Goethe-Institut
The formation of international networks, collaborative working processes and artistic research in global transcultural contexts provide opportunities to learn together and acquire new knowledge across national borders. We promote jointly planned and collaboratively executed projects.
CONDITIONS OF FUNDING
Whom we fund
Professional artists, curators and people working in the visual arts, architecture, design or art education abroad or in Germany who plan and execute a collaborative (incl. interdisciplinary) project.
What we fund
Our Visual Arts Project Fund provides financial support for the development of exhibitions and discussion-based formats involving collaborative international working processes in which project participants work together on an equal footing to create something substantively new across national borders.
The maximum amount of funding available is €25,000.
Funding criteria
- Quality of the project and standing of the participating creative artists in their respective scenes
- Expected impact of the results of artistic or discussion-based activities
- Current relevance of the issues addressed
- Balanced, dialogical approach to collaboration in which no one participating person or group is dominant
- Establishment of extensive collaborative structures
- Due consideration for environmental and social sustainability as well as inclusivity in carrying out the project
- Budget showing own/third-party funding (at least 10% of the amount requested from us) and a sound financing plan. If you do not have any funds of your own to contribute and are unable to obtain third-party funding, please explain why.
- We give preference to project partnerships between Germany and transition countries as well as the Global South.
