Application Deadline: December 22, 2025
The Warburg’s Assetto Fellowships will see the Institute host three creative practitioners per year to fall within each 3 or 4-month academic term.
Selected between open-call applicants and candidates nominated by an external committee, the Assetto Fellowships encourage creative interdisciplinarity and include visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, composers, designers, game developers, and writers, among other fields. Fellows will be required to contribute to the Institute’s public programme (not always within the duration of their Fellowship) across the Institute’s events, exhibitions, publishing, and/or digital content.
Provided with a workspace and integrated into the life of the Warburg, Assetto Practitioners in Residence will be given the time and resources to research and develop their practice in the context of the Institute’s collections, research community and artistic programme. With the broad aim of intersecting Warburg’s unique lens on cultural history with contemporary culture and thinking, the Assetto Fellowships have been devised to foster a new institutional conviviality where research, curatorship, teaching, and interdisciplinary practice establish a porous culture across the Institute’s new spaces.
The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for the study of art and culture. Its collections, courses, and programmes are dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
The Warburg’s unique Library, Archive and Photographic Collection form a holistic, associative engine for exploring the histories of the arts and sciences—linking the textual and the visual, the intellectual and the social, the scientific and the magical. Following an extensive renovation of the Institute’s building in Bloomsbury, new spaces for exhibitions and events have restored the Institute’s original emphasis on discovery, display and debate and are bringing its holdings and programmes to new audiences.
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