Deadline: 27-Apr-23
The Danish Arts Foundation is seeking applications from the Danish Artists’ to provide exhibition expenses, e.g. installation, travel, accommodation, and transport of works in connection with the exhibition of Danish contemporary art outside Denmark.
Purpose
- The Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding wants to promote Danish and foreign contemporary art in Denmark and Danish contemporary art abroad.
Areas of Interests
You may apply for funding within the following areas:
- Presentation
- Funding for presenting Danish and international contemporary art in printed or digital form. Presentation must be related to a project or have an appropriate recipient, either in form of a publisher or an exhibition agreement. It is not sufficient to have an agreement with a printer. Please note that they do not fund presentation projects that concerns a foreign artist and which is aimed at a foreign audience. Art books, catalogues and publications are only funded in cases where it is especially relevant for the artist or the project. Typical expenses: Translation, printing and layout.
- Exhibitions abroad
- Funding for exhibitions with Danish contemporary artists abroad.
- Typical expenses: Transport of works, insurance for works, rent of technical equipment, installation, the artist’s travel, hotel or other expenses that are related to the exhibition, but that are not production of the work or works themselves, and exhibition fees.
- Fees for exhibiting artists
- Exhibition venues are encouraged to pay fees to artists in connection with their work with an exhibition. The exhibition venue may apply for partial funding of fees for exhibiting artists. The fee covers the artist’s work in connection with an exhibition, which is not directly linked to the production of works – for example, the artist’s participation in meetings, setting up and dismantling an exhibition, participation in PR and presentation.
Funding Information
- There is no ceiling as to how much you may apply for. The committee assesses each individual application and makes a decision based on the individual project.
- However, to match expectations, previous years’ grant sizes can give an idea of the programme’s financial framework:
- 59% of the grants given in 2019 were of less than 25,000 DKK (ca. 3,300 €)
- 82% were less than 45,000 DKK (ca. 6,000 €)
- 96% were less than 75,000 DKK (ca. 10,000 €)
- If you receive a grant of:
- DKK 100,000 or less, they pay the grant as closely as possible to the start date you have stated in your application. You should therefore make sure that the start date you enter matches the date of the first expenses for your project
- more than DKK 100,000 with a project period longer than six months, they pay the grant in instalments.
Ineligible Projects
- Invitations, meals, etc. in connection with exhibition openings
- Travel and accommodation of assistants
- Travel and accommodation in connection with exhibitions in galleries with which the artist is already working regularly
- Local transport
- Project applications that the Committee has previously processed (reapplications)
- Exhibitions opening before the application deadline
- Exhibitions in galleries with which the artist is regularly affiliated are not funded unless the committee assesses that they involve a special effort.
Eligibility Criteria
- International museums, art galleries, biennials, private galleries, small exhibition venues and independent curators, which are to exhibit Danish contemporary art.
Ineligible
- Students enrolled at one of the approved Danish academies of fine arts or a corresponding educational institution abroad, who have not completed yet completed their studies prior to the start date of the project.
- Artist groups, if a majority of members are students
For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.