The Goethe Institut is seeking two artists working in visual arts, video arts, or sound arts, whose portfolios reflect an engagement with climate, environmental, or ecological themes for the Earth Month 2025 Cultures of Action Slow Travel Artists’ Residency from 28 March to 23 April 2025.
Earth Month 2025 is a collaborative initiative between Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Institut Français d’Écosse, and ClimateCulture, aimed at fostering cultural exchange and climate action through the lens of artistic and cultural practice.
The artists’ residency will offer two artists from Germany and France the opportunity to explore Scotland’s diverse landscapes, sustainability challenges, and emerging climate solutions. The residency will provide a slow travel experience, with the artists journeying by train and/or boat from their home countries to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and two locations in the Scottish Highlands & Islands.
At each location, the artists will engage with one of the following themes: rewilding, oceans, sustainable cities, and circular design. The residency will culminate in an Artists’ Talk on Earth Day (22 April) in Edinburgh. Six months after the residency, a digital workshop on Zoom between the artists and the residency’s organising partners.
Residency benefits include the following:
- All travel and accommodation.
- Stipend of 60 GBP per artist, per day.
- Speaker Honorarium of 125 GBP per artist for their intervention at the Artists’ Talk.
- Budget of 500 GBP per artist to cover the exhibition production costs.
- Exhibition of portfolio work and presentation of work-in-progress during the Opening Event of Earth Month’s Public Programme.
- Opportunity to engage with the local arts scene, cultural organisations, and sustainability initiatives.
- Artistic exchange with local peers and participants in the Earth Month programme.
