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DutchCulture in times of Corona
As international artist mobility has currently come to a halt in physical form, TransArtists faces new challenges. Artists are stranded abroad during their working period, or international future plans are indefinitely postponed. In these uncertain times, TransArtists - part of DutchCulture - keeps a finger on the pulse. The...
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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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Outside the limits
In May, the Mondriaan Fund published Buiten de Perken, its policy plan for the years 2021-2024.
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Quota of women artists
The Volkskrant reports at the end of December 2019 that three Dutch museums have set a quota for the acquisition and presentation of art by female artists.
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Visual arts in Leiden Medicine curriculum
Leiden University Medical Center started the new subject looking is the (art of) medicine in October. The goal is to learn how to better perceive and interpret medicine with the help of art.
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RKD digitizes
The RKD - Netherlands Institute for Art History is rapidly digitizing its image collection of 5.5 million images. In the autumn of 2020, the entire image collection will become available through an online platform for digital art history research.
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Vytautas Kumža wins Sybren Hellinga Art Prize 2019
On Sunday, November 3, the 8th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize was awarded to visual artist Vytautas Kumža.
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Museum figures 2018
Visitor numbers at Dutch museums increased by 1 million visits to 32 million in 2018. This means that museum visits have grown by 37% since 2013.
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Paradiso debate: give art space
On 25 August 2019, the annual Paradiso Debate took place, this time at the Internatonal Theatre Amsterdam. For Kunsten '92, Sandra Jongenelen wrote the report below. On the Kunsten '92 website you will find additional video recordings of the various speakers during the debate.
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Province and culture
Leading up to this year's provincial council elections, political parties in the provinces received a flyer last fall with eight points to include culture in their party's election manifesto and, ultimately, perhaps a place in the college agreement.
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Cultural Funds Review Committee Report
By order of the Minister of OCW, the six national public culture funds were inspected in 2018. A committee evaluated the policy and daily practice of the six national public culture funds. The committee's overall assessment is positive. In addition, the report includes recommendations for improvements.
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Terms of employment for freelance trustees
A working group of freelance curators is active within Platform BK; a collective established by and for freelance curators in the Netherlands.
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Paradise Lecture: Fair Practice Code
The annual Paradiso Lecture organized by Kunsten '92, this year on August 26, was about the Fair Practice Code. This was initiated by young artists and creatives (under the coordination of Kunsten '92), to improve working conditions and future prospects in the cultural and creative sector.
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Platform Makers
In the arts and culture sector, there is currently a lot of talk about skewed labor relations and the poor income position of artists. Copyright (author's right and neighbouring right) is also important for creators in this context.
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Dutch cultural exports
Buitengaats maps data on Dutch cultural exports. In 2017, more than 15,000 activities by Dutch creators and organizations were registered across borders, including performances, exhibitions, lectures, presentations and publications.
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BK Information media partner TENT Academy Awards
This year BK-information is again media partner of the TENT Academy Awards, the annual competition for the best graduation films of art academies. With the TENT Academy Awards, TENT Rotterdam aims to stimulate and recognize young audiovisual talent.
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Open data in the arts and culture sector
The recently released report Recommendations on Open Data in the Cultural Sector by the Language Union Digital Heritage Committee answers what the conditions are for institutions to be able to release their collections and collection data as open data so that what is digitized is optimally usable and reusable.
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Annual report 2017 Mondriaan Fund
The Mondrian Fund's 2017 Annual Report, a beautifully designed booklet, also available as pdf also available as pdf.
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Research international contributions Mondriaan Fund
The Mondriaan Fund commissioned a study of the effects of the Contribution Presentation Abroad and the Contribution Art Fairs for the period 2013-2016. Both contributions stimulate the international mobility of visual artists. Most applicants who received one of the contributions indicate that this made it easier for Dutch artists in the...
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The State of Culture 3: Cultural Index of the Netherlands 2005-2015
At the end of last year the Boekman Foundation, the independent knowledge centre for art, culture and policy in the Netherlands, presented De Staat van Cultuur 3, the third edition of the Cultuurindex Nederland with figures for 2005-2015.
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First labor market agenda
On November 14, 2017, Minister Van Engelshoven (OCW) received the Labor Market Agenda for the Cultural and Creative Sector 2017-2023. This is the first time that joint action points have been formulated on labor market policy for the entire cultural and creative sector in the Netherlands.
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Fair Practice Code - Version 1.0 as a starting point
On October 3, 2017, the Fair Practice Code was presented. The Fair Practice Code, version 1.0 to be exact, is seen as the starting point of this new code.
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Paradise Debate 2017. The Chair of the Future
"When we meet on important issues, when we make important decisions, us together, but also in our own companies, we always put an empty chair there. That is the chair for the people who are not here yet, for the future generations. The chair of the future." - Jan Terlouw, from his fairy tale for...
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Arts '92: Culture and municipal elections
The programs for the March 21, 2018 municipal elections are currently being written. Kunsten '92 has therefore produced flyers, for inspiration, for municipal councillors and aldermen with the aim of including heritage and culture prominently in the election programme.
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Facts & Figures Creative Europe Culture 2016
DutchCulture published the publication Facts & Figures Creative Europe Culture 2016 in July of this year.
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Blue Waves: value assessment shows importance of preserving unique artwork
Recently discussion arose about the encroachment of Peter Struycken's artwork Blue Waves on Arnhem's Roermondsplein (1974-1977). The environmental artwork would have to partially make way for a park.
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AiR for Experiment continues - meeting AiR Platform NL
On June 22, 2017, artist-in-residence organizations met at the Tetterode complex in Amsterdam. The aim was to elaborate on About Impact and Value, a recent study by Platform BK on the position of small artist organizations working within the context of small and medium-sized cities in the Netherlands.
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Passion Valued
Strengthening the labor market in the cultural and creative sector In April, the Social and Economic Council (SER) and the Council for Culture released the report Passion Valued, strengthening the labor market in the cultural and creative sector.
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The importance of international culture. Call to Cabinet
On May 8, 2017, Arno Brok and Cees de Graaff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Director of DutchCulture, respectively, called on the Cabinet to maintain an international outlook in terms of cultural policy: "A qualitatively strong art world is crucial for a creative and innovative image of the Netherlands abroad."
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Media partner: TAA 2017
This year BK-information is again media partner of TENT's TAA awards. With these awards, TENT Rotterdam aims to stimulate and recognize young audiovisual talent. TAA has a national and international focus and shows audiovisual work by graduates of Dutch art academies and this year that of art academies from Norway.
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Creative industries contribute to economic recovery
The creative industry sectors (like the ICT sector) are contributing substantially to the economic recovery of the Dutch economy. This is evident from the Creative Industry Monitor 2016 published this spring by IMMovator, network for the cross-media sector.
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Incentive Fund launches new Heritage and Space design program
With the new design program Heritage and Space, the Stimuleringsfonds voor Creatieve Industrie aims to connect past and present in a sustainable way. The program (2017-2018) gives an extra boost to cooperation between the design and heritage sectors and engages designers in current issues at the intersection of climate, energy, space and heritage.
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