We’re happy to announce our 2026 fellows.
These exceptional artists and collectives from across disciplines have been awarded the DAAD Artists-in Berlin Program fellowship:
Khabat Abas, Music & Sound
Sarmen Almond, Music & Sound
Joanna Arnow, Film
Javier Areal Vélez, Music & Sound
Souhaib Ayoub, Literature
Elif Batuman, Literature
Hemley Boum, Literature
Shasha Chen, Music & Sound
Vanessa Onwuemezi, Literature
Malaury Eloi Paisley, Film
Juanjo Pereira, Film
Carlos Soto Román, Literature
Ciwas Tahos, Visual Arts
The Fire Theory, Visual Arts
Martin Toloku, Visual Arts
Isola Tong, Visual Arts
Wang Tuo, Visual Arts
We warmly thank the independent jurors who curated this impressive selection from a large pool of applications and nominations:
Jury Film
Dieu Hao Do, Oliver Hardt, Birgit Kohler, Boaz Levin, Bianca Oana,
Preselection: Annina Wettstein
Jury Literature
Tobias Haberkorn, Anna Jäger, Daniel Medin, Lara Sielmann, Miryam Schellbach, Uljana Wolf
Preselection: Ricardo Domeneck
Jury Music & Sound
Cédrik Fermont, Yair Klartag, Pedro Oliveira, Patricia Reed, Dayang Yraola
Preselection: Stefanie Alisch, Reece Cox, Janine Eisenächer, Morgan Sully, Brandon Farnsworth
Jury Visual Arts
Sara Sejin Chang, Inti Guerrero, Timea Junghaus, Sam Vernon, X Zhu-Nowell
Nominating Jury Visual Arts:
Celenk Bafra, Patricia Belli, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Sandra Demetrescu, Emma Enderby, Andrei Fernández, Natasha Ginwala, Michelle Hyun, Alona Karavai, Inga Lace, Renan Laru-an, Miguel Lopez, Thomas Köhler, Victor Neumann, Hila Peleg, Marie Helene Pereira, Gahee Park, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Alya Sebti, Ala Younis, WHW