histories, artificial intelligence or speculative futures. Proposals may be poetic, conceptual or experimental, but should expand on how entangled realities can be made visible through artistic practice.
Applications can be submitted free of charge through the online form until November 16th. An international jury including Nolan Oswald Dennis, Chus Martinez, Sarah Johanna Theurer and Anh Linh Ngo will select the fellows during a meeting in early December, with results announced mid-December.
Application Info
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Deadline: Nov. 16, 2025
