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Cultural BuildingsWell Worth Seeing

Tourist magnets, architecture as theatre and cultural flagships: buildings like the newly-opened Elbphilharmonie are meant to enhance culture with their spectacular architecture – and positively influence the development of a city or a region. But does it work?

Halfdan Pisket - Denmark - Changing the picture

Illustration (detail): © Halfdan Pisket

goethe.de/schweden/picturepoliticsPicture Politics

Comic artists and illustrators confront prejudices, fears and fake news about the refugee crisis.

Australian Aboriginal artist Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula at work.

Photo (detail): © picture alliance / Mint Images

Non-European Art
“We don't want to be like you”

Western art museums rarely exhibit contemporary, indigenous art. Ethnologist Mona Suhrbier believes that the art world has to rethink how it approaches the unfamiliar. [more …]

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Sri Lanka

Television in public interest

The Goethe-Institut Sri Lanka supports TV experts in their effort to create television that caters to the public interest. The annual international public television (INPUT) conference offers fresh impulses.

Wohin? 21 Fragen zu Flucht und Migration

Photo: Nassim Rouchiche

Wohin?Where To? 21 Questions on Flight and Migration

One theme, 21 questions, around 49 authors and intellectuals: the project "Where To?" shows how differently the theme of "flight and migration" is experienced and pondered all around the world.

Dancing in Sri Lanka

The Goethe-Institut offers the possibility to exchange ideas with different formats to professional dancers as well as students who would like to think outside the box of their traditional dance spectrum.

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MagazineNews from culture and society in Germany and Sri Lanka

Cultural BuildingsWell Worth Seeing

goethe.de/schweden/picturepoliticsPicture Politics

Non-European Art
“We don't want to be like you”

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Sri Lanka

Television in public interest

Wohin?Where To? 21 Questions on Flight and Migration

Dancing in Sri Lanka

Quick access:

Open Call Photography ProjectPhotography Project ‘Humanity and Earth’

Film Series28 Years with and without the wall

Cultural BuildingsWell Worth Seeing

goethe.de/schweden/picturepoliticsPicture Politics

Non-European Art “We don't want to be like you”

Television in public interest

Wohin?Where To? 21 Questions on Flight and Migration

Dancing in Sri Lanka

Non-European Art
“We don't want to be like you”