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Science Film Festival 2025

The Science Film Festival focuses on Green Jobs in 2025, highlighting professions that are essential in promoting and preserving the environment. Green jobs provide young people with an opportunity to not only create a meaningful impact on the world, but also build a sustainable career.

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INTERSECTIONS & INTERVENTIONS: BARWE & KLEE

The project intends to bring two artists and their artistic as well as theoretical/pedagogical ideas into an exciting dialogue: Prabhakar Barwe (1936-1995), artist of the second wave of Indian modernism based in Maharashtra, and Paul Klee (1879-1940), a Swiss-German modern artist and teacher at the Bauhaus University in the 1920s in Germany.

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Seed Stories

By uniting experts, seed savers and artists, Seed Stories seeks to reclaim the cultural and ecological significance of native seed diversity and envision a future where seeds are seen as repositories of resilience and hope.

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26.07.2025 - 31.05.2026 | ZKM, Karlsruhe

Assembling Grounds. Practices of Coexistence

In July 2025, »Fellow Travellers« will open at the ZKM, Karlsruhe the new exhibition chapter »Assembling Grounds: Practices of Coexistence«. The chapter was developed in India and Sri Lanka on the basis of the ZKM traveling exhibition »Critical Zones.InSearch of a Common Ground« (2022–24).

Farmers of the forest, 2024 | Artist: Abhijit Patil © Abhijit Patil © Abhijit Patil

Science Film Festival 2025

In 2025, India will celebrate the 9th edition of the Science Film Festival. The Goethe-Institut(s) in New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Bangalore, and Goethe Zentrum Hyderabad, in collaboration with their respective partner schools and institutions, will host the festival from October to December. This year, the festival focuses on “Green Jobs”.

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ENRST JANDL 100 YEARS : LOUDER. QUIETER..

To celebrate the life and work of Ernst Jandl, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Pune is presenting a special exhibition that brings his poetry to life in a multisensory format. Through 3D installations, soundscapes, visual projections, and artistic interpretations, the exhibition explores Jandl’s groundbreaking use of sound, structure, and space.

Ernst Jandl (Quadrat) Ernst Jandl, 1996, © Aleksandra Pawloff www.pawloff.com Ernst Jandl, 1996, © Aleksandra Pawloff www.pawloff.com

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