“… now there is a fast film running back – sun – wasps – quiet voices – carful bodies – diaries written never to be seen – words to drive out demons – walking the streets … old patterns – old questions- new ideas … Thank-you-thank-you, for the light touch and the big space”
Wendy Houstoun
Autumn 2016
“… This was a truly magical time and space for me and my son Kosmo… I tried to do and grasp everything special during our stay. For the first time in my adult life, magic started happening when I stopped trying.”
Maja Mustonen
Summer 2016
“…Sitting here surrounded by white walls, tucked in safely. Sitting inside the blank sheet of paper in a home quite the opposite of mine – a crowded one bedroom. Feeling totally relaxed, filled to equal measure with energy and tranquility and hopeful about my artistic future… Starting new work in the Autumn and not fearing that ideas will simply dry up.”
Dana Sederowsky
Summer 2015
“I began wondering what had taken place within the walls of my temporary residence in Kreuzberg, who and what had occupied its spaces, the memories it had absorbed and how they might reverberate like an internal echo. The condition of the residency, that ‘NO work be produced’ feels counter intuitive to an artist, however this limitation is definitely its greatest strength. Whatever working practices you bring to Berlin, they become subject to the emptiness of the apartment and the agreement not to produce any work. This imposes real but transforming and liberating constraints. The Wapping Project Berlin introduced me to the complexities of a city constantly in states of change and provided me with a unique opportunity to refocus and take in information from unexpected sources.”
Zara Matthews
Autumn 2015
Previous Winners
- Hanne Tyrmi
Visual artist
Autumn 2019
- Naomi Westerman
Wrier
Summer 2019
- Diane Morin
Installation artist
Spring 2019
- Natasha Tarpley
Writer
Autumn 2018
- Sanna Moore
Curator
Summer 2018
- Pia Borg
Filmmaker
Spring 2018
- Laura Kaye
Writer
Winter 2018
- Ewa Wesolowska
Installation Artist
Autumn 2017
- Phoebe Ching Ying Man
Visual Artist
Summer 2017
- Özlem Sariyildiz
Filmmaker
Spring 2017
- Mara Lee Gerdén
Writer
Winter 2017
- Wendy Houstoun
Choreographer and Performer
Autumn 2016
- Maija Mustonen
Choreographer
Summer 2016
- Zara Matthews
Painter
Autumn 2015
- Dana Sederowsky
Video Performance Artist and Photographer
Summer 2015
