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  • Fonds BKVB
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The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, known in the Netherlands as Fonds BKVB, is the national body responsible for enabling visual artists, designers, architects and cultural mediators to develop their work in a variety of ways. To achieve this goal, the Fonds BKVB follows a three-track policy: subsidies, internationalisation and special projects.

The core activity of the Fonds BKVB is to provide subsidies to individual visual artists, designers, architects and cultural mediators. In addition to subsidies for beginning artists and financial assistance for applicants at the basic level to help them continue their work, the Fonds BKVB also provides grants for projects, research, new work, continuing education abroad, travel, publications, etc. The aim of the various grants is to stimulate contemporary visual art, design and/or architecture in the Netherlands.

The Fonds BKVB is especially active in the area of internationalisation. The Fonds BKVB has access to artist-in-residence places and studios in New York, Berlin, Paris, Canada, Rome, Stockholm, Istanbul, Cairo, China, Japan, Brazil, Curaçao, Belgium and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the Fonds BKVB offers some temporary artists-in-residence places. The aim of allowing visual artists, designers and architects to spend time in one of these studios is to enable them to develop and reflect upon their work in a different environment and culture. Such a residency also generates opportunities for making or extending international contacts and for exploring and/or developing a new market. Apart from the AIR’s every three years architects, visual artists, designers and theorists can apply for an interdisciplinary study tour around a particular research theme.

Finally, the Fonds BKVB is involved and responsible in various ways for a large number of special projects. Through the Pilot Projects Panel it supports and initiates research projects that are vital to the contextual development of the arts. Under the headings ‘TAX Video Clip Fund’ and ‘Game Fund’, the Fonds BKVB in cooperation with the Media Foundation provide subsidies for video clips and games of artistic quality. A test project is also underway by which the BKVB Foundation appoints programme managers whose job is to give an extra impulse in one particular discipline. Furthermore since 2008, a programme manager for cultural diversity has been part of the Fonds BKVB staff. A traditional activity of the Fonds BKVB has been to present a number of oeuvre awards every other year as well as the Award for Art Criticism and the Benno Premsela Award. Recently the Prize for Young Dutch Art Criticism was added.

All the grant options and activities of the Fonds BKVB are dedicated, each in its own way, to promoting the contemporary visual arts, design and architecture in the Netherlands. The Fonds BKVB is financed by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and is an autonomous foundation with an independent decision-making process.

Fonds BKVB / Netherlands Foundation for visual arts, design and architecture
PO box 773 1000 AT Amsterdam
+ 31 20 5231523
post@fondsbkvb.nl