PS61 STUDIOS

PS61 Studio Scholar 2026/2027 - RUSCHA VOORMANN - @ruschavoormann - Images: Ruscha Voormann „Polar“, Galerie Crone Berlin, 11. November – 23. Dezember 2023 Courtesy Galerie Crone Berlin/Wien @galerie_crone Fotos: Uwe Walter @uwewalterfotografie @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #ps61studios #studioscholarshipmunich #studioscholarship #ruschavoormann

PS61 Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - RUSCHA VOORMANN @ruschavoormann / Diploma 2026: „Aquarius“, 2026, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class of Gregor Hildebrandt @grzegorzkiproduction @klasse.zitzwitz.hildebrandt Photos: Constantin Mirbach @connymirbach @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studios #ps61studioscholar #ps61studiosmunich #studioscholarship #ruschavoormann

🌱 Introducing our new PS61 Studio Scholar for Year V - 2026/2027 - RUSCHA VOORMANN @ruschavoormann Ruscha Voormann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in the class of Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt and completed her studies as his master student in February 2026. @grzegorzkiproduction @klasse.zitzwitz.hildebrandt   Transformative processes are at the center of Ruscha Voormann’s work. At the beginning of her career, she explored the interfaces between figurative and abstract painting. Now she developes exclusively abstract works that are fed by processes of condensation, displacement and rhythmic ordering. Her pictorial worlds are characterised by sensitive transitions and subtle tensions between surface, depth and movement. In all of Voormann’s works, the artist seeks above all one thing in ambivalence: a harmony and a balance of polarities and the simultaneous existence of opposites. Photo: Constantin Mirbach @connymirbach @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #ps61studios #studioscholarship #studioscholarshipmunich #ruschavoormann

PS61 Studio Scholar 2026/2027 - CAMILLA METELKA - @donnabass.dupoint - Images: „Lay your head in my lap“, 2025, theatre chairs, light, microphone, cables, performative movement, various dimensions Series of spatial installations at Goethe-Institut Athen in conjunction with the performative concert ”Acts of Contingency” with Daniel Gianfranceschi @goetheinstitut_athen @danielgianfranceschi @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #ps61studios #studioscholarship #studioscholarshipmunich #camillametelka

PS61 Studio Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - CAMILLA METELKA @donnabass.dupoint / Diploma 2026: “At This Very Instant”, 2026, film trilogy, 8 mm film transferred to digital, installation views, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class of Prof. Florian Pumhösl @klassepumhoesl Photos: Wanying Xie @wanying_xie_ @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #ps61studios #studioscholarship #studioscholarshipmunich

🌱 Introducing our new PS61 Scholar for Year V - 2026/2027 - CAMILLA METELKA @donnabass.dupoint Camilla Metelka (*1994) studied Fine Art with Prof. Dr. Rosa Barba at the University of the Arts Bremen from 2021 to 2023, where she received a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, studying with Prof. Florian Pumhösl from 2023 and with Prof. Florian Hecker from 2024, and graduated with honors as master’s student of Prof. Florian Pumhösl in 2026. @klassepumhoesl She works across film, sound, installation, choreography, and performance. Her practice unfolds through improvisation and an experimental approach that explores time, space, and perception as mutable states of existence and as modes of embodied inscription. In her performative works, she engages in dialogue with site-specific environments that serve as frameworks for rethinking movement, language, and architecture. As a musician, she composes sound pieces that combine extended techniques with acoustic instrumentation, synthesizers, polyphonic vocal structures, and poetic expression, negotiating themes of spatial boundaries, rupture, ecstatic intensity, and transformation. Photo: Lina Teufel @lina.teufel @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studios #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #studioscholarshipmunich #atelierstipendium #munichart #camillametelka

PS61 Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - MARIA MARGOLINA @ssslovva / Image: The Reflection Of The Sun Speaks All The Days, 2021, Interactive 4- channel sound, handmade speakers, boundary-microphones, MaxMSP, exhibition view, „The Reflection Of The Sun Speaks All The Days“, Fonda Space, Leipzig, 2021 ©️ Philipp Zöhrer @silentprotecctor @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein #ps61studioscholar #ps61studiosmunich #studioscholarship #ps61studios

PS61 Studio Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - MARIA MARGOLINA @ssslovva / Diploma 2026: “Pick Up Where I Left Off”, Sound Installation, exhibition view, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class of Prof. Olaf Nikolai @olaf.nicolai @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studios #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #atelierstipendium #studioscholarship

🌱 Introducing our new PS61 Scholar for Year V - 2026/2027 - MARIA MARGOLINA @ssslovva Maria Margolina (*1998, Dnipro) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as well as at erg (École de recherche graphique) in Brussels, where she studied under, among others, Hito Steyerl, Jan St. Werner, and Florian Hecker. She completed her diploma in 2026 as a master-class student in Fine Arts under Olaf Nicolai. From 2022 to 2026, she was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and received the main prize of Kunstclub 13 as well as the Ida and Leonhard Wolf Memorial Prize. Her work unfolds within the tension between history and time, which she interweaves with questions of technology and (belief) systems. Sound forms the foundation of her concept-based media art practice as its central medium. She often combines it with video, text, objects, and photography to create cohesive installations. In parallel, she maintains a musical practice that exists either independently or in direct dialogue with her artistic work. @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studios #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #studioscholarship #mariamargolina

PS61 Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - ANJA LEKAVSKI @anja.lekavski Image I: Kolo (2022), concrete (26x26cm), stainless steel eyebolt, stainless steel chain, turf & soil; Österreichische Skulpturenpark, Graz (Austria) Image II: Diaspora Rave (2023), Anja Lekavski Concrete, stainless steel, 26x26 cm each, augmented reality, sound loop; Sparewheel, Brussels (Belgium) Kolo and Diaspora Rave place the Yugoslav circle dance Kolo in relation to rave culture as it emerged from the acid house movement of the 1990s. Both are understood as collective practices structured by repetition, shared rhythms, and communal ecstatic states. Seven concrete smiley spheres are arranged in a circular formation; oncrete as a material that carries the post-war landscapes of Ex-Yugoslavia, where half-finished buildings and construction sites remain decades after the Yugoslav wars. Brutalist architecture of the 1950s and 1960s established a distinct southeastern visual identity that echoes in this choice. @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels #ps61studios #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studioscholar #artinmunich Photo 1 by Vincent Entekhabi @vincententekhabi Photo 2 by Milena Wojhan @milena.wojhan

PS61 Scholar Year V - 2026/2027 - ANJA LEKAVSKI @anja.lekavski / Diploma 2026: “Elvis and the Invisible Tourist”, 2026, Three-channel video installation with sound Monitors, aluminium structure, bench, headphones, Duration: approx. 40 min, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class of Prof. Hito Steyerl @hito_steyerl and Dr. Francis Hunger Photos: Pablo Lauf @pablo_lauf @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studiosmunich #ps61studios #ps61studioscholar #studioscholarshipmunich #studioscholarship

🌱 Introducing our new PS61 Scholar for YEAR V- 2026/2027 ANJA LEKAVSKI @anja.lekavski Anja Lekavski completed her degree in the ‘Emergent Digital Media’ class under Prof. Hito Steyerl and Prof. Francis Hunger at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2026 with a film installation. @hito_steyerl   She had previously studied design at Munich University of Applied Sciences (BA). Alongside her artistic work, she is responsible for the visual direction of the Blitz Club Munich and the Lothringer 13 Halle. Under the DJ alias Sarmabot, she is active in the electronic music scene and her radio show Znoj FM airs monthly on Radio 80000. Photo: Manuel Nieberle @manuelnieberle @julieschemann4 @maurindietrich @andrea.lissoni @tom.leo.m.engels @akademieverein @akademie_der_bildenden_kuenste #ps61studios #ps61studiosmunich #studioscholarship #studioscholarshipmunich #munichartist #anjalekavski