Cultural Funding

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Funding for Arts and Culture

With its worldwide calls for proposals and residency programs, the Goethe-Institut opens up a space for new perspectives in which artists and cultural workers can pursue their projects free of economic pressure and establish and deepen lasting contacts.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

SUSTAINABLE TOGETHER - RESIDENCY PROGRAMME 2024

“Enabling Circular Neighbourhoods”

‘Sustainable Together’ focuses on sustainability and civil society initiatives that seek to make an impactful contribution to improving local environments. The project aims to initiate and support creative and community-based interventions related to ecology and sustainability and raise awareness, facilitate dialogue and provide visibility to related matters, especially considering contributions from the Global South.

SUSTAINABLE TOGETHER 2024 Residency Programme sq © Goethe-Institut

Projects

GOETHE-INSTITUT PROJECT SPACE (GPS)

The GPS programme grants seed funding to artistic projects that are realised in rural parts of South Africa between February and November 2024.

© edited by Faroll Coetzee and photographed by Dale Davids
Henrike Grohs Art Award 2024

The selection committee has chosen a shortlist of 21 artists which will be announced in late 2023.
LAPA PROJECT AND RESIDENCY SPACE

A communal, experimental public project with a co-working office, reading room and residency.

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Visual Arts

PROMOTION: VISUAL ARTS

The Goethe-Institut acts as an advisor, initiator and promoter of partners and projects in the field of visual arts abroad.

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VISUAL ARTS PROJECT FUND

Collaborative work processes and artistic research in global, transcultural contexts open up the possibility of shared learning and the production of new knowledge across national borders.

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ARTIST RESIDENCES IN GERMANY

Artists' residencies support professional artists of all disciplines by providing them with studio apartments and often also working stipends for limited periods of time. They are a place for international encounters and the exchange of culture and ideas.

Exterior view of the studios | Photo: © Katerina Valdivia Bruch

Musik

Music contests

Information on the most important internationally oriented competitions in Germany
International music residencies in Germany

Many artist residencies in Germany support professional international composers, performers or musicologists by providing them with studio apartments and often also working stipends for a limited period of time. In individual cases, these grants are supplemented by concerts, discussions or workshops.

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DANCE AND THEATER

Promotion: Dance and Theatre

The Goethe-Institut acts as an advisor, initiator and promoter of partners and projects in the field of dance and theater abroad.
International dance and theater residencies in Germany

Many artist residencies in Germany support professional international theater makers, directors, playwrights, dancers and choreographers by providing them with accommodation, studios and often working stipends for a limited period of time.

Photo (detail): © Jana Mila Lippitz
International Co-Production Fund of the Goethe-Institut

Funding is provided for co-productions by artists in the fields of theater, dance, music and performance. Hybrid and interdisciplinary formats and the use of digital media can be supporting components.

FURTHER FUNDING PROGRAMS

TRANSLATION PROGRAMME

Our translation funding programme supports the publication of books by German authors in other languages.

Residence programs

With its residence programs, the Goethe-Institut would like to offer a "space for new perspectives" and every year invites artists and creators of culture to live and work for a while in a different country and culture.

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Education and Discourse

Education and discourse play a decisive role in the understanding and self-reflection of societies. The Goethe-Institut supports these processes, is actively involved and offers platforms and meeting spaces for cultural workers, academics and journalists.