PERSPEKTIVE—German-French Fund for Contemporary Art and Architecture
November 1–December 1, 2018
PERSPEKTIVE—The Fund for Contemporary Art and Architecture is celebrating its 5th anniversary!
This year’s call begins on November 1, 2018
Initiated by the Bureau des arts plastiques with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and the Institut français, PERSPEKTIVE has for five years now been supporting exchange and dialogue between France and Germany in the fields of art and architecture.
Innovation, dialogue, mobility and emerging talent are the fund’s guiding ideas. PERSPEKTIVE understands itself as an observatory for innovative projects and a laboratory for ideas and research. It fosters cultural cooperation between France and Germany, acting as a networking hub between the French and German art and architecture scenes.
The fund is conceived to encourage German and French institutions to test and develop new projects together. PERSPEKTIVE focuses on exchange and cooperation between German and French creatives by promoting exhibition projects, discursive formats like lectures and symposia, and experimental fields of encounter like festivals, workshops and performances. Whether artists and architects, curators, or theorists: PERSPEKTIVE supports emerging cultural professionals in a European context.
In the course of its four installments from 2015 to 2018, the PERSPEKTIVE funding program supported a total of 21 winning projects involving more than 300 culture producers and participants and approximately 60,000 visitors. All PERSPEKTIVE projects to date can be seen on our website www.fonds-perspektive.de.
With this year’s call, the PERSPEKTIVE fund is celebrating its 5th anniversary. The open call is addressed to cultural institutions such as museums, art and architecture centers, art associations, architectural studios and independent exhibition spaces in the fields of contemporary art and architecture in Germany and France. The 2019 call for projects is accepting submissions between November 1 and December 1, 2018.
Headed by Adeline Blanchard (director of the Bureau des arts plastiques), an independent German-French panel of experts will select the winning projects for 2019. These will be announced in February of next year.
We are happy to introduce a new jury member this year, who is joining the panel for the first time:
Christina Landbrecht, Director of the Schering Stiftung
Christina Landbrecht heads the arts division of the Schering Foundation in Berlin. She studied art history, business administration and Romance studies before starting a traineeship at the Berlinische Galerie, where she later became assistant to Director Dr. Thomas Köhler. Currently she is completing her doctorate at Humboldt University on “The Potential and Problem of Arts-Based Research,” in which she explores the influence of the natural sciences, and most of all their methods and working conditions, on contemporary art. A regular contributor to publications on contemporary art, Landbrecht is also engaged in research into the practice of contemporary women architects within the framework of the exhibition project L’Espace Féminin.
The other jury members are:
Eike Becker, architect, Eike Becker_Architekten, and board member of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Jacques Ferrier, architect and city planner, Paris
Arthur de Ganay, architect and art collector, Sammlung Arthur de Ganay, Berlin
Hélène Guenin, director of the Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain (MAMAC), Nice
Jean-Hubert Martin, curator, Paris
All information, the exact conditions of participation, and the application form are available on our website: www.fonds-perspektive.de.
Contact
Stefanie Steps, Project Manager, Bureau des arts plastiques
T +49 (30) 590 03 92 44 / perspektive [at] institutfrancais.de
The fund is supported by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Culture (DGCA – Direction générale de la création artistique and DGP – Direction générale des Patrimoines), the Institut français Paris, and the Goethe-Institut.
