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Rethinking the South – Repensando Sul
Artists and Cultural Practitioners in Conversation

A symposium with interdisciplinary perspectives

03. - 05.03.2026

With Patti Anahory, Deji Akinpelu, Karla Claudio, Diego Crux, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Nyancho NwaNri, Odun Orimolade, Huda Tayob, Lisa C Soto und Sao Sreymao

Moderation by Yvette Mutumba

Following the three-year thematic residency programme Rethinking the South - Repensando Sul in collaboration with Vila Sul of the Goethe-Institut in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, KfW Stiftung invites you to an artistic and discursive examination of the so-called ‘South’. The three-day symposium brings renowned artists and researchers together in Frankfurt am Main for the first time. Through artistic contributions, films and discussions, they will examine the structures and living spaces of our social coexistence. In doing so, they will address global challenges such as colonial histories, urbanisation and climate change from interdisciplinary perspectives: How can we shape our future?

Further programme details will follow shortly. The programme will be held in English.

Residency programme

"Rethinking the South - Repensando Sul"

From 2023 to 2025, the Frankfurt-based KfW Stiftung, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, initiated the three-year programme Rethinking the South – Repensando Sul, which awarded four scholarships each year with a duration of two months under annually changing themes. In 2023, the Afro-Brazilian past, present and future was be discussed under the question of "Postcolonial Presence". The following years will be dedicated to urban spaces and urban development (2024) and to the climate crisis (2025).

Stipendiat*innen
Postcolonial Presence (2023): Lisa C Soto, Caroline Gueye, Odun Orimolade, Diego Crux
The Sustainable City (2024): Huda Tayob, Deji Akinpelu, Patti Anahory
Recognised Limits (2025): Karla Claudio, Sao Sreymao, Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, Nyancho NwaNri

More information to the programme can be found here.

Image Credits

01. Image: Goethe Institut / Photographer: Lara Carvalho