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Editorial & Research Fellowships
The Stedelijk Fellowships are designed to create a nurturing space for editorial and artistic research practices, providing a rare and focused opportunity within the framework of fellowships and residencies. It stands as a commitment to the advancement of these practices, allowing for an in-depth exploration of topics that span across both scholarly and public forums.
Second Editorial Fellowship
In the second editorial fellowship, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is working on a joint-publication project with Seoul’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA). The Stedelijk publishes the Stedelijk Studies Journal annually, and, similarly, MMCA prints its own (bilingual!) academic journal titled MMCA Studies every year. Their latest issue is titled MMCA Studies 16: Collections and the Culture of Collecting. Both journals deal critically with art museums and contemporary visual culture discourse, and the editors have addressed shared interests within their histories, geographies and collections.
In this first-of-its-kind collaboration, the two museums selected a fellow to further develop and experiment a new research theme not yet addressed by either organization. Sooyoung Leam is the editorial fellowship recipient who will bring new perspectives from the Korean art scene and its surrounding culture ecosystems in Asia. Sooyoung will focus on the theme of “Generative Production,” questioning the (in)visible infrastructures that shape knowledge, labor, and value systems both within and beyond the art world in a time increasingly defined by AI-driven generative technologies, particularly reviewing the relationship between production infrastructures of visual arts and the generative practices supported by artificial intelligence.
The Asian continent serves as a compelling backdrop for these inquiries. The diverse histories of industrialization, Cold War-era resource extractivism, and enduring colonial specters continue to shape the epistemological frameworks around production in various countries. To rethink how writing and knowledge production happen and circulate, Sooyoung has formed a collective editorial group with four Seoul-based practitioners: Moonseok Yi, Eugene Hannah Park, Youjin Jeon, and Jinyoung Shin.
The results of Sooyoung’s research will be available as an online publication project in Stedelijk Studies, a printed issue of MMCA Studies #17, and a public program hosted at the Stedelijk Museum on November 23, 2025 (more information about the program and tickets will follow soon).
First Editorial Fellowship
In 2024, Stedelijk Studies announced the start of the editorial fellowship. This project is crafted to support emerging editors, artists and/or researchers; offering them the opportunity to develop and present their research and produce a special project on the Stedelijk Studies platform. The objective is to foster new perspectives within the realm of modern and contemporary art research and criticism, enriching the discourse with a multiplicity of voices and innovative ideas.
For the first edition of the editorial fellowship, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam invited C& (Contemporary And) to collaborate. C& is a dynamic platform for reflecting and connecting ideas and discourses on contemporary visual arts with offices in Germany and Kenya. For the Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship, the first editorial fellow selected was Wanini Kimemiah. Kimemiah, an artist and editor from Nairobi, contributed their editorial insights and artistry which resulted in an online project published in December 2024.
First Artistic Research Fellowship
The Stedelijk Artistic Research Fellowship is designed to apply artistic researcher methodologies to parts of our collection and research strategies. Katerina Sidorova is the first recipient of this fellowship at Stedelijk Studies. Sidorova will engage with the Khardzhiev Archive at the museum.
