The orientation trips have been organized since 2004. In October 2025, the trip will go to India (Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata) and Thailand (Bangkok).
The programme consists of visits to museums, art institutions, galleries, artist-in-residencies, artist studios, collectors’ homes and local key figures in the different cities.
This year’s trip is organised in cooperation with the Danish Arts Foundation, the Norwegian OCA and the Swiss Pro Helvetia.
Artists, curators and art mediators could apply for the trip. The Mondriaan Fund selected 2 artists and 4 curators and art mediators to participate in the trip:
- Maze de Boer (artist)
- Mickey Yang (artist)
- Laurie Cluitmans (curator, Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
- Mariette Dölle (director, Oudekerk, Amsterdam)
- Emily Shin-Jie Lee (Head of Research with a focus on residencies and cross-institutional collaborations at Framer Framed, Amsterdam)
- Gabi Ngcobo (director Melly Rotterdam)
- Setareh Noorani (architect, researcher and curator at Nieuwe Instituut, and artist, Rotterdam). Setareh is participating at the request of Nieuwe Instituut.
Blog
The participants of the orientation trip have been keeping a blog since 2009. On the blog you can follow the journey from day to day.
Previous trips
Previous trips were made to Ghana and Ivory Coast (2024); Central-America (2023), Spain and Portugal (2022), the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan (2019), South-Africa and Zimbabwe (2018), United States of America and Cuba (2017), Iran and Armenia (2016), Chile and Colombia (2015), Gwangju in Korea and Tokyo, Yokohama and the Setouchi Islands in Japan (2014), Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary (2013), Indonesia and China (2012), Mali, Senegal and Morocco (2011), Turkey, Nigeria and Mali (2010), Brazil, Argentina and Peru (2009), Bangladesh, India and the United Arab Emirates (2008), Mexico and Curaçao (2007), South Africa and Senegal (2006), China (2005), and the Middle East (2004).