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PS61 Studios
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CURRENT
2024/2025

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.

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MAXINE WEISS

Maxine Weiss (*1992, Starnberg, Germany) graduated in 2024 with honors as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Alexandra Bircken and Professor Raphaela Vogel and was awarded and was awarded the Debutant*innenförderung prize.

In her artistic practice, which encompasses sculptures, installations, research, and videos, Maxine Weiss pursues a material-based approach wherein all components maintain a mutual and non-hierarchical relationship.

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JU YOUNG KIM

Ju Young Kim (*1991, Seoul, KR) graduated in 2024 with honors as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Olaf Nicolai.

 

Her artistic practice, encompasses installations and objects using materials such as glass, ceramics, metal, plastic and transport modules, the components of transport systems of aircraft and cars, for example, as well as elements that include landscapes and anonymous objects.

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MICHAEL MÖNNICH

Michael Mönnich, (*1992, Germany) graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Nicole Wermers.

Michael Mönnich’s works include sculpture, photography and moving images. They deal with questions of aesthetic perception, the conditions of art production and the concept of work in late modernity. His works are characterised by a laconic style of expression and show precise observations with subtle shifts in modes of perception.

Mönnich explores the interface between aesthetic experience and social analysis, questioning the mechanisms and effects of a digitalised meritocracy.

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TATJANA VALL

Tatjana Vall, (*1994, Sombor, Serbia) graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with honors (Meisterschülerin) with Pamela Rosenkranz and was awarded the price of the Stiftung Kunstakademie for her diploma work.

Her work revolves around artificial ecosystems and paradoxical planes of reality, in which she positions human and nonhuman actors. She questions boundaries of active-passive relations at the intersection of medial and installative practices.

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YOUNSIK KIM

Younsik Kim (*1992, Seoul, KR) graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Alexandra Bircken and recieved the "Preis der Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung"

Younsik Kim is an artist who works with multimedia mediums based on sculpture and installation. 

In an era dominated by multimedia contemporary mediums, he works on the theme of the finitude of sculpture's body and existence, and the alternative preservation and restoration of such limitations(the material finitude of the sculpture, he calls it the physical death of the sculpture. Recently, he has been working primarily with video and sound, ceramics and metals. 

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