Mondriaan Fund: Voucher International

Mondriaan Fonds: Voucher Internationaal

Funding for lectures, performances, workshops or panels held abroad

The Mondriaan Fund is one of the 6 national cultural funds, and supports and promotes the visual arts and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Funding for visual artists, curators, art critics, and art observers who are invited to give e.g. a lecture, a performance or a workshop, or to participate on a panel at a an internationally renowned contemporary visual art institution, platform, festival or symposium held abroad. Through this grant, the Mondriaan Fund, one of the six national cultural funds, wants to enable visual artists, curators, art critics, and art observers to quickly respond to international opportunities.

Destination

Worldwide

Discipline(s)

Visual Arts

Who can apply

Individuals

Visual artists, curators, art critics and art observers from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom who are keen to quickly respond to an invitation from an internationally renowned contemporary visual art institution, platform, festival or symposium held abroad (outside the Kingdom of the Netherlands).

For what

Travel

Travel and accommodation costs.

How much

A maximum of € 2,500.

Requirements

The artist, curator, art critic or art observer must have received an invitation from an internationally renowned contemporary visual art institution, platform, festival or symposium held abroad.
If you are applying as a curator, art critic, or art observer, the activity for which you are applying must be part of your independent practice.
It must be clear from the invitation that the institution, platform, festival or symposium is offering the artist, curator, art critic or art observer a fair remuneration for the lecture, workshop, performance or panel participation.
Applying curators, art critics or art observers
- have been working as a professional curator, art critic or art observer in the field of visual art for at least 2 years, and can support this with publications, exhibitions, research and/or projects;
- are artistically active in the visual arts and in that capacity embedded in the professional visual arts practice in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.
Applying artists:
- have been working as a professional artist for at least 1 year and are registered with the Chamber of Commerce; or have completed at least 3 years of a Higher Professional Education (HBO) art course and have worked as a professional artist for at least 1 year. Or you have worked for 3 years or longer as a professional artist;
- are artistically active in the visual arts and in that capacity embedded in the professional visual arts practice in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.
For the assessment the following criteria will be taken into account:
- the relevance of the lecture, performance, workshop or panel participation for the field;
- the quality of the internationally renowned contemporary visual art institution, platform, festival or symposium;
- the quality of the applicant’s artistic work;
- motivation: does the applicant’s lecture, workshop, performance, etc. help raise the visibility and international appreciation of relevant contemporary visual arts from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom (does the activity transcend the personal interest of the applicant).
Not eligible are:
- research trips linked to (the preparation of) an exhibition or presentation;
- activities associated with a commercial gallery or an art institution, platform, festival or symposium that is primarily focused on sales;
- students (Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes, as well as postgraduate and postdoctoral programmes).