The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Heiner Goebbels’ immersive, site-specific installations, which blend contemporary sound with striking visual elements to create thought‑provoking encounters. On view: 15th March 2026 - 31st May 2026
BreAIk, ChAInge, RegenerAIte is an art-technology residency that invites artists, cultural producers, designers, and creative professionals to see how AI creates our worlds rather than seeing the world through AI.
In 2025, India celebrated the 9th edition of the Science Film Festival. The Goethe-Institutes in India in collaboration with their respective partner schools and institutions, hosted the festival from October to December. This time, the festival focused on “Green Jobs”.
Wim Wenders – King of the Road – The India Tour, a first-of-its-kind retrospective dedicated to one of the greatest masters of world cinema. The retrospective took place in the presence of Wim Wenders, who visited India for the first time in 2025.
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).
Empowerment: Art and Feminisms is a South Asian travelling multidisciplinary exhibition, showcasing the work of thirty one feminist artists or artist collectives. It looks at inclusion at all levels and showcases the voices and rights of various gender and social minorities, expecially in the context of South Asia.
The year-long project endeavoured to offer space for reflection, dialogue and creative work for young literary translators in the South Asia region. It culminated in an exciting assignment of translating selected works of Franz Kafka into eight South Asian languages, which one can read and listen to on this platform. The project will continue to maintain the spirit within the framework of forthcoming regional projects.
The exhibition project »Critical Zones« invites visitors to engage with the critical situation of the Earth in a novel and diverse way and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life.
This project aims at building on existing work done by Goethe-Instituts on trainings for cultural managers and develop cultural management expertise. It will involve setting up a curriculum for a summer school and the publication of the results as part of a book sprint made available online as an Open Educational Resource (OER)
M.A.P // A.M.P is a new podcast series by Goethe-Institut that aims to map the role of music in activism, movements, and protests. Host Bhanuj Kappal explores the intersection of music and activism in the South Asian Context, aided by musicians, academics and cultural organisations from across the subcontinent.
The current global situation demands a stronger and renewed focus on the environment. State of Nature intends to create a broader conversation between multi-disciplinary ideas of nature, as a way of opening new discourses, in the framework of the Anthropocene. The project began in 2018 and continues till date.
C3: Codes, Creativity, Communities is a year-long program that welcomes participants from the fields of culture and technology to expand their imagination and creativity through collaborative engagements, toward cultural production and civil society concerns.
