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Art in Architecture' is the idea of spending a certain percentage of the construction costs of public buildings on art. Villa Kamogawa takes up this idea with the work 'Invisible/Visible - relation and process' by the Japanese sculptor Keiji Uematsu and the artist Nobuko Watanabe.

The prize supports literary translators in translating a work from German into Japanese and at the same time honours the author. 

The Goethe-Institut Tokyo's German film festival 'Horizonte' takes place every two years. The programme includes new productions from previous years that present fresh and unusual perspectives on German society.

Since 2016, we have been presenting unusual approaches to contemporary theatre work in our series 'theatre anders denken' ("thinking thatre differently"). After a three-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the series is back! All events in the series can be found here.

To mark the 160th anniversary of Japanese-German relations in 2021, we interviewed artists who work in German-speaking countries between the two countries and incorporate their intercultural perspective into their art.

The Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa is looking for theatre groups who would like to take part in the scenic reading series ‘VISIONEN - Neue Deutsche Dramatik’.

The Social Translating Project is testing a new social practice of literary translation. Translators from Asia translate a German-language novel into their respective languages, meet in a closed digital space and work on their translations in dialogue with each other and in close discourse with the author.