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  • Henrike Grohs Award © Art: Ferdinand Makouvia , Photo: Excerpt of a photo by Peter Houston

    Henrike Grohs Art Award

    We have just announced 
    Jackie Karuti as the winner of the 2020 Henrike Grohs Art Award! She will be awarded with a 20 000€ cash prize and 10 000€ towards a publication of her work. 

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    Language Courses online

    We have revamped all our courses so that you can do them online as well, no matter if you are using a smartphone, tablet or laptop. Classes start on July 15th! For more information and to enroll, click here!

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    Call For ProposalsGoethe-Institut Project Space

    The Goethe-Institut South Africa is accepting proposals for the 2021 Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) grant, which supports artistic projects all over South Africa with up to R60,000! Deadline: 17 August 2020.

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    Kulturama.digital

    Kulturama brings international culture into your living room. Organisers enter their events and open them to international audiences. Spectators can find dates and support artists with donations.

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The Goethe-Institut South Africa is accepting proposals for the 2021 Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) grant, which supports artistic projects all over South Africa with up to R60,000! Deadline: 17 August 2020.

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Digital Latitude-Festival

The digital festival Latitude presented a programme of artistic contributions and debates, exploring the question of how colonial structures impact the present and how we can overcome them. You can find most contributions in "Media".

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Both climate change and its resulting increase in extreme weather as well as the recurring danger of global financial crisis leads our society to investigate the possibilities and methods of ecological and economical sustainability much more than we used to.

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Henrike Grohs Award © Art: Ferdinand Makouvia , Photo: Excerpt of a photo by Peter Houston

Henrike Grohs Prize for African Artists

The Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have announced a prize in memory of Henrike Grohs, who died on 13 March 2016 in a terrorist attack in the Ivory Coast.

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