Jurys
The selection of artists for the residency at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics is made by diverse juries composed of researchers from the institute’s various departments, as well as distinguished experts from the fields of visual arts, music, and performing arts. The composition of the jury changes with each edition.
Jury 2025 for Artists-in-Residence 2025/26
Talip Ata Aydin
Music, MPIEA
Camilla Bruder
Music, MPIEA
Barbara Clausen
Rector of the Städelschule and Director of Portikus /
Professor of contemporary art and performance, Université du Québec à Montréal
Örjan de Manzano
Cognitive Neuropsychology, MPIEA
Susanne Niedermayr
Co-curator of ORF musikprotokoll in the steirischer herbst festival /
Co-director „Zeit-Ton“, ORF
Christophe Slagmuylder
CEO & Artistic Director, Bozar, Brüssel
Holger Stenschke
Head of ArtLab, MPIEA
Eike Walkenhorst
Curator, INHABIT-Artist-in-Residence, MPIEA
Jury 2023 for Artists-in-Residence 2024
Dahlia Borsche
Head of Music & Sound, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program
Tanya Brown
Research Group Neural Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition, MPIEA
Camilla Bruder
Music, MPIEA
Christian Grüny
Professor for Aesthetics, HMDK Stuttgart
Alistair Hudson
Director, ZKM Karlsruhe
Çağla Ilk
Co-direcor, Kunsthalle Baden Baden /
Curator German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024)
Ece Kaya
Research Group Neural and Environmental Rhythms, MPIEA
Holger Stenschke
Head of ArtLab, MPIEA
Eike Walkenhorst
Curator, INHABIT-Artist-in-Residence, MPIEA
Jury 2022 for Artists-in-Residence 2023
Tanya Brown
Research Group Neural Circuits, Consciousness, and Cognition, MPIEA
Carina Bukuts
Curator – Portikus, Frankfurt
Camilla Bruder
Neuroscience, MPIEA
Christian Grüny
Music, MPIEA
Ece Kaya
Research Group Neural and Environmental Rhythms, MPIEA
Bojana Kunst
Professor Dance Studies (Choreography/Performance), Justus-Liebig University, Giessen
Michael Rebhahn
Music Journalist, SWR
Eike Walkenhorst
Curator, INHABIT-Artist-in-Residence, MPIEA
Jury 2021 for Artists-in-Residence 2022
Oliver Baurhenn
Artistic Director / CTM – Festival for Adventurous Music and Art, Berlin
Julia Christensen
Language & Literature, MPIEA
Christian Grüny
Music, MPIEA
Lina Louisa Krämer
Curator, Kunsthalle Mainz
Mahret Ifeoma Kupka
Curator, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt)
Fredrik Ullén
Cognitive Neuroscience, MPIEA
Ed Vessel
Neuroscience, MPIEA
Eike Walkenhorst
Curator, INHABIT-Artist-in-Residence, MPIEA
Olivia Wen
Research Group Neural and Environmental Rhythms, MPIEA