«The Mondriaan Fund is a publicly financed fund for visual art and cultural heritage. It supports innovative projects and activities by visual artists, intermediaries (curators and critics), museums and other heritage organizations, art institutions, archives, galleries and commissioning parties. All grants are awarded with a view to promoting the production and presentation of relevant Dutch visual art and heritage in the Netherlands and abroad, where a commercial market is (yet) undeveloped.
The Mondriaan Fund has an annual budget of around 26 million euro. The majority of this comes from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Hundreds of projects are supported in the Netherlands and abroad every year. Furthermore, the fund offers stimulus programmes for innovation and promotion, motivating and setting the agenda. The Mondriaan Fund employs 34 people. For the assessment of applications, the fund consults 75 external experts.
The Mondriaan Fund is acutely aware that it owes its existence to the citizens of the Netherlands and that society invests in art and heritage through the Fund. This investment will certainly not always bring financial returns, but on every occasion it does yield intellectual benefits. The Mondriaan Fund also believes that the intangible value of art for society has received too little attention. For this reason, the new policy attaches significant value to public visibility, which expressly entails an audience that can be attracted in various ways by artists and organizations». Continue a ler.
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