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Residencies

Taking up a residency can be one of the most inspiring and rewarding opportunities for cultural practitioners and artists. Our residency programmes focus on professional development, artistic exchange and facilitating artistic research and processes. We believe conceptualising and making new work in a different location and context nurtures creative thinking, promotes experimentation and offers new perspectives. Often offering opportunities to collaborative with others, residencies allow artists’ practices to thrive and unfold. We work across forms including dance, visual arts, music, technology, theatre, journalism and more.

Here you can find our current residencies. 
 

Juliana Huxtable: I should be doing something else right now © Juliana Huxtable

Digital Residencies
Goethe-Institut x Somerset House Studios Residency

Goethe-Institut London and Somerset House Studios are collaborating to establish an international artist residency programme to support a Germany-based artist working at the intersection of music, art and technology for a period of three months. 

An artwork consisting of a colourful model paper city, with miniature houses and buildings © 2021-Present Charles Young

Nordic Leipzig

February marks the start of this year’s Spinnerei residency, Goethe-Institut’s collaboration with Leipzig International Art Programme to bring together artists from Scotland, Scandinavia and Germany.

The logo for the CROWD dance residency © Goethe-Institut London

Dance
CROWD – International Dance Exchange

6 chosen artists from the UK, Netherlands, Finland and Germany come together to cultivate their dance practices and networks. 

Street art by Banksy: a man on a ladder chiselling away at one of the stars on the European flag. © dullhunk

Residency Programme: Journalism/Writing
(Re-)Collecting Europe

This residency invites two journalists from European countries to investigate, question, debate and reflect on the impact of Brexit on the British civil society.

 

Illustration: World map with three different coloured buildings in the foreground. Author: San Jose, 27 November 2006, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1483026, changes done

All Genres
Residencies worldwide

The Goethe-Institut's worldwide residency programmes invite artists to live and work in a different country for a set period of time.
Browse our opportunities!

 

Three people talking to each other through glass © Lisa Hermsdorf

Past Residencies

Find out more about our previous residency programmes, participants and their projects. 

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