Passage October Residency Announcement
The Passage Art Residency 2026 welcomes two international artists to the region this October. Erola Arcalís (Menorca/London) and SofijaSilvia (Silvia Potočki) (Pula/Paris) will each develop a new site-specific photographic project in dialogue with two distinctive places in the Wittenberg region.…
Passage Shorts Announcement
We are delighted to welcome Pasha Kritchko to the Passage Shorts Residency in July. Pasha Kritchko is a Belarusian documentary photographer who turned to documentary work in response to the 2020 presidential elections and the subsequent political repression in Belarus. Since then, he has been…
Applications Closed
The application deadline for the Passage Residencies and the Passage Shorts was Friday 30th May 2026. We received a total of 329 applications. This is an overwhelming number, and we are delighted. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all applicants. The applications are currently being…
Passage Shorts Call For Applications
The Polygona Kunstverein e.V. is inviting applications for one residency place (Passage Shorts) as part of the KOBRA Cultural Network’s Passage Art-Residency-Programme. Passage Shorts is held in collaboration with the KOBRA network partner Ferropolis Foundation for Industrial Heritage in…
Finding the Landscape: Teaser Released
Finding the Landscape: Teaser Released. The documentary ‘Finding the Landscape’, filmed on 16mm, follows photographer Chrystel Lebas as she returns to the landscape surrounding Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 2025. Originally invited by Passage Art-Residency-Programme…
New Website Online
We are saying goodbye to the old Passage website, which featured our activities between 2021 and 2024. At the same time, we are delighted with the new designed website, where we have been able to create more space for former artists-in-residence and the works they produced during their residencies.…
Exhibition Opening Chrystel Lebas
On 14 September 2025, Open Monument Day, the KOBRA cultural network invites you to Bleesern (Seegrehna, Lutherstadt Wittenberg). London-based photographic artist Chrystel Lebas is exhibiting large-format photographs taken during her Passage artist-in-residence stay in 2024 at Europe’s oldest stud…