In 2023, the artist in residence program SCHIESSLHAUS AiR takes place for the second time. The Bavarian Forest is a place for artistic inspiration, interaction and intervention.
Project
The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR is an artists’ residence founded in 2022 with a publicly funded Artist-in-Residence program – it is a studio house for professional artists and at the same time a cultural venue in the historic monument "Schießl-Haus" in Kollnburg, Bavarian Forest. The AiR project consists of an international Artist-in-Residence Program and a Public Education and Participation Program with exhibitions, lecture series, networking meetings, workshops and open studios. The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR program promotes contemporary art, cultural education and participation, and it encourages intercultural encounters.
In 2022, the artists’ residence dedicated itself to the thematic focus “lives and works in ...”. This phrase, often used in artists’ biographies, has been discussed and related to current socially relevant topics. In 2023, the AiR project will focus on the subject of “COUNTRYSIDE – CITY” (STADT – LAND). The transformation of urban and rural areas is currently much discussed. The two concepts bear immanent and actual contrasts and relationships, dependencies and autonomies, which are to be questioned and re-perspectivized within the framework of the AiR project, especially in relation to art and culture.
The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR is a publicly funded Artist-in-Residence project of the Municipality of Kollnburg under the project management and artistic direction of Anna-Helena Klumpen and Katrin Savvulidi. The project is carried out in cooperation with the S6 – Werkstätten für Architektur, Kunst und Kultur.
Vision
Promotion of Contemporary Art
RESEARCH
PRODUCTION
PRESENTATION
EDUCATION
DISCOURSE
The Artist-in-Residence program seeks to create spaces for artistic-creative thinking, acting and researching. It focuses on the core areas: research, production, presentation, education and discourse. The residence creates the framework for independent artistic research and production, and it creates space for creative experimentation and public discourse. The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR program offers a high-profile presentation and education platform, and it encourages sustainable long-term networks.
TIME
SPACE
PROCESS
ENCOUNTER
The residency program is process-oriented: it focuses on time, space and encounter. SCHIESSLHAUS AiR seeks to inspire open-ended interdisciplinary dynamics, exchange and dialogue, participation and reflection.
Creation of Encounters, Collaborations and Networks
The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR sees itself as a COMMON SPACE – a place of encounter and dialogue, participation and reflection, where international artists and local communities come together within an open and non-discriminatory space; where new forms of collaboration and mutual learning processes are enabled and encouraged. The project is an attempt to think beyond the concepts of public and private space, and to reinvent shared living and working spaces based on collabo- ration and networking. This is what the neologism COMMONING expresses: It’s the actions and processes underlying the project.
Central to the AiR program are intercultural dialogue, site-specific approaches and the development of new concepts, in dialogue between the resident artists and their environment – that is, the local people and the local circumstances. The objective is to create long-term networks and relationships, between urban and rural spaces.
The individual artistic practices and positions of the resident artists, the international and interdisciplinary dynamics during each residency period, the cooperation with the project partners and the collaboration with the local population make each “commoned” event of the Artist-in-Residence Program unique, different and special. The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR is a common space where experiences are gained, knowledge and resources are shared, contacts are established and networks are built – during the residency and beyond.
“The accessibility of the studios, the artistic-educational program and the cooperation with local cultural actors lead to an intensive dialogical exchange between the local environment and the resident artists. The exchange is multidimensional and includes a program that works on all levels of the artistic creative process. With the basic principles of dialogue and participation, the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR takes up the state of the art of current residency research and develops it further in a regional context.”
Dr. Johannes Crückeberg, Leibniz University of Hanover
“With its interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange of knowledge, the residency program contributes significantly to the promotion of solidarity and tolerance and thus to the development of an open society. Through the strategy of dialogue and exchange, a network-based structure is created from which both the participants in the program and the local art and cultural scene can benefit in multiple ways.”
Hubert Huber, Artist, BBK Niederbayern
Artists' Residence
FACILITIES
The modern and functional furnishings of the artists’ residence create optimal living and working conditions.
The common areas are located on the first floor: a cozy living room with a wood-burning stove, a fully equipped kitchen with a seating area, a storage and utility room, and two sanitary rooms (bathroom and toilet). The upper floor is divided into three spacious individual bedrooms and private rooms, including a room with its own sink and separate parlor.
The light-flooded, communal working studio is located on the upper floor. The studio consists of an approx. 22 square meter workroom with two large windows, a double door leading to the outside, and an inside sink. Moreover, in all private rooms there is a lot of space for individual work.
The spacious attic functions as an archive and office of the artistic directors. The garden and balcony face southeast and combine the outdoor areas of the house.
The resident artists can freely design and use the rooms of the residence during their residency, in mutual agreement with the other residents. The purpose of the rooms is to be understood as a flexible and changeable concept that offers different possibilities and formats, especially with regard to the exhibition and display of artistic projects. In addition to the indoor area, the outdoor area of the house can also be used for exhibitions and events.
EQUIPMENT
There is wireless internet (WLAN) throughout the house. Towels and bed linen are provided, as well as cleaning of the common rooms after public events. The artists are responsible for their own working materials. A beamer, printer and basic tools are available for common use. Washing machine and dryer are available.
“The residency program of the artists’ residence SCHIESSLHAUS AiR does not only provides studio, living and exhibition spaces, it also rewards artistic work and is thus contributing to the optimization of the working conditions for research, conception and realization of art projects. Spaces that can be used for brainstorming, experimentation, elaboration, development and presentation of artistic projects are of great value for resident artists and the local community. The “Schießl-Haus”, a historic monument in the center of the village Kollnburg, virtually is predestined for artistic and cultural use.”
Hubert Huber, Artist, BBK Niederbayern
“The historic monument “Schießl-Haus” in Kollnburg lies between Munich and Prague and it is ideally suited as a space for creative experimentation. As one of the last historic craftsmen’s houses in the Bavarian Forest, it combines past and future.”
Peter Haimerl, Architect
LOCATION
Kollnburg – A Castle Village in the Bavarian Forest
Kollnburg is a state-approved health resort in the middle of the Bavarian Forest National Park, idyllically situated on a ridge between the climatic health resort Viechtach and the winter sports center St. Englmar on the historic “Baierweg”. The “Schießl-Haus”, which has been awarded two monument prizes, is one of the sights of the village. It stands in a prominent position in the middle of the village center, directly opposite the town hall and below the castle ruins – the landmark of Kollnburg.
Kollnburg is located in the vacation region “Viechtacher Land” in the middle of the Bavarian Forest National Park, north of the 1050m high “Pröller”, between Viechtach (5 km) and Sankt Englmar (6 km). Bogen and Regen are both 27 km away, while Deggendorf and Cham are both 31 km away.
“Precisely because the Bavarian Forest is not artistically dominated and preformed, every new creation can become visible there - every research project and every cooperation is followed closely. Precisely because you can discuss socially relevant topics against an unbiased background, you see the bridges that can be built between ideas and people of diverse backgrounds.”
Peter Haimerl, Architect
“The project to establish a cultural meeting place in the beautiful landscape of the Bavarian Forest is a very important step to decentralize cultural production and to promote it outside the big Bavarian cities. The most intense and memorable artist-in-residence programs I have participated in have been precisely those in rather smaller towns. In such an environment, it's easier for the artists to orient themselves and find their working rhythm, which also results in a stronger connection with local actors.”
Diogo da Cruz, Artist, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
HISTORY
The so-called “Schießl-Haus” is a historic craftsman’s house ("Waldlerhaus") in Kollnburg. The 250-year-old listed building is one of the sights of the castle village – following professional restoration with the greatest possible authenticity in mind. The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR project has received numerous awards for the restoration and revitalization of the historic “Schießl-Haus” and the use of the monument as an international artists’ residence with a public cultural program: in 2019, it was awarded with the Monument Award of the District of Lower Bavaria, in 2020 with the Bavarian Monument Protection Medal, and in 2023, with the State Award for Village Renewal and Building Culture of the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry.
As a ground-floor property, the Schießl-Haus was built around the year 1766 on a small hill. Only the rear part of the building, which was integrated into the slope, and the space around the "Ruaßkuchl" (fireplace/chimney) were built of brick; the parlor, chamber and knee storey were built entirely of logs. After 1803, the wooden construction was replaced by exterior walls and interior walls made of quarry stone, and a little later an upper floor was added in block construction. The parlor did not receive its brick lining until the 1960s.
A liquidation protocol, which was made in 1838 for the determination of the land tax in the royal rent office in Viechtach, mentions the former owner of the house, the weaver Georg Schießl, as well as his status and property. The protocol lists a "1/16 Maurergütl" (small estate) consisting of a dwelling house, stable, barn, oven and yard space. In addition, there are two small "Wurzgärtl" (gardens) in the immediate vicinity and a small field outside the village.
Until Therese Schießl's death in 2010, the property was owned by the family for 200 years; hence the name "Schießl-Haus". The house stood empty and was finally to be demolished, but in 2011, the artist and painter Thomas Niggl bought the neglected building and, together with the Regensburg architect Günter Naumann, he developed a new concept for its use: a studio house for artists.
At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, Niggl had already purchased the late Gothic poorhouse in Cham, which was also threatened with demolition, and together with the architect Naumann, he had extensively restored it under preservation orders. Since 1991, the SPUR Museum, operated by the district and the city of Cham, has been located there, and despite its modest size, it is impossible to imagine Bavaria's museum landscape without it.
Finally, in 2018, Niggl also entrusted the “Schießl-Haus” to the care of Naumann, who turned it into a historically valuable monument in the center of Kollnburg. After professional restoration, the former craftsman's house creates a symbiosis of old and new, in which the historical substance has been preserved as much as possible and a modern ambience has been created.
The project was accompanied by the artist collective NEW11. Together with Aylin Neuhofer, Katrin Savvulidi paved the way for the founding of the artists’ residence in the Bavarian Forest. The two artists have inhabited the Schießl-Haus before and after its renovation and have realized a remarkable series of artistic works about the architectural monument, partly in cooperation with Thomas Niggl. As part of the Landshut Art Night, the collective NEW11 addressed the history of the Schießl-Haus and its last inhabitant Therese Schießl with the exhibition "NEXT LEVEL LOVE". In addition to numerous newspaper articles on the project, in 2018 the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast the documentary "Bitches & Elfen: Neue Frauen hat das Land" by Julia Benkert.
Since 2018, Katrin Savvulidi and Anna-Helena Klumpen have been working together on the conception and realization of the Artist-in-Residence project. Under their direction and the leadership of the Municipality of Kollnburg, publicly funded Artist-in-Residence programs have been held at the Schiesslhaus AiR since 2022.
Team
ARTISTIC DIRECTION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Anna-Helena Klumpen, curator and cultural manager, and Katrin Savvulidi, visual artist, are responsible for the artistic direction and the project management of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR. Since 2018, Savvulidi and Klumpen have been working together on the conception and realization of the Artist-in-Residence project. In doing so, they represent two fields of expertise – artistic practice and theoretical conception, which inspire and complement each other. They bring both an artistic and a humanities background and are familiar with the conditions of the city as well as those of the rural regions.
KATRIN SAVVULIDI
Artistic director
Curator and cultural manager
Graduate artist, Diplom and M.A.
Katrin Savvulidi graduated from the AdbK Munich in 2018 as a master student of Prof. Jorinde Voigt. During her studies, she founded and worked in several artist collectives [RHIZOM, NEW11, GNOTHI SEAUTON, in which interdisciplinary processes are an important part of the collaboration. In 2022 she had a teaching position at the Bauhaus University Weimar for the Bachelor and Master programmes Media Culture and Media Art/Media Design. Katrin is also active in the field of participatory media education and has conducted several workshops with children and young people. As coordinator and artistic director, together with the Ö-team of FÄRBEREI & KÖŞK, she organises the Ö-Werkstätten of the cooperative project MaximiliansForum+Ö (the art space of the city of Munich) as well as in "dieFärberei".
ANNA-HELENA KLUMPEN
Artistic director
Curator and cultural manager
Art, media and cultural scientist, Research M.A.
Anna-Helena Klumpen works at the S6 – Werkstätten für Architektur, Kunst und Kultur in Munich. Moreover, she is lecturing at the Faculty of Art and Design of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Anna studied “European Media Culture / Culture des Médias Européens” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Université Lumière Lyon II, then completed an international research master in “Cultural Analysis” at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and was a scholarship holder at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Anna has been active in the German and European art and culture scene for over ten years and has curated major exhibitions, symposia and art festivals.
ADMINISTRATION
Municipality of Kollnburg
HERBERT PREUß
1st Mayor of the Municipality of Kollnburg
PHILIPP GMACH
Secretary of administration of the Municipality Kollnburg
PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
ANNA-HELENA KLUMPEN and KATRIN SAVVULIDI
Artistic Direction of SCHIESSLHAUS AiR,
in cooperation with BETTINA GRAßL
Tourist-Info, Municipality of Kollnburg
Jury
On the awarding of the residency grants decides a jury consisting of the artistic directors of SCHIESSLHAUS AiR, Anna-Helena Klumpen and Katrin Savvulidi, the First Mayor of the Municipality of Kollnburg, Herbert Preuß, another member of the Municipal Council and 2-3 members of the independent Board of Advisors.
A special feature of the selection process and the awarding of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR grants is the involvement of the applying artists through a separate nomination process. The nomination procedure is carried out up to a number of 100 applications.
Board of Advisors
SCHIESSLHAUS AiR has a broad network of competent and experienced advisors at its disposal. The independent advisory board is composed of representatives from various disciplines. For each residency period, up to three members of the advisory board are appointed to the jury and included in the awarding of the residency grants.
Aida Bakhtiari
Media artist and media eductaor
Diogo da Cruz
Artist and artistic assistant
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
Dipl.-Ing. Peter Haimerl
Architect and Urban planner
Peter Haimerl Architektur
Dipl.-Ing. David Hammer
Architect
dreigegeneinen – Architecture, Urban Strategies, Design
Gina Penzkofer
Artistic director and dramaturg
Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele
Nicola Alice Hens
Filmmaker and Artistic Assistant
Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
Klaus Geigle
Painter and lecturer
Münster School of Architecture
Dr. Miriam Meissner
Assistant Professor in Urban Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University
Dr. Selima Niggl
Art historian
Dr. Nina Röder
Photography artist and professor for photography and new media
University of Europe for Applied Sciences Hamburg
Tim Spreng
Author, film director and producer
Pantheon Pictures
Britta Wahlers
Media artist and art educator
Olli Zilk
Cultural manager
Sponsors and partners 2024
Kunst und Demokratie im Bayerischen Wald is a collaborative Artist in Residence project of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR with the Municipality of Kollnburg, the District of Regen and the Bild-Werk Frauenau.
The project Kunst und Demokratie im Bayerischen Wald is part of the funding program Aller.Land – zusammen gestalten. Strukturen stärken. The program is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, BKM), the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, BMEL) as well as the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, bpb). Program partner is the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (Bundesministerium des Inneren und für Heimat, BMI). Aller.Land i spart of the Federal Program for Rural Development and Regional Value Creation (Bundesprogramms Ländliche Entwicklung und Regionale Wertschöpfung, BULE plus).
The BYCZ AiR: Czech-Bavarian Artist in Residence Program 2024 is a cooperation project with Plzeň 2015 and part of the program INTERREG Bayern – Česko 2021-2027, co-funded by the European Union.
The artistic workshop with Peter Herr (Phantasiewerkstatt Bogen) held at the Grundschule Kollnburg is part of the program “Künstler in der Grundschule” of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and the Arts. It is funded by the Government of Lower Bavaria and the Municipality of Kollnburg.
The media art project Digitale Freiräume with the art classes of the Dominicus-von-Linprun Gymnasium Viechtach is a cooperation project with PIXEL – Medien, Kultur und Partizipation, Munich, on behalf of the JFF – Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis. The project is supported by the Förderverein des DvLG Viechtach.
Sponsors and partners 2023
The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR project 2023 of the Municipality of Kollnburg is funded by the Kulturfonds Bayern of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the Kulturstiftung of the District of Lower Bavaria, the Landkreis Regen and the City of Viechtach. The cooperation with the Habibi Kiosk of the Münchner Kammerspiele and the S6 – Werkstätten für Architektur, Kunst und Kultur continues in 2023.
The AiR project with Ukrainian artists is part of the program "Ukraine Support Program - Matching Portal". The Matching Portal is a project of the Goethe-Institut and the German Federal Foreign Office in cooperation with Artists at Risk (AR) to sustainably strengthen the resilience of cultural and educational partners in Ukraine.
The artistic workshop with Peter Herr (Phantasiewerkstatt Bogen) held at the Kollnburg elementary school has been part of the program “Künstler in der Grundschule” of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and the Arts. It has been funded by the Government of Lower Bavaria and the Municipality of Kollnburg. The art educational workshop by Gülbin Ünlü with the art classes of Britta Wahlers (Dominicus-von-Linprun Gymnasium Viechtach) has been funded by the Stiftung van de Loo, Munich.
Other partners of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR are the BBK Niederbayern and BBK Bayern, Res Artis - Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies and the Altes Spital in Viechtach.
Sponsors and partners 2022
In 2022, the Artist-in-Residence project SCHIESSLHAUS AiR has been funded by the Kulturfonds Bayern of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the Kulturstiftung of the District of Lower Bavaria and the District of Regen. Furthermore, it has been supported by the Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung and the Stiftung van de Loo.
The 3rd residency of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR has been realized in cooperation with the Habibi Kiosk of the Münchner Kammerspiele. The annual exhibition of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR has been supported by the Verein für Heimat- und Kulturpflege Viechtach.
The SCHIESSLHAUS AiR: CZECH-BAVARIAN ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM 2022 was a cooperation project with Plzeň 2015 (DEPO2015). It has been funded by EUREGIO “Bayerischer Wald – Böhmerwald – Unterer Inn” in the scope of the program “Freistaat Bayern – Tschechische Republik Ziel ETZ 2014-2020” of the European Union. Sponsors of the Czech-Bavarian AiR Program were the Sparkasse Regen-Viechtach and the VR GenoBank DonauWald eG..
The art project WOODEN PHANTASY CREATURES at the elementary school of Kollnburg has been part of the program “Künstler in der Grundschule” of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, Science and the Arts. It has been supported by the Government of Lower Bavaria and the Municipality of Kollnburg.The art educational workshop ENTWEDER/ODER with the art classes of the Dominicus-von-Linprun Gymnasium Viechtach was sponsored by the Stiftung van de Loo, Munich.
Other partners of the SCHIESSLHAUS AiR are the BBK Niederbayern and BBK Bayern, Res Artis - Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies, the Altes Spital and the Adventure Camp Schnitzmühle in Viechtach.
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