Projects

The Myanmar Photo Archive and Goethe-Institut Myanmar are pleased to announce a collaboration to extend, enforce and build a wider understanding of Myanmar's visual history. The Goethe-Institut Myanmar has generously reinforced the Myanmar Photo Archive to build a richer visual archive of Myanmar's history with a special two-year grant.

The Academy of Care evolved from the Program of Care (PoC), which began in 2022. Following World Mental Health Day, the Academy of Care is introduced as a capacity-building initiative designed to train individuals to facilitate mental health and psychosocial support programs. Through creative and dynamic teaching methods, the program aims to address mental health challenges, with a focus on trauma cases, over the next two years.

The Goethe-Institut Myanmar, in collaboration with Myanmar YMCA and other partners, is excited to announce the 13th edition of the Science Film Festival in Myanmar. This year's festival will feature a hybrid format, offering both in-person screenings and online access through a video-on-demand service. The event will take place from November 20 to December 20, 2024. 

We are thrilled to announce the launch of "Talking Types", a monthly gathering where type designers and enthusiasts come together to delve into all aspects of type design and typography. Burmese type designers, renowned for creating prominent Burmese fonts and regularly sharing their expertise in type design and typography via social media, will attend the meetup. These meetings will take place every second Saturday of the month.

Goethe-Institut Myanmar is excited to announce an open call for a contemporary music project centered around the concepts of either Empathy, Listening, Expressions, or Resonance. This project invites musicians, composers, sound artists, and other music talents from within Myanmar and the Myanmar diaspora worldwide, including Germany, (with a particular focus on Southeast Asia). We especially encourage applications from musical talents representing diverse backgrounds and different ethnicities. Cross-disciplinary approaches are also welcome.

Goethe-Institut Myanmar will initiate training on expanded curatorial practice and exhibition making. The training is intended to encourage curatorial practice in the Myanmar art scene and everyone interested in curation. The main training courses will be led by Prof. Dr. Mi You from documenta Institut, followed by additional training and discussions.

Goethe-Institut is organising the second edition of the annual German film festival, KinoFest, scheduled to run from September to November 2023. KinoFest is a joint production involving eight Goethe-Instituts in Southeast Asia, showcasing the latest films released from 2021 to 2023. In Myanmar, KinoFest can be enjoyed for free from the 1st to 15th of October.

The program was initiated by the Goethe-Institut Myanmar in 2022, in close cooperation with its partners. The idea of the Program of Care was formed during a series of conversations with partners and experts from the artistic, cultural, and psychological fields where pressing topics and anticipations in need of support were voiced, listened to, and formulated.

Due to the high interest and many requests from participants, we are happy to inform you that the "Program of Care 2.0" will take place in 2023, bringing with it new innovative ideas! We aim to create space and possibilities for tackling the multiplicity of difficulties that people might face in their day-to-day lives through expressive art practice techniques. Thus, we have organized a monthly series of workshops on this topic.

/Shi is an art exhibition in the city of Yangon, Myanmar. /Shi is on for 44 days from 12 November 2022 to 12 January 2023. Based on bus routes, the backbone of Yangon’s DNA, you are invited to explore 40+ artworks by 50+ artists and creatives carefully orchestrated across 7 venues over the city.
 

German Film Festival 2022: KINOFEST is the first German Film Festival organized by 8 Goethe Characters in Southeast Asia. The film festival was held online on the Goethe-On-Demand online film platform. The 12 films are shown online throughout the entire Southeast Asia region and are translated into 5 languages: English, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Burmese. 
 

For new generations of translators, to achieve good translation with international standards, this workshop was organized in collaboration with Singapore Book Council, National Centre for Writing, the world's largest book festival Frankfurt Book Fair and Goethe-Institut Myanmar. This workshop was successfully conducted in digital format via Zoom from July to October 2022.

Some of the selected projects of Reconnect 2021 will be exhibited for 44 days from November 12th , 2022 to January 12th, 2023. The exhibition will be carefully orchestrated at across 7 venues throughout 5 townships at once.

Some of the selected projects of Reconnect 2020 will be exhibited for 44 days from November 12th , 2022 to January 12th, 2023. The exhibition will be carefully orchestrated at across 7 venues throughout 5 townships at once.

In collaboration with LIA (Leipzig International Art Programme) the Goethe-Institute offers artists from Southeast Asia a three-month residency at the Art and Culture Centre Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei.

An exhibition on youth and future in Southeast Asia, is the result of the Southeast Asian Photography Masterclass by Jörg Brüggemann and Tobias Kruse (Ostkreuz Photographers’ Agency) during the Obscura Festival of Photography 2016 and 2017 in Malaysia. Afterwards it travelled to Germany and Bangkok, then to Yangon.

Join us for an exhibition that traces the development of artist Htein Lin and other prominent artists' performance art within Myanmar's dynamic political and cultural landscape from 1997 to 2008. Experience this unique journey through video presentations featuring the works of ten established artists carefully curated for the exhibition from December 15 to January 6.