In collaboration with the Springboard for the Arts (Saint Paul and Fergus Falls, MN), the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis), American Composers Forum in Saint Paul and the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Minnesota, the Edvard Munch House invites visual artists, including printmakers, writers or composers as well as artists working across the disciplines located in Minnesota to apply for a 4 to 6 weeks Artist Residency at the Edvard Munch House in Warnemünde, Germany. Applications for the 2027 residency are due by November 30th 2026.
The Residency supports 4 to 6 weeks of accommodation in the Edvard Munch House and provides a workspace (between the months of October and April) as well as:
Residents are expected to engage thoughtfully with the site and its context, work independently and to share their artistic practice and work with the public. Upon completion of the residency, the artist will present their work and offer reflections on the residency at the University of Minnesota at an event organized by CGES.
The Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch, who also experimented with photography lived in this 17th-century fisherman’s house–on the Baltic Sea from May 1907 to October 1908 during an exceptionally productive period of his life. He created more than 60 works there, among them some of his most famous.Since 1998, after a restoration that preserved its historic character, the Edvard Munch House has become a cultural center and a residency for artists working in all media. The house has an exhibition space, a small library, two apartments, a garden and a sunroom facing the river through which boats used to access the open sea.
The little seaside town of Warnemünde where the Munch House is situated is part of the City of Rostock, an old Hanseatic University City of 200,000 people, and home of a sizable artistic community. Located in the North-East of Germany, Rostock can be reached in approximately two hours by train from either Berlin or Hamburg.
The Baltic Sea coast itself – a recurrent theme in Munch’s art – is a region shaped by shifting borders, layered histories, ecological precarity and transnational movement. It is much less a romantic landscape than a resonant contemporary space: simultaneously passage and barrier, archive and projection surface, touristic image and geopolitical threshold.
Rather than referencing Edvard Munch through stylistic quotations, we invite artists to engage with the enduring relevance of his existential and psychological inquiries. We welcome proposals that respond to contemporary social and political realities (forms of resisting oppression, belonging and estrangement, vulnerability, embodiment and atmosphere, resonance between self, society and environment).
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and be based in the state of Minnesota. The successful applicant must have a valid passport by October 2027 in order to travel to Germany.
Applicants are required to fill out the application form and submit supporting a supporting document to cges@umn.edu via email which answers three questions (max 1,000 words):
The ideal candidate for this residency will be able to articulate–and demonstrate through their portfolio–who they are as an artist broadly, while specifically connecting their current project(s) to the theme and location of this residency. We are looking for an artist with a feasible, well thought out plan of work for the four to six week residency. The artist must be willing and eager to collaborate with Munch Haus staff and the broader Warnemünde community.
We are accepting applications until November 30th 2026. We anticipate contacting shortlisted applicants by the end of February 2027 and notifying our successful candidate by April.
The residency will begin in October 2027 with some flexibility depending on the successful candidate’s scheduling needs. Upon completion of the residency, the artist will present their work and offer reflections on the residency at the University of Minnesota at an event organized by CGES.
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