Kunst trotz(t) Corona Open Call
With Kunst trotz(t) Corona, the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg is initiating a call for proposals with funds from the BWFGB, in which female artists can apply for financial support to realize an exhibition or publication project. The call for proposals is aimed at female students and doctoral candidates of the HFBK, who are additionally burdened by care tasks during Corona times and whose artistic work has come to a standstill as a result. The call for proposals is intended to help offset the gender effect (#CoronaPublicationGap[1]) during the corona crisis.
Art students with care responsibilities have to cope with a triple burden in their everyday lives: the studies, the job that finances their life and artistic studies, and family or care responsibilities. In the Corona Pandemic, the conditions for female artists have generally become much more difficult, although women with care responsibilities in particular are faced with special challenges: When public childcare is no longer available, when school is moved home, and when care for relatives can no longer be supported as before, this has a negative effect on the artistic productivity of female artists and thus on their presence and visibility, which greatly reduces their visibility compared to their male colleagues.
The presence and visibility of female artists is now to be supported and strengthened by the project funds specially set up for this purpose. Indispensable for this is the exhibition activity as a main form of publication as well as the publication of artists' books or exhibition catalogs or the development of digital formats. It is only through visibility that the artistic examination of new issues can be transferred into public discourse and achieve social relevance.
Target group
The call for proposals is aimed at female students and doctoral candidates of the HFBK Hamburg, who want to realize an exhibition or publication project and who are additionally burdened by care tasks during corona times, which has brought their artistic work to a standstill.
Terms of Tender
In the application for project funds, the applicant must convey that she has been doing family or care work since March 2020 and is planning an artistic project that can be realized. The realization of the project can be supported up to the amount of 5,000 euros, whereby the use of the funds is versatile. The project must be completed by June 2022. If pandemic-related exhibitions are not possible during the project period, the funding can also be used to increase the visibility of the exhibition in digital space, for example through virtual exhibition tours.
Please compile the following documents in a PDF (max. 5 MB) and send it to Bärbel Hartje by January 13, 2021 at the latest:
- Written presentation of the project, if necessary with illustrative graphical material
- CV with artistic background (course of studies, major field of study/class, if applicable previous education, exhibitions, prizes/scholarships/promotions)
- Plausible presentation of the family or Care work to be performed since March 2020
- Plausible presentation of how financial support strengthens artistic visibility
- Cost calculation, from which provable costs for the project or also for the discharge of the Care work result (e.g. support costs, costs of caregiver, material costs, travel costs, renting costs for office place/ exhibition space/ working equipment etc., documentation costs, production costs for publication).
The selected students commit themselves to point out the support of the HFBK and the BWFGB at appropriate places in the context of their projects. They must submit a proof of use with original receipts and documentation of the project at the latest 12 weeks after the end of their project. By accepting the funding, the recipients agree that the HFBK may report on their media about the projects in connection with the funding to offset the gender effect during the Corona crisis.
Jury
The HFBK jury with the participation of the equal opportunity commissioners will decide on the allocation of project funds on January 27, 2021.
The selected artists will be informed immediately after the jury's decision and can then - subject to the final approval of funds by the authorities - begin with the realization of their projects.
[1] The term refers to the effect that during the corona pandemic and the lockdown, female scientists submitted and published fewer articles to scientific journals than their male colleagues. It is assumed that men tend to invest significantly less time in housework and childcare than their female partners. As a consequence, a clear career disadvantage for women working in science is feared, since science careers are based to a large extent on the number of publications.
Contact for further inquiries and for the application:
- Bärbel Hartje
- Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-257
- Mail:baerbel.hartje@hfbk.hamburg.de