At a time when cultural organizations in the Netherlands and abroad are facing increasing challenges such as budget cuts, political pressure and global instability, four leading institutions are taking a joint step. Cultural Emergency Response (CER), Dutch Culture, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Prince Claus Fund launched a new home for international cultural cooperation: Domo....

Clublokaal is a new space for art, connection and collaboration in the heart of Breda. During the opening of the first exhibition Komma Samen on Saturday, April 12, the new initiative in Breda announced their name. With the new approach, Clublokaal aims to be an accessible, playful place where everyone feels welcome and where...

Stichting Het Amsterdams Grafisch Atlier (AGA LAB), despite a positive assessment from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, has fallen outside the four-year Arts Plan due to an insufficiently adequate budget. AGA LAB exists sixty-six years and is an open workshop for hundreds of advanced and beginning visual artists, graphic designers and photographers each year. AGA LAB collaborates...

Dries Verhoeven will represent the Netherlands at the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale. In collaboration with curator Rieke Vos, Verhoeven will bring performance art to the Dutch pavilion for the first time. An advisory committee of the Mondriaan Fund evaluated Verhoeven and Vos' plan positively for quality and international impact, and is convinced that it...

On November 4, 2024, the Makerscafé, organized by the Creative Coalition*, took place in Utrecht. Discussed was the future of the cultural and creative sector.

Last year BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht received the bad news that it will not receive any government subsidies from 2025 onwards, neither from the municipality nor from the state. The organization is now at the beginning of a new phase that begins with a six-month period of thinking and planning. 

DutchCulture's cultural mapping collects an annual collection of international cultural projects. In 2023, it involved projects by more than 3,000 Dutch artists, cultural professionals and organizations. Each year, DutchCulture tracks the work of Dutch creators around the world to gain insight into the impact that Dutch culture...

Organizations Art is A Guaranty and Cultuur+Ondernemen organized a number of Artist Meetings, in which artists explored with experts how they could strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. In BK Information, we provide abridged reports from each Artist Meeting that Cultuur+Ondernemen made of the meetings. This time useful information about...

With the #ribute Social Media campaign, the Image Rights Federation is calling on social media platforms to pay fair compensation to professional image makers for using their images without permission.

Organizations Art is A Guaranty and Cultuur+Ondernemen organized a number of Artist Meetings, in which artists explored with experts how they could strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. In BK Information, we provide an abridged account of each Artist Meeting from the reports Cultuur+Ondernemen made of the meetings. This time a lot of useful information...

Impulse schemes for self-employed people in the cultural and creative sector.

Organizations Art is A Guaranty and Cultuur+Ondernemen organized a series of Artist Meetings. Together with experts, artists examined how they could strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. In BK-information over the coming period, we will provide abridged reports of each Artist Meeting made by Cultuur+Ondernemen. This time a lot of...

Forty new advisors have joined the Mondrian Fund since the beginning of this year. The entire pool of now consists of a total of ninety advisors. In the selection of advisors, the right combination of experts, regional distribution and different perspectives were taken into account in the overall composition of the pool.

Here's how to get the (re)wiring right. This report is based on the first meeting of the Artist Meetings 2023, a series of four sessions in which artists explore with experts how to strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. The Artist Meetings offer reflection, insight and concrete tips for taking steps to...

In late June, the Federation of Culture, Arts '92 and the Cultural and Creative Sector Task Force launched the Action as Culture knowledge platform with the goal of accelerating the process of sustainability in its entirety.

Organizations Art is A Guaranty and Cultuur+Ondernemen organized a series of Artist Meetings. Together with experts, artists examined how they could strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. In BK-information we always give a short account of one of the reports that Cultuur+Ondernemen made of the meetings. This time it is about procrastination.

Organizations Art is A Guaranty and Cultuur+Ondernemen organized a number of Artist Meetings where discussions were held on strengthening the independent position of visual artists. Together with experts, artists examined how they can strengthen and expand their independent social and economic position. In this and future editions of BK-information, we always give a short overview of the...

The LKCA (Landelijk Kennisinstituut Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst) recently distributed a publication on cooperation between culture, care and welfare. In a short and clear text, it explains possible dilemmas and corresponding solutions in collaborations where the differences in ways of working can sometimes be large.

As of July 2023, a Fair Practice Code applies to galleries applying to the Mondriaan Fund.

The Academy of Arts and The Young Academy recommend that the Minister of OCW establish a national fund for experimental research and projects in the field of art and science. With the fund, the Akademies want to stimulate sustainable growth of this field of activity.

The government is keen to encourage self-employed persons or those working with a hybrid professional practice in the creative and cultural sector to take out disability insurance and has therefore released an incentive budget for a certain period.

The Future Materials Bank is a materials archive that supports and promotes the transition to ecologically conscious art and design practices.

Recently, the Image Rights Federation was established.