Goethe-Institut

he Goethe-Institut’s Visual Arts Project Fund supports artists, curators and institutions from different countries and regions in the realisation of projects planned jointly and based on an equal division of labour and creative input. The aim is to promote international networks in the visual arts, architecture, design and art education/cultural mediation through innovative artistic and curatorial work.

House of African Feminisms (HoAF) is a regional project that aims at stimulating the exchange and networking of African feminists. This open call invites African artists, collectives and creative practitioners to produce a digital documentary artwork that can be presented on the website ‘House of African Feminisms’. All aspects of the project must be completed by early December 2021.

Goethe-Institut, in partnership with the Music in Africa Foundation, invites a company or a consortium of companies/freelancers to bid for a contract to provide training and support services for the MEAL component of the Sound Connects Fund. The project aims to support creatives in nine Southern African countries, namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.

Goethe-Institut and Ensemble Recherche are inviting 10 emerging composers and sound artists from developing and transition countries to collaborate in a virtual community of artistic research and music creation. Over a one-year project period (starting November 2021), selected composers will participate in a total of 10 days of virtual residencies.

C3: Codes, Creativity, Communities invites applications from artists, musicians, film-makers, writers, coders, and creative cultural practitioners from all fields. During this year-long engagement participants will take part in regular online meet-ups, brainstorming sessions, workshops, and impulse sessions. The programme focuses on creators in the regions of South Asia, Tehran and Germany.

The Prince Claus Mentorship Award will bring together 12 emerging artists and cultural practitioners (8-15 years of relevant professional experience) for a year-long programme aimed at accelerating engaged cultural practices and fostering leadership at the intersection of arts and environmentalism. Applicants must be individuals living and working in one of Prince Claus Fund’s working countries.

Civil Match is an interactive matchmaking project focusing on cross-border cooperation for NGOs in Eastern Partnership countries. It provides extensive networking opportunities for civil society actors to find international partners, generate new ideas for impact, connect with donor organisations, and also get ready to apply for Federal Foreign Office funding. The programme is open to civil society actors from Germany, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Poland and France.

The Goethe-Institut and Bozar together with Werkplaats Walter in Belgium and the Amman Jazz Festival in Jordan are starting a music residency programme in 2021/2022 and are looking for six motivated emerging professional musicians from both the Arab World and Europe to meet, exchange ideas and perform in Brussels (Belgium) from 29 November to 5 December 2021. The open call for this first residency focuses on jazz and electronic music.

The Sound Connects Fund (SCF) is a multifaceted initiative that aims to accelerate development and increase the capacity of the cultural and creative sectors in Southern Africa by offering financial support in the form of grants and robust capacity-building programmes to eligible creative and cultural industry organisations based in Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Radio Art Residency is an international fellowship programme for artistic practice on the radio. The next residency will take place from 15 September to 15 December 2021. The programme is for artists working in the field of acoustic and time-based arts (radio, performance and sound artists). Applications are open to artists from non-German speaking countries without residence in Germany.

The Goethe-Institut’s International Coproduction Fund is intended for coproductions by artists in the fields of theatre, dance, music and performance art, in which hybrid and interdisciplinary formats and the use of digital media may be key components. The target group comprises professional artists and ensembles abroad and in Germany, which demonstrably lack sufficient resources to realise their coproduction project on their own. Projects between German and non-European partners, in particular from transition countries, are preferred.