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Eliana Kirkcaldy – International residency fellowship for new literary formats

Boris Loginov – National work fellowship with child composition

Carsten Schneider – International residency fellowship composition

Meral Ziegler – International residency fellowship literature

Mihyun Maria Kim – International residency fellowship visual arts

Eliana Kirkcaldy, Photo: Niko Paijola

Eliana Kirkcaldy

International residency fellowship for new literary formats

Eliana Kirkcaldy studied contemporary dance and cultural studies in Cologne, Hildesheim, Porto, and Berlin. She is a founding member of the literary magazine „Berlin Review“ as well as part of the poetry collective „das ad hoc“. Eliana is currently working on the translation and publication of writings by French author Colette Peignot. At Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg she will pursue a project on the politics of translation. As a fellow in literary curation, Eliana Kirkcaldy will develop three events in Lauenburg and Hamburg in this context.

The fellowship is a collaboration with the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and
The fellowship is a collaboration with the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.

Boris Loginov, Photo: Elza Loginova

Boris Loginov

National work fellowship with child composition

Boris Loginov (*1990, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian composer and performer based in Freiburg, Germany. His work spans instrumental and electroacoustic music, often situated between contemporary concert practice and interdisciplinary performance. His current artistic research explores questions of memory and time, as well as ambivalence through the coexistence of seemingly contradictory ideas. 

Recent activities include a fellowship with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme (2025) and a residency at Dartmouth College within the Harris Programme (USA, 2024). 

Loginov studied composition at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine and at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw as a Gaude Polonia scholarship holder. He is currently continuing his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. His music has been performed at festivals such as Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Gaudeamus Festival, Jauna Muzika, Translationale Berlin, Up To Three Festival, Mixtur Festival and many others. In 2026, Boris Loginov is a participant of the fellowship programme at Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg (work grant with child), where he is developing a new work in dialogue with the historical and spatial context of the site. 

Carsten Schneider, Photo: JM

Carsten Schneider

International residency fellowship composition

Carsten Schneider (*1971 Bad Oldesloe) is a composer and media artist. He works with original sound recordings, montage and rule-based systems: everyday language from the radio is analysed, dissected and recomposed as a polyphonic texture; at the same time, corresponding word collages are created from newspaper clippings. Since 2009, Schneider has been developing numerous original sound compositions in the series “Die Konstruktion des Deutschlandfunks” (The Construction of Deutschlandfunk), which make the musicality of language and the rhetoric of radio audible.

At the Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg, he is working on the piece “… und eines Tages im Deutschlandfunk” (… and one day on Deutschlandfunk): the basis is a recording of a full day’s DLF programme. All passages are reduced to the conjunction “and” and the word immediately preceding and following it. From hundreds of semantically charged micro-phrases (“this and that”, “yesterday and tomorrow”), a 20–40-minute choral speech composition emerges that simultaneously concentrates and disrupts the order and abundance of the medium.

Meral Ziegler, Copyright barracuda film

Meral Ziegler

International residency fellowship literature

Meral Ziegler is an author and curator. Her literary works take the form of books, performances and screenplays. In 2015, her young adult novella “Feier dich!” (Oetinger Publishing Group) was published, followed in 2021 by the collection of texts CON TEXT (Lektora Verlag) – for these publications she received grants and awards, including the City of Konstanz Literature Promotion Prize. 

From 2020 onwards, Ziegler increasingly wrote for and presented media formats, and was part of writers’ rooms for series, podcasts, TV and feature film productions, which appeared on WDR, KiKa and the ARD Mediathek, among others. At the same time, following her Master’s degree in art history, Ziegler began working as a curator for renowned institutions in Germany and the USA. 

During her residency at the Künstler:innenhaus Lauenburg, Meral Ziegler is working on her debut novel “NOKTA”, which is also supported by the residency grant from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation and the literature creation grant from the Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia.

Mihyun Maria Kim, Photo:

Mihyun Maria Kim

International residency fellowship visual arts

As an interdisciplinary artist, Mihyun Maria Kim is committed in rigorous research-creation that unpacks Korean han in relation to other un/translatable affects attached to longing and perpetuated by systems of oppression within dis/placed bodies. Han is an un/translatable Korean affect associated with historical unresolved grief, separated families, and loss of collective identity. Han is an accumulation of intergenerational trauma, which in the North American context has been sustained by suspended assimilation and dislocation/migration. Through relational and interdisciplinary methodology, social aspects of un/translatable affects and their embeddedness in bodies, durations, and gaps between (intergenerational) memory and imagination, are amplified as modes of radical possibilities. Methods of exhausting the body, poetry, sound, performance and installation of inherited and new objects responding to space, are applied by M. Maria Kim in thinking through forms of han.