Residencies

Artist in Residence: Inspiration away from home

Every year Goethe-Institut sends creative and cultural artists to various residencies, also to the sub-continent. They live and work in a different country and a different culture for a while. “Room for new perspectives” is what these residencies offer. This is a unique opportunity for artists from Germany to connect with their counterparts in India.
Especially in the age of globalization it is indeed inspiring for the artists to anchor themselves to a particular place and work on their projects, build long lasting contacts and nurture them without worrying about any economic disturbances. Residencies - an overview in our dossier. Go to Bangaloresidency

impREssions – bangaloREsidency 2019 Season II

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Back to sky: Diary at Zentralwerk

In this series of articles Lawai BemBem talks about her time in Dresden in June 2019, where she began working on her new multimedia project titled Yang-Huk-Un: Confabulations which uses the Meetei Mayek alphabet-to-body writing system to investigate the body languages and movements lost in cultural and political assimilation.

Constantly Crossing Boundaries The Gift of the Foreign Gaze

Johannes Ebert: “Residency programmes promote openness, dialogue and cultural understanding” Photo: Victoria Tomaschko “Artist residencies are moments for self-realignment.” The Arbeitskreis deutscher internationaler Residenzprogramme (Working Group of German International Residency Programmes) offered insights into the diversity and significance of its programmes at HAU Hebbel am Ufer.

Discussion Time without Qualities

Akademie Schloss Solitude: © Akademie Schloss Solitude What actually is an artist residency and what is it good for? Jean-Baptiste Joly, former director of Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, was was joined by three Indian artists in a discussion on the purpose and experience of residencies.

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Sounds of home Sounds of Belonging and Otherness

Sounds of the neighbourhood © Ira Goldbecher What do you call home? How much home do you need? Can you identify specific sounds that make you feel at home? With a bag full of questions and sounds, German artist and dramaturge Ira Goldbecher travelled to Varanasi to find not only answers but also soundscapes much different to what she used to call sounds of home ...

Double Road When the Isar joins the Vrishabavathi

Installation with puzzle pieces by Varsha Bhide. Photo: Nikolaus Gottschalk During their stay in the Bavarian state capital, six Indian artists from the Double Road exchange project ask about similarities and differences between Bangalore and Munich. It is all about political co-determination and urban resources. Their works can now be viewed at three places in Munich.

Nora Bibel’s Bangalore Photos Documenting without exposing

Family comes first © Nora Bibel During her 6-week-long BangalorREsidency, in 2014, the photographer Nora Bibel from Berlin researched 50 extended families, took elaborate photographs of them, and organized an exhibition in India of the works that came out if it on top of that. In 2016, she culminated the project with the photo book, Family Comes First.

Artist residencies A sixteen women’s pajama party

Spring Residency Photo (detail): Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi Redefining residency with the women of today, tomorrow: For ten days in February 2016, 16 artist-storytellers shared ideas and space at a dancer’s residency to talk about how they, as women, see the role of role models in their cities and their worlds.

Artist residencies Snapshots, taken from a roof

Interview Photo (detail): © Uta Pütz Uta Pütz lives in Cologne. The Atelier Mondial scholarship enabled her to spend six months in Delhi: three months on the grounds of the Sanskriti Foundation. After that in the middle of the city. An interview in pictures.

Artist residencies Refuge or Catalyst?

Studio Assaf Gruber Photo (detail): © Georg Schroeder /Künstlerhaus Bethanien They are more in demand than ever – the number of applicants from home and abroad waxes. Fellowship programmes afford time, space and resources for thought, work, networking and living.

Artist residencies A cultural landmark

The White Rabbit Photo (detail): © Uwe Jonas bangaloREsident@1 Shanthi Road 2014 For German artists seeking to discover and create in India, to integrate the myriad subtle and not-so-subtle nuances of Indian culture into their own arts practice, the bangaloREsidency offers the ideal opportunity.

Artist residencies Twirling, running, hopping and falling on the ground

Gati Summer Dance Residency 2011 Photo (detail): © Soumit and Soumita Bhattacharya Since its inception in 2009, the Gati Summer Dance Residency has become a crucible for early career works by Indian, and widely, South Asian choreographers.

Artist residencies Solidarity and Reflexivity

Reflections of Barcelona Photo (detail): © Carlos ZGZ Fellowships and residencies like ATSA generate a crucial pathway into harnessing the strength of informal networks, while also endorsing the importance of structure in an increasingly compartmentalised arts sector in India.

Artist residencies Twelve artists, ten hosts, one city

bangaloREsidency 2015 Photo (detail): © Simone Schiffer Twelve artists, ten hosts, one city, innumerable projects: for four to eight weeks, Bangalore, India’s hi-tech city, was at the centre of the bangaloREsidency 2015. A visit.

Artist residencies A scientific approach

Bangalore A-Z_c. Anja Lutz bangaloREsident@Jaaga 2014 Photo (detail): © Anja Lutz More and more Artist Residencies are being established for German artists abroad; an attractive offer for those who want to network internationally or are looking for cultural stimuli.

Artist residencies Give myself up to what was different and alien

Novels by Tilmann Rammstedt © DuMont Verlag Tilman Rammstedt is an award-winning German author who was bangaloreREsident in 2013. We talked with him about expectations, memories and the allure of the exotic.

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