Call for Submissions: Artists’ Contacts Programme

Applicants thereby receive the chance to network internationally and to advance the intercultural discourse between Germany and the global South.

Eligible Costs

• Travel and subsistence expenses, such as flight, travel and accommodation costs as well as credit card fees and per diem costs according to the Bundesreisekostengesetz.
• Travel and work stays from transition and developing countries to or in Germany, e.g. Exhibitions, performances, artist-in-residence programs, workshops, preparatory and research trips, international events such as symposia, conferences and lectures.
• German cultural workers or cultural workers who have been living in Germany for at least five years can apply for travel and work stays years within or into transition and developing countries for holding events such as performances, artist-in-residence programs, workshops, preparatory or research trips, international events such as symposia, conferences or lectures.
• Cultural workers who come from a transition or developing country can also apply for travel costs for exhibitions in Germany.

Eligibility Criteria

• Artists, curators, art educators, art theorists, architects and designers (as well as institutions) from developing and transition countries who want to carry out a project in Germany.
• Non-German artists, curators, art educators, art theorists, architects and designers (as well as institutions) who have been living in Germany for at least 5 years (proof of residency required) who want to carry out a project in a developing or transition country.
• High quality standard of the planned artistic project.
• In the project, German art and culture workers and art and culture workers from developing and transition countries work together artistically and in terms of content.
• Artists and cultural workers who live in Germany but do not have German citizenship must prove how long they have been living in Germany. The minimum requirement is five years.
• Invitation from a non-commercial cultural or exhibition institution (no private gallery).
• The project project may not be realized in a commercial context. A sale of art excludes funding.
• Considerable financial and/or other own contributions by the issuing foreign institution.

Application Requirements

• Invitation from the foreign cultural or exhibition institution.
• Description of the cultural or exhibition institution.
• CVs for all applicants for which funding is requested.
• Visual material of the project to be funded and/or of previous artistic work.
• Three quotations for the cost of airfare based on current fares.
• All application documents can be uploaded in the upload area of the application system. Sound and video works can be inserted as a link in the upload area.

For more information, visit Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations.