PACT Fellowship 2022/2023

With a fellowship PACT has been supporting artists who respond to social issues through their practices, and who make an impact in these fields through their artistic propositions. Provided with time, space, and a stipend, we place a focus on encouraging exploratory processes, in which pre-existing practices are pursued, but in which new ideas can emerge and new collaborations can be initiated.

In 2022 and 2023, the PACT Fellowship goes to three transdisciplinary artists, Princela Biyaa, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Fayo Said. Through their individual and collective practices, they explore the possibilities of mutual support and of networking and amplifying marginalised voices.

In 2020, they founded the Association for Black Art_ists e.V., a growing alliance of Black artists and archivists, who in various constellations are engaged in projects in the Ruhr region, Berlin, The Hague, and in the banlieues of Paris. In connection with this, PACT previously hosted the talk series ›Walgahi: Conversations on Black Archiving‹, in which the Association for Black Art_ists discussed numerous aspects related of Black archiving together with a number of different guests.  

Princela Biyaa, Marny Garcia Mommertz & Fayo Said

Princela Biyaa works as a curator, cultural producer and educator. In her work, she focuses on collaborations between Black artists in the diaspora and in Africa. She is the founder of the platform woven, which organises events related to contemporary art from Africa and from the African diaspora.

Marny Garcia Mommertz (she/her) is a writer. As part of her fellowship at PACT Zollverein, she explores experimental forms of archiving together with Princela Biyaa and Fayo Said. In her curatorial practice and as Managing Editor of C& América Latina magazine, she is interested in Afrodiasporic arts. In 2018 she learned how to catch and gut fish.

Fayo Said works as a photographer, cultural producer and curator. She is a passionate archivist and is interested in creative and artistic forms of expression from Africa and among the African diaspora.

Together Princela Biyaa, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Fayo Said founded the Association for Black Art_ists in 2020.

www.forblackartists.com

Portrait von Princela Biyaa
Princela Biyaa; Photo: Sylvester Darku
Portrait Marny Garcia Mommertz
Marny Garcia Mommertz, Photo: Anta Helena Recke
Portrait Fayo Said
Fayo Said; Photo: Ismaila Badji

Past Fellowships

Protektox Impossible Forest [5.4.9]  Tanznacht Berlin (2020) Foto: Gosia Lehmann 
Protektox Impossible Forest [5.4.9]  Tanznacht Berlin (2020) Foto: Gosia Lehmann 

Fellowships 2020/2021

Three individual fellowships in 2020 & 2021 enable teams of artists, activists, philosophers and technology experts, to connect and work in temporary research communities. Holders of the felloships are: Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Jared Gradinger & Tian Rotteveel; Barbara Raes und Sophie De Somere sowie Nathan Fain und die aLifveForms von Johannes Paul Raether.
Collage der Guest Fellows 2020

Guest Fellowships 2020

Artists have and continue to be affected, often existentially, by the corona crisis while, at the same time, their ability to interpret complex social contexts in open, critical and interdisciplinary forms grows in importance. In response to the challenges and constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic, PACT has created 20 new Guest Fellowships alongside its established long-term Fellowship Programme.
HOOD im Foyer von PACT Zollverein
Jana Mila Lippitz

Fellowship 2016 - 2019

From 2016 to 2019, seven independent artists collectively known as HOOD worked extensively at PACT on examining and rethinking the possibilities of cooperative practises within the framework of the fellowship programme.
In the form of presentations of their individual and collective works, moderated talks, urban interventions and workshops, HOOD entered into active and ongoing dialogues with artists, audiences and our local area.