Culture

Library Jams Episode 9 at LAPA SIO © Thabang Radebe

Library Jams Episode 9 at LAPA SIO © Thabang Radebe

We promote cultural exchange, education and social discourse

We foster bilateral cultural exchange programs between Germany and South Africa. We initiate film series, exhibitions, concerts, seminars and festivals, always with the goal to facilitate artistic production, reception and reflection involving actors from both countries.

Funding for Arts and Culture

With its worldwide calls for proposals and residency programs, the Goethe-Institut opens up a space for new perspectives in which artists and cultural workers can pursue their projects free of economic pressure and establish and deepen lasting contacts.

Goethe-Institut Funding for Arts and Culture. Image:HGAA 2024 - I was her and she was me and those we might become 1 - Kitso Lelliott © Kitso Lelliott by Henri Perrot

THE GOETHE-INSTITUT PROJECT SPACE (GPS) PROJECT GRANT 2025

The call for applications for the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) grant is now closed. Thank you to all who entered!

The GPS programme grants seed funding of up to R 105.000 per project to four artistic projects that are realised in rural and peri-urban parts of South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini between February and November 2025.

GPS website newsletter-teaser 2025 © Eugene Alberts

Inhabiting the Library

The Library-Gamebox-Hub invited proposals for the use of its physical space and infrastructure to host projects, workshops, team meetings, reading groups, and other ideas that expand the possibilities of the space. Concepts were based on the practical use of the Library-Gamebox-Hub.

Possible formats include talks, podcast, workspace, photography studio, rehearsal space, and venue for listening sessions, book launch, script readings, meetings, etc.

A performance in the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg Library © Earl Abrahams

Current Exhibition

The Goethe-Institut is offering South African-based visual artists working in the fields of painting, sculpture, textiles, photography and installation the opportunity to exhibit their work at the institute's premises in the suburb of Parkwood, Johannesburg in 2024.

HENRIKE GROHS ART AWARD WINNER 2024: KITSO LYNN LELLIOTT © KITSO LYNN LELLIOTT

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