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Graduate School - Graduiertenschule / UdK Berlin

Two-year graduate scholarship programme at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with a focus on interdisciplinary exchange.

Part of BAS: Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences. The Graduate School is a program for highly qualified graduates of all artistic and scientific majors, who regard the exchange with other disciplines as the basis of their work. The school supports projects which are rooted in one discipline but unfold their specific qualities through the dialogue with others. Since 2011, the postgraduate, trans-disciplinary and international program of the Graduate School is funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. The Graduate School is part of Postgraduate Forum, Berlin University of the Arts Berlin.

27/07/2026

The Graduates Fellowship Programme is currently in hold. It is still uncertain wether and when it will be resumed.

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04/02/2026

Our alumna Tekla Aslanishvili is part of the Georgian Filmfestival at ACUD curated by Lily Fürstenow.
26.02. – 04.03.2026

https://www.e-mergingartists.art/exhibition/georgian-film-retrospective-26-2-26-kino-acud-berlin/

28/01/2026

Research Ecologies 2026

encounters. disruptions. common grounds.

Call for Participation

for artistic and scientific doctoral candidates and researchers in the third cycle

Are you in the middle of a messy middle of your research project? Are you looking for a space where your research process can breathe and your methodological approaches can be constructively questioned?

Following the inspiring and productive encounters of 2025, the Research Ecologies will continue in 2026 with the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Science (BAS) at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). We understand the colloquium series as a curated ecology of togetherness – as a shared space where scientific and artistic researchers meet to exchange ideas at the intersections and irritations of their work, investigating in the process of creation.

Research rarely proceeds in a straight line. That is why this year we would like to pay special tribute to detours and unresolved issues. We are looking for artistically and scientifically open approaches in doctoral theses and projects that are currently in the making – perhaps thinking in many directions, still undecided or in productive chaos.

We invite you not to present something ‘finished,’ but to bring open questions and experimental formats, to listen actively, to think along with us, and to learn together. Through curated peer-to-peer exchange, we want to promote collective knowledge sharing and strengthen you in your individual research practices.

Apply by 22 February 2026

Research Ecologies 2026 will take place on several dates during the summer and winter semesters of 2026/27 at BAS on Einsteinufer.

5 May 2026, 5-7pm

9 June 2026, 5-7pm

2 July 2026, 10am – 5/6pm (summer intensive)

29 September 2026, 5-7pm

In order to foster the most rewarding encounters possible, the 2026 series will once again be curated by our team.

Further information: https://www.udk-berlin.de/en/research/bas/news/translate-to-english-research-ecologies-call-2026/

21/01/2026

Two group portraits taken at the end of our Graduate School Round Table event, Manaova toy ny dian-tana, jerena ny aloha, todihina ny afara, a Malagasy proverb that means, "Like a chameleon: one eye on the past, one eye in the future." How special it was to be able to bring together so many alumni from the last 15 years of the Graduate School fellowship programme.

Photo 1-2, from left to right: Lena Maria Loose, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Nik Haffner, Adnan Softić, Jenny Fuhr, Lisa Glauer, Julia Lazarus, Catherine Rose Evans, Jeremiah Day, Eva Könnemann, Genoël von Lilienstern, Stefan Hayn. Not pictured: Judith Raum, Alex Martinis Roe, Joud Al-Tamimi.

Photo 3: Graduate School dream-team reunion ✨

Thank you to Künstlerhaus Bethanien for hosting us in the library 📚

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21/01/2026

Our FLOW STATES exhibition ended with a special event. Borrowing its title from the Malagasy proverb, Manaova toy ny dian-tana, jerena ny aloha, todihina ny afara, meaning, "like a chameleon: one eye on the past, one eye in the future," the event brought together alumni of the Graduate School to look back at the last 15 years of the fellowship programme, while imagining together what a future programme might look like.

Hosted by Jenny Fuhr and Nik Haffner, with alumni: Joud Al-Tamimi, Jeremiah Day, Lisa Glauer, Stefan Hayn, Julia Lazarus, Judith Raum, Alex Martinis Roe, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Adnan Softić and Genoël von Lilienstern, with a tribute to Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa.

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20/01/2026

Congratulations to our 2025 cohort of fellows, photographed here during their final exhibition FLOW STATES at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.

From left to right: Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Sybille Neumeyer, João Enxuto, Joud Al-Tamimi, Tekla Aslanishvili and Julia Lazarus (not pictured: Erica Love)

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20/01/2026

Looking back at 2025 👀

We ended 2025 with FLOW STATES, our final Graduale exhibition and event programme held at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. With works by: Tekla Aslanishvili & Nikoloz Tabukashvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer and Anani Dodji Sanouvi.

Accompanying the exhibition was a catalogue text by Hanno Hauenstein, designed by Camilo Baquero Burgos 🙌

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05/10/2025

Today is your last day to visit FLOW STATES!

Featuring works by Tekla Aslanishvili & Nikoloz Tabukashvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi and a catalogue text by Hanno Hauenstein, designed by Camilo Baquero Burgos 🙌

These photos are from opening night, featuring a performance by Anani Dodji Sanouvi: E’TOME – Counter-colonial curves from Éwé epistemology.

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05/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening night of FLOW STATES ✨

Congratulations to the artists: Tekla Aslanishvili, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Joud Al-Tamimi, Julia Lazarus, Sybille Neumeyer, Anani Dodji Sanouvi.

And a special thank you to Antje Weitzel and her team at Küstlerhaus Bethanien: Dennis Metaxas, Maxmillian Rauschenbach and Sebastiaan Verhees for making the show possible.

The exhibition is on view until Sunday 5.10.2025.

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03/10/2025

Graduale 25: FLOW STATES

Liquid commons, or who manages our water? 💧

Join us for a workshop on the regional water politics in Brandenburg with activists of "Tesla den Hahn abdrehen" and artist and filmmaker Julia Lazarus:

🗓️ 3 October 2025
⏰ 5 - 7 pm
📍 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin
Language: German with English whisper translation

The exhibition continues until 05.10.2025.

image: © Julia Lazarus

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