#Arts

The Allianz Foundation supports artists and art projects that provide fresh ideas for social change and create new perspectives on urgent questions – for today and the future. How can cultural and social divides be bridged? How can we create more sustainable and equitable forms of coexistence?

Art is always a reflection of the conditions of its creation. Art is inscribed with a society’s potential as well as its restrictions. By reflecting on these inequalities and questioning them, art can contribute towards overcoming exclusions and triggering a different way of thinking and acting.

The art we are dealing with speaks to everyone instead of being elitist. It is challenging in an enriching way and opens up perspectives that we could not or did not want to previously perceive. This art acts as a mediator between what exists and what is possible, conveying through sounds, words or images the experience of a world as it could be. It provides ideas, courage and hope to face the fundamental upheavals we are facing as humanity.

We are certain about one thing: a world without art would be less livable.

Future workshops of the Klima-Allianz Deutschland: Climate Protection Needs Many Voices

When considering culture and climate, the focus is usually on two different perspectives. What has been lacking in Germany so far is an interdisciplinary exchange that focuses on the transformative potential of culture in all its diversity. The Klima-Allianz Deutschland (Climate Alliance Germany) has brought together a wide range of stakeholders in four future workshops to explore this question.

Open Call: Turkish-German Co-Production Scholarships at Tarabya Cultural Academy

We are looking for tandems of artists and cultural professionals residing in Germany and Turkey. A film director who lives in Turkey wants to work on a new project with a screenwriter from Germany? A visual artist from Berlin would like to realize a joint project with a designer from Izmir? A musician from Diyarbakir wants to work for several months with a composer from Hamburg? This program makes it possible! We are happy to announce the fourth edition of that unique format for artistic residencies!

Performing Exiles Festival: Berlin as the Capital of the Exiled

During the 20th century, Berlin was a place from which people were forced to emigrate – now, however, the city has become a place of the exiled. The interdisciplinary festival “Performing Exiles” examines the concept of exile in the light of continual global changes and multiple migration movements.

Kickoff for the Residency On The Road

The "Decolonizing Food: Water, Land and Heritage" residency is a collaboration between three members of the Allianz Foundation Hubs Network. The program focuses on food-related practices and topics, questioning conventional food practices and exchanging knowledge. Get to know the participants here.

For all Islanders: The Chios Music Festival

Soccer in an opera? A Festival that is also taking place in schools, nursing homes and refugee camps? Musicians who have immigrated performing alongside locals? The interdisciplinary Chios Music Festival on the Greek island of Chios makes it possible. Here are some impressions from the summer edition 2022.

Four months in Tarabya

“Even small stories can turn into big movements and trigger bigger change" – Read a testimonial from Özge Açıkkol and Güneş Savaş from „Oda Projesi“ in Istanbul and the Berlin-based artist Nadin Reschke about their experience and learnings from a four-months tandem-residency in Tarabya.

Constantly Continue Writing – Weiter Schreiben

In 2017 the collective “WIR MACHEN DAS” (“We’ll Do It”) asked authors from areas of war and crisis seeking refuge in Germany what they wished for. The most common answer was that they wanted to continue writing. Weiter Schreiben makes that possible. And we like to present one such text here.