Delfina Residency

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The Goethe-Institut London and Delfina Foundation offer residencies in collaboration. Their joint residency programmes have different curatorial foci on contemporary art and everyday life. 
 
Since its inception in 2010, Delfina Foundation and the Goethe-Institut London supported several cultural practitioners’ residency programmes. In 2010, Asli Sungu explored the field of Turkish migration in contemporary art. In 2012, Jamila Adeli investigated London’s museum landscape, curational practices and cultural connections between Europe and the Middle East. And in 2015, curator Marianna Liosi examined the effects of digitalisation on the public sphere. 
 
By offering residencies, Delfina Foundation and the Goethe-Institute London provided opportunities for artists, curators and writers to develop their practice, explore connections, and build collaborations with peers, communities and institutions. 

Winter 2025

science_technology_societyseeks to support contemporary interdisciplinary approaches that consider, intervene in, and speculate on the world in which we live and its possible futures.

The third season ofscience_technology_societyexplores how emergent technologies complicate our understanding of mental well-being. The season probes the potential for intersecting art, science, and technology to reimagine mental health support, justice, and pride.
We live in a time in which mental suffering appears to be both increasingly profound and ever-proliferating. It is common to hear arguments about how the development of digital technologies has exacerbated our mental health crisis — as they drastically shape our sense of self, social relationships, as well as living and labouring conditions. However, those same technological advances are often held up as offering solutions, including opening up new possibilities of forging connections, building support systems, and addressing marginalised needs.
Against this fast-evolving socio-political, technological, and discursive backdrop, the winter 2025 residency season at Delfina Foundation invites practitioners to depart from the following questions: how could we re-examine the conceptualisation of ‘mental health’ today? What new mental landscapes could we envision? What forms of radical Mad knowledge and structures of care could we produce?
 
Find out more on the Delfina Website.