Culture

Goethe-Institut Nigeria’s Dreaming New Worlds project is designed to provide a space to investigate the new frontier posed by the prevalence of emerging technologies in the world and the role which the creative sector plays in shaping it.

The "Connecting the Dots" project (2023-2025) aims at facilitating community engagement with public museums in Nigeria through the establishment of a young scholars museum fellowship program and a youth education program. It is implemented by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria together with The Ford Foundation. Up to six Nigerian museums will participate in the program over a period of two years.

For the past years, Goethe-Institut Nigeria has supported a wide range of projects created and implemented by Nigerian artists and initiatives in various art forms: music, contemporary dance, photography, films, theatre, visual arts and many more. Goethe-Institut Nigeria also supports artists, who are invited to festivals or cultural projects in Germany or on the African continent but do not have enough funding to travel.

KDW and its program presents a space, an open space to tear through concepts that shape our world today. Facilitated by performances from genre-defying musicians and performance acts in dialogue with writers, artists, activists and thinkers, KDW events are intimate social gatherings where the performance acts engage participatorily with the audience, exploring big ideas on art, culture, and life. It also offers a glimpse into the inspirations, creative process and ongoing projects of the leading acts.

Art/Space Negotiations is a project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Nigeria in 2022. Its focus is to support discussions on space availability, accessibility, and utilization for critical art in Lagos. Critical art, in this context, may be described as both conventional and unconventional/experimental artistic practices, provoked by societal realities and whose primary aims tends towards analytic aesthetics.

We Make Books (2022-2023) is an initiative of Goethe-Institut Nigeria that aims at capacity building, international exchange, and networking of small and medium-sized art publishers, editors and writers within/across Africa.

The House of African Feminisms (HoAF) is a platform for feminist discourse, resource and enlightenment. The project aims at highlighting the works of various African feminist scholars, artists and thinkers around the world as well as providing a resource on African feminisms.

Bibliophile’s Corner is a Goethe-Institut Lagos initiative designed to foster a love of literature. By highlighting and supporting vibrant literary communities like book clubs and libraries, we aim to create inclusive spaces where young people can critically engage with Nigerian and international literature. Our goal is to inspire and preserve literary appreciation in the lives of Nigerian youths. We do this by platforming and democratizing information about book clubs, authors and texts we engage with.