BEUYS RESEARCH GRANT 2021 – Franziska Wilmsen in conversation with Kornelia Dzikowska and Jan Domicz
Channel: Curated Affairs
Date: 2021-07-28

The Beuys Research Grant is a joint project between the Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf, Polish Institute Düsseldorf, and Curated Affairs.

Polish Institute Düsseldorf, July 2021

"For the first time this artists scholarship has been launched this year in connection with Joseph Beuys and his 100th birthday. It has been initiated by the curatorial-artistic tandem Curated Affairs, the cultural office Düsseldorf, and the Polish Institute in Düsseldorf. This research residency intends on the one hand to revive the cultural exchange between the twin cities Warsaw and Düsseldorf, and on the other hand, or most importantly, to support artistic practices in the form of a travel grant which became more and more important since the start of the pandemic when everything was put on hold, especially the creative sector.  Therefore, the initiators of this scholarship did determinedly emphasise that they does not want the artists to produce any concrete outputs but to give them the opportunity to initiate new research, make contacts in Düsseldorf’s art scene and to explore institutions or archives."  Franziska Wilmsen

Kornelia Dzikowska graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2018. She visited Germany for some longer stays at Universität der Künste Berlin in 2017 and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart in 2016. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Film Production of the Film School in Łódź. Kornelia is a two-time scholarship holder of the Polish Minister of Culture and of the National Heritage for remarkable artistic achievements (2015/2016 and 2016/2017). 

Jan Domicz is a visual artist who creates videos, objects, and installations. He also studied in Germany which was at the Städelschule under Simon Starling and Peter Fischli from 2012 to 2015. Before he graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan in 2012 under the professors Izabella Gustowska and Miroslaw Bałka. He was the recipient of the scholarship of the Polish minister of culture as well as of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. In 2019 he was an artist in residence at KulturKontakt in Vienna. Next to a solo presentation in Poznan he is selected to contribute to this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice. In addition to his artistic work, he has been leading the quasi-curatorial project „Office for Narrated Spaces” since 2017. In his works, Jan uses the narrative potential of space and its socio-political implications. He creates systems at the junction of private and common space.