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Cultural Funding

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Funding for Arts and Culture. With its worldwide calls for proposals and residency programs, the Goethe-Institut opens up a space for new perspectives in which artists and cultural workers can pursue their projects free of economic pressure and establish and deepen lasting contacts.
 

THE GOETHE-INSTITUT PROJECT SPACE (GPS) PROJECT GRANT 2025

The call for applications for the Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) grant is now closed. Thank you to all who entered!

The GPS programme grants seed funding of up to R 105.000 per project to four artistic projects that are realised in rural and peri-urban parts of South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini between February and November 2025.

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Funded Projects

LAPA PROJECT AND RESIDENCY SPACE

A communal, experimental public project with a co-working office, reading room and residency. 

LAPA SIII - Our People are our Mountains Artist Announcement © Goethe-Institut © Goethe-Institut

Goethe-Institut Project Space

The "Goethe-Institut Project Space" supports artistic projects throughout South Africa.

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Henrike Grohs Art Award 2024

In memory of Henrike Grohs, the Goethe-Institut and the Grohs family have initiated a 20,000€ prize dedicated to artists living and working in Africa.

Call for Applications: Henrike Grohs Art Award

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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Worldwide Awards and Funds

With prizes and awards, the Goethe-Institut aims to honour outstanding cultural work and promotes international cultural exchange based on partnership and dialogue.

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FURTHER FUNDING PROGRAMS

TRANSLATION PROGRAMME

Our translation funding programme supports the publication of books by German authors in other languages.

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