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Application deadline: 15 October 2013

Call for applications Bronner Residency
Artist Exchange Tel Aviv − North Rhine - Westphalia

Goal of the artist exchange between North Rhine-Westphalia and Tel Aviv is to gather information about the local art scene and its current trends, make and deepen contacts, exchange ideas and suggestions and to set new impulses in Israel’s art scene upon returning.

For the period from 1 January 2014 until 30 June 2014, the Cary and Dan Bronner Foundation Düsseldorf, the NRW Arts Foundation, the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios and the Goethe-Institut will award a grant in Düsseldorf to an artist from Israel working in the area of visual arts.

Beneficiaries are freelance artists having completed a degree course, a training programme or comparable qualifications (students are excluded).

The call for applications is directed at professional artists who have gained public recognition or are able to present first professional successes. English-language competence is required.
Residency is required.

The jury will meet in end of October 2013. Applicants will be notified in writing about their individual results immediately after the meeting.

The following documents in English are required:

• an informal covering letter
• Documentation materials on your artistic activities to date
• a clear, precise description of your project proposal/ work plans
• a short biography with a list of your exhibitions.

Application documents must be submitted by 15 October 2013 to:

Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv
Beit Asia, Weizmann St. 4
64239 Tel Aviv


The grant includes cost-free use of a studio flat in Düsseldorf and a lump sum for living expenses and materials of 1200 € per month for a period of six months. 600 € for flight expenses are also included.
Goethe-Institut Israel

Application deadline: 30 October 2013

Call for Applications Artist-in-Residence

The Goethe-Institut China and the Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai will initiate an art residency program in collaboration with the am art space in 2014. It is aimed at artists from the fields of visual art and performing art.

The residency program will be a two-month stay in May / June 2014. The participants can implement their China-related projects during the stay. In addition, the stay in Shanghai offers an opportunity to establish contacts with Chinese arts and cultural sector. The participants are asked to write a blog about their stay.

Application requirements:
Cultural workers from all sectors of the performing and visual arts are encouraged to apply. Applicants shall have professional experience in the above-mentioned fields and have their center of life in Germany.

Period of stay:
May to June 2014

Program benefits:

• Provision of a basic hotel in Shanghai for 2 months or alternatively 1,000 euros for private accommodation
• Financing of international arrival and departure costs (flight)
• Living subsidies in the amount of 1,000 euros per month
• Networking with the project creators and institutions of relevant projects through the network of the Goethe-Institute and the art space

An exhibition, presentation or performance as well as a publication are desired at the end of the residence time.

Required applications documents in German and English:

• CV
  With full contact details of your training, an overview of your current artistic career, and an introduction to your major work (at least five pieces).
• Application letter and project plan
  Please describe your motivation to a maximum of 2 pages for participation in the residency program. Please also describe what project you want to implement and your project plan during your stay in Shanghai.
• Work samples
  We kindly ask you to submit at least 5 samples of your work. This can only be submitted digitally and up to a maximum file size of 5MB.

Applications are accepted only by e-mail. Please send your application before the deadline to the following address:

Frau DONG Qinwen
Cultural programs, Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai.
programm@shanghai.goethe.org


The selection will be made by an independent jury. The judges' decision is final and not subject to appeal.

Goethe-Institut China
Department of Culture and Education of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai.

September 2013

Grant Holders Villa Kamogawa 2014

In the coming year, thirteen German artists will once again accept a three-month fellowship in the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. The grant holders were chosen by a jury of experts in the categories of architecture, visual arts, design, film, literature, performing arts and music.

The grant holders who will live and work in the residence by the Kamogawa River are:

January - April 2014:
Ann Cotten (literature)
Anne Kathrin Greiner (visual arts)
David Hanauer (design)
Arne Zank (music)

April - July 2014:
Begüm Erciyas (performing arts)
Jan Jelinek (music)
Marion Poschmann (literature)
Renée und Thomas Rapedius (visual arts)

September - December 2014:
Sven Pfeiffer (architecture)
Jörg Koopmann (visual arts)
Dorothee Curio (performing arts)
Andreas Hartmann (film)

In 2011, the Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan, was opened on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of German-Japanese relations. The three-month residency in Kyoto is intended to offer grant holders inspiration and artistic orientation. In direct personal exchange with the local cultural scene, they are enabled to develop new projects and build up or deepen lasting work contacts with Japanese cultural institutions and culture producers.
Villa Kamogawa

September 2012

On Orpheus' Trail through Southern Bulgaria

At the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Sofia, journalist and author Jan Volker Röhnert journeyed through southern Bulgaria and traced the vestiges of Greek antiquity there. He wrote his "Thrakisches Tagebuch" (i.e. Thracian diary) for the authors’ and artists’ network Faust-Kultur: a depiction of a journey from the graves of Thracian kings, to sites sacred to Orpheus in the eastern Rhodope Mountains, and ending with the Plovdiv tomb.
Thrakisches Tagebuch (Faust-Kultur)
Goethe-Institut Bulgarien

June-July 2012

The alphabet of the Icelandic miracle

The German author Finn-Ole Heinrich blogs about events in Iceland. You can find out "Why Icelanders can do almost anything" and the meaning of "flip-book 2.0" in his entries.

The new writer-in-residence program allows a writer to spend six weeks in Reykjavik. Starting in 2012, the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with the UNESCO city of literature Reykjavik, will award two annual literature fellowships for German authors.
Blog "Reykjavik city of literature ‒ viewed from inside"

2012

Kirunatopia – in the shadow of the future

The Goethe-Institut has launched the art project "Kirunatopia" 150 km north of the Arctic Circle: in Kiruna, the northern most city in Sweden, some 20,000 people are living atop one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world. But now the city is in danger of collapsing – and the inhabitants soon will be relocated. Eleven international artists have researched and contemplated the transformation of the city.

Artists participating in the residence project "Kirunatopia – in the shadow of the future" are blogging about their research in Kiruna, a city of extreme change.
Blog Kirunatopia