Studio at the Chocolate Museum, Cologne

In cooperation with the culture foundation of RheinEnergie and the Imhoff Stiftung the Kölnischer Kunstverein has launched the program Antenne Köln. Through this cooperation, ten working spaces for young artists from Cologne have been provided on the upper floor of the Brücke and ten more studio places were built in the Cologne chocolate museum. Apart from their studio work, the stipendiaries are given the possibility to make their work known to a broader audience via presentations, concerts and readings. With this program, the Kölnischer Kunstverein is involved in improving the constrained working and living conditions of young artists in Cologne.

At the moment following artists have a studio grant:
Daniel Burkhardt, Yvonne Cornelius, Simon Denny, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Owen Gump, Thea Gvetadze, Andreas Hirsch, Hofmann & Lindholm, Uschi Huber, Katharina Jahnke, Kristina Leko, Jugoslav Mitevski, Bernadette Mittrup, Christian Naujoks, Claus Richter, Mark von Schlegell, Anja Sopic, József Szolnoki, Pipo Tafel, Shigeru Takato, Oliver Tepel.

Since 2004 the following artists have participated in the program:
Kamal Aljafari, Rosa Barba, Merlin Bauer, Heike Beyer, Alexandra Bircken, Tanja Bogo, Matti Braun, Manu Burghart, Adam Butler, Thea Djordjadze, Anja Dreschke, Michaela Eichwald, Robert Elfgen, Tim Elzer, Gesine Grundmann, Kirsten Hinkler, Olaf Karnik, Niki Kern, Viola Klein, Marc Matter, Angela Melitopoulos, Almut Middel, Hans Nieswandt, Andreas Reihse, Ralf Schauff, Heike Sperling, Monika Stricker, Lee T. Taylor, Anja Theismann, Stephanie Thiersch, Britta Wandaogo.

Shruti Mahajan, Studio Practices, 2009
Installationsansicht, Gallery Chernould Prescott Road, Mumbai
Foto: Shruti Mahajan

Shruti Mahajan - Artist-in-Residence
January-June 2010
Since 2008 the Kunststiftung NRW (Art Foundation of North Rhine Westfalia) is supporting an international exchange and realising a six-monathly residence in Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Mumbai for artists from North Rhine-Westfalia. As a countermove, international artists is given the opportunity to reside in North Rhine-Westfalia. The grant's objective is to get to know the art world and it's development at the face of the respective place, to make and accentuate contacts, to exchange ideas and to give new impulses to the art world at home after returning. Being a partner to the Kunststiftung NRW, the Kölnischer Kunstverein is since this year providing its apartment for artists to the scholarship holders. The first one residing at the Kölnischer Kunstverein is the indian artist Shruti Mahajan from Mumbai who will stay in Cologne until June 2010.