Julia Jesionek, Everythingness, 2024 © Julia Jesionek

This year’s KHM Art Sponsorship Award for female* artists (FLINTA*) goes to Julia Jesionek. The award is sponsored by the Equal Opportunities of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and includes a solo presentation at Museum Morsbroich from October 2025.

Julia Jesionek (*1998 in Gifhorn, lives in Cologne) works in the media of animated film, painting and drawing. In her works, she deals with themes of femininity, identity and introspection. Personal experiences and feelings merge with fictional elements and provide a glimpse into an intimate and vulnerable inner world. This includes her autofictional animated film Everythingness (2024), which was shortlisted for the German Short Film Award 2024 and tells of inner turmoil and the struggle with personal decisions.

Julia Jesionek studied Media Arts at the KHM from 2016 to 2024 and successfully completed her studies in 2024. In her written thesis Animating Women: The Evolution of Female Characters and the Impact of Women Animators (2023), she examines the history of women in the field of animated film since the 1970s from a feminist perspective.

The KHM Sponsorship Award for Artists (FLINTA*), endowed with 1,000 euros, has been established between the KHM's Equal Opportunities Department and the Museum Morsbroich since 2020. The aim of the award is to support, network and present emerging female artists* on their transition from art school to the free market and to a broad audience. The winner is always selected by the jury of the Museum Morsbroich. The experience of preparing and presenting one's own work in the museum's space under the supervision of experienced curators offers the opportunity to exhibit one's own artistic work in a museum context and present it to a wide audience.

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