Funded projects

Art installation © Tomás Espinosa and Red Comunitaria Trans, Social Poetics* at Kunstverein Göttingen, 2021. Photo: Marius Land

With the Visual Arts Project Fund, the Goethe-Institut supports the international networking of cultural practitioners from Germany and around the world.

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Current Projects

Cyprus
Not Just a Place but a Situation

In autumn 2021, “Inside the Outset: Evoking a Space of Passage” by Rosa Barba opened in the UN buffer zone in Cyprus. The two-part work consists of a film, which was shown at the opening, and an amphitheatre embedded in the landscape of the buffer zone.

© Famagusta Avenue Garage / European Kunsthalle
Chile, Germany, Poland
Desert Transformation Lab

Desert Transformation Lab is a wondering school for innovative social and cultural practices. It offers a 2 month educational journey - a wild faculty of transformation - where we imagine beyond the boundaries of our anthropocentric minds, and create a space for the emergence of a new ecological paradigm.

© LIOS Labs
Uruguay
100x100x100

100x100x100 is a site and time specific artistic project that proposes the creation of a forest one hundred by one hundred meters away as an enclave to investigate, act and think towards the next hundred years. A proposal on a centenary scale, essential to act in the times of the landscape and new ecosystems.

© Federico Lagomarcino
Germany, Peru
The Enduring Legacy

This project aims to develop an exhibition about Julia Chambi, the first Peruvian photographer of Quechua indigenous descent. It will also include the publication of a catalog of the photographs on display, as well as a series of critical essays written by Latin American scholars on Julia's collection and the role of women in Peruvian and Latin American photography.

© Julia Chambi (Meri Chambi Collection)
Germany, Zimbabwe, USA, Austria
Dambudzo

The project is a multimedia exploration of the legacy and ongoing relevance of revolution in Zimbabwe, particularly focusing on the ideas and struggles of the Zimbabwean Revolution.

© Marie Staggat
Germany, Kenya
Plural Knowledge in the Digital

“The Western archive is exhausted”, says Senegalese thinker Felwine Sarr. New perspectives are needed to break down colonial thought patterns and Eurocentric views that are deeply rooted in the European understanding of culture and knowledge and continue to shape the relationship between the global North and the global South.

© Talking Objects Lab