The project archive presents the range of cultural promotion.
The projects and the numerous project managers are a reflection of changes, trends and developments in the cultural landscape of Westphalia-Lippe over the past 20 years.
Funding projects from previous years
First funding round 2025
Second funding round 2024
Ausstellungsgesellschaft Paderborn mbH, Paderborn
Educational and supporting program for the exhibition Tatort Paderborn 2025 – Der Fluss bin ich
Filmwerkstatt Münster e.V., Münster
Event series Kino aufs Land
Förderverein WestfalenClassics e.V., Bad Sassendorf
Festival WestfalenClassics Festival 2025 – 20th anniversary edition
WestfalenClassics
Freunde der Realität, Verein zur Förderung des Dokumentarfilms für Kinder und Jugendliche e.V., Bochum
Documentary film festival for real : for real // DOXS RUHR 2025
Friends and supporters of the cultural centers Burg Vischering and Kolvenburg e.V., Coesfeld
Social media series The correct servant
HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein e.V., Dortmund
Special exhibition Holding Pattern – Warteschleifen und andere
Loops
Institute for Comparative Urban History, Münster
Mediation project: Private letters from the Thirty Years’ War.
Digital indexing and mediation of aristocratic lifeworlds in Westphalia
Ahlen Art Museum, Ahlen
Special exhibition Sweet home. German-Turkish life in art
Landesverband Lippe, Lemgo
Special exhibition Think:Paint! 150 years of the Hermann Monument
LWL-Freilichtmuseum Detmold, Detmold
Special exhibition Essen gut, alles gut!
LWL Media Center for Westphalia, Münster
Digitalprojekt #westfalen – Ein multimediales Online-Angebot 2.0
LWL Museums of Industrial Heritage, Dortmund
Network project Planning and development Federal Association of Industrial Heritage
LWL Museum of Natural History, Münster
Special exhibition Westphalian House of Cards
LWL Museum of Natural History, Münster
Special exhibition SOUNDS – The World Sounds
LWL-Museum Zeche Zollern, Dortmund
Special exhibition Loved, hated and mocked – on the cult and cultural history of the garden gnome
Physical Theatre Netzwerk e.V., Essen
Theaterperformance Hinterlassenschaften – A House Full Of Stuff
Sauerland Museum of the Hochsauerland District, Arnsberg
Special exhibition Industrialization in South Westphalia. Economy
and work between mountain and valley
Dalheim Monastery Foundation. LWL Museum of Monastic Culture, Lichtenau
Special exhibition The power of rules! Between
Freedom and control
Verein zur Förderung freier Theaterarbeit e.V. / Theater im Depot, Dortmund
Theaterfestival Beyond Gravity Festival 2025
First funding round 2024
Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation, Havixbeck
Literature project Judenbuche and beyond
Die Linse e.V., Münster
Filmreihe Drehbuch Geschichte: Filmwelt Westfalen – Geschichten einer Region
Weberei Bürgerkiez gGmbH, Gütersloh
Event series Westphalia worldwide – 1250 years on tour
Fiktiver Alltag e.V., Münster
Literature project The Night of the Dead Poets
Förderkreis für Kultur, Geschichte und Natur im Sintfeld e.V., Bad Wünnenberg
Event series 700 years of Vorstenburg!
Friends and supporters of the cultural centers Burg Vischering and Kolvenburg e.V., Coesfeld
Film project The Baroness
Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the World of Work, Dortmund
Literature project Old Work & New Nature. The Hansa coking plant as a place of transformation. A project by “aufbrüche – literaturfestival [lila we:] 2025”
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde der Abtei Marienmünster e.V., Marienmünster
Event series Monasteries shape Westphalia – Past and present
Huxarium Gartenpark Höxter gGmbH
Exhibition Battle of Brunsberg – The dawn of a new era
Kaspershof gUG, Bad Salzuflen
Literature project Poetica Westfalia! A project by “aufbrüche – literaturfestival [lila we:] 2025”
Kulturscheune 1A, Bad Wünnenberg
Kabarett Ostwestfalen-Revue
Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V., Arnsberg
Versumpfung art project
Kulturgut Haus Nottbeck GmbH, Museum of Westphalian Literature, Oelde
Landstriche literature project – a Westphalian poetry trail
Kulturverein Westfalen e.V., Holzwickede
Music & ArtWorlds 1250 Jahre Westfalen event series
Literaturbüro OWL in Detmold e.V., Detmold
Literaturprojekt Ein westfälischer Bubble-Wort-Parcour. Literary-sporty camp for children. A project by “aufbrüche – literaturfestival [lila we:] 2025”
LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History, Münster
Podcast Untold Stories: Telling Westphalia’s Hidden History(ies)
LWL Cultural Department, Münster
LWL Cultural Scholarships2025 – new impulses from the independent scene for Westphalia-Lippe
LWL Culture Department, Münster
Podcast Genau! Westphalia!
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Special exhibition Otto Mueller
Human: Theater! – unterwegs e.V., Kappelrodeck/Tanztheater bodytalk, Münster
Tanztheater WESTFALEN SIDE STORY
Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf, Wadersloh
Exhibition The Invention of Westphalia – Bernhard Witte’s “Historia Westphaliae”
Relígio – Westphalian Museum of Religious Culture, Telgte
Exhibition Unbelievable. Encounters with the saint
Reset e.V., Münster
Event series Baddabäm! Show for parapolitical evening entertainment – Grand Tour Westfalen
save space e.V., Cologne
Exhibition New Westphalia: Stories, cultures and aesthetics of the Sinte*zze and Rom*nja in Westphalia-Lippe
Schnibbelbohne e.V., Steinfurt
Culinary project Habitat – das, was im Topf hockt – Westfalen neu gedacht und entdeckt
City of Haltern am See, City Agency Department, Haltern am See
Event series Blind Spots – A series of events in memory of the former displaced persons in Westphalia-Lippe
Verein Gerbereimuseum Enger e.V., Enger
Literature project ‘Zeitgrenzen aufbrechen’ – literature in dialog with literature. A project by “aufbrüche – literaturfestival [lila we:] 2025”
Verein für jüdische Geschichte und Religion e.V., Dorsten
Exhibition Rafft euch empor! Jewish activists from Westphalia in the first women’s movement
Vorlesebande e. V., Paderborn
Literature project Westphalian Poetry Slam – 5 states slam Westphalia. A project by “aufbrüche – literaturfestival [lila we:] 2025”
Westfalen e.V., Hamm
Event series Westphalian name day – 1,250 years: Westphalia celebrates its birthday – we celebrate name day
Second funding round 2023
AGORA – Gesellschaft für Literatur, Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bad Oeynhausen
Performance Geh zur Ruh’ – Eine Performance in 6 Anwendungen
DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst; Hörstel
Exhibition and event project be pART – 20 years of DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst
Förderverein des Widukind Museum Enger e.V., Enger
Widukind-Opera music theater project
Förderer der Wald und Wiesen Kultur e.V., Münster
Music project Jazz Jumelage – Westphalian Resonances
Geographical Commission for Westphalia, Münster
Research project The future of villages in Westphalia-Lippe. The importance of infrastructure, voluntary commitment and support programs
District town of Unna, Department of Culture
Literature project WORT.ORT.MORD. Crime in Westphalia. Co-project of Mord am Hellweg XI
LWL-Denkmalpflege, Landschafts- und Baukultur in Westfalen, Münster
Publication Weltkulturerbe Klosterkirche Corvey – Baugeschichte: Präsentation der neuen Forschungsergebnisse
LWL Media Center for Westphalia, Münster
Animated film Once upon a time in Westphalia
LWL Museum of Natural History. Westphalian State Museum with Planetarium, Münster
Palaeontological State Exhibition 2025/2026 Survival. Between dinosaurs and scaly trees
LWL-Museum in der Kaiserpfalz, Paderborn
Exhibition 775 – Westphalia
Marta Herford gGmbH, Herford
Exhibition Between Pixel and Pigment. Hybrid painting in post-digital times
Sauerland Museum of the Hochsauerland District, Arnsberg
Exhibition Democratic Cultures in the Sauerland 1925-1975-2025
Dalheim Monastery Foundation, LWL Museum of Monastery Culture, Lichtenau-Dalheim
Festival Summer Nightsongs 2025
Münsterland Art and Culture Foundation, Greven
Event series Signpost change – 50 years of regional reform
Theaterlabor Bielefeld e.V., Bielefeld
Series of events Refugien in OWL – Vom Wurzeln und Blühen
Verein zur Förderung von Schauspiel, Sprache und Literatur e.V. (i.G.), Münster
Reading series Kein Reben-, sondern ein Reckenland… Westfalenbilder in der Literatur
First funding round 2023
Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation, Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, Havixbeck
Literature project Nature + Networks
Bagno-Kulturkreis Steinfurt e. V., Steinfurt
Event series JUBILATE! 250 years of the Bagno concert gallery
Baukunstarchiv NRW gGmbH, Dortmund
Exhibition The architect Werner Ruhnau (1922-2015) in Westphalia
Eine Welt Netz NRW e.V., Münster
Event series Overcoming colonial continuities
Evangelical Church District of Münster, Münster
Event series BACH INSPIRIERT. Bachfest 2024 Münster
Evangelical Church District Soest-Arnsberg, Soest
Music project youth oratorios Maria – one like no other
Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen
Research and mediation project (Post)colonial references on site – historical materials from Westphalia-Lippe for cultural and educational work
Flurstücke e.V., Münster
Festival FLURSTÜCKE 024 – International Festival for Theater, Dance, Film and Performance
GrünBau gGmbH, Dortmund
Event series how to decolonize heimat
Hagenring e.V., Hagen
Event series 100 years of HAGENRING
jetztzeit e.V., Bielefeld
Event series Decolonize Ostwestfalen-Lippe – Active against the after-effects of colonial rule. A digital map project in OWL
Kabakoo – Häuser des Staunens e.V., Paderborn
Event series Highdigenous Live! Amazement to overcome coloniality
Kinderkulturwerkstatt Musifratz e.V., Münster
Theater series LieferKetten BefreiungsTheaters (LKBT) “Nothing to lose but the fairy lights of this world”
Municipal Integration Center of the District of Lippe, Detmold
Event series 2024 – Critique of colonialism in Lippe
Kreativ-Haus Münster e.V., Münster
Dance performance and event series Parkour of Remembrance
Labor für sensorische Annehmlichkeiten e.V., Dortmund
Performance and exhibition Folklore that didn’t exist!
LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen
Event series and exhibition Colonial and post-colonial entanglements of crafts and trades in Westphalia-Lippe
LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History, Münster
Event series (Post-)colonial on site: Regional perspectives on a problematic contemporary history
LWL Culture Department in cooperation with the LWL-Kulturstiftung, Münster
Podcast #Postcolonialism – A multi-part podcast special
LWL Museum of Archaeology, Herne
Exhibition Meals – Food and Drink
LWL-Museum Zeche Nachtigall, Witten
Exhibition Postcolonial Raw Materials
Physical Theater Netzwerk e.V. in co-production with notsopretty Performancekollektiv, Essen
Musical GEMUSICAL
pottporus e.V., Herne
Residency program and performance aware!
Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens, Paderborn
Series of events and exhibition 200 years of the Verein für Geschichte und Altertumskunde Westfalens
Verein zur Förderung der Barockmusik in Westfalen e.V., Münster
Concert series Adelshochzeiten in Westfalen
Verein zur Förderung der Dokumentarfilmkultur e.V., Cologne
LETsDOK documentary film festival in East Westphalia-Lippe
Westfälischer Heimatbund e. V., Münster
Research project Der Westfälische Heimatbund im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert: Homemaking in social change between 1915 and 2025
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics, Münster
Research project Mapping the object – objects from colonial contexts in Westphalian-Lippe museums
Yes Africa e.V., Hamm
Traveling exhibition Holistic post-colonial image of Africa in the German public sphere
Second funding round 2022
Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff Foundation, Burg Hülshoff – Center for Literature, Havixbeck
Event series Shadow of the Shadow
Bemposta e.V., Unna
Event series Der Jupp muss wech! Or the Emscherland transformation. A farce with music
Coordination Office for Provenance Research in NRW, LVR, Bonn
Project Test application for image-based search for provenance research
Cultural Office of the City of Gütersloh, Gütersloh
Internet platform OWL live
Cultural Office of the City of Herten, Herten
Art project EAT ART – Buffets at the moated castle
Kunstforum Hermann Stenner gGmbH, Bielefeld
Special exhibition All roads are open. Women photographers on their travels
LWL Media Center for Westphalia, Münster
Audio feature Westfalia – Colonial traces in Westphalia
LWL Museum of Archaeology, Herne
Special exhibition Archaeology of Modernity
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Special exhibition Nudes. Radically naked
LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Westfälisches Landesmuseum mit Planetarium, Münster
Special exhibition Genes – a journey through the genome
LWL-Museum Textilwerk, Westphalian State Museum of Industrial Culture, Bocholt
Special exhibition Beauty Industry – From the Production of an Ideal
City of Werther, Werther
Project Film sequences for Mia Weinberg’s installation ‘fractured legacy’
Dalheim Monastery Foundation. LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, Lichtenau
Special exhibition Und vergib uns unsere Schuld? Churches and monasteries under National Socialism
University of Siegen, Siegen
Wanderspace art and network project
Via Nova Kunstfest Corvey gGmbh, Höxter
Event series A lily among thistles. Via Nova Art Festival Corvey 2023
First funding round 2022
Landesmusikrat NRW e.V., Düsseldorf
create music NRW network project
City of Schmallenberg
Exhibition and network project The Bread Tree Regime
City of Warstein in cooperation with the LWL-Museumsamt für Westfalen, Münster
Psychiatry project “Dinge ver-rücken. Mediation and communication structure on the history and present of psychiatry in Westphalia
Deutscher Kulturrat e.V., Berlin, in cooperation with the LWL Cultural Department, Münster
Kulturkonferenz Zukunft(s)Land-Strukturen, Impulse und Allianzen für eine starke Kultur in ländlichen Räumen
open systems e.V., Essen
Festival Blaues Rauschen
HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Special exhibition Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten: We grow, grow and grow, we’re gonna be alright and this is our show
Center for Low German, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster
PlattinO-M. Plattlern-App Münsterland
Welthaus Bielefeld e.V., Bielefeld
World music concert series
Heimatverein Gütersloh e.V., Gütersloh, in cooperation with LWL Press and Public Relations
Digitization project Kultur-Kit: modular construction kit for Westphalian cultural institutions
Kulturkreis Höxter-Corvey gGmbH, Höxter
Concert series The Corvey Summer Concerts 2023 present the stars of tomorrow
LWL-Industriemuseum Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg
Special exhibition Container. The global box
LWL Museum of Natural History with Planetarium, Münster
Special exhibition The Climate
Second funding round 2021
Alles Kunst e.V., Paderborn
Film project Islands of Happiness – of landscapes and people in East Westphalia
Bruchwerk Theater gUG, Siegen
Theater project Juliet & Romeo
Filmwerkstatt Münster e.V., Münster
HUMAN/NATURE film project
GWK-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Westfälischen Kulturarbeit e.V., Münster
Summerwinds Münsterland 2022 International Woodwind Festival
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Exhibition Beyond, beyond photography and architecture. Thomas Ruff and James Welling
LWL Media Center for Westphalia, Münster
#westfalen – a multimedia online offer for education and culture
LWL Prussian Museum Minden, Minden
Exhibition Prussia at Sea. On swaying planks
Museum Abtei Liesborn des Kreises Warendorf, Wadersloh
Exhibition We are Rincklake – portrait painting in the selfie age
WESTFALEN BAUEN KULTUR e.V., Münster
Network project Westfalen baut Kultur
First funding round 2021
Filmwerkstatt Münster e.V., Münster
Das Fräulein und die Spoekenkiekerin – a historical short film
Förderverein für das Sauerland-Museum Arnsberg des Hochsauerlandkreises e.V., Arnsberg
Special exhibition on the persecution of witches in the Duchy of Westphalia
Josef Albers Museum. Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop
Exhibition Josef Albers. Homage to the square
District of Coesfeld, Dept. 40 School, Education and Culture, Coesfeld
We celebrate! 750 years of Vischering Castle
Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst e.V., Detmold
Special exhibition Johanna K. Becker
LWL Literature Commission for Westphalia, Münster
outside / inside / outside. An intermedia project on the subject of literature and psychiatry
Peter-August-Böckstiegel-Stiftung Werther, Werther
Special exhibition Westphalian Paths to Modernism – the artist groups Rote Erde and Der Wurf
Via Nova Corvey gGmbH, Höxter
Via Nova Art Festival Corvey 2022 State of the Secret : Consolations
Westfälischer Heimatbund e.V., Münster
Research project Museums in Westphalia today – current situation and positioning
Due to a funding moratorium, it was not possible to submit applications between 2015 and 2018. Since the resumption of the application rounds, the LWL-Kulturstiftung has seen a steady increase in the number of applications.
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