With the Visual Arts Project Fund, the Goethe-Institut supports the international networking of artists from Germany and around the world. It promotes projects that engage in artistic and curatorial cooperation across national and continental borders. The fund thus offers the opportunity to work on cross-border discourses and research issues in complex and supra-regional projects and to experiment with formats, processes and structures of cooperation.
Funding conditions
Professionally working cultural practitioners, curators, artists, art mediators, art and cultural theorists from Germany and at least one other country who are working on a joint project.
In order to apply for funding, the project application must be submitted by at least two equal partners. One partner must have their place of work and residence in Germany, while other partners must live and work in at least one other country.
- Artistic and curatorial projects with transnational cooperative working structures and issues that can be expected to have a high artistic quality and public impact.
- The fund invites you to experiment with (interdisciplinary) formats of cooperation and presentation.
- Complex projects involving diverse contexts, regions and partners are expressly encouraged.
- The project fund is not full financing. A share of own or third-party funds of at least 10% of the total budget is expected.
- The maximum funding amount is 25,000 euros.
Next application deadline
The application deadline for projects starting in 2025 is October 15, 2024 at 3:00 p.m. (CET). Applications are possible from September 1, 2024.
The jury’s decision will be announced in mid-January.
Application deadline: October 15, 2024