Grants

The Mondriaan Fund is the public fund for visual arts and cultural heritage. All grant opportunities can be found on this page.

Note: The deadline for applications in 2024 is Monday 30 December 2024, 16.00 (Dutch time zone) / 11.00 (Caribbean time zone). The grants for the policy plan period 2025–2028 will go online at midday on Monday 6 January.

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Acquisitions

The Individual Acquisitions Grant is intended for Dutch museums and other cultural heritage institutions, possibly in collaboration with other heritage institutions, which want to acquire special items or partial collections in any field, ranging from…

Art Commission

Do you want to commission an artist to create new work or works that will be visible to everyone, in a publicly accessible space, for example in a hospital, museum or shopping centre? Or would…

Art Connection

Are you organising an initiative – an event, festival, website, or other public activity – that sparks a special connection between the public and visual art? Are you looking to present visual art in an…

Art Heritage Presentation

Are you planning an exceptional project, for example an exhibition, event or festival? The Art Heritage Presentation grant may be able to help. For this grant, the project could be part of an existing…

Artist Basic

Do you want to expand your oeuvre, make your work more visible, carry out research or conduct experiments? If so, you may be eligible for an Artist Basic grant.  …

Artist Project

Do you want to complete a concrete plan within a specific working period? Are you contemplating an apprenticeship or a working period in the Netherlands or another country? If so, you may be eligible for…

Artist Start

Are you at the beginning of your career as a visual artist and do you have plans for new work? If so, you may be eligible for an Artist Start grant.

Artist’s Fee

Are you organising an exhibition as a visual arts institution and would you like a contribution towards the costs of the artist’s fee? And do you apply the guideline for artists’ fees? You may be…

Collection Mobility

The grant Collection Mobility is intended for museums and other cultural heritage institutions that wish to select, discard or relocate parts of their collections in order to increase the quality of those collections, raise their…

Curator Researcher

Do you want to research or develop an exhibition, event or presentation? Do you want to do this, for example, by investigating a particular theme, or through an apprenticeship, travel or working period in the…

International Art Fair

Will you be taking part in an international art fair or art book fair? Do you want to present living visual artists or publications about contemporary visual arts from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part…

International Art Presentation

Are you an artist and are you going to present your work abroad? Or do you, as an internationally recognised art institution want to show contemporary art from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of…

Mobile Heritage Restoration

The Mobile Heritage Restoration grant is intended for the restoration and repair of mobile heritage, with a focus on its preservation.

Protected Cultural Heritage

The Protected Cultural Heritage grant is intended for owners and managers of objects and collections that are registered as protected in the Register, within the meaning of the Heritage Act (Erfgoedwet).

Voucher Artisan

Are you a visual artist and do you want to hire an artisan for your research or the production of your work? You may be eligible for the Voucher Artisan.

Voucher Artist with Child

Are you a visual artist with the responsibility of caring for a child who is not yet of compulsory school age, and do you have to make additional costs to care for your child(ren), for…

Voucher Co-creation

Do you work in a museum or another heritage institution which functions for the public and for presentations? Do you want to stimulate public involvement in historical stories that belong to the Kingdom of the…

Voucher Development

Are you a visual artist and do you want to develop and/or deepen your practice? You may be eligible for the Voucher Development.

Voucher International

Are you a visual artist, curator, art critic or art observers based in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom who is keen to quickly respond to an invitation from an internationally renowned…

Acquisition Programs

Are you a museum with a collection of art and/or design created after 1945 and desire to make structural purchases based on your collection programs and acquisitions plans? If so, you may be eligible for…

Art Media

Are you a publisher looking to stimulate the discourse of visual art within the professional field? Are you a curator with an idea for a series of articles about contemporary visual art for a wider…

Art Platform Programme 2025-2028

Do you represent a visual art institution whose core activity is presenting contemporary visual art? Do you have plans for a publicly accessible programme lasting 2 to 4 years? Are your plans innovative or experimental…

Caribbean Heritage Employees

Are you affiliated with a publicly accessible heritage or visual arts institution in Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius or Sint Maarten? And do you want to employ a heritage or visual arts professional to…

Digitising Heritage

Has your institution’s collection not yet been digitised, or do you have a plan to (further) digitise your heritage collection? Perhaps the open call for Digitising Heritage will offer a solution.

Heritage Innovation

Are you working to develop new visions or narratives about our cultural heritage, for example through an exceptional presentation, a new presentation arrangement, layout or structure, or a thematic collaboration that is relevant to society…

International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes

The grant for International Collaborative Projects with Heritage Institutes is intended for cultural heritage institutions from the Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom that collaborate with foreign cultural heritage institutions in research projects…

KunstKoop for galleries

If you are a gallery that wants to give art buyers the chance to purchase works of art by paying in instalments with no interest, you may qualify for the KunstKoop.

Open Call Van Doesburghuis

In autumn 2024, the Mondriaan Fund is offering a remarkable residency at the Van Doesburghuis in Meudon, Paris.

Orientation Trip 2024

Are you a curator, researcher or visual artist with international ambitions? Would you like more insight into the international visual arts field? And broaden your international network? Maybe the orientation trip to Ghana and Ivory…

Publication

Are you planning on making a special and innovative publication about the work of a living visual artist from the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom? Or an oeuvre publication as an artist’s…

Residency

Visual artists, curators, art critics and art observers who wish to deepen their professional practices and expand their networks are eligible to apply for a working period in the Netherlandsor another country at one of…

Voucher Aichi Triennale 2025

Are you a visual artist with international ambitions? Would you like more insight into the field of international visual arts? And would you like to broaden your international network? Maybe you can benefit from the…

Voucher Bienal de São Paulo

Are you a visual artist with international ambitions? Are you keen to become better acquainted with the international art world? And expand your international network? If so, you may be eligible for the Voucher Bienal…

Voucher Liverpool Biennial 2025

Are you a visual artist with international ambitions? Would you like more insight into the field of international visual arts? And would you like to broaden your international network? Maybe you can benefit from the…

Voucher Lyon Biennale 2024

Are you a visual artist with international ambitions? Would you like more insight into the field of international visual arts? And would you like to broaden your international network? Maybe you can benefit from the…

Voucher Venice Biennale

Are you a visual artist with international ambitions? Are you keen to become better acquainted with the international art world? And expand your international network? If so, you may be eligible for the open call…

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