Germany

The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf awards residency fellowships to artists and writers in Schloss Wiepersdorf (State of Brandenburg, Fläming, Germany) for three months, granted for the periods March to May, June to August, and September to November.

inherit’s work is guided by its intellectual agenda, which sets out the Centre’s context, rationale, and aims. Annually, up to fifteen international fellows engage in research activities at the Centre. Fellowships for 2026-27 will run from 1 October 2026 until 31 July 2027.

AlmResidency offers 4-5 artists the opportunity to move into its two mountain huts in the Bavarian Alps, Germany,from 25 June to 4 July 2025, to work on their ideas and concepts, and to develop them further. There will be an exhibition in Munich in Spring 2026, where the artistic works will meet their audience.

The Artist in Residence Fellowship is intended to enable an artist to spend two months at the WZB in Berlin.

Together with its regional cooperation partners, Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six artist residencies in the Ruhr region, Germany, for the year 2025. During the three-month stay, the organisers invite artists to develop a context-specific project that is planned to be presented to the public in a curated exhibition in Dortmund.

Moving Identities is calling for applications from performing arts groups (performance dance and theatre) based in Denmark, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Spain, or Latvia to explore the themes of diversity, inclusion, and belonging in Europe during cross-border residencies, creative exchanges, mentoring, and workshops (from September 2025 to June 2026).

The five-week De/construction of Painting Residency Programme in Leipzig, Germany, is calling for applications from artists of younger generation from the CreArt network who primarily start from redefining the ideas of an image, in the medium of painting, but also in photography and video.

Martin Roth Initiative supports artists and cultural actors at risk to temporarily relocate to Germany with the assistance of a host cultural institution. The application is submitted in tandem between the artists and cultural actors and the host organisations. Scholarships awarded through the programme last up to 15 months.

The programme is open to professional artists from Germany and abroad who work in the areas of dance, performance, media arts or music and who are closely linked to PACT’s two other core strands of activity in presenting work and facilitating research and development.

Zeppelin University (Germany) and the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) are organising the international project ‘Reframing Colonial Legacies’ funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) from 2025 to 2026. They invite international Germany alumni from countries in Africa and Europe (not based in Germany) to apply for 22 places.

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, will award three Media Art Grants of the Stiftung Niedersachsen (12,500 EUR each).