KHM Sponsorship Award for FLINTA* 2026 goes to Helen Brecht

This year's KHM Sponsorship Award for Female Artists (FLINTA*) goes to Helen Brecht (born in 1987, lives and works in Cologne). The award, which is sponsored by the Equal Opportunities Department of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), includes a presentation at Museum Morsbroich starting in May 2026.

Helen Brecht's text-based works focus on queer-feminist issues and the examination of vulnerability as a social and individual category. Helen Brecht understands text as material with performative qualities. She is interested in the interactivity of texts: their relationship to space, material, time and the body. In her text graphics, installations, audio and spoken word pieces, she combines and condenses scientific research, theory and poetics into ‘nests of fragility’.

Helen Brecht studied applied theatre studies at Justus Liebig University in Giessen and then literary writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), graduating with a diploma in 2025. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Institute for Theatre Studies at Ruhr University Bochum.

The KHM Sponsorship Award for Female Artists (FLINTA*), worth 1,000 euros, has been awarded since 2020 in cooperation between the KHM's Equality Office and the Museum Morsbroich. The aim of the sponsorship award is to support young artists on the threshold of the free market, to network them and to introduce them to a broad audience.

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