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Rodney Graham: Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller: Jeff Wall: Untitled (Overpass). Courtesy Galerie Johnen und Schöttle

Trends in Contemporary Canadian Art

Contemporary art in Canada, as elsewhere, is marked by a questioning of the nature of art - what art has been about historically, what it ought to be about, and who its intended audience is to be. This questioning has been accompanied by experimentation and innovation. The resulting work varies in content from the intensely personal to the public investigation of social and political issues; it ranges in form from the intellectually disciplined to the free and intuitive; and differs in production from the solitary to the collective. more...

Useful links to Contemporary Canadian Art

Funding and Support

If you are planning on exhibiting your work at an institution in Germany  (gallery, museum, project-space etc.), you can apply for funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Please also contact Katharina Fichtner, the Embassy’s Cultural Attaché for Visual Arts, to discuss how to promote the collaboration.

Please note that the Canadian Embassy in Berlin does not have an exhibition space in which to present art work.

Contact:
Embassy of Canada
Katharina Fichtner
Cultural Attaché Visual Arts, Film, New Media
Leipziger Platz 17
10117 Berlin, Germany
Email: brlin-pa@international.gc.ca

Useful links to the German Contemporary Art Scene:

  •        a quick guide to the German art scene
  •        a list of project spaces in Berlin 
  •        a report on the visual arts in Germany | PDF * (KB)
  •        a list of photography galleries and museums in Germany | PDF * (58 KB)
  •        a list of visual and media arts academies in Germany | PDF * (10 KB)
  •        a list of residency programs in Germany | PDF * (85 KB)
  •        a list of German Kunstvereine

Current Exhibitions of Canadian Artists in Germany

  • Visual Arts Newsletter, July / August 2011 | PDF * (2 KB)

      

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2013-05-02