Photo: Masimba Sasa / Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
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We promote cultural exchange between Germany and South Africa. We initiate film series, exhibitions, concerts, seminars and festivals which involve bilateral artistic production, reception and reflection.
Nkosi Sikelel is a project initiated by Isaac Zavale and Huston Wilson. The visual intervention focuses quite literally on the famous phrase, its various translations, as well as the style of mural text that has come to be associated with township commerce and spaces of consumption.
The book box "African Worlds" is a literary canon of diverse books within which the protagonists are from Africa and which experience and master exciting adventures in their countries.
“Hack Ur Culture” is a platform that brings together GLAM institutions (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) with creative minds and tech enthusiasts to bring about collaborations and innovations from open cultural data.
The online exhibition Archive of Forgetfulness is an archive of mobility, infrastructure and story-telling; it holds together acts of remembering, collecting and gathering stories often untold.
LAPA invites practicing artists based in South Africa, to become a resident of Brixton to develop/explore new Pan-African artistic trajectories. Our very first artist residency has now begun!
In 2020, the Outreach Foundation, based in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, received a grant from the International Relief Fund of the Goethe-Institut, the German Federal Foreign Office and other foundations and cultural intermediary organisations.
We offer a process of asking whose feminism? What feminism? Why feminism? The process seeks to pay tribute/homage to women seen and unseen, those remembered and those forgotten.
Three artists perform short concerts in front of a small, select audience in the Goethe-Institut’s library, while their performances are recorded and then later released in a video series.
'Sustainable Together' is a regional project that focuses on sustainability and civil society initiatives that seek to make an impactful contribution to improving (local) environment.
Silent Book club is about meeting other like-minded readers, chatting about what other people are reading and then reading together in companionable silence.
Virtual Gatherings is a series of online discussions with honoured author Zukiswa Wanner, through which she explores contemporary African literature with authors.
"Decolonise The Internet" questions inequality in the world wide web and highlights how algorhythms aggravate racisms. The regional project aims to increase knowledge and visibility for African and Womxn issues on the web.
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.
Training for the Future is a utopian training camp where audiences are turned into trainees to pre-enact alternative scenarios and reclaim the means of production of the future.
The Journey | New Positions in African Photography documents the collaborations between 17 young African photographers and their mentors – international curators and practitioners.
A flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town takes a good two hours. A train ride? At least 27 hours, without air conditioning. Why would anyone want to do that, especially in South African summer?
The Goethe-Institut is happy to play a role in the revival of the Drive-In cinema, and proud to introduce four groundbreaking recent films from the African continent.
The Science Film Festival promotes science literacy and facilitates awareness of contemporary scientific, technological and environmental issues through the screening of film content with accompanying educational activities.
Our #GoetheAtHome series is all about the people! Every week, one staff member has a portrait made and talks about their work at the Goethe and what is going on with them right now.
150 Deutschlerner*innen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren qualifizieren sich in nationalen Vorentscheiden in über 75 Teilnahmeländern und werden aus allen fünf Kontinenten nach Deutschland reisen.
From June 4the until 6the, the digital Latitude festival presented a programme of artistic contributions and debates, exploring the question of how colonial structures impact the present and how we can overcome them.
A flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town takes a good two hours. A train ride? At least 27 hours, without air conditioning. Why would anyone want to do that, especially in South African summer?
The Henrike Grohs Art Award is a roving biennial art prize conceived by the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family in memory of the former Head of Goethe-Institut in Abidjan, Henrike Grohs.
The Goethe-Institut is proud to present the release of the long-awaited Afro Young Adult anthology, titled “Water Birds on the Lake Shore: An Anthology of African Young-Adult Fiction”.
Electric South and the Goethe-Institut present „New Dimensions – Virtual Reality Africa“, a selection of Virtual Reality (VR) productions from Kenya, Senegal and Ghana.
Triggerfish Academy, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Johannesburg has launched "Unboxing Animation", a free digital learning platform for aspiring African animators.
Moving Africa is the Goethe-Institut's pan African exchange Programme which gives artists the opportunity to travel to selected cultural festivals on the continent.
