Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography: Institutions

Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography: Institutions

Mondriaan Fonds
Mondriaan Fund
Amsterdam
The Mondriaan Fund is a state financed cultural funding organization that focuses on visual arts and cultural heritage. The aim is to support innovation and excellence by providing financial support to artists, art organizations and cultural heritage in The Netherlands. The fund also promotes contemporary art from The Netherlands abroad. Furthermore, the fund plays an important role in the internationalization of the visual arts sector. It does this by providing possibilities and programs for networking, exchange within this field.

Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie RKD
Netherlands Institute for Art History RKD
Amsterdam
The RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) is one of the most important art-historical information centres in the world, administering a unique collection of documentary, library and archive material on Western art from the late Middle Ages to the present.

De Ateliers
De Ateliers
Amsterdam
De Ateliers is an independent artists' institute which is run by visual artists. It focuses on the artistic development of young, talented artists from within the Netherlands and abroad. The monumental building in Amsterdam offers spacious studios, placed at the disposal of beginning artists. These artists are guided by teachers and art critics on a weekly basis.

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten
Amsterdam
The Rijksakademie is a post-academic art institute. It selects exceptionally talented artists and offers them high quality artistic, technical and theoretical facilities. Research, experiment and developing innovative art practices are of central importance.

Jan van Eyck Academie
Jan van Eyck Academie
Maastricht
The Jan van Eyck Academie is an innovative and outward-looking post-academic institution for fine art and design. It is international and interdisciplinary.

Boekmanstichting
Boekman Foundation
Amsterdam
The Boekman Foundation collects and disseminates knowledge and information about the arts and culture in both policy and practice. It stimulates research and the development of opinion on the production, distribution and take-up of the arts and on national and international policy on the arts and culture.

 

Mapping Netherlands: Visual arts and photography