call: Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026
Deadline: 2 November 2025
Call for entries
Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden 2026
At the TU Dresden /Technical University
6 month in the year of 2026 with an exhibition in autumn 2026
The Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden enters the next round: For the year 2026, the Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden – a joint project of TUD Dresden University of Technology and THE SCHAUFLER FOUNDATION – is offering a six-month Artist in Residence program. International artists or collectives working in media art, conceptual art, performance, and related fields are invited to apply with innovative project proposals.
The aim is to develop artistic perspectives on the central theme of the Lab’s second funding phase “Data?Worlds. Socio-technical and cultural syntheses of new realities” and to create new impulses at the interface of art, science and society together with TUD researchers.
This is what the residency offers:
Scholarship of 3,000 euros/month (net) for six months in 2026
Studio on the TUD campus
Production grant of up to 10,000 euros
Solo exhibition in the Gallery of the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections in the Görges Building (fall 2026) including Artist Book
Networking with scientists of the TUD and the Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden
Support in finding accommodation
Who can apply?
We are looking for committed international artists or collectives who
represent a clear artistic position,
have experience in transdisciplinary work,
show an interest in scientific contexts and collaborative research,
can work on site (by arrangement) and
can communicate very well in German or English.
Application deadline: November 2, 2025
The complete application documents must be sent in one PDF file (max. 10 MB) by e-mail to kustodie@tu-dresden.de (subject: Schaufler Residency@TU Dresden_lastname).
The application includes
fully completed Application Form 2026
Curriculum vitae (max. 2 pages)
Artistic portfolio
Exposé of the project (max. 10,000 characters incl. spaces)
Project, time and cost plan incl. possible TUD cooperation partners
3-minute introduction video
Letter of recommendation (max. 6 months old)
No entry fee
Contact addresses/URL
kustodie@tu-dresden.de
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/schauflerlab/einfuehrung/news/ausschreibung-der-schaufler-residency-tu-dresden-2026?set_language=en
