Exhibitions by artists living in Germany

The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen is able, under certain conditions, to fund exhibition projects abroad of the work of artists living in Germany. Ifa cannot provide assistance for the planning stages of these projects.
Applications for financial support must be submitted within the time limit. Applications must include a financial plan and a cost evaluation in relation to transport, insurance and travel expenses. An invitation from the foreign institution as well as the artist's CV and pictorial material must also be submitted.

A list of the artists funded under the previous year’s program is included in the annual report of ifa (in German).

Information
An information brochure and an application form can be downloaded.
• Leaflet (PDF)
• Application form (RTF)

Funding principles
1. Financial contributions are made for transport, insurance, technical equipment which is necessary for the presentation of the exhibition and where appropriate for artists’s travelling expenses.
2. The committee meets twice a year (spring and autumn). Applications submitted after our deadlines cannot be considered.
3. Applications received are submitted to an independent committee of specialists. Decisions on funding are also made on the basis of the budget available to ifa for this purpose and in relation to other applications.
4. No justification will be given for the decisions taken. Denied applications can not be submitted again. Recourse to legal action is out of the question.
5. An exhibition that has already started cannot be funded retrospectively. Accrued expenses before our funding decision cannot be considered.
6. Funding by exhibitions in the home country from artists without German nationality is inadmissible.
7. Exhibition projects by students can not be supported.
8. When carrying out a project, expenditure from funds can be made only if compatible with general Federal budgeting principles (see www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bho/)
9. Financial support by the German Foreign Office or the Goethe-Institute and by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen as well is inadmissible for reasons of budgetary law.
10. Application documents will not be returned. Any additional material submitted will be returned only if this does not entail undue effort.

Funding conditions 

1. The applicant must demonstrate a high standard of artistic quality.
2. Invitation/inquiry by a major foreign exhibition institution (not a commercial institution/private gallery). The project must be clearly situated in a non-commercial context.
3. The exhibition project must be clearly recognizable as a German cultural contribution in the context of foreign cultural policy.
4. Considerable achievements by the foreign institution concerned.
5. Submitting an application implies acceptance of the funding principles and requirements spelled out in this document.

Application material required
1. A fully completed application on the form.
2. Pictorial material (e.g. catalogues, photographs or similar) of the current and former artistic work (illustrative material on CD or DVD cannot be considered, only for projects where it is necessary e. g. videowork).
3. Applicant’s CVs and CVs of all artists funding is applied for.
4. Written invitation from the foreign institution.
5. Written information about the exhibition institution (e. g. financing).

Application dates
Applications with all the requisite documentation must reach ifa by 31 January or by 15 August (the postmark is valid), in order to be considered by the respective meetings of the committee. Applications submitted after the deadline cannot be considered. The spring committee meeting (deadline 31 January) decides which projects will be funded in the current year (only exhibitions not starting before June of the current year). The autumn committee meeting decides which projects will be funded for the following year (deadline 15 August). Applications may be submitted in German or English.

Press and publicity work
The ifa logo will be sent to applicants electronically. It is to be used on all media (print media, internet etc.) relating to the funded project. Furthermore the ifa logo has to be published in the exhibition rooms. Ifa publishes information about funded projects in its annual report and on its website. For this reason it is essential that ifa receives regular updates on the progression of the project. We also require a royalty-free image or illustration for publication.

Contact
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V.
Visual Arts Department
Ms Ingrid Klenner
Postfach 102463
70020 Stuttgart
Phone +49.711.2225-171
Fax +49.711.2225-194
klenner( at )ifa.de
Consultation hours by telephone:
Monday to Friday from 10 am to 12 am.

Funding (a selection)

Carsten Höller
06.02. – 25.04.2010
museum boijmans van beuningen
Rotterdam, Niederlande
www.boijmans.nl

Tino Sehgal
29.01. – 10.03.2010
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, USA
www.guggenheim.org

Barbara Hoegner
Horizontal City / Vertical Village
Living with Le Corbusier in Chandigar and Berlin
25.11. – 2.12.2009
Government Museum and Art Gallery
Chandigar, Indien
chdmuseum.nic.in

Nevin Aladag, Daniela Brahm, Rui Calcada Bastos, Ingo Gerken, Thom Kubli, Lars Ramberg, Karin Sander, Daniel Seiple
building berlin
18.9. – 23.1.2010
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Ontario, Kanada
www.kwag.ca/en

Danica Dakic, Sabine Kacunko, Vera Lossau, Rita McBride, Björn Melhüs, Klaus Mettig
Organ Mix
18.9. – 15.11.2009
Total Museum of Contemporary Art
Seoul, Korea
www.totalmuseum.org

Rosa Barba, Thomas Bayrle, Mike Bouchet, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Tamara Grcic, Carsten Höller, Tobias Rehberger, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ulla von Brandenburg, Tian Tian Wang
53. Biennale Venedig
7.6. – 22.11.2009
Venedig, Italien
www.labiennale.org

Nevin Aladag, KP Bremer, Danica Dakic, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Marwan, Marina Naprushkina, Nam June Paik, Simon Wachsmuth
11. Istanbul Biennale
12.9. – 8.11.2009
Istanbul, Türkei
www.iksv.org