**A New Project Led by the Photography Collection**

  
_Artists on Photography_ is a new initiative by the Photography Collection which seeks to enhance its historical holdings by introducing current perspectives from artists and academics in the fields of gender theory and postcolonialism. This fellowship will be awarded annually over a period of five years commencing in 2025 to one artist and one academic, judged by an expert jury. There is no age limit.

  
Each year, one artist from anywhere in the world with an existing archival practice drawing on found footage and collections will receive a grant to carry out a commission. In tandem, a researcher will be invited to consider the same topic from an academic standpoint. Both will complete a research stay in Munich. The outcome will be a new work of art, a publication sharing the work created by the artist and the researcher, and an exhibition once the museum has reopened.

  
The cleft between the photographic objects which dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and computer-generated images which have become prominent over the past three decades has been widening in a new era defined by artificial intelligence. Yet again, photography finds itself confronted with a fresh challenge. How did earlier generations view photography? How has our understanding of the medium changed with the shift from analogue to digital photography, and now with the advent of computer-generated images? Which social practices have been introduced in an era of smartphone photography, virtual reality, and AI? Which photographic objects have drifted out of focus, disappearing into depositories? What light can those objects shed on the present day and how might we rediscover them?

Selected artists will receive one year project to develop new art work and research one of the broadest photography collections in Europe.

  
This project allows artists to work in dialogue with a researcher on the collection’s historical holdings, using them as a starting point and source of information for a new, independent artistic project. Working with the support of a curator, they will create a new project and develop a means of presenting it in an accompanying publication. Once the museum has been reopened, their work will be exhibited alongside the historic holdings.

  
**The selected artist will receive:**

* a project duration of one year beginning in March 2025
* a grant totaling €12,000
* a production budget of up to €10,000 for their new work
* cost of travel to Munich
* a publication which will showcase their new artwork, the researcher’s scholarly findings, and the historic holdings themselves
* an exhibition following the reopening of the museum in 2031
* the opportunity to exhibit their work in an external venue (tbc) shortly after its completion
* access to one of Europe’s largest and broadest photography collections
* collaboration on the topic with a research specialist
* curatorial support for the resulting work
* public exposure in the form of the book launch following the project completion and participation in future events and talks
* networking

  
**The selected researcher will receive:**

* a project duration of one year beginning in March 2025
* a writing fee totaling €4,000
* cost of travel to Munich
* a publication which will showcase their research findings as well as the artist’s new work and the historic holdings
* access to one of Europe’s largest and broadest photography collections
* collaboration on the topic with an artist
* photohistorical support with their research
* public exposure in the form of the book launch following the project completion and participation in future events and talks
* networking

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