A free live / work studio for 3 months in Berlin, return air fare, a bursary and materials budget, from 2007-2011, and again in 2014
The selected artists were based in a building shared with 40 local artists who are members of the Milchhof art group. The live /work space was situated in Mitte, at the heart of the Berlin art scene.
The selected artist produced articles about their experiences for the Artquest website.
<<3 months in Berlin>> was organised in partnership with ACAVA.
2007: Jacqueline Brown
Visual artist Jacqueline Brown was awarded the first <<3 months in Berlin>> residency and lived and worked in the Milchhof studios in Berlin from September to December 2007.
2008: Michelle Deignan
Born in Dublin in 1970, Michelle Deignan‘s video, digital and photographic works have been exhibited in various national and international exhibitions, screenings and festivals including: ‘New Work UK – Trust Yourself’, Whitechapel Gallery, London; ‘Europart – New Contemporary Art from Europe’, Vienna; ‘transmediale.08’, House of Cultures, Berlin; ‘Sunday Screening’, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; ‘Film Programme 1’, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; ‘Black Box Programme’ at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
2009: Samuel Dowd
Artist Samuel Dowd was selected for the 2009 <<3 Months in Berlin>> Residency. Samuel Dowd’s films, sculpture and collage are depictions of artists in the pursuit of the earthly paradise and ideal ways of living. Drawing on archive documents of historical cultural movements, forms, figures and ‘communities’, he constructs fictional spaces in 2 and 3 dimensions that gently unravel the language of ideal environments.
2010: David Raymond Conroy
Artist David Raymond Conroy was awarded the 2010 <<3 Months in Berlin>> residency. Conroy (b. 1978) completed his MA at the Royal College of Art, London in 2007. Recent exhibitions included They Do Things Differently There, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Ueli Alder, David Raymond Conroy, Lilly Mcelroy, Cecile Weibel, Dienstgebäude, Zurich; Late Night Radio, Tate Britain, London and solo shows at Schnittraum//Lutz Becker, Cologne; Atelier Espace Delrue, Nantes and Seventeen, London. Conroy lives and works in London.
2011: David Litter
David Littler was awarded the residency in 2011. Littler is an artist, curator, and DJ currently based in London. He has had a life-long passion for print, textiles and music as vital forms of human expression and communication: examining how they connect us to each other and the wider natural world.
Littler is interested in interdisciplinary practice and the processes of making, particularly in relation to the cyclical and transcendental qualities of repetitive process. His work has often seen him create social spaces bringing to together practitioners from different disciplines to experiment, create and explore connections. Sampler-cultureclash, is an example of a collective which grew from this sensibility: an ongoing practice-led research project exploring the connections between textiles and sound and celebrating the art of sampling as a creative process.