The subsidies

Philipp Otto Runge Fellowship at the Hamburger Kunsthalle

With the Philipp Otto Runge Fellowship, the foundation is fulfilling the founder's will to support younger artists in particular. One of the important criteria, in addition to artistic quality, is that the fellowship should result in synergies with the exhibition plans of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The fellowship enables the artists to present themselves to a large international audience and is intended to stimulate the production of a work. The holders of the fellowship are nominated by the foundation's board of directors at the suggestion of the curators of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Fellows of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation


2022/2023 Jenevieve Aken for the exhibition "Femme Fatale. Blick – Macht – Gender" (9 December 2022 to 10 April 2023)

https://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/ausstellungen/femme-fatale

Jenevieve Aken (1989), who in her works often deals with social issues and especially gender roles through the medium of photographic self-staging, shows the femme fatale as a female figure under pressure in her series of photographic self-staging The Masked Woman. The photographer herself describes her ambivalent figure as a "super femme fatale", but one who is subject to social, especially patriarchal, constraints and stigmatisation. With the series, she addresses "a growing number of independent, working women in Nigeria who assert their autonomy, but at the same time are excluded by cultural norms." The artist lives and works in Amsterdam.


2022 Vibha Galhotra for the exhibition "Breathing" (September 30, 2022 to January 15, 2023)

Breathe | Hamburger Kunsthalle (hamburger-kunsthalle.de)

The conceptual artist Vibha Galhotra (born 1978 in Chandigarh/India) lives in New Delhi and works with numerous artistic media – from sculpture, photography, printmaking, video, installation to drawing and text. With her multimedia works, the artist draws attention to historical and current conflicts and questions borders in every respect – be they political, territorial, ecological, religious, social, personal or gender boundaries – and deals with the state of the environment, the reactions to rapid environmental changes and the redistribution of land, as well as the changing topography of the world under the effects of globalization and growth apart.

2021 Manuel Rossner for the exhibition "Out of Space" (18 June to 28 November 2021)

OUT OF SPACE | Hamburger Kunsthalle (hamburger-kunsthalle.de)

Manuel Rossner (*1989) designs virtual worlds and digital sculptures in which he examines the effects of technological developments on society and art. Using digital materials, he creates interactive architectures that are both spatial intervention and virtual extension. The site-specific virtual reality installation "How Did We Get Here?" was created especially for the exhibition "Out of Space". The Berlin-based artist studied at the HfG in Offenbach, at the École des Arts-Décoratifs in Paris and at Tongji University in Shanghai. Photo: @jo.frotastic

2020 Dominik Halmer for the exhibition "The Absurd Beauty of Space. 7 Artists vs. Ungers" (4 September to 9 May 2021)

The absurd beauty of space | Hamburger Kunsthalle (hamburger-kunsthalle.de)

Dominik Halmer was born in Munich in 1978. From 1998 to 2000 he studied philosophy and art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and from 2000 fine art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen, where he graduated in 2006 with the title of master student. In 2008/09 he spent a postgraduate year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Heimo Zobernig. For the exhibition "The Absurd Beauty of Space. 7 Artists vs. Ungers", Halmer's wall installation "Hermes – Neptune – Mars – Gabriel – Chloris – Mary" was created. Dominik Halmer lives and works in Berlin. Photo: private

2019 Susan Philipsz for the exhibition "Mourning. Of Loss and Change"
(7 February to 2 August 2020)

Mourning | Hamburger Kunsthalle (hamburger-kunsthalle.de)

Susan Philipsz was born in 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland. She lives and works in Berlin. The sound installation "Four Part Harmony" (2020) has been specially created for the atrium of the Hamburger Kunsthalle for the exhibition "Mourning. Of Loss and Change". It revives the pagan-Celtic tradition of lamentation as an act of public, ritualized lamentation by mourners. In the exhibition "Mourning. Of Loss and Change", the artist Susan Philipsz is also represented with the works "Lowlands" (2008) and "Returning" (2004). The sculptor Susan Philipsz is internationally known for her sound pieces and their sculptural quality and manifold references.
Photo: Peter Cohen © courtesy Bonniers Konsthall

Scholarship holders 2008-2016 of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation

2015/16 Artist Grant Silke Silkeborg, working stay at SPINNEREI Leipzig

The Hamburg-born artist Silke Silkeborg studied theory and history as well as fine art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts until 2012 (Karl H. Ditze Diploma Prize 2010). In addition, she headed the university's internal "Gallery of the HFBK" for a year during her studies. Since 2008, she has seen herself as a painter of the night, exploring the specifics of nocturnal phenomena, primarily through the medium of painting. The question of what is perceptible determines her interest in the night. The nocturnal investigations, the painting result created under difficult lighting conditions in the nocturnal outdoor space, are revised in daylight in the studio or translated into large formats. As a further research aspect of night painting, Silke Silkeborg makes written notes about painting at night. In this way, the history of the night as well as the perception as a whole is reflected. Silke Silkeborg wants to take her intensive experience of nocturnal field research to the extreme. She realized her idea of a cinema-screen-sized work that turns the artificially lit world into another reality with her project "HELL", funded by the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation. "HELL" was presented from 26 July to 6 October 2019 in Leipzig at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Portrait "Silke Silkeborg" Copyright: Hans Zillmann

https://mdbk.de/ausstellungen/silke-silkeborg-hell

BRIGHT
Lighting the World, 2015-2018
Oil on canvas, twelve-part tableau
Height 360 cm, width 800 cm
http://www.silke-silkeborg.de

2013/14 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Karl Larsson
5. Scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014

Karl Larsson, born in Sweden in 1977, is an artist, poet and writer. From 2000 to 2005 he studied at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, taught at various art schools and was a scholarship holder of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2009 to 2011. Larsson lives in Brussels and Stockholm. He is interested in the intersections of visual art and poetry, questioning the roles of the viewer and the reader. In numerous exhibitions, including at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Aachener Kunstverein (both 2010), Larsson has transferred this question to the function of sculptures and objects. In his book Form/Force, which was first published in German by Walther König in April 2013, Larsson reproduces thoughts and reflections of political and historical events narrated in various associative ways in a poem-like narrative form.

2012/13 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for the artist collective Chto Delat?
4th scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

Chto delat?, founded in St. Petersburg in 2003, consists of around ten artists, writers, philosophers and activists, of whom Olga Egorova, Nikolay Oleynikov, Dmitry Vilensky and Natalya Pershina will take up the scholarship in Hamburg. The name Chto delat? refers both to Chernyshevsky's novel of the same name (1863) and its question of self-organization and self-education, as well as to Lenin's famous work (1902) and his preoccupation with the role of intellectuals in politics. From room installations and plays to publications in print and electronic form, from performances to workshops to singing games, Chto delat? the borderlands of art and politics. The group gets involved, creates publicity for socially relevant topics and questions.
Chto delat? has already made a name for itself internationally in recent years, for example with exhibitions, actions and panel discussions at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Istanbul Biennale or the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In Hamburg, the collective was a guest at the international art festival subvision.kunst festival.off 2009.
www.chtodelat.org

Photo: Artist of the collective Chto delat? © Chto delat?

2011/12 Philipp Otte Runge – Scholarship for Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen
3rd scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012

Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen was born in Norway in 1973 and moved to Berlin in 2005 after graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Copenhagen, Arhus, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin, among others.

Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen is interested in situations in which things lose their usual functions and refer to other contexts of meaning. In his works, Gullaksen traces the passages in which one model of representation merges into another. It is precisely through these seams, transitions, jumps and translation mechanisms that he can uncover sensibilities that expand our perception of reality with new qualities. He works in a wide range of artistic media such as film, text, installation, sculpture and drawing.

Gullaksen intends to make and reflect on his own hiking experiences of several weeks, inspired by Werner Herzog's book "Vom gehen im Eis" (1974), which records the experience of a personally motivated forced march from Munich to Paris.

Two Trees, 2010
Film installation
Two 16mm projectors with loopers
Variable size

Unfinished Symphony, 2009
Video, 19:04, Super 35 digital
Variable size


2010/11 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Thomas Baldischwyler
2nd scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011

With his activities as an artist, DJ, musician and writer, Thomas Baldischwyler (* 1974, lives and works in Hamburg) is also thematically located in these different areas, at least in his own practice complexly interwoven. Depending on the theme and context, he produces music projects, collages, films, sculptures, installations, accompanying texts and also serves obscure, anachronistic media such as reverse glass painting. Baldischwyler studied art history (University of Hamburg) and fine art at the HFBK in Hamburg.
Main : Thomas Baldischwyler (thomas-baldischwyler.com)

Photo: Thomas Baldischwyler © Harald Popp

Thomas Baldischwyler
After Work (III), 2008
Photograph, 30 X 45 cm
© Thomas Baldischwyler

Thomas Baldischwyler
Untitled (Sancho Panza), 2009
Photograph, dispersion, varnish, 35 X 56 cm
© Thomas Baldischwyler

2008/09 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Bo Christian Larsson
1st scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2009

Born in Kristinehman, Sweden, in 1976, Larsson has lived and worked in Munich since 2004. While studying at the Academy of Visual Art in Enschede, Holland, he was a visiting student at Western Australia's College of Fine Art, Perth in 1997. The multimedia artist has had solo exhibitions in Munich, Oslo and Kortrijk, Belgium, since 2005. His works are in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, as well as in the Kristinehmans Museum for Modern Art, Kristinehman, Sweden.

Bo Christian Larsson
Forever Young, Tomorrow's Blur (2008) Performance Still
Wood, wax, bathroom tiles, artificial zebra skin, synthetic oil, sugar, light bulbs, rope
700 x 700 x 500 cm
Photo: © Andreas Lang

Bo Christian Larsson
Immaculate is Nothing (2007)
Drawing
Pencil, spray paint, acrylic on paper
150 x 200 cm
Photo: © Andreas Lang

Further funding

2023

  • Exhibition Funding "William Blake's Universe" (14 June to 08 September 2024)
  • Purchase of a graphic portfolio by Anton Würth (4-part cycle "Essay on Runge"; "DürerÜbung") for the Kupferstichkabinett of the Kunsthalle
  • Publication "Dominik Halmer" (Fellow of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation 2020)

2022

  • Donation of 200 copies of "Nathalie David: Runge's Fairy Tale (2018)" to the catalogue collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Donation for the library of the Kunsthalle "Frank Richter: Caspar David Friedrich the landscape painter", 2 volumes, private print 2021

2021

  • Exhibition funding "FUTURA. Measuring Time" (14 January to 10 April 2022)
  • Donation for the library of the Kunsthalle "Philipp Otto Runge. Letters and Writings" 4 volumes in critical edition, presented, annotated and edited by Prof. York-Gothart Mix, 2021, as print and e-book edition

2020

  • Funding: Artist talk and video installations: Aslan Gaisumov in the exhibition "Mourning. Of Loss and Change" (7 February to 2 August 2020)

2019

  • Exhibition funding "Hamburg School. The 19th Century Rediscovered" (12 April to 14 July 2019)
  • Exhibition funding "Mourning. Of Loss and Change" (7 February to 2 August 2020)
  • Catalogue Funding "The Reversal of the Starry Sky", Silke Silkeborg

2018

  • Publication of the artist's book "Runge's Fairy Tales" by Nathalie David
  • Subsidy for the creation of the inventory catalogue "The Collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. 19th century"

2016

  • Catalogue Funding "Drawn light", Zipora Rafaelov
  • Project funding "Fade away" by Bo Christian Larsson for the 20th Biennale in Sydney

2015

  • Project funding "Runge's fairy tale. An Artist's Book by Nathalie David" (until 2016)
  • Subsidy for the modernization of the lighting in the Romantic Halls of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Acquisition of the artworks "The Perfect Abbreviation For Death", 2014 (oil painting) and "You Must Be Able To Interrupt A Friendly Conversation At All Moments", 2013 (sculpture, concrete) by Karl Larsson for the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Exhibition funding "Karl Larsson. North Western Prose" at the Kunstverein Hamburg (27 September 2014 to 18 January 2015)

2014

  • Catalogue funding for Karl Larsson
  • Subsidy for the exhibition catalogue "Transformation of the World. The Romantic Arabesque" (21 March to 15 June 2014)

2013

  • Printing cost subsidy for the conference proceedings "Cosmos Runge. The Hamburg Symposium" (8 to 10 October 2009)
  • Catalogue Funding "Radical Beauty", Almut Linde
  • Printing cost subsidy for the publication "At Eye Level. Interreligious Conversations about Art", edited by Marion Koch and the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Artist sponsorship "Festival MS Dockville"
  • Publication funding of the journal "Chto delat?"

2012

  • Project Funding "Painting Techniques on Works by Philipp Otto Runge"

2011

  • Film funding "Kosmos Runge / Cosmos Runge" by Nathalie David (until 2012)
  • Subsidy for the accompanying program for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • Support service to the Runge birthplace in Wolgast
  • Catalogue funding for Bo Christian Larsson
  • Project Award "Cultural Conservation Area"
  • Subsidy for the querdurch-symposium "Romanticism Revisited", HfbK Hamburg (7 to 8 May 2010)

2010

  • Project funding "Archiving of the written estate of Dr. Fritz and Philipp Otto (Philo) Runge" (until 2011)
  • Exhibition Funding "Runge Today": Constructed Sensation – Observable Time", Kunsthaus Hamburg in cooperation with HfbK and Hamburger Kunsthalle (8 February – 22 June 2011)
  • Funding for the publication of all letters and writings by Philipp Otto Runge on the internet platform ask23, Prof. Michael Lingner (until 2011)
  • Start-up funding III for the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • Project Funding "Painting Techniques on Works by Philipp Otto Runge"
  • Restoration of the painting "Peter on the Sea"
  • Partial financing of the exhibition design "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • Financing of the opening ceremonies for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • Film Funding "Exhibition Documentation Cosmos Runge", Nathalie David
  • Support for the Runge research of Prof. Dr. Peter Betthausen
  • Printing cost subsidy for "Philipp Otto Runge. Correspondence", Peter Betthausen
  • Exhibition funding "CUT. Paper Cuts 1970-2010" (12 November 2010 to 6 February 2011)
  • Subsidy for the conference "Cosmos Runge. The Night Side of Things", Anthroposophical Society Hamburg (9 to 12 December 2010)
  • Exhibition Grants "Color continuo. 1810 … 2010… System and Art of Colour", Rungehaus, Stadtmuseum und St. Petri Kirche Wolgast (5 June to 29 August 2010) and "Runge's Influence on the Expressionists", Stadtmuseum Wolgast (4 September to 30 October 2010)
  • Artist sponsorship "Gängeviertel e.V."

2009

  • Start-up funding II of the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • Funding for the publication of all letters and writings by Philipp Otto Runge on the internet platform ask23, Prof. Michael Lingner
  • Subsidy for increased expenses for the inventory of Runge works in the Kupferstichkabinett
  • Subsidy for the symposium "Philipp Otto Runge and the Birth of Romanticism", Hamburger Kunsthalle (October 8 to 10, 2009)
  • Printing cost subsidy for "The Visual Thinking of Philipp Otto Runges", Thomas Lange
  • Project Funding "Dummy text", Franka Hörnschemeyer
  • Artist sponsorship "SUBVISION. ART. FESTIVAL. OFF"

2008

  • Start-up financing I of the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • Exhibition grant for "Test Flight of the Mosquitoes", Lili Fischer (September 14 to November 16, 2008)

2006

  • Printing Subsidy "Goethe's Elective Affinities – An Annual Fairy Tale between Enlightenment and Romanticism", Thorsten Critzmann

2005

  • Artist support as part of the exhibition series "Standpunkte" at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • Fee for text creation of the two Runge fairy tales by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rölleke
  • Transcriptions of letters by Philipp Otto Runge, Dr. Brigitte Schillbach (until 2006)

2004

  • Project funding "Critical Edition of Philipp Otto Runge's Letters and Writings", Prof. Dr. Konrad Feilchenfeldt

Backup

Further funding

  • 2021 Exhibition funding "FUTURA. Measuring Time" (14 January to 10 April 2022)
  • 2021 Donation for the library of the Kunsthalle "Philipp Otto Runge. Letters and Writings" 4 volumes in critical edition, presented, annotated and edited by Prof. York-Gothart Mix, 2021, as print and e-book edition
  • 2020 Funding: Artist talk and video installations: Aslan Gaisumov in the exhibition "Mourning.
    Of Loss and Change" (7 February to 2 August 2020)
  • 2019 Exhibition funding "Hamburg School. The 19th Century Rediscovered" (12 April to 14 July 2019)
  • 2019 Exhibition funding "Mourning. Of Loss and Change" (7 February to 2 August 2020)
  • 2019 Catalogue Funding "The Reversal of the Starry Sky", Silke Silkeborg
  • 2018 Publication of the artist's book "Runge's Fairy Tales" by Nathalie David
  • 2018 Subsidy for the creation of the inventory catalogue "The Collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. 19th century"
  • 2016 Catalogue Funding "Drawn light", Zipora Rafaelov
  • 2016 Project funding "Fade away" by Bo Christian Larsson for the 20th Biennale in Sydney

2015/16 Artist Grant Silke Silkeborg, working stay at SPINNEREI Leipzig

The Hamburg-born artist Silke Silkeborg studied theory and history as well as fine art at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts until 2012 (Karl H. Ditze Diploma Prize 2010). In addition, she headed the university's internal "Gallery of the HFBK" for a year during her studies. Since 2008, she has seen herself as a painter of the night, exploring the specifics of nocturnal phenomena, primarily through the medium of painting. The question of what is perceptible determines her interest in the night. The nocturnal investigations, the painting result created under difficult lighting conditions in the nocturnal outdoor space, are revised in daylight in the studio or translated into large formats. As a further research aspect of night painting, Silke Silkeborg makes written notes about painting at night. In this way, the history of the night as well as the perception as a whole is reflected. Silke Silkeborg wants to take her intensive experience of nocturnal field research to the extreme. She realized her idea of a cinema-screen-sized work that turns the artificially lit world into another reality with her project "HELL", funded by the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation. "HELL" was presented from 26 July to 6 October 2019 in Leipzig at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Portrait "Silke Silkeborg" Copyright: Hans Zillmann

https://mdbk.de/ausstellungen/silke-silkeborg-hell

BRIGHT
Lighting the World, 2015-2018
Oil on canvas, twelve-part tableau
Height 360 cm, width 800 cm
http://www.silke-silkeborg.de

  • 2015/16 Project Funding "Runge's Fairy Tales. An artist's book by Nathalie David"
  • 2015 Subsidy for the modernization of the lighting in the Romantic Halls of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2015 Acquisition of the artworks "The Perfect Abbreviation For Death", 2014 (oil painting) and "You Must Be Able To Interrupt A Friendly Conversation At All Moments", 2013 (sculpture, concrete) by Karl Larsson for the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2015 Exhibition funding "Karl Larsson. North Western Prose" at the Kunstverein Hamburg (27 September 2014 to 18 January 2015)
  • 2014 Catalogue funding for Karl Larsson
  • 2014 Subsidy for the exhibition catalogue "Transformation of the World. The Romantic Arabesque" (21 March to 15 June 2014)

2013/14 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Karl Larsson
5. Scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 October 2013 to 30 September 2014

Karl Larsson, born in Sweden in 1977, is an artist, poet and writer. From 2000 to 2005 he studied at Konstfack, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, taught at various art schools and was a scholarship holder of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht from 2009 to 2011. Larsson lives in Brussels and Stockholm. He is interested in the intersections of visual art and poetry, questioning the roles of the viewer and the reader. In numerous exhibitions, including at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Aachener Kunstverein (both 2010), Larsson has transferred this question to the function of sculptures and objects. In his book Form/Force, which was first published in German by Walther König in April 2013, Larsson reproduces thoughts and reflections of political and historical events narrated in various associative ways in a poem-like narrative form.

  • 2013 Printing cost subsidy for the conference proceedings "Cosmos Runge. The Hamburg Symposium" (8 to 10 October 2009)
  • 2013 Catalogue Funding "Radical Beauty", Almut Linde
  • 2013 Printing cost subsidy for the publication "At Eye Level. Interreligious Conversations about Art", edited by Marion Koch and the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2013 Artist sponsorship "Festival MS Dockville"
  • 2013 Publication funding of the journal "Chto delat?"

2012/13 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for the artist collective Chto Delat?
4th scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2013

Chto delat?, founded in St. Petersburg in 2003, consists of around ten artists, writers, philosophers and activists, of whom Olga Egorova, Nikolay Oleynikov, Dmitry Vilensky and Natalya Pershina will take up the scholarship in Hamburg. The name Chto delat? refers both to Chernyshevsky's novel of the same name (1863) and its question of self-organization and self-education, as well as to Lenin's famous work (1902) and his preoccupation with the role of intellectuals in politics. From room installations and plays to publications in print and electronic form, from performances to workshops to singing games, Chto delat? the borderlands of art and politics. The group gets involved, creates publicity for socially relevant topics and questions.
Chto delat? has already made a name for itself internationally in recent years, for example with exhibitions, actions and panel discussions at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, the Kölnischer Kunstverein, the Istanbul Biennale or the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. In Hamburg, the collective was a guest at the international art festival subvision.kunst festival.off 2009.
www.chtodelat.org

Photo: Artist of the collective Chto delat? © Chto delat?

  • 2012 Project Funding "Painting Technical Investigations on Works by Philipp Otto Runge"

2011/12 Philipp Otte Runge – Scholarship for Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen
3rd scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012

Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen was born in Norway in 1973 and moved to Berlin in 2005 after graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Copenhagen, Arhus, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin, among others.

Tarje Eikanger Gullaksen is interested in situations in which things lose their usual functions and refer to other contexts of meaning. In his works, Gullaksen traces the passages in which one model of representation merges into another. It is precisely through these seams, transitions, jumps and translation mechanisms that he can uncover sensibilities that expand our perception of reality with new qualities. He works in a wide range of artistic media such as film, text, installation, sculpture and drawing.

Gullaksen intends to make and reflect on his own hiking experiences of several weeks, inspired by Werner Herzog's book "Vom gehen im Eis" (1974), which records the experience of a personally motivated forced march from Munich to Paris.

Two Trees, 2010
Film installation
Two 16mm projectors with loopers
Variable size

Unfinished Symphony, 2009
Video, 19:04, Super 35 digital
Variable size

  • 2011/12 Film Funding "Cosmos Runge / Cosmos Runge" by Nathalie David
  • 2011 Subsidy for the accompanying program for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • 2011 Support for the Runge Birthplace in Wolgast
  • 2011 Catalogue Grant for Bo Christian Larsson
  • 2011 Project Award "Cultural Conservation Area"
  • 2011 Subsidy for the querdurch-symposium "Romanticism Revisited", HfbK Hamburg (7 to 8 May 2010)
  • 2010/11 Project financing "Archiving of the written estate of Dr. Fritz and Philipp Otto (Philo) Runge"
  • 2010/11 Exhibition Grant "Runge Today": Constructed Sensation – Observable Time", Kunsthaus Hamburg in cooperation with HfbK and Hamburger Kunsthalle (8 February – 22 June 2011)
  • 2010/11 Funding for the publication of all letters and writings of Philipp Otto Runge on the internet platform ask23, Prof. Michael


2010/11 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Thomas Baldischwyler
2nd scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011

With his activities as an artist, DJ, musician and writer, Thomas Baldischwyler (* 1974, lives and works in Hamburg) is also thematically located in these different areas, at least in his own practice complexly interwoven. Depending on the theme and context, he produces music projects, collages, films, sculptures, installations, accompanying texts and also serves obscure, anachronistic media such as reverse glass painting. Baldischwyler studied art history (University of Hamburg) and fine art at the HFBK in Hamburg.
Main : Thomas Baldischwyler (thomas-baldischwyler.com)

Photo: Thomas Baldischwyler © Harald Popp

Thomas Baldischwyler
After Work (III), 2008
Photograph, 30 X 45 cm
© Thomas Baldischwyler

Thomas Baldischwyler
Untitled (Sancho Panza), 2009
Photograph, dispersion, varnish, 35 X 56 cm
© Thomas Baldischwyler

  • 2010 Start-up funding III for the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • 2010 Project Funding "Painting Technical Investigations on Works by Philipp Otto Runge"
  • 2010 Restoration of the painting "Peter on the Sea"
  • 2010 Partial financing of the exhibition design "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • 2010 Financing of the opening ceremonies for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism"
  • 2010 Film Funding "Exhibition Documentation Cosmos Runge", Nathalie David
  • 2010 Support of the Runge research of Prof. Dr. Peter Betthausen
  • 2010 Printing cost subsidy for "Philipp Otto Runge. Correspondence", Peter Betthausen
  • 2010 Exhibition funding "CUT. Paper Cuts 1970-2010" (12 November 2010 to 6 February 2011)
  • 2010 Subsidy for the conference "Cosmos Runge. The Night Side of Things", Anthroposophical Society Hamburg (9 to 12 December 2010)
  • 2010 Exhibition grants "Color continuo. 1810 … 2010… System and Art of Colour", Rungehaus, Stadtmuseum und St. Petri Kirche Wolgast (5 June to 29 August 2010) and "Runge's Influence on the Expressionists", Stadtmuseum Wolgast (4 September to 30 October 2010)
  • 2010 Artist sponsorship "Gängeviertel e.V."
  • 2009 Start-up funding II for the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • 2009 Funding for the publication of all letters and writings of Philipp Otto Runge on the internet platform ask23, Prof. Michael Lingner
  • 2009 Subsidy for increased expenses for the inventory of Runge works in the Kupferstichkabinett
  • 2009 Grant for the symposium "Philipp Otto Runge and the Birth of Romanticism", Hamburger Kunsthalle (8 to 10 October 2009)
  • 2009 Printing cost subsidy for "The Visual Thinking of Philipp Otto Runges", Thomas Lange
  • 2009 Project Funding "Dummy text", Franka Hörnschemeyer
  • 2009 Artist sponsorship "SUBVISION. ART. FESTIVAL. OFF"

2008/09 Philipp Otto Runge – Scholarship for Bo Christian Larsson
1st scholarship holder of the Philipp Otto Runge Foundation, 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2009

Born in Kristinehman, Sweden, in 1976, Larsson has lived and worked in Munich since 2004. While studying at the Academy of Visual Art in Enschede, Holland, he was a visiting student at Western Australia's College of Fine Art, Perth in 1997. The multimedia artist has had solo exhibitions in Munich, Oslo and Kortrijk, Belgium, since 2005. His works are in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, as well as in the Kristinehmans Museum for Modern Art, Kristinehman, Sweden.

Bo Christian Larsson
Forever Young, Tomorrow's Blur (2008) Performance Still
Wood, wax, bathroom tiles, artificial zebra skin, synthetic oil, sugar, light bulbs, rope
700 x 700 x 500 cm
Photo: © Andreas Lang

Bo Christian Larsson
Immaculate is Nothing (2007)
Drawing
Pencil, spray paint, acrylic on paper
150 x 200 cm
Photo: © Andreas Lang

  • 2008 Start-up financing I of the preparations for the exhibition "Cosmos Runge. The Morning of Romanticism" (3 December 2010 to 13 March 2011)
  • 2008 Exhibition grant for "Test Flight of the Mosquitoes", Lili Fischer (14 September to 16 November 2008)
  • 2006 Printing cost subsidy "Goethe's Elective Affinities – an Annual Fairy Tale between Enlightenment and Romanticism", Thorsten Critzmann
  • 2005 Artist support as part of the exhibition series "Standpunkte" at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2005 Fee for the writing of the two Runge fairy tales by Prof. Dr. Heinz Rölleke
  • 2004/05 Project Funding "Critical Edition of the Letters and Writings of Philipp Otto Runge", Prof. Dr. Konrad Feilchenfeldt / Dr. Brigitte Schillbach