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Residencies

Taking up a residency can be one of the most inspiring and rewarding opportunities for cultural practitioners and artists. Our residency programmes focus on professional development, artistic exchange and facilitating artistic research and processes. We believe conceptualising and making new work in a different location and context nurtures creative thinking, promotes experimentation and offers new perspectives. Residencies provide opportunities to collaborate with others, allowing artistic practices to develop and thrive. We work across various artforms including dance, visual arts, music, technology, theatre, journalism.

Here you can find our current residencies. 

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Sustainability
 Earth Month 2025: Cultures of Action

The project Earth Month 2025: Cultures of Action, initiated by Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Institut Français d'Écosse, and ClimateCulture, combines a slow travel artists residency with a public programme,  fostering cultural enrichment and cross-cultural exchange on climate action and strengthening ties between France, Germany, and Scotland.

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Literature
Goethe-Institut London and English PEN Residency

Since 2022, the Goethe-Institut London and English PEN have been partnering on a residency programme for international writers. We have supported respite residencies through English PEN’s Writers at Risk Programme, providing authors with the time, space, and funds to relax and work on their own projects. We have also supported broader writing residencies, hosted as part of English PEN’s Literature Programmes.

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Art and Technology
Delfina Residency

The Goethe-Institut London and Delfina Foundation offer residencies in collaboration. Their joint residency programmes have different curatorial foci on contemporary art and everyday life. 

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Art and Technology
Goethe-Institut x Somerset House Studios Residency

Goethe-Institut London, Somerset House Studios and CTM Festival have established an international artist residency programme to support Germany-based artists working at the intersection of music, art and technology for a period of three months. 

The logo for the CROWD dance residency © Goethe-Institut London

Dance
 CROWD – International Dance Exchange

6 chosen artists from the UK, Netherlands, Finland and Germany come together to cultivate their dance practices and networks. 

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Worldwide
 Arts funding and residencies

The Goethe-Institut promotes art and culture in a variety of projects in Germany and abroad. You can search by genre, funding type and duration.

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Past Residencies

Find out more about our previous residency programmes, participants and their projects. 

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