Within the program Kreativ-Transfer I (2019 – 2020) / Kreativ-Transfer II (2021-2023) / Kreativ-Transfer III (2023-2025) companies, artists and game developers as well as producers, gallery owners and artist-run project space operators travel to international festivals, fairs and platforms in Germany, in Europe and around the world.
They present their work, make new contacts and find co-producers and clients. Kreativ-Transfer promotes these journeys and strengthens the exchange of professional know-how.
After Kreativ-Transfer I (funded with 490.000EUR) and Kreativ-Transfer II (funded with 790.000 EUR), Kreativ-Transfer III is now funded with 1.4 Mio. EUR by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM).
The sponsor of the project is the umbrella organization The German Association for Dance (DTD). In the implementation of this program, DTD cooperates with the IGBK as well as with Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste (BFDK), the Initiative Neuer Zirkus (INZ), the Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (BVDG), with game - Verband der deutschen Games-Branche eV and transmissions GbR.
More information on the program Kreativ-Transfer here (in German)
Two new Open Calls in March 2023
Two open calls have been published in March 2023 as part of the program, aimed at project spaces and producers' galleries. Support for:
- travel costs for participation in art festivals, fairs and fair-like events, and
- international networking, visibility and professionalization projects..
The deadline for both calls is 30 May 2023
More information on the calls is available here.
Two new Open Calls in March 2022
Two open calls have been published in March 2022 as part of the program, aimed at project spaces and producers' galleries. Support for:
- travel costs for participation in art festivals, fairs and fair-like events, and
- international networking, visibility and professionalization projects..
The deadline for both calls is 03 May 2022.
More information on the calls is available here.
Two new Open Calls in September 2021
Two open calls have been published in September 2021 as part of the program, aimed at project spaces and producers' galleries. Support for:
- travel costs for participation in art festivals, fairs and fair-like events, and
- international networking, visibility and professionalization projects..
The deadline for both calls is 29 November 2021.
More information on the calls is available here.
Kick Off Kreativ-Transfer II
On 22 September 2021, the sponsor of the program, the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (DTD), together with the cooperation partners, invited to a digital kick-off Creative Transfer II: In addition to a brief review and an insight into the evaluation of the previous program, the main aim is to inform and to discuss the content of the follow-up program and to provide a platform for exchange between actors in the cultural and creative sectors.
Networking meetings
- On 27 January 2021 a cross-sectoral digital networking workshop was organized ("Jetzt erst recht!"). View the program of the workshop here (PDF).
- A digital networking event took place on 05 October 2020 at 11am CET (in German) for artist-run exhibition or project spaces already funded by the program or those interested in funding.
Open calls in 2019 and 2020
In the fall of 2019 and spring 2020, in the first round of the program, two calls for travel grants for project spaces and producers' galleries and their travels to fairs and platforms were published.
A third call followed in the fall of 2020, this time - due to the corona-virus pandemic - with a more general focus on international networking and presentation.
More information on the call from November 2020 here.
Kreativ-Transfer update (Corona Pandemic, October 2020)
As a result of the corona pandemic, three changes were implemented in the Kreativ-Transfer program (2019-20):
- (1) The extension of the program until 30 April 2021,
- (2) the alternative use of grants already approved by the juries that could not/ could not be used as planned, and
- (3) the alternative use of travel grants in the context of new calls for proposals: Funding for projects of international networking and visualization as well as know-how transfer.
Due to the pandemic situation, travel grants for visiting international trade fairs, festivals and platforms were not be published. For those who had been granted transfer funding but were not able to use it due to the Corona pandemic, there was still the possibility of rededicating the funding.
Jury 1st round of the program
The jurors for the program Kreativ-Transfer, with focus on project spaces and producers' galleries, in the first round of the program were:
- Maria Wildeis, curator of SETAREH, founder of FAR OFF and project manager of the international exchange program Frauenkulturbüro NRW e.V.
- Oliver Möst, Artistic Director of Schoeler.Berlin, active member of the Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen
- Marcel Noack, visual artist, board member of IGBK and of Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (BBK), photographer (German Society for Photography) and art space operator
- Representatives of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland (DTD) accompany the jury meetings, but are not entitled to vote.
View the list of funded project rooms for the first round on the website of the Kreativ-Transfer program.
View the 1st call here (PDF in German).
For more information contact:
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland / The German Association for Dance
Mariannenplatz 2 | 10997 Berlin
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 030 37 44 33 92
(Jana Grünewald / Nicole Fiedler)
IGBK
Markgrafendamm 24, Haus 16 | 10245 Berlin
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | 030-2345 7666 (Thomas Weis)