Christian Naujoks is the 2025/26 Follow Fluxus Fellow
The Follow Fluxus – Fluxus and the Consequences grant, awarded for the eighteenth consecutive year by the City of Wiesbaden and the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, goes to Christian Naujoks. We are delighted that the artist will be in Wiesbaden from June to August 2026.
The grant was initiated in 2008 and has since aimed to support international artists who engage with and further develop the ideas of Fluxus in their work. In addition to a prize of €10,000, the grant includes a three-month residency in the Hessian state capital and a solo exhibition at the Kunstverein (2026/27).
For the 2025/26 cycle, the selection process was fundamentally revised. For the first time, the grant was publicly advertised in order to make the application process more accessible, transparent, and inclusive. Artists were invited to apply independently and actively contribute their perspectives. The requirement was the submission of a project proposal that takes up the ideas and practices of the Fluxus movement and translates them into the 21st century in an independent, contemporary form.
The five-member jury consisted of Jana Dennhard / Freelance Curator, Elmar Hermann / Visual Artist, Dr. Barbara Engelbach / Curator, Collection of Contemporary Art, Photography, and Media Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Monique Behr / Consultant for Visual Arts, Cultural Office of the City of Wiesbaden, and Lotte Dinse / Director, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. The jury unanimously selected Christian Naujoks from among 408 applications and justified their decision as follows:
With his project proposal, Christian Naujoks (*1980, DE) impressed the jury with an interdisciplinary practice that convincingly connects questions of hearing with social, physical, and spatial dimensions. Naujoks understands hearing not as neutral perception, but as something produced by technology, language, and social conventions. Drawing on his own experience with tinnitus and hearing impairments, Naujoks’s performances and sound works sensitively, powerfully, and astutely focus on moments when hearing becomes fragile, sounds become overwhelming, or dissolve.
The exhibition planned for the Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden combines sound installation, participatory formats, and performative elements that incorporate different forms of hearing. This not only opens up new approaches to sound art but also creates a space for shared listening and diverse perceptions.
About the Artist /
Christian Naujoks (*1980, lives in Berlin) is a composer, musician, and artist. His works have been heard and seen internationally in a variety of contexts, including at Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Galerie Max Mayer Düsseldorf, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Sonic Somatic Florence, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Royal Academy of Arts London. This year, he is presenting his artistic research at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory Copenhagen. He has released several albums on Berlin-based label Dial Records and was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in 2019. Works by Christian Naujoks are held in the collections of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Berlin and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, among others.
The grant is funded and made possible by the Cultural Office of the City of Wiesbaden.
