Key Visual FILE NOT FOUND

Residents

In the face of growing challenges to archives, artistic practice can create space for new forms of resistance, imagination, and critical inquiry. Through FILE NOT FOUND, ten artists have been selected to work with ten cultural archives in different parts of the world. Engaging directly with archival collections, practices, and contexts, they will develop artistic research projects exploring what is preserved, made visible, forgotten, or silenced. Together, these projects investigate how archives can remain resilient in the face of external influence.
 

The ten resident artists

Abraham Tettey
© Ama Benewaa Tawiah / Goethe-Institut

Acervo Bajubá / Brazil
 Abraham Tettey

Ruo Mu
© Ruo Mu / Goethe-Institut

The ArQuives / Canada
 Ruo Mu

Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders
© Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders / Goethe-Institut

China Modern Art Archive / China
 Linda Jiayun Gao-Lenders

Anne Griffiths
© Anne Griffiths / Goethe-Institut

documenta archiv / Germany
 Anne Griffiths

Samuel Bich
© Jonathan Schmidt-Ott / Goethe-Institut

Arsenal Filminstitut / Germany
 Samuel Bich

Rojda Tuğrul
© Rojda Tuğrul / Goethe-Institut

Kurdistan Center for Arts & Culture / Iraq
 Rojda Tuğrul

Renoz
© Renoz / Goethe-Institut

Imagine IC & The Need for Legacy / Netherlands
 Renoz

Tahn
© Paradise Cultural Foundation / Goethe-Institut

VEHA Archive / Poland
 Tahn

Maria Trabulo
© Iberia / Goethe-Institut

Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea / Portugal
 Maria Trabulo

Özge Çelikaslan
© Özge Çelikaslan / Goethe-Institut

South African History Archive / South Africa
 Özge Çelikaslan