For the year 2026, the G\u00fcnther Uecker Institute (GUI) is announcing the 7th G\u00fcnther Uecker Research Fellowship, which is being developed in cooperation with the Staatliches Museum Schwerin. In the context of a planned Uecker exhibition there (2026\/2027), a research fellowship will be awarded that is embedded in the art-educational engagement with the exhibition project.<\/p>\n\n
The Uecker exhibition at the Staatliches Museum Schwerin explores the complex body of work of G\u00fcnther Uecker, with a particular focus on his engagement with light. The research fellowship builds on this and will accompany the processes of exhibition conception and mediation planning over a period of five months in 2026. Within the framework of the fellowship, formats are to be developed that convey perspectives on Uecker\u2019s work within the museum space. The fellowship seeks to investigate modes of translation in which processes of self-observation, reduction, and intensification of perception are transformed into sustainable mediation strategies\u2014textual, performative, dialogical, or digital.<\/p>\n\n
The fellowship is aimed at master\u2019s students, doctoral candidates, as well as recently graduated young professional theorists, artists, art mediators, and researchers in art education. Experience in art mediation practice, in dealing with museological issues, and in interdisciplinary collaboration is an advantage.<\/p>\n\n
You can find the full call for applications here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n