Schering Stiftung and KW Institute have announced Colectivo Los Ingrávidos as the winner of the 2026 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. The collective will receive €15,000 and a solo exhibition at KW that will include a newly-produced artwork and will be accompanied by a publication.
Founded in 2012 amid major protests against the Mexican government, the Tehuacán-based film collective Colectivo Los Ingrávidos uses film as a means of rebellion. Working collaboratively and anonymously, they seek to deconstruct the individual artist’s authority and to reveal the ideology embedded in mainstream media. Their work experiments with documentary approach, found footage, and analogue and digital mediums.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos was selected by a jury composed of Antonia Alampi (artistic director, Spore Initiative, Berlin); Emma Enderby (director, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin); Charlotte Klonk (professor of Art and New Media, Humboldt University Berlin and member of the foundation council of Schering Stiftung, Berlin); Damian Lentini (deputy director, Ludwig Forum Aachen) and Jenna Sutela (artist, Berlin).
‘The films and videos of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos document moments of both collective and anthropocentric struggle, in which sounds and images coalesce into a series of almost hypnotic collages that probe sensorial limits and engender decolonizing ways of seeing the world. Taken alongside with their active social projects and their texts such as the manifesto Thesis of the Audiovisual, the collective work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos constitutes, as they say, a “cosmopolitical way of making and thinking the audiovisual”’, said the jury in a statement.
