The scholarship was initiated in 2008 and since then has aimed to support international artists who take up the ideas of Fluxus in their work and develop them further. In addition to prize money of 10,000 euros, the scholarship includes a three-month residency in the Hessian state capital and a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein (2025/26).

The five-member 2024 jury was made up of Jana Dennhard / Research Associate, Museum Wiesbaden, Elmar Hermann / Visual artist, Michael Berger / Fluxus collector and patron, Wiesbaden, Monique Behr / Fine Arts Officer, Cultural Office of the State Capital of Wiesbaden and Lotte Dinse, Director, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. The jury decided unanimously from 56 nominations and justified their choice as follows: "Lola Göller's artistic practice includes sculptures, performances, installations and videos. Her interdisciplinary approach demonstrates a strong sense of media reflection and a continuous examination of the perception and construction of identity, memory and reality. In her works, Lola Göller deals with themes and phenomena that are often on the fringes of social perception or discourse. She examines unconventional lifestyles, social and cultural dynamics, everyday phenomena and mythological constructions. The jury was particularly impressed by the complexity of her work, which encourages critical reflection on current social, political and technological circumstances. Göller succeeds in challenging the boundaries between the visible and the invisible and actively involving the viewer."

About the artist: Lola Göller (born 1983 in Frankfurt am Main, lives in Berlin) completed her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012 as a master student of Professor Gregor Schneider. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world, including Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Kunstverein Tiergarten Berlin, Doza Gallery Sofia Bulgaria, Staatstheater Kassel, Parque Cultural de Valparaiso, Kunstverein Wagenhallen Stuttgart, Knockdown Center New York and many more. In her sculptures and room-filling, audiovisual installations, the Berlin-based artist explores bizarre outgrowths of social and architectural fringe phenomena. She examines and archives imitations and obvious copies and questions structural, intellectual and emotional aspects of their function and effect. On a creative level, she uses the human voice - often her own - as a complementary, contrasting or narrative stylistic device. She frequently expands her work complexes to include radio plays, performances and multimedia, multi-sensory, performative lectures.

The previous Follow Fluxus fellows were Emily Wardill (Great Britain), Jimmy Robert (Guadeloupe), Aslı Sungu (Turkey), Kateřina Šedá (Czech Republic), Stefan Burger (Switzerland), Annette Krauss (Netherlands), Taro Izumi (Japan), Mehreen Murtaza (Pakistan), Adriana Lara (Mexico), Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann (Germany), Assaf Gruber (Israel), Jace Clayton (USA), David Horvitz (USA), Jackie Karuti (Kenya), Daniela Ortiz (Peru) and Maja Smrekar (Slovenia).

The scholarship is funded and made possible by the Cultural Office of the City of Wiesbaden.

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