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Funding scheme PPO (continuing professional development).
Self-employed individuals may apply for a contribution towards professional development costs.
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Recent Allocations Mondriaan Fund
In the past few months the Mondriaan Fund has announced many new grants. Below we list some of them.
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200 million euros in loans for cultural and creative entrepreneurs
Triodos Bank Netherlands and the European Investment Fund (EIF) offer financial support with lower interest rates or more limited collateral requirements to the cultural and creative sector.
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Cultural loans coronasteun package extended until 1 October
Cultuur + Ondernemen provides Culture Loans, including the Culture Opstart Loan which, since this summer, has also been available to independent artists. It concerns financing for new productions, programs, projects or products. New applications can be made until 1 October.
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Changes to and fees for the Mondriaan Fund
A number of minor changes to the Mondriaan Fund's financing arrangements and recent awards.
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Additional support
OCW reserved 15 million euros in addition to existing measures for the cultural and creative sector. The extended lockdown added 9 million euros in January to support creators directly. The Mondriaan Fund provides additional support in times of corona to artists, mediators, museums and art institutions, and the Stimulation Fund distributes 10 million euros....
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Creative Europe
Information about funding opportunities for culture from the European Union.
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Gide to mobility funding in the digital arts
Online grant guide with international exchange opportunities for digital artists and cultural professionals.
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Pilot ZZP Pension
Pensioenfonds Zorg & Welzijn (PFZW) is working with social partners on the ZZP Pension, making it easier for self-employed people in the cultural sector to build up a pension. The organization will start a pilot in 2022. With the ZZP Pension, self-employed people build up a collective pension just like salaried employees in the cultural sector. Self-employed and...
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Funding schemes Mondriaan Fund
What are the application options at the Mondriaan Fund for individual visual artists and what has been added to them in the context of the corona crisis? Let's take a look at it.
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Municipal art and culture advice
Last spring, many municipalities and provinces published the opinions for the four-year arts and culture plans (2021-2024). We pay attention to some municipalities and provinces, especially that part that concerns visual arts. Previous editions featured Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam and Groningen. This time Utrecht and...
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Contribution to 38 art stages from Mondriaan Fund
In an annual application round, the Mondriaan Fund granted almost 7 million euros to the programme of 38 art venues.
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Extra government subsidy for two visual art institutions
The Council for Culture recently advised Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) to award the extra subsidy for activities aimed at reaching the public to BAK in Utrecht and Framer Framed in Amsterdam.
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The functioning of support measures for artists
On July 24, the Boekman Foundation published an article by Rogier Brom on the operation of support measures for artists. Below we provide an abridged version with the most important points from the article for visual artists.
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Regulation on artists' fees
In early 2017, the artist fees guideline was introduced, a guide for institutions and artists to achieve fair practice in professional visual arts practice. To accommodate institutions, the Experimental Regulation on Artists' Fees was created. The application procedure for this regulation (which ran through the Mondriaan Fund) is now closed. The available budget of...
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Thirty million euro for culture in Friesland
Six museums and twenty-seven art organisations in Friesland will be receiving subsidies over the next four years to give new impetus to their cultural offerings.
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Municipal art and culture advice
Many municipalities published their recommendations for four-year art and culture plans in the spring (2021-2024). In this and upcoming editions of BK-informatie, we will describe the part of several municipalities that relates to visual art institutions. This time it is Rotterdam and The Hague.
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Fund 1999
A new fund was established within Fund Squared by Fund 1999.
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Culture Startup Loan
The Ministry of OCW, through Cultuur+Ondernemen, is making €30 million available for the Culture Start-up Loan.
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New scheme for arts venues
The Mondriaan Fund's new Contribution Programs for Art Stages is intended for small art initiatives, collectives and visual art institutions with programs lasting one to four years. The contribution is intended for a series of activities focused on presentation, experimentation, opinion and debate with the aim of encouraging art venues to create publicly accessible visual art programs.
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Additional support from state cultural funds
Within their existing budgets, the six national culture funds (Fonds Podiumkunsten, Mondriaan Fonds, Nederlands Letterenfonds, Filmfonds, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie) have made room for specific measures aimed at the various sectors they serve. The total amount involved is over 15 million euros, which will be deployed this year through existing...
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Contributions 2019 Mondriaan Fund
In the past year, the Mondriaan Fund received 2,554 applications for contributions, according to the fund's 2019 Annual Report. Of these, 1,222 were honored for a combined amount of more than €38 million. Below is an overview of the contributions the Mondriaan Fund awarded in 2018.
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Quick service desk for Amsterdam artists
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK), together with the City of Amsterdam, is opening a 'quick desk' for Amsterdam-based art projects that are a response to the corona crisis.
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Art and culture in times of Corona
On this page you will find a regular update of measures and possibilities following the corona crisis for those working in arts and culture (last update: May 11).
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About the many zzp'ers in the cultural sector
Of all the European countries, the Netherlands has the most self-employed workers. And even more so in the cultural sector. The publication of Kunsten '92 Prijs n.o.t.k. Zzp'ers in de cultuursector discusses this trend in several articles and angles.
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Art purchase continued
After ABNAmro withdrew as a partner from the KunstKoop scheme, it looked like the scheme would disappear. The Mondriaan Fund announced early this year that a new cooperation partner for the KunstKoop has been found, namely Santander Consumer Finance Benelux.
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Pension for the self-employed
Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW) is a pension fund for the self-employed.
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New small business regulation
The small business scheme (KOR) will change as of January 1, 2020. The choice of whether or not to participate as of January 1, 2020 must be made no later than November 20, 2019 via the Tax and Customs Administration's website.
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Minimal additional costs Fair Practice Code
The minimum additional cost of the Fair Practice Code (see BK Information 2018 No. 04) totals €25.4 million (wage level 2021).
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4 million euros for cultural innovation in the region
In 2019 and in 2020, Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) is allocating 4 million euros to stimulate cultural innovation in the region. The amount is doubled by several urban regions to 8 million euros.
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Contributions 2018 Mondriaan Fund
The 2018 Annual Report of the Mondrian Fund was recently published. The report is available in printed form and as a pdf via the Fund's website.
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Recent honors presentation institutions
Over 3.2 million euros was awarded to the programs of eighteen presentation institutions for contemporary visual art during the annual application round.
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