Research Residencies in Berlin

AiR zusa

Berlin, Germany

AiR zusa is a non-product-oriented residency program in Berlin designed to provide artists, cultural managers, curators, and arts and culture activists from Ukraine and other countries at risk with a safer space for rest, mental health support, and professional resilience-building. The program emphasizes process, self-reflection, and personal growth rather than artistic output, offering participants time to heal and reconnect with local and international cultural networks.

American Academy in Berlin

Berlin, Germany

The American Academy in Berlin is a private, nonprofit institution offering semester-long residential fellowships to American scholars, artists, writers, composers, and journalists for advanced independent research and creative work in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and public policy. Fellows reside at the Hans Arnhold Center on Lake Wannsee and engage in transatlantic dialogue through public lectures, readings, performances, and discussions.

Burnt Sienna Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Burnt Sienna Berlin is offering a one-month artist residency for painters and visual artists seeking dedicated time, space and community in Berlin. The residency is designed for artists who want to concentrate seriously on developing their practice while becoming part of the wider Burnt Sienna artistic community. Residents are given dedicated studio space and the freedom to structure the month around their own work, research and experimentation. Burnt Sienna is an independent painting school, studio and exhibition space with a strong emphasis on observational practice, material knowledge, artistic development and exchange. Throughout the residency, artists can connect with our tutors, visiting artists, students and practising artists, attend studio events and exhibitions, and participate in the conversations and critical exchange that form an important part of life at Burnt Sienna. The programme is intentionally small and personal. We are particularly interested in artists who will actively engage with the studio environment and who see the residency as an opportunity to push their work forward rather than simply as temporary workspace. Applicants may be emerging, established or returning to their practice. There is no requirement to produce a finished body of work during the month; the emphasis is on process, experimentation, sustained studio time and meaningful artistic development. We welcome applications from artists based in Germany and internationally.

Cultural Vistas

Berlin, Germany

The Cultural Vistas Climate Action Artist Residencies program invites artists from Germany and V20 countries (Philippines, Fiji, Samoa) for three-month residencies with environmental research organizations in Germany or the selected V20 countries to explore climate crisis impacts through art and science collaboration. Artists freely choose their medium and work with host institutions to create projects highlighting vulnerabilities in host and home countries, with results showcased in international exhibitions. The program, funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, provides stipends, travel funding up to 4,000 EUR, and production support up to 10,000 EUR.

Martin Roth Initiative Temporary relocation for Artists and cultural actors at risk

Berlin, Germany

Organizer Information The Martin Roth-Initiative is a joint project of ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and the Goethe-Institut, founded in response to the global shrinking of civic spaces. It was established in in response to the global decline in pre-political freedoms, named after Martin Roth, the museum director and cultural scientist who served as

SAVVY Contemporary Residency

Berlin, Germany

The SAVVY Contemporary Residency in Berlin hosts national and international curators, artists, writers, thinkers, researchers, and cultural professionals for periods of at least 3 months, challenging residents to engage with Berlin’s socio-political context and explore trans-disciplinary issues beyond geographical constraints. Residents work from premises in a former power plant in Neukölln, offering workshops, seminars, or lectures, with accommodation in private rooms in a shared flat 500m away, though no production studios are available. The program emphasizes decolonial practices, public-oriented research, and topics like Afro-Pacific affinities and innovative exhibition-making, often through partnerships like REFLEKT for practitioners from Southeast Asia.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Berlin, Germany

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Potsdam, Germany, hosts an artist residency program since , providing artists with studio space in the historic Kleiner Fotorefraktor building, accommodations in Potsdam, and a stipend paid in three monthly installments. Selected by the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Potsdam Town, and PIK, residents integrate into the PIK community to foster interdisciplinary exchanges between artists and climate researchers on global sustainability. Note that a distinct 'Planetary Transitions' residency exists at the nearby RIFS Potsdam, not PIK.

Vilém Flusser Residency

Berlin, Germany

Organizer Information transmediale is an annual festival and year-round cultural platform for art, digital culture, and media theory in Berlin, founded in 1988 as VideoFilmFest, a video and media art programme connected to the Berlin International Film Festival, which later expanded into multimedia, internet culture, software art, theory, performance, exhibitions, and research-based formats. The festival