This year's call for applications has closed. The next scholarships will be advertised in early 2027.
Scholarships
The Anna Polke Foundation awards two scholarships of €5,000 each every year.
Scholarships 2025
Dr. des. Kathrin Borgers, Sigmar Polke in the context of pre-modern pictorial contexts
Francesca Valentini, PhD, The Alchemy of representation: Sigmar Polke in Venice
Nico Joana Weber, Dirk, any ideas?
Scholarships 2024
Gökcan Demirkazık, Photographic mythologies: Sigmar Polkes counter-anthropological gaze
Joanna Nencek, Unfolding the photographic echo in images and objects
Scholarships 2023
Dr. Anja Isabel Schneider, Cosmic (dis)order. Sigmar Polke and the circus
Dr. Daniel Spaulding, (Ir)rationalities of mark-making in the work of Sigmar Polke
Scholarships 2022
Dr. Luke Smythe, Polke and material art history
Scholarships 2021
Tereza de Arruda, M.A. Day by Day Sigmar Polke Starts an Away Dialogue
Dr. Ian Rothwell, Polke's Bad Drawing
Scholarships 2020
Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl, M.A., Hasenschleife. Sigmar Polke's Dürer-Appropriation
Magnus Schäfer, M.A. There is no such thing as too much information: Sigmar Polke and the digital
Scholarships 2019
