Chewing gum or cigarette vending machines are well known, but poetry vending machines are less so. Matthias Göritz, who was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship in 2013/14, is curating the contents of such a Poetry Automat, together with the poet and translator Volha Hapeyeva!
The principle is...
Chewing gum or cigarette vending machines are well known, but poetry vending machines are less so. Matthias Göritz, who was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship in 2013/14, is curating the contents of such a Poetry Automat, together with the poet and translator Volha Hapeyeva!
The principle is...
In 2025/26, Beate Passow was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship by the Free State of Bavaria: villa-concordia./artist.
Tapestries by the Munich-based artist will be on display in the Villa Concordia exhibition space from May 12 to June 14, 2026.
You are cordially invited to the exhibition...
The new host country, from which around half of the new fellowship holders will come, is the CZECH REPUBLIC! They will work from Bamberg for 5 or 11 months starting in April 2026.
This had previously been proposed by our Board of Curators to the Bavarian Minister of Culture. The names of our new...
Najem Wali was awarded the Villa Concordia Fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria in 2018/19: villa-concordia.de/artist. His new book, Ein Ort namens Kumait (A Place Called Kumait), a love story set in Iraq before the American invasion, will be published in February 2026:
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