Deadline: 12-Nov-2024

Are you a Palestinian artist or organization dedicated to preserving and revitalizing Palestinian cultural heritage, artistic expression, and creative industries? Are you looking to enhance your artistic production skills, build new connections, and explore new markets for your work? This could be the perfect opportunity you’ve been looking for. Apply now!

This residency seeks to foster collaboration, experimentation, presentation, and performance of new works that engage local communities in Palestinian heritage sites, as well as international audiences online. Successful applicants will be provided with an inspiring cultural environment to experiment and express their artistic vision either individually or collaboratively on multi-disciplinary art projects, exhibitions and open studios.

The residency program aims to facilitate creative discussions and exchanges among participants through tours, lectures, and seminars. This is an opportunity to disconnect from their daily routines, dedicate time to artistic research, experiment creatively, and develop their professional practice in a collaborative environment.

The program also supports the international collaboration and multilateral alliances, with European artists in creating and evolving innovative artworks, the residency will culminate in public events at a cultural heritage site, bringing local and international audiences together in these historical places (in person and virtually) showcasing these productions and projects that aim to preserve and enhance the Palestinian cultural heritage.

Focus Areas

• Music
• Visual arts
• Cinema
• Audio arts
• Design
• Literature (poetry, prose, creative writing)
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Architecture
• Fashion Design
• Digital Arts
• Installation Art
• Crafts (ceramics, textiles, jewelry)
• New Media Art (interactive art, virtual reality)
• Public Art (murals, street art)
• Calligraphy
• Printmaking

Funding Information

• The grant amount ranges from above 4000 euros to below 6500 euros. Applicants are encouraged to apply for the amount that accurately reflects their needs, avoiding unnecessary requests for the maximum
• Up to 17 scholarships are available (distributed across 2 rounds)
• Duration: Two months from (January 2025 – June 2025)

Eligible Activities

• A production grant for materials and other production costs
• Accommodation and free studio space
• A per diem allowance
• The opportunity to present the project during the closing event of the Art Residencies project (January – June 2025)
• An opportunity to network with the local and international cultural scene
• Technical support for the implementation of artistic/cultural project/practice (e.g., community events, showcasing, providing space for cultural activities)
• Psychosocial support
• Collaboration amongst other Palestinian and European artists

Eligibility Criteria

• Individual artists and/ or cultural organizations of all disciplines over the age of 18 from Palestine living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, or Diaspora; and European artists.
• Cultural and artistic practitioners and activists whose works have proven artistic, cultural, and/or social relevance.
• Artists and/ or cultural organizations who can securely receive scholarship payments.
• Artists and/ or cultural organizations not receiving any other scholarship during the funding period.
• Artists and/ or cultural organizations willing to actively participate in the residency and its events.

Selection Criteria

• Clear project vision; artistic and professional excellence; commitment to gender equality; creative projects relevant to the Palestinian context; commitment to the residency program and presentation.

For more information, visit Goethe-Institut.