Heidelberg: “Sinti* and Roma* art in context”
Who: internationally well-known and up-and-coming artists and cultural sector professionals from the Sinti* and Roma* communities
Sections: photography, literature, illustration and comics, or theater and movie screenwriting and music (composition and interpretation)
Duration: 2 months in Heidelberg
Deadline for submissions: July 16, 2023 23:59 CEST (Central European Summer Time)
Information about the call for application:
“Sinti* and Roma* art in context” Artists-in-Residence program
The “SINTI* AND ROMA* ART IN CONTEXT” ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM” was established in 2022 by the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg with support from the Center for International Cultural Education of the Goethe-Institute in Mannheim and is committed to promoting the work of contemporary artists and cultural sector professionals from the Roma* and Sinti* communities on an international level.
The program offers local, national, or international artists a two-month residency. From 15th September to 15th November 2023 the scholarship awardees selected for the residency program will be invited to Heidelberg to allow them to further develop their artistic positions. In addition to their creative work, the artists will participate in public programs and workshops. The residency program will also provide the artists with exchange and networking opportunities with research and cultural institutions, interesting personalities, as well as local communities.
The goal of the project is to enable the artists to make an important cultural and societal contribution, taking up and representing such current topics as: the culture of remembrance, cultural politics, activism, the fight against antigypsyism, and resistance through art.
The residency will conclude with a group exhibition displaying the works created by the artists during their time in the residency program.
BACKGROUND OF THE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
The initiative to establish a residency program for artists and cultural sector professionals of the Sinti* and Roma* minority was created in 2007 during the Biennale in Venice when the first “Paradise Lost” Roma pavillon was shown there. André Raatzsch — who took part as an artist back then and who is today Head of the Documentation Department of the Documentation Center — recognized that there was a lack of knowledge of the art and culture of the Sinti* and Roma* in Europe and that it was especially contemporary art which needed more (free) space. The artists-in-residence program is intended to stimulate a change of perspective and to intensify the exchange of ideas within and outside the art and culture scene.