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  • Hub@Goethe © Goethe-Institut Südafrika / Shirin Motala

    Hub@Goethe Open Call 2018

    The Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg is inviting applications from cultural and social start-up ventures for Hub@Goethe's second intake commencing in September 2018 for six months. Application deadline: 29/06/2018.

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    Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS)Call for proposals 2019

    The Open Call for projects to be realised in 2019 (February to November) is now available. Application deadline is 6 August 2018.
    Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) will support work realised all over South Africa ranging from workshops to exhibitions, events and performances; including visual art, literature, film, music, dance and theatre projects.

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    16.06.2018 | 12:00 Gamebox Opening:
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    The first curated video game showcase in our Gamebox focuses on football. Join us for the opening and a fun filled family day all around the beautiful game.

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    20.6.2018 | 18:30 Imagination Night #5: Hub@Goethe special edition (hosting ourselves)

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Wolfgang Tillmans at the exhibition opening on 12 January 2018 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédias in Kinshasa. Photo: CatherineTrautes

Wolfgang Tillmans in Kinshasa
A picture of the times

For the first time, a solo exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans can be seen on the African continent. Entitled Fragile, it opened in Kinshasa on 12 January 2018 in the presence of the artist. In an interview with Patrick Mudekereza, Tillmans talks about his impressions of the first station of the ifa touring exhibition, which is realised in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Kinshasa.  [more …]

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„It brings us closer together“

The library of the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg houses a "cultural entrepreneurship hub". Curator Nthato Malope speaks about the special place, the work he does with the different hubbers and his participation in the Munich Creative Business Week. [more …]

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Fukushima, Mon Amour: Film focuses on life after the disaster

Peter Machen speaks to leading German filmmaker Doris Dörrie about her remarkable film Fukushima, Mon Amour which screened at the Durban International Film Festival as part of the German Focus. [more …]

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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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I am Science

The I Am Science or Digital Access to Knowledge project aims, in the short term, to increase interest in and meaningful understanding of basic scientific concepts among early high-school girls in disadvantaged, urban areas which will support them to continue studying science at school. 

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Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) is a multi-disciplinary roving project space that follows on GoetheOnMain, which was based at Arts On Main in Johannesburg from May 2009 to November 2016. 

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