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Scholarship Follow Fluxus

The aim of the "Follow Fluxus - Fluxus and the Consequences" scholarship, which has been awarded by the state capital of Wiesbaden and the Nassauischer Kunstverein since 2008, is to support international young artists who take up the ideas of the Fluxus art movement in their work and keep them alive.

The foundation of the scholarship goes back to the "Fluxus Festival of New Music", which took place in Wiesbaden in 1962. This Fluxus event gave the new art movement its first broad echo.

The working scholarship is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded for three months from June to August. During this time, the scholarship holders are provided with living and studio space at the Nassauischer Kunstverein. Following the work scholarship, an exhibition of the scholarship holders will be held at the NKV from September to the end of May of the following year, accompanied by a publication.

For the duration of the scholarship, the scholarship holders should spend most of their time in Wiesbaden. National and international artists between the ages of 18 and 47 from the field of fine arts can be nominated. The scholarship is open to all artistic media, including performative approaches.

Current scholarship holder: Lola Göller

Lola Göller
Lola Göller / Photo: Lilli Kuscherl

The scholarship "Follow Fluxus - Fluxus and the Consequences", awarded by the state capital Wiesbaden and the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden for the seventeenth time in a row, went to Lola Göller in 2024.

The five-member jury 2024 was made up of Jana Dennhard / Research Associate, Museum Wiesbaden, Elmar Hermann / Visual artist, Michael Berger / Fluxus collector and patron, Wiesbaden, Monique Behr / Visual Arts Officer, Cultural Office of the State Capital Wiesbaden and Lotte Dinse / Director, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden.

The jury decided unanimously from 56 nominations and justified their choice as follows: Lola Göller's artistic practice includes sculptures, performances, installations and videos. Her interdisciplinary approach demonstrates a strong sense of media reflection and a continuous examination of the perception and construction of identity, memory and reality. Göller deals with themes and phenomena that are often on the fringes of social perception or discourse. She examines unconventional lifestyles, social and cultural dynamics, everyday phenomena and mythological constructions. The jury was particularly impressed by the complexity of her work, which encourages critical reflection on current social, political and technological circumstances. She succeeds in challenging the boundaries between the visible and the invisible and actively involving the viewer.

Exhibition at the Nassauischer Kunstverein

Lola Göller began her working scholarship in Wiesbaden in mid-June 2025. The exhibition "Lola Göller A Worm in the Cherry" can be seen at the Nassauischer Kunstverein from September 12, 2025 to May 3, 2026.

About the artist

Lola Göller (born 1983 in Frankfurt am Main, lives in Berlin) graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012 as a master student of Professor Gregor Schneider. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide, including at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, Doza Gallery Sofia, Staatstheater Kassel, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Kunstverein Wagenhallen Stuttgart and Knockdown Center New York.

Her sculptures and room-filling, audiovisual installations deal with social and architectural marginal phenomena. She examines and archives imitations and obvious copies and questions structural, intellectual and emotional aspects of their function and effect. On a creative level, she uses the human voice - often her own - as a complementary, contrasting or narrative stylistic device. She frequently expands her work complexes to include radio plays, performances and multimedia, multi-sensory, performative lectures.

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