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Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (retired), is patron of the artists program ‘Artist in Residence Siegen’.

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©Bettina Engel-Albustin / Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2021

„The new residency program can serve as a model for committed imitators throughout North Rhine-Westphalia. Urban life, art and science dovetail very profitably here and enter into an intensive exchange with each other. This is a promising development, especially against the backdrop of the planned expansion of the inner-city campus, which will bring the university into the heart of the city and into the neighborhood of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst.“

Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen

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Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen was born in Aachen on April 25, 1954 and is a fully qualified lawyer. She was awarded the Deutscher Kulturpolitikpreis 2023 by the Deutscher Kulturrat.

since October 2023Managing Director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung
June 2017 – June 2022Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (retired)
2004 – 2017General Secretary of the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States
1999 – 2004Councillor for Culture and Social Affairs of the City of Aachen
1989 – 1999Chancellor of the Hochschule für Musik Köln
1985 – 1988Policy Analyst of Hamburg’s Ministry of Science and Research