Call for Submission: GIZ Ghana Art Competition 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 28, 2025

Applications are open for the GIZ Ghana Art Competition 2025. In celebration of fifty years of Ghana-Germany Technical and Economic Cooperation, GIZ Ghana is inviting passionate Ghana-based creatives to take part in a strong new Art Competition. This initiative presents a singular OPPORTUNITY to discover and replicate on the impression of growth cooperation by way of visible storytelling.

Are you a visible artist, filmmaker, photographer, or analysis-primarily based artistic with a powerful voice and deep connection to your neighborhood? This is your likelihood to supply daring, private, and thought-upsetting work that ignites dialog and deepens public understanding round growth in Ghana.

Competition Theme: Development Cooperation by way of a Local Lens

Artists are inspired to discover a number of of the next key themes of German-Ghanaian growth collaboration:

• Sustainable Energy, Climate, and Environmental Protection
• Economic Development, Training, and Employment
• Governance and Peace
• Gender and Inclusion

Whether you select to specific your concepts by way of pictures, movie, portray, blended media, or any visible medium—your perspective issues. The focus is on artistic, neighborhood-rooted storytelling that highlights each the progress and challenges inside these themes.

Benefits

• grant Support: Five finalists will likely be chosen by an impartial jury and awarded a grant to supply their proposed paintings.
• Creative Freedom: Selected artists might use any medium of their alternative that greatest displays their idea and neighborhood context.
• Public Exposure: Final artworks will likely be showcased at public occasions and growth-centered gatherings throughout Ghana.
• Professional Recognition: Gain visibility by way of GIZ Ghana’s nationwide platform and networks, together with potential options on social and conventional media.

Eligibility

• Open to Ghana-based visible artists, photographers, filmmakers, and researchers;
• Creatives who’re enthusiastic about visible storytelling;
• Artists with a powerful curiosity in social impression and growth points;
• Individuals or collectives working inside or with Ghanaian communities.

Application

Submit your artwork proposal (together with your chosen medium) and a brief motivation assertion (max 300 phrases).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to GIZ Ghana Art Competition.