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In Search of a Common Ground
Critical Zones

For a long time the reactions of Earth to our human actions remained unnoticed, but in recent times with the protest movement Fridays for Future climate crisis has moved into public consciousness. The thought exhibition »CRITICAL ZONES« invites us to deal with the CRITICAL situation of the Earth in various ways and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life.

About the Project

The Exhibition Tour

Podcasts

Podcasts are the modern equivalent of good audiobooks, great albums, and well-curated radio stations. Our list of podcasts features a variety of genres, so you're sure to find your new favourite.

Anniversary
Celebrating 100 Years of Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys would have turned 100 in 2021. In celebration, we’ve gathered videos and events on Beuys from our colleagues and partners — and included some 2021 perspectives on the artist’s work.

Music festivals in Germany
Where the Wild Tunes are

Music festivals are an integral part of the German cultural landscape, and for many Germans they are among the most enjoyable activities of the year. Get to know some of the most interesting ones acoustically and in pictures!

Film, Media & Digital Culture

Graphic: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut

Back to the Big Screen
Berlinale Bloggers 2023

A constantly evolving Festival: This is how the 73rd Berlinale, which runs from 16 to 26 February 2023, describes itself. Our bloggers from nine countries are also curiously moving back and forth between the film festival's cinemas – and presenting their highlights from a selection of more than 400 films.

Berlinale Bloggers 2023
Flames of love

Berlinale 2023
The beautiful dawn of normality

Nick Holzthum from New York is dependent on a wheelchair, but at the Parkchester underground stop in the Bronx he is forced to crawl to the platform. Although the subway station was renovated in 2010 and since then the entrance has been at ground level with an automatic barrier for passengers who have wheelchairs, prams and wheeled luggage – there are no lifts to access the train level.

Home Office
The Hybrid Generation

It isn’t just the big international tech corporations who are holding heated discussions about staff returning to the office in summer 2022. Plenty of employees would like to remain at home in Germany too: what makes the home office so attractive?

Virtual worlds as an opportunity for inclusion

Inclusion through Technology
The Freedom of Virtual Worlds

Formats like virtual reality, the metaverse, or 3D animation can allow people with disabilities to walk, express themselves, or move. Uruguayan artist Fabián Barros experiments with virtual environments and talks about how technology can fuel inclusion.

Installation in response to the 2020 US presidental election

Disinformation
Hunting Down Fake News

In the worst case, targeted disinformation can become a real and present threat to our democracy. A number of initiatives in Germany have responded by taking on the mission of fact checking information on the net.

Literature & Knowledge

The Infinite Library

The Infinite Library is a travelling installation that uses VR and other media to reimagine the future of libraries as interactive spaces that engage visitors through multisensory forms of storytelling.

The Infinite Library Tour

Experience "The Infinite Library"

Communication
Ferngespräch

Quite a number of words are still firmly established in German language use today – even though they came into existence at a time that barely has anything to do with our diverse present. In this series, Elisabeth Wellershaus tries to fathom them out and reinterpret them from a decolonial perspective. This time she takes a look at the term “Ferngespräch”.

A black and white film still, on the right you see the witch handing Snow White, sitting on the left, an apple.

Gender Images in Literature
Of Angels, Monsters and Departing Women

Since time immemorial, Western literature has been characterised by stereotypical notions of gender. Myths and fairy tales, classical and modern literature are teeming with brave courageous heroes and long-suffering female figures. What is going on here and what is the negotiation actually about?

Kim de l'Horizon is delighted to receive the German Book Prize 2022

Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
German Book Prize 2022 goes to Kim de l'Horizon

How do you write about people who are neither male nor female? Kim de l’Horizon showed how in “Blutbuch” (Blood Book). At the award ceremony in Frankfurt, Kim shaved their head bald – and thanked their mother.

Articles on further genres

Art gallery and music shop in the historical Pelurinho District of Salvador Bahia

Visual Arts

Illustration eines Malers und einer Skulptur

Dance and Theatre

Music

Architecture

Society

Freedom

Commemorating 75 years of India's independence with 75 contributions, Freedom brings together artists, authors and thinkers from India and Germany to explore what freedom means to individuals and societies in a modern democracy.

Freedom in India and Germany

Artistic Contributions on Freedom

Feminism

What are the vital issues that women and feminists in South Asia and Germany today consider to be of burning importance, what are they concerned about? And what else is there still to do? This is a showcase of people who are involved in the field of culture and who are dealing with the hottest feminist issues and debates of the moment.

Once Upon a Tomorrow

Once Upon a Tomorrow brings together narrative experts to think, explore, prototype — and imagine new modes of narrative change that lead to collective action of hope.

Standstill

The earth rotates, everything is in constant motion, change is a necessity. It’s high time for a magazine dedicated to stillness: a collection of pieces from international artists and writers in homage to standstills and their poetic beauty.

Modern Life

Boarding!
Graphic Travelogues

Join us on this special journey and immerse yourself in new worlds: Graphic Travelogues presents travel experiences by comic artists from different countries. From sketches to graphic novels, graphic diaries and travel drawings - discover with us the treasures we collect here.

Graphic Travelogues #Murals

Graphic Travelogues #Culinary

People are standing outside a Berlin club, one person is drinking a cocktail.

Frankly ... Berlin
New Berlin Time-Reckoning

After we reckon time “based on Jesus Christ” for more than two millennia now, our columnist Seyda Kurt is now searching for a new method for Berlin: For the next months she will write here about Berlin, queer feminism and a whole lot else to look forward to!

It would be hard to find a sport that is older, more egalitarian, or more popular: jogging has somehow always been around.

Jogging
Shoes, Sex and the Freedom of Just Taking Off Running

It would be hard to find a sport that is older, more egalitarian, or more popular: a tribute to endurance running.

Pet Tigers
Cats Are (As Yet) Always Good Content!

“Cats are always good content” has been an unwritten and irrefutable marketing law since the commercial internet was invented. No great surprise, really, since the fluffy pet tiger still tops the list of Germans’ favourite animals. Ten famous cats from art, politics and social media.

Sustainability

Zeitgeister

Which topics and discourses are we dealing with worldwide? The online magazine Zeitgeister invites experts, artists and authors to a joint exchange. It offers local and global perspectives - on postcolonialism, sustainability, post-digital cultures, feminism and current affairs.

POLLUTION

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

Dance party with a dark side: open-air music festivals emit huge amounts of CO2.

Green Touring
Culture Should Not Destroy the Climate

Artists and producers from the music scene are actively interested in environmental conservation. Some question whether preventing plastic waste at festivals and concerts is enough though when the travel involved in touring itself produces tons of CO2.

Meenal has been working as a waste picker in Mumbai for 20 years.

Recycling in Mumbai
The Megacity’s Busy Bees

They pick up, sort through and gather together recyclables. Without its 300,000 waste pickers, the city of Mumbai would probably drown in its own rubbish.

How a sustainable Munich might look in the future.

Constructive Climate Communication
A Discourse About the Future that Gives Rise to Hope

Positive visions of and narratives about the future are rare, yet these are precisely what we need if we are to move away from polarization and a sense of hopelessness and embrace a proactive approach. An appeal for constructive climate communication.

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