MQ Artist-in-Residence Zsolt Sőrés
Rainforest IV @ Elisabeth Kirche Berlin, photo © Udo Siegfriedt 2022 Ahad Live in Berlin 2022 - photo © Akiko Hada PolyViola for Zsolt Sőrés, constructed by Sukandar Kartadinata, Berlin, 2024, photo © Sukanar [...] improviser, sonic ontologist and intermedia artist. He has been living in Berlin since he was received the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program fellowship in 2021. He has been teaching at Liszt Ferenc Academy
MQ Writer-in-Residence Kinga Toth
of nuns in her artistic practice. In 2023/2024 she was a fellow of the DaaD artists' program in Berlin, her vocal album will be published in autumn and her next book of poetry - an ecofeminist prayer
MQ Writer-in-Residence Mirjam Wittig
Mirjam Wittig area: Literature Key Facts nationality Germany area Literature residence Berlin recommending institution BMEIA time period January 2025 - February 2025 Mirjam Wittig (b. 1996) studied Philosophy
MQ Artist-in-Residence Mykola Lebed
Lebed © Regina Zhelezniakov Key Facts nationality Ukraine area Music, Sound Art, Research residence Berlin recommending institution tranzit.org / ERSTE Stiftung time period January 2025 - February 2025 Mykola [...] member. Since beginning his solo career, Mykola’s work has been presented at venues including MEK Berlin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Theater Magdeburg, Lviv Municipal Art Gallery, Dnipro Center for Contemporary [...] and Ivano-Frankivsk Puppet Theatre. He has also created soundtracks for theatre productions at TD Berlin and Lviv State Puppet Theatre, as well as for short films and video works. Mykola Lebed, photo: Irina
MQ Artist-in-Residence Laura Lichtblau
Laura Lichtblau area: Literature Key Facts nationality Germany area Literature residence Berlin recommending institution BMEIA time period May 2025 - June 2025 Laura Lichtblau, born in Munich in 1985, [...] studied in Munich, Hildesheim and Leipzig at the German Literature Institute and lives in Berlin. Her poetry, portraits and essays have been published in various magazines and anthologies, most recently [...] 2024. In 2025, she received the working scholarship for German-language literature from the city of Berlin. Website: lauralichtblau.de Instagram: @laura_lichtblau Project info Laura Lichtblau would like to
MQ Artist-in-Residence Ronya Othmann
was born in Munich in 1993, studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and now lives in Berlin. She writes poetry, prose and essays and works as a journalist. Since 2021, she has been writing
MQ Artist-in-Residence Idan Yoav
Bernard Ludewig © Bernard Ludewig © Jubal Battisti Key Facts nationality Germany area Fashion residence Berlin recommending institution Combinat time period September 2025 - September 2025 Idan Yoav is a costume [...] Sasha Waltz & Guests and the Batsheva Dance Company, he studied fashion design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee and at ENSAD Paris and was honoured with the European Fashion Award FASH 2022. Since then [...] then, he has worked as a costume designer at leading opera houses such as the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Semperoper Dresden, the Frankfurt Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Dutch National Opera and the
MQ Artist-in-Residence Heidi Specker
Photography & Visual Arts residence Berlin recommending institution Sternenpassage time period August 2025 - August 2025 Heidi Specker, born 1962 in Damme (GER), lives in Berlin and teaches photography at the [...] at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, among others. In Austria at Fotohof Salzburg and Camera Austria, Graz. She publishes her groups [...] photograph on site during her residency at MQ. As confiscated objects have been returned to Vienna, Berlin and Salzburg, Specker is also planning photographic research at flea markets and antique dealers
MQ Artist-in-Residence Yola Yulfianti
claims. The film received the Pearls Winner Award at the Internationale Tanz Film Pool Festival in Berlin (2012). Yola later completed her doctoral studies at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Surakarta
MQ Artist-in-Residence Luna Ali
the Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Hanover theatres and in Berlin. In 2023, she received the working scholarship for German-language literature from the Berlin Senate Department. In 2024, her debut novel "Da waren [...] area: Literature © Luna Ali © Paul Lovis Wagner Key Facts nationality Syria area Literature residence Berlin recommending institution BMEIA time period November 2025 - December 2025 Luna Ali studied Cultural