Villa of Inspiration
It is situated idyllically on Kamo River in Kyoto and even named after it – Villa Kamogawa. It now had high-ranking visitors: German President Christian Wulff and the president of the Goethe-Institut Klaus-Dieter Lehmann officially opened the new artists’ residence this week, where they also met the first group of scholarship holders. "To achieve great things, you must aim for great things," said the President. The video artists Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, choreographer and dancer Thomas Lehmen, DJ and composer Andi Otto and dance scholar Franz Anton Cramer have been living and working in the former imperial Japanese city of Kyoto since September. Villa Kamogawa is the Goethe-Institut’s first residency programme with its own living space and the Federal Republic of Germany’s only facility of this kind.
