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Upcoming Residencies and Calls:

Hats Installation © Ngoc-Tran Vu

Goethe-Institut Boston ǀ February 12-16
Ngoc-Tran Vu

Journey of Light
Installation 


Ngoc-Tran Vu is a Vietnamese-American multimedia artist, cultural organizer, and advocate based in Dorchester, Boston. Her work blends photography, painting, sculpture, and installation to explore themes of diaspora, memory, and healing.  Ngoc-Tran Vu activates the Goethe-Institut with an installation that explores aspects of Journey of Light: A 1975 Memory Field, her upcoming temporary art installation in Dorchester next April.

Installation Opening
Thursday, February 13, 6-8 PM

Installation Engagement and Viewing
Saturday, February 15, 2-4 PM

Installation Engagement and Viewing
Sunday, February 16, 2-4 PM

Key Visual Marcelline Mandeng Nken

Goethe-Institut Boston ǀ April 22-24
Marcelline Mandeng Nken

Rush Hour
Installation and Performance


Marcelline Mandeng Nken, born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, works with sculpture and time-based media. Her practice explores themes of syncretism, non-human intelligence, and labor traditions from the Global South. 
Mandeng Nken develops and presents a preview of the first two acts of her performance installation Rush Hour, which unfolds as a cinematic narrative in a moving train, addressing migration, displacement, and time travel. 

Installation, Performance and Artist Talk
Thursday, April 24, 6 PM

A Laboratory for Ideas

The Goethe-Institut Boston opens its unique, flexible space in Back Bay to artists and creative minds as a “laboratory” for ideas.

Beyond just another gallery or concert hall, Studio 170 provides artists and audiences with an open, lively place for inspiration, experimentation, and open discourse in the heart of Boston.  With this new format, the Goethe-Institut Boston invites New England artists from all fields of artistic practice to use our newly-renovated space to experiment, innovate, and connect with our international community. 

Studio 170 was established in 2019 to open the Goethe-Institut Boston’s unique, flexible space to New England artists from all fields of artistic practice as a “laboratory” for ideas. A jury made up of curators and cultural advocates from New England selects a new cohort of artists per year from received applications.  Since its founding, eight artists and artist collaboratives have developed projects within 2-week residencies. The plan is to expand the program to promote transatlantic dialogue and exchange between artists through solo and joint residencies in New England and Germany.