Artist Project

Artist Project

Funding Amount

From €3K

Eligible Organization Types

Other

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What is the Artist Project Call?

Grant Description
The Mondriaan Fund’s Artist Project grant supports visual artists with at least one year of professional practice to realise a defined artistic plan in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. The call addresses talent development by funding activities such as creating new work, collaborations, research, mentoring, travel and residencies. It aims to enhance the quality and visibility of contemporary visual art.
Required Results for Successful Funding

Expected Outcomes

Funded projects are expected to:

• Advance the artist’s individual oeuvre, demonstrating distinctive vision and development appropriate to their career stage

• Produce original, high-quality contemporary visual art with substantive significance

• Strengthen the artist’s cultural entrepreneurship: increased visibility, audience engagement and professional positioning (e.g. via exhibitions, online presence, networking)

• Enhance the quality and visibility of contemporary visual art in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean Kingdom

• Reach relevant audiences through planned dissemination strategies (exhibitions, workshops, publications, digital platforms)
Funded areas

Scope Requirements

Applicants must:

• Be visual artists professionally active for ≥1 year (either since HBO diploma or first professional presentation)

• Operate within the professional visual arts field of the Netherlands and/or Caribbean part of the Kingdom

• Not be enrolled full-time in Bachelor’s, Master’s, post-doctoral or PhD programmes (part-time <20 hrs/week excepted)

• Submit a justified timeline if requesting the fixed contribution (max 6 months at €2.585/month)

• If requesting a flexible contribution (max 12 months), provide a detailed itemised budget and financing plan showing ≥10% funding from own or third-party sources

• Allow 3 months for application processing; applications may be submitted year-round via the Fund’s online system
Additional Conditions for Applicants

Special Conditions

• Fixed contributions cannot be awarded if an Artist Start grant was received <1 year ago

• Flexible grants cover a maximum 90% of eligible costs; ≥10% must be self- or third-financed

• Collaborating parties (venues, galleries, institutions) must make financial contributions proportionate to the Fund’s, and cultural institutions must comply with the Fair Practice Code

• Ineligible costs include: ongoing living expenses (housing, childcare), exhibition or presentation costs, framing or reproducing existing work, stays in Mondriaan Fund-supported guest studios, projects at long-term funded BIS institutions (except non-standard programming)

• An artist may receive support for a maximum of 24 months within any 48-month period; during the remainder they may only apply for flexible project-cost grants

• A rejected application on artistic grounds bars reapplication to several Mondriaan grants for 12 months

• Application form closed 31 July 16:00–4 August 12:00 (Dutch time)

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