Fellowship holders 2023

The sound and media artist Anja Erdmann (*1976) works multimedia with sound and light. Architectural and site-specific conditions are of interest to her for the design of her installations (made of sound sequences, light, shadows and moving objects). The composition scholarship holder will present her project MO LE FA SOL, which she will continue to work on during her residency scholarship, and present further acoustic impressions from her artistic practice. Anja Erdmann lives and works in Weimar, where she completed her master’s degree in 2014, specialising in sound art and electroacoustic sound design, at the Bauhaus University there.

Erec Schumacher (*1967 in Mölln), resident scholar for literature, works at the interface of poetry and visual art. His versatility is evident in the fields of visual poetry and image-text collages, but also in the areas of short prose and narrative. The author would like to take advantage of his stay at the Künstlerhaus to write prose essays on the history, places and landscapes of the Duchy of Lauenburg, based on childhood memories and his family history. Erec Schumacher lives in Berlin and has been active in the Berlin art and literature scene since 2012 as a co-founder and board member of various networks. He is co-organiser of reading series, events and much more, editor and author of anthologies, poetry videos, poetry volumes and chapbooks.

During his stay in Lauenburg, Johannes Weilandt (*1991) develops serial drawings in which he deals with the connection between physical illnesses and social living conditions and at the same time illuminates the medical-historical and institutional view of the human body. For this purpose, the resident scholarship holder for visual arts is currently researching in the Medical History Museum of the UKE, in the Medical and Pharmaceutical History Collection of the University of Kiel, as well as in the city archives of Lauenburg. He focuses on sources that represent local-specific living conditions in the Elbe region, which was characterised by trade and industrial work. Johannes Weilandt completed his liberal arts studies at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin in 2022, where he also lives.

The Chinese composer Lin Yang (1982 in Beijing) was selected for the working scholarship for artists with children. In her presentation, she takes the audience into the secret world of the unborn child. For example, she explores prenatal memories and the foetus’ perception of movement and sound. Her musical language is introspective and reserved, leaving room for her own interpretations. Lin Yang studied in Beijing, Freiburg and Cologne, where she also graduated. She has been living in Berlin as a freelance composer since 2014.