CURRENT
2026/2027
Each year, up to 5 graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich are given the opportunity to work for one year at the PS61 Studios at Prinzregentenstrasse 61. The scholarship takes place from April to March in the year of graduation from the Academy.
Applications are not accepted. The stipend is by invitation only.
ANASTASIIA BATISHCHEVA
Anastasiia Batishcheva graduated in 2026 with honours as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Armin Linke and Lea Vajda and was awarded the Debutant*innenförderung prize.
Anastasiia Batishcheva's academic background originates in classical painting education in Ukraine, which later expanded into lens-based practice during her studies in Germany. This shift enabled her to develop a critical distance to reflect on the ideological legacies of Eastern European cultural heritage, as well as the broader apparatus of image-production within global visual economies.
In her artistic practice, she investigates cultural policy and its monumental embodiments in architecture and fine arts.
The BERG
The BERG (*1998, Istanbul) is a Munich based artist working conceptually with the fields of installation, text and performance. He studied in the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich with various professors such as Olaf Metzel, Julius von Bismarch and has done his diploma with the Peter Kogler Klasse as a Meisterschüler. He completed his studies with the Debütant*innen Preis 2026.
The BERG's work is grounded in conceptual rigour, often engaging directly with the architecture
and conditions of the spaces he inhabits. His installations and interventions are not merely placed in a gallery, they interrogate it, transforming the environment into a site of reflection and provocation. The works situate themselves around the artist’s image, space, procedure and the public itself. The BERG takes each work as an analytic research to form various series to reassure himself in the process of examining the most crucial dimension of his practise: The artist and the public.
ANJA LEKAVSKI
Anja Lekavski (*1991, former Yugoslavia) completed her degree in the ‘Emergent Digital Media’ class under Prof. Hito Steyerl and Prof. Francis Hunger at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2026 with a film installation.
She had previously studied design at Munich University of Applied Sciences (BA). Alongside her artistic work, she is responsible for the visual direction of the Blitz Club Munich and the Lothringer 13 Halle. Under the DJ alias Sarmabot, she is active in the electronic music scene and her radio show Zone FM airs monthly on Radio 80000.
MARIA MARGOLINA
Maria Margolina (*1998, Dnipro) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as well as at erg (École de recherche graphique) in Brussels, where she studied under, among others, Hito Steyerl, Jan St. Werner, and Florian Hecker. She completed her diploma in 2026 as a master-class student in Fine Arts under Olaf Nicolai. From 2022 to 2026, she was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and received the main prize of Kunstclub 13 as well as the Ida and Leonhard Wolf Memorial Prize.
Her work unfolds within the tension between history and time, which she interweaves with questions of technology and (belief) systems. Sound forms the foundation of her concept-based media art practice as its central medium. She often combines it with video, text, objects, and photography to create cohesive installations. In parallel, she maintains a musical practice that exists either independently or in direct dialogue with her artistic work.
CAMILLA METELKA
Camilla Metelka (*1994 Berlin) studied Fine Art with Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba at the University of the Arts Bremen from 2021 to 2023, where she received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, studying with Prof. Florian Pumhösl from 2023 and with Prof. Florian Hecker from 2024, and graduated with honors as master’s student of Prof. Florian Pumhösl in 2026.
She works across film, sound, installation, choreography, and performance. Her practice unfolds through improvisation and an experimental approach that explores time, space, and perception as mutable states of existence and as modes of embodied inscription. In her performative works, she engages in dialogue with site-specific environments that serve as frameworks for rethinking movement, language, and architecture. As a musician, she composes sound pieces that combine extended techniques with acoustic instrumentation, synthesizers, polyphonic vocal structures, and poetic expression, negotiating themes of spatial boundaries, rupture, ecstatic intensity, and transformation.
RUSCHA VOORMANN
Ruscha Voormann (*1992, Flensburg) lives and works in Munich, Germany. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the class of Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt and completed her studies as his master student in February 2026.
Transformative processes are at the center of Ruscha Voormann’s work. At the beginning of her career, she explored the interfaces between figurative and abstract painting. Now she developes exclusively abstract works that are fed by processes of condensation, displacement and rhythmic ordering. Her pictorial worlds are characterised by sensitive transitions and subtle tensions between surface, depth and movement.
In all of Voormann's works, the artist seeks above all one thing in ambivalence: a harmony and a balance of polarities and the simultaneous existence of opposites.