Funded projects

The project “Atlas Brasiliensis – a counter-narrative of the Rainforests” questions the colonial imaginary of the Amazon Rainforest and its human and non-human inhabitants, which was shaped by German expeditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

By addressing the historical erasure of women* and gender-nonconforming, queer feminist artists, this project counters the threat of disappearing feminist archives and emphasizes the necessity of networking and exchanging between archives in different contexts globally.

The project is inspired by the Congolese artistic trope of partagisme — mode of artistic production that emerged around 2017 with ties to the Academy of Fine Arts of Kinshasa, in which two or more actors contribute to the same artistic object — and by the recent international exhibitions that sought to overcome the single authorship fetish rooted in the Western artistic canon.

Dhārā [flow of a stream] is an artisan-artist residency rooted in Sonargaon, a historic weaving hub along the Shitalakshya River in Bangladesh. The residency nurtures an ongoing exchange between past and future, anchored in a decolonial and anti-classist ethos, where weavers and artists collaborate as co-creators.

The Rehearsal & The Playbook is an inquiry into the dynamics of authoritarianism and populism, offering a critical case study while connecting these insights to global trends using collective and processual knowledge production through artistic research, collaboration, and solidarity practices.