Our approach
We believe in the potential of international cultural exchange.
Cultural encounters, artistic creativity and constructive exploration of different attitudes and values are more important than ever, in order to find common answers to global challenges in a world of upheavals and uncertainties.With our partners, we create places of artistic creation and dialogue on diverse societal issues. We communicate forward-looking perspectives and thereby support democratic developments worldwide – especially in places where the wings of freedom are currently being clipped. Reflecting on our own history is our foundation for shaping the future.
![La Paz The Century of Women Concert Three women perform on stage wearing traditional clothes. They are accompanied by a band.](/resources/files/jpg1180/la-paz-das-jahrhundert-der-frauen-konzert-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
Elvira Espejo Ayca, winner of the Goethe Medal 2020, and musician Nina Uma at the final concert of the project “The Century of Women”. | © Goethe-Institut La Paz / Fátima Choque
![Goethe-Medaille 2021 Toshio Hosokawa Several people are standing in the exhibition space. They carry large pens on their heads, drawing on the ceiling.](/resources/files/jpg1180/goethe-medaille-2021-toshio-hosokawa-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
Performance of works by the winner of the Goethe Medal 2021 Toshio Hosokawa with the Ensemble Musikfabrik at the Schießhaus Weimar. | © Goethe-Institut/Maik Schuck
![Dance Fusion Morocco Several people are dancing in a gymnasium.](/resources/files/jpg1180/dance-fusion-morocco-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
In collaboration with EUNIC, the Goethe-Institut in Morocco, the Instituts français Rabat and Casablanca, the Délégation Générale Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the project “Dance Fusion Morocco” was presented in January 2021. The project supports local contemporary and urban dance artists whose activities have been affected by the pandemic. | © Goethe-Institut Marokko/Friederike Frost
![Mobile Pavillon House of Europa Many people are standing in front of the town hall. The logo of the House of Europe can be seen on a wall in the foreground.](/resources/files/jpg1180/mobile-pavillon-house-of-europa-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
The “Mobile Pavilion” is a transportable architecture built by a team of young Ukrainian architects for the House of Europe. The opening concert of the Ukrainian band Dachabracha in front of the city hall of Ivano-Frankivsk was attended by 1,500 locals. | © Goethe-Institut Ukraine
![Studio Bosporus Tarabya Cultural Academy People are standing at the "Studio Bosporus" exhibition stand People are standing at the “Studio Bosporus” exhibition stand](/resources/files/jpg1180/studio-bosporus-akademie-tarabya-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
The Kunsthaus Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin celebrated “Studio Bosporus - 10 years of the Tarabya Cultural Academy”. The Tarabya Cultural Academy was founded on the grounds of the historic summer residence of the German ambassador in Istanbul in 2011 and facilitates artistic exchange between Turkey and Germany. | © Stephanie Steinkopf/OSTKREUZ
![Ada Pinkston LandMarked Shaping the Past A black woman in a white dress stands on an empty pedestal of a dismantled Confederate monument](/resources/files/jpg1180/ada-pinkston-land-marked-gestaltung-der-vergangenheit-formatkey-jpg-w320r.jpg)
With the project “Shaping the Past”, the Goethe-Instituts in North America bring together artists, cultural mediators and activists from North America and Germany who are looking for anti-racist and anti-colonialist perspectives in the culture of remembrance. In her work “LandMarked”, Ada Pinkston, an US-American artist, explores possible rededications of the empty pedestals of dismantled Confederate monuments. | © Chris Chapa