Residencies: Exploring diversity at the interfaces of arts and knowledges

Between mid-November and mid-December 2025, as well as in May 2026, Arts & Knowledges will host two residencies that open up new perspectives on diversity and discrimination.
This unique call for applications was made possible by the awarding of the International Prize for Science and Research (Kulturfondspreis 2023) to Arts & Knowledges under the then director Elisabeth Klaus. Artists, curators, cultural mediators, and scientists were invited to submit proposals for transdisciplinary projects that reflect on both the theme of “Cultures in Transformation”—the guiding principle of Arts & Knowledges for the period 2024–2028—and issues of diversity.

Two submissions impressed the jury with their conceptual depth and exciting interplay between artistic practice and scientific reflection.

• Curator Djamila Grandits will realize her residency starting on November 10, 2025, for a period of four weeks with the project trouble.rupture.glitch. speculative (curatorial) movements emerging from discomfort. Part of her stay will include a workshop for all W&K employees.
• Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, artist, activist, and cultural worker, is expected to begin her residency in spring 2026. Her work focuses in particular on the theme of decolonization.

With these residencies, Wissenschaft & Kunst is sending a strong signal for social responsibility and transdisciplinary exchange.

Djamila Grandits is a Vienna based curator. Part of CineCollective and D–Arts. Currently part of the pre-selection committees of Berlinale Panorama member of the non-fiction commission of Zürcher Filmstiftung. Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Djamila cares about entanglements and the exploration of collective spaces and is inquisitive about the intersection of theoretical concepts, artistic and activist forms and expressions.

Foto: Ute Brandhuber-Schmelzinger

Djamila Grandits