Fellowship Future Lab
22 – 24 May 2026 | Wuppertal
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Dance and Choreography, the Pina Bausch Foundation and Kunststiftung NRW invited you to the Fellowswhip Future Lab on the future of artistic practice in Wuppertal. In the anniversary year 2026, the fellowship programme deliberately pauses to create space for reflection, exchange, and collective learning.
From 22 to 24 May 2026, fellows from different generations, international guests, and members of the local dance and cultural scene came together to share experiences from ten years of the fellowship and to jointly reflect on how artistic practice shifts, opens up, and transforms under changing political, social, and economic conditions. Within the Future Lab, fellows from previous cohorts shaped the programme through keynotes, performative contributions, and discussion formats. Insights generated during the Future Lab will inform both the development of the emerging Pina Bausch Center and the future orientation of the fellowship programme.
The event took place at the former Schauspielhaus / future Pina Bausch Center in Wuppertal - Bundesallee 260, 42103 Wuppertal.
The Pina Bausch Fellowship Future Lab is an event organized by the Pina Bausch Foundation and Kunststiftung NRW. As a contribution to the preparation of the Pina Bausch Centre, the Future Lab is additionally supported with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the City of Wuppertal.
The Artistic Board
The Artistic Board with nora chipaumire, Adham Hafez, and Lia Rodrigues supported the fellows in shaping the artistic direction of the Future Lab.
FELLOWS 2025
Miguel Bolaños, Mounir Saeed, Sarah Brahim, Aida Rodríguez and Darion Adams!
FELLOWS 2024
Morteza Zarei, Oluwabukunmi Olukitibi, Jee-Ae Lim and Danilo Andrés!
2023 Fellows
Kayla Hamilton, Purnendra Kumar Meshram, Haman Mpadire and André Uerba
2022 Fellows
Robert Ssempiija, Amit Noy, Lilian Maximillian Nabaggala and Danielli Nascimento Mendes
Fellows 2021
Aïda Colmenero Dïaz, Lorin Sookool, Ade Suharto, Sarah Friedland and Irina Demina (not on the picture)
Fellows 2019
Marc Philipp Gabriel, Martha Hincapié Charry, Lee Méir and Ariel Moreira are the grant holders of the Pina Bausch Fellowship 2019.
This was MEET THE FELLOWS! 2019
In January 2019 we invited the Fellows 2019 and the Fellows 2018 to Wuppertal - to connect, to exchange experiences and to share their fellowship projects with the audience.