About the project
Earth Month 2025 is a collaborative initiative between Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Institut Français d’Écosse, and ClimateCulture, aimed at fostering cultural exchange and climate action through the lens of artistic and cultural practice. This programme unites France, Germany, and Scotland in a dynamic, multidisciplinary dialogue around sustainability.
In April and May, experience the first edition of the Earth Month 2025, a 5-week events series preceded by a 3-week artists residency, aiming at fostering cultural enrichment and cross-cultural exchange on climate action, strengthening ties between France, Germany, and Scotland.
Through a collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Glasgow, Institut français d’Écosse, and ClimateCulture, the Earth Month brings together artists, thinkers, and changemakers to showcase the essential role of culture in addressing sustainability challenges through film, music, performance, and more.
Join us for a month of inspiring events, creative dialogue, and collective action for a greener future. Stay tuned for the full programme (to be announced in March) and be part of the movement!
Slow travel artist’s residency
The artists’ residency, running from March 28 to April 23, 2025, offfers two artists from Germany and France the opportunity to explore Scotland’s diverse landscapes, sustainability challenges, and emerging climate solutions. The residency provides a slow travel experience, with the artists journeying by train and/or boat from their home countries to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and two locations in the Scottish Highlands & Islands. At each location, the artists can engage with one of the following themes: rewilding, oceans, sustainable cities, and circular design. The residency culminates in an Artists’ Talk on Earth Day (April 22), where the artists can share insights gathered during their residency and present their pre-existing work on environmental themes in a small exhibition at the Institut Français d’Écosse’s venue in Edinburgh. The travel residency is realised in cooperation with the School of Fine Art, and the School of Design, the Glasgow School of Art, as well as Cove Park and Linkshouse / The Pier Arts Centre.
Artist in residence from France : Charlotte Bracho
Charlotte Bracho (born 1990, Venezuela) is an artist and designer currently living and working in France (Creuse). Her multidisciplinary practice is grounded in textile thinking, exploring repetitive processes involving lines, light, folds, and patterns. Through video art, sculptures, and installations, she seeks to transform tangible materials into creations that evoke illusion and the imperceptible, driven by a desire to reflect on and envision the world in its impermanence and perpetual process of renewal. She holds a BFA in Design from Concordia University in Montreal and a Master’s degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Her interest in textile techniques was nurtured in the Concordia Fiber department, where they became a central element and key focus of her work. She later expanded her expertise by studying new technologies applied to textile processes and material research. Her work has been showcased in exhibitions such as the VAV Gallery in Canada, a solo show at the Chirivella Soriano Foundation in Spain, and the Textile Object Biennale at the Textile Manufacture Museum in Roubaix, France. She also participated in the Mostra Art Públic in Spain, organized by the University of Science of Valencia, where her project explored the intersection of art and science. A recipient of the Pedro Marco Grant, her work was featured at the Reales Atarazanas Museum in Valencia. Additionally, she was an artist-in-residence at Le Bel Ordinaire in Pau, France.
Artist in residence from Germany : Antonia Ablass
Antonia Ablass is a textile designer and artist from Berlin and Brandenburg. Growing up between the city and the countryside, her textile work is influenced by this duality and aims at bringing together plants, humans and other living things. Early in her textile-design studies, she began exploring the potential of textiles to reweave nature into the built environment. Since then, she is dedicated to deepening her understanding of plant physiology, wildlife, and human-nature relationships. As an emerging artist, Antonia focuses on integrating plants into daily life, with the conviction that reconnecting humans and nature can be healing to both us and our planet. In her early career, she has exhibited at a few festivals, with a wide range of topics, such as the Silbersalzfestival, an internatiol festival for science and media, as well as at BLADE, a Berlin underground Techno Festival. She believes, that more plants can be integrated everywhere with healing effects on our bodies and minds, as well as the planet's health.
Jury Members
Meet the members of the jury for theEarth Month 2025 – Cultures of Action: Slow Travel Artists’ Residency. Two artists from France and Germany will be invited for a three-week journey through Scotland to explore the project’s core themes of rewilding, oceans, sustainable cities, and circular design. The residency is realised in cooperation with the School of Fine Art and the School of Design at Glasgow School of Art, and with Cove Park and Linkshouse/Pier Arts Centre.