Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fine Arts Department
Extension of specialisation
and career development
scholarships [3174 072]
In 2008, in accordance with
the regulations in place and based
on the results obtained by the
scholarship holders, as confirmed
by the reports submitted by
their respective supervisors,
20 specialisation scholarships
were extended. The five extensions
granted to scholarship holders
in the USA were also carried
out in partnership with flad.
Special grants / Artistic
residencies [3115 900]
The 16th Ernesto de Sousa Grant
This scholarship is a joint initiative
between the Experimental Intermedia
Foundation of New York, flad and
the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Ernesto de Sousa Grant. 15th Anniversary Commemorations. Catalogue.
It was set up in order to pay homage
to the artist Ernesto de Sousa,
a pioneer in the field of experimental multimedia art. The winner of the 16th scholarship,
announced in January 2009, was Sérgio Cruz, who presented a project for a video installation
with choreographed figures in an urban environment. One of the members of the Jury making
the award was the artist Francisco Janes, who had won the previous year’s scholarship.
The commemorations of the 15th anniversary of the Ernesto de Sousa grant took place at Espaço
Avenida in January 2008 with the public presentation of an exhibition of the work of the artists who,
over the last fifteen years, have had the opportunity to take part in this project, which has provided
a great incentive for multimedia creativity, stimulating multidisciplinary experimentalism with the use
of the new technologies. On the same occasion, a new website was launched and a book/catalogue
published in Portuguese and English, which provides both a memory of past events and a critical look
at the first fifteen years of the Ernesto de Sousa grant. The costs incurred with this initiative, promoted
by Isabel Soares Alves, Ernesto de Sousa’s widow, were shared between the Foundation and flad.
João Hogan Grant – 10th Year
The Foundation annually awards a 12-month grant for an artistic residency at the Künstlerhaus
Bethanien in Berlin. This grant, based on the João Hogan estate and set up in his honour,
has enjoyed remarkable success and is today one of the awards most keenly disputed between
young Portuguese artists seeking to develop and promote their work in such an extremely
stimulating cultural environment as Berlin. The artist receiving the 2008 grant, under the terms