Judith Engel, Stuttgart/Germany — Former Coordinator Digital Solitude program & editor of Schlosspost
Judith Engel studied visual arts and research in media, arts and design in Stuttgart/Germany. Amongst the realization of own artistic projects, she regularly writes for magazines as well as for blogs critical on contemporary culture since 2013. In 2016, she was a fellow for art coordination at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Subsequently she has been the coordinator of the Digital Solitude program and editor of the digital platform Schlosspost together with Clara Herrmann from 2017 to 2019.
Paula Kohlmann, Berlin/Germany — Art Coordination, Solitude fellow 2016
Paula Kohlmann works as a curator, freelance writer and since 2018 as a dramaturge at Theater Rampe. In 2011 she co-founded the non-commercial project space LOTTE in Stuttgart. projektraum-lotte.de. From 2016-17 she had a fellowship for art coordination at Akademie Solitude.
by Solitude fellows
Schlossghost #1
In its new collective publication, Schlossghost #1, Akademie Schloss Solitude examines the ways in which politics meet artistic and aesthetic practices in contemporary societies. For this the Solitude-fellows who had residencies in 2014, 2015 and early 2016 were invited to reflect on following questions: »Would you say that your practice is political? If so, how would you describe its political dimension?« Schlossghost #1 takes over the role of the traditional yearbooks by the Akademie. Every second year since 1990 they were summarizing all the facets of the work done in Solitude and maintained as a final truth Stéphane Mallarmé’s affirmation that »the ultimate state of the world is a book«. This new publication has lost its materiality and exists only as a virtual yearbook, or one could say as the ghost of a book. WWW.SCHLOSS-GHOST.COM