In cooperation with the E.ON Foundation’s VISIT artist-in-residence programme and the E-WERK Luckenwalde, the JUNGE AKADEMIE awards up to four fellowships annually to emerging international artists from all disciplines on the theme of “Human Machine”. The focus is on art projects at the interface of ecology and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence.

The programme was founded in 2020 and will be extended for another three years in 2026, expanding to include new formats and partners in Europe.

In 2026, Warsaw's Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art will join as the fourth partner. Programmes and exchange formats in Warsaw are in the planning stage.

On an exhibition platform, a person sits on a white bicycle surrounded by white cloud-like formations — Natasha Tontey, *Of Other Tomorrows Never Known*, 2023, Making of

The programme supports artists who enable new ways of thinking, narratives and approaches to the world in the context of the theme, questioning dualisms such as the “artificial” and the “natural”, and exploring urgent aspects of today’s societies and the planet.

The fellowships are endowed with 20,000 euros, including project funds for travel and art production. Studios are available to fellows at the E-WERK Luckenwalde and the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg.

The fellowships for 2026 go to artists Sepideh Behrouzian, Phumulani Ntuli, Edgar Fabián Frías and Flora Weil. Their project ideas were selected from over 400 submissions.

The jury consisted of Nolan Oswald Dennis, artist and researcher; Chus Martinez, director of the Institute Art Gender Nature, associate curator of TBA21; Anh-Linh Ngo, architectural publicist, curator, editor-in-chief and vice-president of the Akademie der Künste; Kirsten Reese, composer and member of the Akademie der Künste; Tiara Roxanne, scientist and researcher; and Sarah Johanna Theurer, curator, Haus der Kunst, Munich.

More information about the programme and application process can be found here.