One of the winners of the 2025/26 German Youth Photography Award is Nele David for her bachelor’s thesis, “Start with Bismilla—In the Name of God.” The 2025/26 German Youth Photography...
“Naturmort”, the thriller by Gökhan Yıldız, a film graduate of the Merz Akademie, has been selected for “Sitges Coming Soon 2026.” Congratulations – we’re keeping our fingers crossed! The fantasy...
The Merz Akademie has established two scholarships through funding from the STIBET I programme, specifically for international students enrolled in the Master of Arts program Research in Design, Art and...
Kuan Lin Chen, photographer, artist, and incoming student at our partner university, Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan), has been awarded the 2026 Paper Art Scholarship. The scholarship, which...
Merz Akademie graduate Konstanze Winter won the award for Best Experimental Film at FICIMAD 2026 (Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid) for her film “it’s growing on me.” Congratulations!...
Student Emely Ulmer wins the “100 Best Posters 2025” competition. Congratulations! Emely Ulmer’s silkscreen poster “Hygiene Products” was created as part of Prof. Florian Bayer’s semester project, “The New Alphabet...
The film “Woodwalkers 2” received a Lola nomination in the Best Visual Effects category. The VFX supervisors were Merz Akademie graduate Mona Mohr and Max Riess from Pixomondo. Their work...
“An impressive achievement that is considered groundbreaking in its field” – German Design Award Winner 2026 for the agency Solid White, founded by Merz Akademie graduates Patrick Müller, Christian von...
Merz Akademie student Zoe Schmidt wins the grand prize in the print category of the Meduc Award, a competition for young media professionals, with her work “Wo ist das Problem?”...
Josepha Stolz wurde für “tausend gründe*”, ihre Bachelorarbeit im Sommersemester 2025 an der Merz Akademie, mit der Bronzemedaille des Deutschen Fotobuchpreises ausgezeichnet. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! “tausend gründe*” ist eine fotografische Portraitserie...