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ResidenzprogrammeAuthor: San Jose, 27 November 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1483026, Änderungen vorgenommen

Residence programs

With its residence programs, the Goethe-Institut would like to offer a "space for new perspectives" and every year invites artists and creators of culture to live and work for a while in a different country and culture.
 
Especially in the age of globalisation, it is particularly inspiring for cultural workers to anchor their work in very specific places and to pursue their projects for a while free of economic aspects and to establish or deepen sustainable working contacts.


Logo bangaloREsidency © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

bangaloREsidency

Residency program for innovative and contemporary art and culture.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Bangalore
  • Section: Visual arts, Performing Arts, Tech Art, New Media, Music, Film, Architecture, Design, Literature, Translation

Banner: Travel grant for Bangalore in the visual arts

Bangalore Reisestipendium

Travel grant for artist from Dresden

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Bangalore
  • Section: Visual Arts, Media

Belgrad © Milica Nikoli

CROCODILE Literature Residency

Program for Writers from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Belgrade
  • Section: Literature

WRO ART CENTER © Zbigniew Kupisz

Goethe@WRO

Program for Media artist of the younger and middle generation from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Wrocław
  • Section: Visual Arts

CYCLE UP! Sustainable Residency Programme © Goethe-Institut

CYCLE UP! Sustainable Residency Programme

Residency for artists of all disciplines who would like to develop artistic perspectives on bicycle cultures and communities in Berlin, Katowice, Prague, Bratislava, and Tartu.

  • Call for applications: Yes
  • Location: Berlin, Katowice, Prague, Bratislava, Tartu
  • Section: All arts

Under High Pressure – Media freedom in Europe © Sandra Kastl

Journalism - Under (high) pressure

Residency program for journalists from regional or national media in one of the member states of the European Union.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Brussels
  • Section: Journalism

Caminito Buenos Aires Photo (detail): OPARA (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Urra Cerrito

Residency programme for artists from Munich

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Buenos Aires
  • Section: Visual Arts

Nouveau Grand Tour

Multidisciplinary program

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Europe-wide
  • Section: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Design, Media

Residenzprogramme Author: San Jose, 27 November 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1483026, Änderungen vorgenommen

Artificial Intelligence Autumn Session #AIAS

An opportunity for shared learning and knowledge exchange for emerging artists and researchers.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Glasgow
  • Section: Computer science, Humanities 

Artist Residency at the National Library of Scotland

New Forms of Togetherness

A contribution to the discussion around the use of Artificial Intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Glasgow
  • Section: Visual arts, Media

Vietnam © David Finck, 2010

Vietnam Grant of the Free State of Saxony

Program for artists from Saxony (Germany).

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Hanoi
  • Section: Visual Arts

Sámi headwear Photo (detail): The Finnish Heritage Agency

Tandem-Residenz

Experts and artists in the field of cultural heritage, material culture, provenance and colonial repercussions

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Helsinki, Sápmi
  • Section: Architecture, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Literature, Film, Cultural Criticism & Cultural Theory, Curation

Visual “Sinti* and Roma* art in context” Artists-in-Residence program © Goethe-Institut

Heidelberg: “Sinti* and Roma* art in context” Artists-in-Residence program

Residence program for internationally well-known and up-and-coming artists and cultural sector professionals from the Sinti* and Roma* communities

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Heidelberg 
  • Section: photography, literature, illustration, comics, theater, movie screenwriting, music
 

The Victoria Habour in Hong Kong © Paul Hui

2 Months 24/7

Program for artists from Germany and Hong Kong.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Hong Kong, Berlin
  • Section: Film

Logo of the Tarabya Cultural Academy © Tarabya Cultural Academy

Kulturakademie Tarabya

Residency program for artists of various sections.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Istanbul
  • Section: Architecture, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Literature, Film, Cultural Theory, Music

Visual Nouveau Grand Tour © Institut français d'Italie

Italy: Nouveau Grand Tour 2023

Residency programme for young talents from all arts

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Various locations in Italy
  • Section: All arts

Indo-European Residency Kolkata

Indo-European Residency, India

Program for artists of all artistic genres from Germany, France and India.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Kolkata
  • Section: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, Music, Literature, Media

Pristina © Arben Llapashtica

Prishtina has no river

Program for Writers and translators from southern Europe and Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Kosovo
  • Section: Literature

Kasárne/Cultural Park (Košice Artist in Residence) © Marek Chalabala

Artist in Residence

Program for artists from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Košice 
  • Section: Visual Arts

Artist residency at Lostgens © Lostgens

Artist Residency at Lostgens

Program for artists from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Kuala Lumpur
  • Section: Visual Arts

Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa © Andreas Schiekofer

Villa Kamogawa

Program for artists and people active in culture from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Kyoto
  • Section: Architecture, Cultural Criticism & Cultural Theory, Design, Literature, Film, Perfoming Arts, Visual Arts, Music

Spinnerei Leipzig © Uwe-Walter

Nordic Leipzig 2023

Three-month residency at the Spinnerei Leipzig

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Leipzig
  • Section: Visual Arts

Banksy does Brexit (detail) Foto: dullhunk Foto (crop): dullhunk © https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

(Re)-Collecting Europe – Journalism Residency

Program for journalist by profession and living in the UK or another European Country.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: London 
  • Section: Journalism

Stal Art Oman © Gabriele Landwehr

Artist Residency "Stal Gallery"

Program for Visual Artists from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Maskat
  • Section: Visual Arts

Composer Anna Korsun working on an unusual score. Photo (detail): Anna Korsun © Konrad Fersterer

Residency for New Music, Montréal

This residency is addressed to composers who have at least two years of artistic practice. 

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Montréal
  • Section: Performing Arts 

Dance residency in Montreal: Ben J. Riepe Photo (detail): Ben J. Riepe © Ben J. Riepe

Choreography Residency in Montreal

This residency is addressed to choreographers, dancers and emerging artists living and working in Germany. 

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Montréal
  • Section: Performing Arts

Art & Design Residency Namur Photo: Jean-Francois Flamey

Art Residency – Imagining Ecological Futures

Program for artists, students and recent graduates in the art and/or design field from Germany and Belgium.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Namur
  • Section: Visual Arts, Design

Residency Fellow Ye Zhaoyan in front of the Nanjing city wall (2008) © Ye Zhaoyan

Cultures in Contact - Artists in Residence

Program for writers from Nanjing and Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Nanjing
  • Section: Literature

Nida Art Colony © Nida Art Colony

Residency for „Nida Art Colony“

Program for Graduates of four German art colleges.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Nida
  • Section: Visual Arts

Goethe auf Mallorca 2024 © Centre Cultural Casa Planas

Goethe auf Mallorca

Residency program for artistic research and production

  • Call for applications: Yes
  • Location: Palma de Mallorca
  • Section: Visual arts, Curation

Reading with the scholar Uwe Rada, 2014 © Marko Cerovac

Residency at the House of Literature Pazin

Program for Writers and literary translators from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Pazin
  • Section: Literature

Peking Residenzprogramm für Darstellende Kunst © Goethe-Institut Peking

Residency for Visual Arts

Program for Artists based in Germany whose work has already been publicly exhibited or published may apply for the residency in the visual arts. 

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Beijing
  • Section: Visual Arts

Peking Residenzprogramm für Darstellende Kunst © Goethe-Institut Peking

Residence of Performing Arts

Residence for artists of the performing arts (focus on dance).

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Beijing
  • Section: Performing arts

Reykjavik / Island: Writer-in-Residence-Programme 2020 Photo: Reykjavik / Island © Colourbox-web

Reykjavik / Island: Writer-in-Residence

Residence program for German authors in the fields fiction, poetry and children’s books.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Reykjavik 
  • Section: Literature

View from patio © Gabriela Randig

Vila Sul

Intellectuals, artists, scientists and authors of all disciplines and interdisciplinary working or researching persons.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Salvador de Bahia
  • Section: Architecture, Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Design, Film, Literature, Cultural Criticism & Cultural Theory, Curation, Science

“Artivistic“ Residency in Southern Chile: ENVIRONMENT+ART, Los Batros - Laguna Grande (Lake) Photo (detail) © Flavia Hechem

​Artivistic Residency ENVIRONMENT + ART

Residency program for visual artists who are willing to get involved with the culture and specificity of the region.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: San Pedro de La Paz
  • Section: Visual Arts

Open Call: Artist-in-Residence at Stiftung Tajamar, Santiago de Chile Photo (detail) © Fundación Tajamar 2019

Fundación Tajamar + Goethe-Institut

Residency program for artistic proposals connected with public space, architecture and site specific.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Santiago de Chile
  • Section: Architecture

Resonancias © NAVE

Resonancias

French-German residency programme for researchers

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Santiago de Chile
  • Section: Architecture, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Design, Literature, Film

Seydisfjordur, Residency © Paula Prats/Goethe-Institut Dänemark

Artist-in-Residence

Program for Visual artists from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Seyðisfjörður
  • Section: Visual Arts

Shanghai Residenzprogramm mit der Design School der chinesischen Akademie der Künste ??

Institute of Design - China Academy of Art

Residency program with the Institute of Design of the China Academy of Art for artists.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Shanghai
  • Section: Visual Arts

Virtual Tandem Residency

Musicians who live and work in Berlin or Singapore.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Singapore, Berlin
  • Section: Music

Taipei © Goethe-Institut

Art Residency Program

Residence program for Artists from Munich.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Taipei
  • Section: Visual Arts

The Art of Being Good Key visual: Tallinn Art Hall

Artists in Residence

Artist in Residence Programme for professional artists living in Germany

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Tallinn
  • Section: Visual Arts

Skyline Tel Aviv Photo: iStockphoto/ Eldad Carin

Bronner Residency

Residency Program for  Artists from North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany).

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Tel Aviv
  • Section: Visual Arts

Residency Program A.R.T. (Artist in Residency Tetovo) © CBC Loja

Artist in Residency Tetovo

For artists based in Germany or German nationals living abroad

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Tetovo
  • Section: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Media, Music

Residenz Tijuana © Goethe-Institut Mexico

Residency Program Tijuana, Mexico

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Tijuana
  • Section: Visual Arts

Artist Dagie Brundert (2012) © Dagie Brundert

Goethe-Lift Filmmaker Residence

Program for Filmmakers from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Toronto
  • Section: Film

Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi Photo: Alice Boner Institut

Alice Boner Residency

The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi is awarding two fellowships for a residency programme at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi, India. The residencies will be for the periods: September - October 2020 and November - December 2022.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Varanasi
  • Section: Videual Arts, Literature, Performing Art, Design, Cultural Criticism & Cultural Theory

Mongolei +-40°С Photo: © Rentsendorj Bazarsukh

Photography-Residence in Ulan Bator, Mongolei

Residence program for photographers from Germany.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Ulan Bator
  • Section: Visual Arts

Radio Art Residency © Radio Art Residency

Radio Art Residency, Weimar

Residency program for music, radio, performance and sound artists.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Weimar
  • Section: Media, Visual Arts, Performing Arts

Residensi Cemeti 2019 © Cemeti

Artist-in-Resicency - Cemeti-Institute for Art and Society

Residency for visual arts, with a specific interest in arts and social practice.

  • Call for applications: No
  • Location: Yogyakarta
  • Section: Visual Arts 


Contact

Florian Römmert
Consultant for Residence Work
residenzen@goethe.de

Isumi Patricia Rögner
Residence Work
residenzen@goethe.de

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