Villa Aurora Scholarship 2022

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Philipp Krebs, a master's student in Prof. Gordon Kampe's composition class, received the coveted scholarship for a three-month stay at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles

Since 1995, the Villa Aurora has been a place of international encounters as an artists' residence. As such, it keeps alive the memory of the artists and intellectuals who found refuge in California from persecution by the National Socialist regime and had a great influence on cultural life on the American West Coast.
More than 400 scholarship holders have enlivened the spirit of the place since 1995 and have in turn been inspired by US culture and landscape, the traces of the exiles or other artists who lived and worked at Villa Aurora at the same time. Many of these scholarship holders have become an integral part of the German and international art and literature scene.

Vita
Philipp Krebs, born in 1994 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, studied composition and philosophy in Stuttgart and Hamburg with Martin Schüttler and Gordon Kampe. His works are characterized by the equal inclusion of performative, installative and electronic elements. Thematically, his work focuses on the examination of (personal) identity and biography in interaction inspired by critical engagement with contemporary pop culture and politics. He lives and works in Hamburg.