Awards & Grants

AWARDS & GRANTS (SELECTION)

2023 Annual scholarship 2023 of the state of Lower Saxony in the field of visual arts

 

The state of Lower Saxony honors special artistic talent, performance and quality in the field of fine arts with this scholarship and thus underlines the importance of Lower Saxony as an art location. Lower Saxony's Minister of Culture, Falko Mohrs, awarded three annual scholarships in 2023. They are each endowed with 12.000 Euros.

2023 CULTURE MOVES EUROPE by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut

2023-24 Studio and Project Space Fund of the City of Hannover for the Studio of Ilka Theurich - art

2021 The federal program NEUSTART KULTUR of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media - Module C: Innovative art projects

2018-2022 Studio and Project Space Fund of the City of Hannover, the STIFTUNG Sparda-Bank Hannover and the Dr. Christiane Hackerodt Arts and Culture Foundation for the Studio: Ilka Theurich - project space

2001-2002 DAAD Scholarship for a study stay in Japan

ARTIST & RESEARCHER IN RESIDENCE

2023 Künstler:innenhäuser Worpswede GERMANY

The Künstler:innenHaus Worpswede is a renowned hub for art and culture in Worpswede and the surrounding region. It serves as a residence, workplace, and platform for artistic discourse. Formerly considered the oldest and largest scholarship center in Europe until 2009, they dedicated to shape the scholarship site of the future. The mission is to establish Worpswede as a vibrant hub for art and culture.

The focus lies in providing artists with a free and secure environment.  The Künstler:innenHaus Worpswede offers a range of grants and project formats tailored to different life phases, creative pursuits, and artistic practices, emphasizing the diversity of artistic expression.

2023 MeetFactory, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC

The international Artists­-in-Residence program was established in 2007 and is the largest studio program in Central Europe. MeetFactory facilitates ten studios, which annually host over thirty visual artists, curators, musicians, theater directors, and writers. They foster the involvement of the artists in residence not only within the programming of MeetFactory (Open Studios, Public House, Museum Night, etc.) and its three exhibition spaces (exhibitions, performances, guided tours), but also in the context of the Czech and Central European art scenes.  

MeetFactory was collaborating with Studio ALTA for this residency and financed from the CULTURE MOVES EUROPE programm by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut.

2016 Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (EAC) Montevideo URUGUAY

The EAC (Contemporary Art Space) was opened in 2010 by the National Bureau of Culture on the initiative of the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture.

2011 Space MASS Seoul KOREA

2004 Faculty of Inter-Media Art, National University of Fine Arts and Music Tokyo JAPAN

Tokyo University of the Arts was founded in May 1949 under the National School Establishment Law (Act No. 150 of 1949) through a merger of Tokyo Fine Arts School (currently the Faculty of Fine Arts) and Tokyo Music School (currently the Faculty of Music).