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The state of patronage
On April 30, Platform BK together with Framer Framed organized the symposium The State of Patronage, which discussed the developments surrounding patronage in the Netherlands. Renée Steenbergen gave an introductory lecture on the history of patronage, and the panels that followed discussed various forms of patronage, the...
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Allocations Mondriaan Fund autumn 2021
A total of sixty-six artists received an award from the Mondrian Fund in the fall of 2021.
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What if the virus flares up again?
At the invitation of the Cabinet, the Cultural and Creative Sector Task Force has outlined what the cultural and creative sector needs in order to remain safely open in case corona virus resurfaces. A long-term approach to corona includes a number of central and interrelated aspects, according to the task force. Each aspect is indispensable to...
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Estimated revenue loss
The Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce asked research firm Berenschot to prepare a new estimate of the loss of income for the cultural sector for 2022.
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Insight into income of Dutch art professionals
What were the effects of the (evening) lockdown that went into effect on November 28, 2021? To get an idea of that, the Creative Coalition sent out a survey. The Boekman Foundation analyzed the results.
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Art Purchase 2022
The new list of galleries participating in KunstKoop was recently announced by the Mondriaan Fund.
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Annual Report Stokroos
Stokroos Foundation recently released its annual report.
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Traces of slavery and colonial past in collection records
In September, the RCE (Dutch National Cultural Heritage Agency) released the handbook Researching traces of slavery and the colonial past in collection records.
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Image Rights Federation
Copyright organization Pictoright, together with a number of professional organizations, established the Federation of Image Rights.
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Debate coronasteun for culture
On September 28, the House of Representatives debated the coronas grant for culture.
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paradise debate
On August 29th the annual Paradiso Debate took place in Amsterdam, bringing together artists, policy makers, politicians and the public. The theme for this edition was: recovery, innovation and the cultural and creative sector.
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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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Loss of income in the cultural and creative sector
Based on research, the Cultural and Creative Sector Taskforce expects venues and presentation institutions to have about 40% audience revenue from that in the same period in 2019. For museums, it will be 50%, for cinemas 65%.
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Navigating with the Fair Practice Code
Publication with a lot of information on the use of the Fair Practice Code and experiences from practice.
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Corona compensation for artists and curators: until 16 August
The Mondriaan Fund offers a corona bridge. Deadline 16 August.
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Kunsten '92: Culture and Corona, one year later
In March 2021, Kunsten '92 published Culture and Corona, one year on, outlining how within the arts, the creative industries, the visual arts, the performing arts and the film/av industry, there are major differences in terms of the impact of the corona crisis. The various analyses show that the biggest victims of the crisis were the...
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National museum research
This year, the annual National Museum Survey of the Museum Association zoomed in on the consequences of the corona crisis.
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Labour market cultural and creative sector 2010-2020
On April 30, at the request of the Ministry of OCW, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published figures on the number of people employed - both employees and independent entrepreneurs - and the number of jobs in the cultural and creative sector. In addition, they were asked to provide insight into the number and share of entrepreneurs in...
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Directive Appropriation Art
Sometimes image makers have copyright disputes with each other. This often concerns the use of one creator's work in another's work. Under the Copyright Act, this is in principle not allowed, unless an exception applies. However, the boundaries of such exceptions are not always clear.
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Survey Creative Coalition
A recent survey of members of Platform BK and the Creative Coalition (2,400 respondents) shows that over two-thirds of those working in the cultural sector are in great (financial) need. The Creative Coalition - a collaboration of 45 organizations and more than 50,000 creators with the goal of contributing to "improving...
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Contributions 2020 Mondriaan Fund
In the past year, the Mondriaan Fund received 3,117 applications for contributions, according to the fund's 2020 Annual Report. Of these, 1,834 were honored for a combined amount of over €71 million. The Annual Report contains a detailed description of each funding scheme and examples of the scheme. Also, among other things, experiences of artists....
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New Creative Deal
On 2 March Kunsten '92 and the Federatie Creatieve Industrie launched a plan for the recovery and renewal of the cultural and creative sector: the New Creative Deal.
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Still financing
After an objection, Kunsthuis SYB received funding for two years from the Mondriaan Fund.
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Roadmap art in public space
In early January, the Cultural Heritage Agency (OCW) published the Roadmap for art in public spaces - a guide to management and conservation.
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Mores.online
As a result of an article in NRC, which startled the art world, the Mores reporting centre is now also known in the visual arts world.
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House of Representatives elections 2021
On March 17, 2021, the House of Representatives elections will take place. That still seems far away, but of course it is coming at us at a rapid pace. A number of organizations in the cultural field realize this and that is why, as early as spring 2020, they worked on recommendations for the election programs of the political parties: all program committees received the following input...
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Call for financial correction visual arts sector
De Zaak Nu, the interest association for presentation and post-academic institutions for the visual arts sent a letter on Oct. 9 - together with Kunsten '92, Platform BK and the Kunstenbond - to Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) urging a financial correction for the visual arts sub-sector - just as for the performing arts. The...
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Culture without physical presence
What are the digtital alternatives and how do you manage that?
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Culture in Gelderland
The Province of Gelderland is committed to finding a future-proof solution to the problems caused by the coronavirus and wants to reach a common vision on a future cultural infrastructure with the municipalities of Gelderland.
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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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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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BKNL response to culture support package
A few weeks after starting the "intelligent lockdown," the "Corona support package" for the cultural sector was announced on April 15. The consultative body for the visual arts BKNL, wrote a letter to Minister Van Engelshoven on April 20 in response explaining how the sector faces a double challenge to survive.
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