Open Call: Exercising Modernity Scholarships! - Instytut Pileckiego

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

of the Pilecki Institute Berlin

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals:

• multi-layered relationships between what is modernity understood as a set of practices, forms, ideas and struggles of individuals and societies as well as the foundations of modernism manifested in architecture or urban planning,
• cultural, social, or political specificities of modern transformations i.e. in countries of Eastern Europe,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on Eastern European cities, the surrounding infrastructure and landscape,
• the impact of the legacy of totalitarian regimes on memory, identity and history of the region and how it manifests itself in material realm (architecture, infrastructure, monuments) in Eastern European countries
• imagined, conceptual and physical divisions between ‘East’ and ‘West’ and how they have manifested themselves in common spaces, including architecture or the spatial organisation of cities, towns, suburbs or villages, 
• understanding of the East in the context of the architectural legacy of socialist modernism, and to what extent modernism developed under socialism differs from modernism formed under capitalist system, 
• troublesome/contested/difficult/entangled legacies in Central and Eastern Europe and contemporary commemorative strategies addressing them in various countries of the former “Eastern Bloc”,
• biopolitics and regulation as tools of modernity,
• bright and dark sides of modernity in Central and Eastern Europe,
• transnational networks, migration in the region,
• challenges of modern society: violence and surveillance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Scholarships are granted for projects which: 

1. focus on the issue of modernity,

2. touch upon a selected topical area with reference to the 20th-century history, art and/or culture of Poland and/or Eastern Europe. In addition, it is possible to include in the project research relating to the history and culture of at least one of the two countries crucial to the general objectives of the Exercising Modernity programme, i.e. Germany or Israel,

3. conjoin artistic and research components – regardless of whether the proposed project is artistic, curatorial or other in nature, it is important for it to be rooted in research, in the current state of knowledge, or in the applicant’s own exploration of his/her chosen subject (projects may be based on art as research, practice as research, etc.),

4. are interdisciplinary in nature,

5. harness the modernist tradition to seek points of contact with contemporaneity and modern-day challenges,

6. seek to disclose connections between Poland and other countries of Eastern Europe and if possible also Germany and/or, Israel,

7. propose attractive and convincing forms of presentation of their effects/results (public presentation after the scholarship period is mandatory for all the scholarship holders).

Scholarships are awarded for the process of creation of the concept and its development, which includes in particular intellectual or conceptual work, research and preliminary research, and the gathering of materials. It is not required to complete any final effect/work (e.g. print a book or stage a performance) during the scholarship period.

The scholarship offer is addressed to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

Competition applications may be submitted individually only.

Only a single scholarship project may be submitted under one application (i.e. by one applicant).

Development of the project will be supervised by the curators of the Exercising Modernity program, acting in consultation with the program team of the partner institutions.

When the scholarship comes to an end, selected scholarship projects will have a chance of obtaining additional financing intended for their production (e.g. in the form of an exhibition, a book, an artistic work). Works created by scholarship holders have then a chance of being presented within a framework of events organized by Pilecki Institute Berlin or by the partner institutions of the Pilecki Institute Berlin.

Information about the scholarship:

∙ The scholarship will be awarded in the sum of 750,00 EUR gross per month for a period of 6 months (which may be extended for a further 2 months in justified instances).

∙ Projects are to be executed between April 2023 and September 2023.

∙ At maximum 4 scholarships will be awarded.

∙ Scholarship holders are not obliged to remain in Warsaw or Berlin throughout the scholarship period.

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to attend substantive consultations (at minimum two consultation sessions) with the participation of persons responsible for the scholarship program on the part of the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, duly indicated by the organizers during the scholarship period (dates will be agreed on jointly by all parties).

∙ Scholarship holders are obliged to present the results of their work to a wider audience during an event summarizing the scholarship program, at the latest within 3 months of the end of the scholarship period (the exact date, form of presentation and venue will be determined jointly by individual scholarship holders and the project supervisor during the final month of the scholarship program).

∙ Each scholarship holder may additionally hold 12 hours of consultations with an expert (at maximum 2 persons) indicated by the scholarship holder, the remuneration of whom shall be paid by the Pilecki Institute.

∙ Scholarships will be paid out as monthly installments.

∙ Scholarship holders may apply for a refund (up to 400.00 EUR gross) of costs of travel and/or accommodation arising in connection with preliminary research and/or artistic research necessary for execution of the project 

∙ The method of presentation of results of the scholarship project shall be determined individually with each scholarship holder towards the end of the scholarship period.

Products of the scholarship may include:

∙ artwork/architectural work (in a final version or as a draft/project) made using all available mediums and encompassing all fields of creative practice, in a form which allows its presentation before an audience

∙ a concept of an exhibition, 

∙ a scholarly article or a research report,

∙ a draft of a publication accompanied by summaries of individual sections or chapters,

∙ documentation concerning a social intervention, together with a description of its objectives and a summary.

Applications:

The Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor acting pursuant to the provisions of Article 15 of the Act of 9 November 2017 on the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws, Item 2303 with subsequent amendments) and of §4, Subparagraph 1 of the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, dated 13 December 2018, on scholarships supporting scientific research and educational and cultural projects falling within the scope of activities of the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valor (Journal of Laws of 2019, Item 23), hereby announces a competition for cultural scholarships under the project:

The Exercising Modernity Cultural Scholarship

The subject of the competition are four cultural scholarships, each totaling 750,00 EUR  gross per month, which will be awarded for a period of six months. Execution of the scholarship program has been planned for the period from April 2023 to September 2023. 

The scholarship offer is addressed only to artists, thinkers, and/or scholars of the humanities who took part in the Exercising Modernity Academy organized by the Pilecki Institute in 2022.

The fourth edition of the Exercising Modernity Academy, a Polish-German-Israeli cooperation fostering intellectual and artistic exchange, was devoted to Eastern Europe and its historical and contemporary methods of understanding. We reflected on the concepts of East and West, had a closer look at the incoherencies between political, geographical, and cultural borders of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. We also examined the issue of the role of culture and architecture in shaping or modeling the societies, cities, states and identity in this region of the world. 

Our ambition was to create a field for reflection on the common experience of the 20th century’s modernization movements of the states and peoples of Eastern Europe from the ideological foundations of modernity and its implementation also in field of art and architecture, through the difficult experience of totalitarianism and its legacy, to contemporary narratives and self-reflections about the East and West.

Finally, we sketched a broader and comprehensive perspective on what Eastern Europe is and how we can better understand the events, changes and processes that have shaped the world in recent times.  

Based on the core topics presented during the Academy Exercising Modernity 2022 we consider the following specific subtopics to be of particular interest for the scholarship proposals: