When promoting literature, music and the visual arts, the Krupp Foundation focuses on long-term projects, such as the promotion of young artists as part of the “Catalogues for Young Artists” and “Contemporary German Photography” programmes. The “Museum Curators for Photography” scholarship programme supports the field of photography in a museum setting.
Flagship projects such as the financing of the new Museum Folkwang building also fall within this area of support. The foundation also focuses on projects in the field of music and the promotion of artists and exhibitions in renowned institutions.
The exhibition and catalogue award will be offered in spring 2025.
The Krupp Foundation set up the “Catalogues for Young Artists” programme (Kataloge für junge Künstler*innen) in 1982. With this programme, the Foundation aims to enable promising young artists to have their own catalogue. At the same time, exhibition organisers are to be encouraged to develop new and innovative exhibition concepts.
Every two years, three catalogues and the corresponding exhibitions are funded. The next call for applications will take place in spring 2025.
Applications for the scholarship programme are made exclusively via the digital application portal of the Krupp Foundation.
The scholarship programme is expected to be offered again in summer 2026.
The Krupp Foundation has been awarding scholarships for contemporary German photography (Zeitgenössische deutsche Fotografie) in co-operation with the Photographic Collection at the Folkwang Museum since 1982. The funding is aimed at photographers (without age limit) who would like to develop a photographic project over a longer period of time independently of a commissioned work. The call for applications is neither restricted thematically nor assigned to a specific area of photographic practice.
With this open funding programme, the Foundation aims to promote a contemporary artistic exploration of photographic perspectives and modes of representation. The Photographic Collection at the Folkwang Museum is in charge of this funding programme.
Applications for the scholarship programme are made exclusively via the digital application portal of the Krupp Foundation.
The scholarship programme is expected to be offered again in autumn 2026.
The Krupp Foundation launched the scholarship programme “Museum Curators for Photography” (Museumskurator*innen für Fotografie) in 1999. Every two years, three scholarship recipients receive two years of museum-specific training as well as the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the museum and scientific environment of the field of photography.
With this programme, the Krupp Foundation aims to sustainably support young curators in the field of photography and provide new impetus to the training of museum curators.
Applications for the scholarship programme are made exclusively via the digital application portal of the Krupp Foundation.
The programme „Thomas Mann Fellowships“ was open for applications until 13 February 2025.
Pacific Palisades, near Los Angeles, is famous as the spiritual and intellectual centre of German exile in the USA. Among many others, Thomas Mann and his family found a new home here for many years. Their former home was acquired by the Federal Foreign Office for the Federal Republic of Germany in November 2016 in order to preserve it in memory of the time of exile from Germany and to develop it into a meeting place for transatlantic discourse. At the heart of the institution’s programme are the “Thomas Mann Fellowships”, whose participants – renowned academics, intellectuals and artists – are to initiate debates regarding fundamental topics of the present and the future on both sides of the Atlantic during their stays at this historic location. The residency programme is funded by the German government, the Krupp Foundation and other foundations.
The foundation is also active in the field of music.
Music appeals to everyone’s emotions and can evoke memories. For several years now, the foundation has been supporting the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra’s concert series for people witz dementia, which is aimed at people regardless of their previous musical experience and the severity of their illness.
In 2006, the Foundation decided to make the new building of the Museum Folkwang possible for the city of Essen as its sole funding institution. The architect of the museum is David Chipperfield. The new building of the Folkwang Museum was opened in January 2010. From 2015 until 2021 the Foundation has provided free admission to the permanent collection of the Folkwang Museum.
Brave not perfect, “Bude inklusiv”, “Kleiner Bahnhof”, Requiem for a Car, “Experiment Glück”, “Uni trifft Gesellschaft”, Kick it like friends…. These are seven of the “150 projects for the Ruhr region” – a unique funding programme of the Krupp Foundation.
To express its solidarity with the city of Essen, the Ruhr region and its population, the Foundation launched the “150 projects for the Ruhr region” funding programme, endowed with EUR 1.5 million, to mark the 150th anniversary of Villa Hügel in 2023. The goal: To strengthen the Ruhr region and to support the diversity of topics within the region.
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The scholarship Programm “Museumskurator*innen für Fotografie” (“Museum Curators for Photography”) launched by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in 1999 is entering its next round: In May, this …
