We foster bilateral cultural exchange programs between Germany and Indonesia. We initiate film series, exhibitions, concerts, seminars and festivals, always with the goal to facilitate artistic production, reception and reflection involving actors from both countries.
Nusasonic is a multi-year project that plunges into a broad spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, enabling dialogue within the region, with Europe.
Fake news, black campaigns, online radicalization, hate speech, content filters: nearly every society in the world has experienced the negative side effects of our hyper-connected, digital communication systems.
In 2019, the event takes place internationally in over 20 countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa from October 07 to December 23.
Making profits and at the same time contributing to the alleviation of social and environmental problems—no longer a contradiction. “Social entrepreneurship” combines business and social sustainability.
Festival hits, award winners, crowd favourites - the best of fresh German movies in the cinemas in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Makassar and Denpasar.
In the series Alur Bunyi, the Goethe-Institut presents and discusses contemporary positions of experimental (not just) electronic music from Indonesia and Germany. This year's edition of Alur Bunyi is curated by Harsya Wahono.
A public forum of sociologists and historians from South America, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia illuminate the processes of “decolonization” from different philosophical, cultural and historical perspectives.
The “5 Islands / 5 villages” project examines the different perspectives concerning periphery and distance as well as time and timeliness using the medium of documentary film. This is a collaborative project initiated in 2015 that includes Goethe-Institut Indonesien, HFBK Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg), Universitas Indonesia and In-Docs.
Data penetrates and influences every facet of society. Increasingly more governmental and non-governmental bodies make their data accessible to the public, which in turn enables actors from civil society to use it.
Games have become an asset that enables a global networked industry gains billions in profit. Games are used to convey information and facilitate learning.
This on-line anthology aims to give an insight into the rich world of stories from the Indonesian Archipelago, taking the reader to different islands, ethnic groups, languages and religions
Southeast Asia is a region in which textiles play a hugely important role. Not only are textiles produced in many countries, but there is also rapid consumption of textiles in cosmopolitan cities.
Mutual Unknown exhibition is derived from “Mutual Unknown” - a term proposed by the CuratorsLAB to refer to the fact that we have still yet to learn properly about each other.