Joint funding: Contemporary art from Israel

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and Artis (New York and Tel Aviv) launched a joint project in July 2024 which enabled Israeli artists and curators in the fields of the visual arts, performance and curation to work in Germany for up to three months on scholarship. Building on this programme, the German Federal Cultural Foundation is funding six artistic projects that were developed by these Israeli artists during their financed stays at German cultural institutions.

As part of their joint scholarship programme to promote the Israeli art scene, Artis and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) awarded ten cross-disciplinary grants to Israeli contemporary artists to finance their accommodation and research at cultural institutions in Germany. Together with their respective Israeli scholarship holders, the German cultural institutions could apply for project funding from the Foundation starting at 50,000 euros per artistic project.

Funded initiatives

The funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation will enable the scholarship holders to carry out the projects they developed during their financed stay. Additional funding will allow the German cultural institutions to intensify their collaboration with artists from Israel and cultivate sustainable and longer-term, joint artistic projects.

The following six exhibitions and performance projects will receive funding:

• Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main, „Public movement: As One. New Action for Frankfurt"
• Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung Berlin, „Experiencing Architecture“
• KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin, „Karam Natour. Chance Encounters“
• ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik Berlin, „Learning from the desert - das Wissen der Wüste“
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin,„Nira Pereg“
• Kunstverein Hannover, „Ruth Patir - the square logic of Antiquity patronized by the present”