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Supporting the education of artists working with glass is an important focus of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung’s funding activities. Since 2018, it has been providing financial support to enable artists who are resident and permanently living in Germany to participate in one of the programs of the renowned Pilchuck Glass School.

For the year 2026, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung will award up to ten scholarships for participation in a workshop at the International Summer Academy Bild-Werk Frauenau. In this way, the foundation would like to support budding artists who work with the medium of glass and make it easier for them to start their careers.

The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung is continuing its Female Artist and Child funding program for the third year in a row. The funding is aimed at freelance female artists living in Germany who work with glass as a material and are mothers of a child not yet of school age but older than one year.

In 2023, the new Alexander Tutsek Photography Grant has been added to the foundation’s diverse art funding program. With a focus on contemporary photography, it is part of the foundation’s comprehensive support for established artists and up-and-coming talents working in the field of contemporary photography or with glass as a material.

Supporting and accompanying young talents on their artistic path is an integral part of the activities and self-image of the C/O Berlin Foundation – a concern that is also shared by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung. This is why the foundation has decided to support the C/O Berlin Talent Award on a long-term basis in 2020.

Thanks to the generous support of the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, the Pinakothek der Moderne was able to acquire an important work for its photography collection in 2018: Nicholas Nixon’s famous series The Brown Sisters.

From 2018 to 2020, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung has funded the International Summer Academy of Bild-Werk Frauenau e.V. for three years. The funding from the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung was intended to provide planning security and create a free space to develop sustainable concepts for securing the future of Bild-Werk Frauenau.

In 2016, the Photography and New Media Collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne developed a new exhibition concept that was fully supported by the Alexander Tutsek-Siftung: a three-part exhibition series entitled Photography Today – Artistic Photography in the Digital Age, which explores current positions in international contemporary photographic art.

The Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung conducts a major funding program through which it sponsors glass schools and glass classes at art academies both nationally and internationally. The aim of this commitment of the foundation is to improve the education for students who want to work with glass as a material in art.

In addition to its ongoing commitment as the main supporter of Haus der Kunst, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung exclusively funded the comprehensive Thomas Struth exhibition at Munich’s Haus der Kunst in 2018. The retrospective, entitled Thomas Struth: Figure Ground, covered all phases of Thomas Struth’s outstanding as well as consistent artistic achievements over the past four decades.

In its funding focus on art, institutional support has been an important area of activity for the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung for many years. One of the first projects in this framework in 2016 was the exclusive funding of the photography exhibition James Casebere. Flüchtig at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

The first exhibition in the Alexander Tutsek-Sitftung’s Master I Meister series was dedicated to the important artist Erwin Eisch, one of the founding fathers of the international studio glass movement. Shortly thereafter, the foundation was able to acquire over 100 sculptures by Erwin Eisch from a private collection, thus expanding its own already considerable collection.