FAQ

The Mondriaan Fund is open from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Click here for directions.

Applications for the grants of the Mondriaan Fund can be submitted 24 hours a day through the online application system. Click here for more information and frequently asked questions about online applications (in Dutch).

The grants of the Mondriaan Fund are aimed at various target groups. Depending on the type of grant, those groups are: visual artists, intermediaries, institutions, private individuals and commissioning parties in the field of visual arts and cultural heritage. In the general terms and conditions you will find a description of these target groups and the formal conditions for applicants.

Designers and architects cannot apply with the Mondriaan Fund. They can turn to the Creative Industries Fund NL (Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie).

The Mondriaan Fund offers a range of grants to artists, intermediaries, institutions and commissioning parties. To assess which possibility may suit you, please consult the overview of application possibilities or use the application help. If you have any questions regarding the grants, please contact one of the contact persons of the grant. Their contact details are listed in the explanatory notes with each grant.

Click here for information about the funding options for an interdisciplinary project.

To help everyone along in the various possibilities that are offered, the Mondriaan Fund periodically organizes (online) consultations. Keep an eye on our website and newsletter for the next date and the programme. During these special information days, our employees are ready to advise you and to explain the possibilities.

If you are not sure which grant to apply for, first consult the overview of application possibilities for details of the regulations or use the application help. For information and advice about applications, you may contact the Mondriaan Fund staff by email or telephone. For each grant, the explanatory notes list the contact persons that may answer your questions. In consultation with them, we can determine whether an appointment is necessary, and if so, with which staff member.

If you have any questions about an on-going application, please keep your application number at hand, so we can quickly connect you with the right employee. Click here if you wish to know what happens with your application.

You can use the digital application system to apply for a grant from the Mondriaan Fund. To do this, you need an account so that you can log on and open a digital application form. Click here for more information about the digital application system. For questions about digital applications please contact urycqrfx@zbaqevnnasbaqf.ay, tel. 020 5231523.

You can find the application form with the relevant grant. First save the form before you fill it in.

For the grants with annual rounds of applications, the relevant application form can only be downloaded when the round of applications has opened.

When an application is received, an employee of the fund checks whether it has been filled in properly and whether the requested annexes have been included. If this is not the case, you may be asked to provide additional information. The application is then assessed according to the conditions specified in the explanations and in the general terms and conditions. When an application complies with all the formal conditions, it is processed and presented to expert advisers, who assess the content. At this point, quality the most important criterion. Click here for more information about how applications are processed.

If an application complies with all the conditions, it is presented to expert advisers, who assess the content. The advisers are recruited on the basis of an open job application procedure. They are all experts in their field and include visual artists, observers, critics, exhibition designers, curators and collectors from inside and outside the Netherlands. They have a thorough knowledge of contemporary visual art or cultural heritage, or have other specific expertise. Every year, new advisers are added, replacing advisers whose contracts have expired. The advisers meet as part of a committee under the supervision of a chairperson. The names of the advisers are listed here.

The various committees represent a diversity of expertise. Advisers evaluate for example applications from visual artists, intermediaries, museums, archives and archaeological institutions, but also projects in migrant heritage or multidisciplinary festivals. The advisers are able to assess several different disciplines and to look beyond their own preferences. Furthermore, they are aware of the aim of the Mondriaan Fund; they are familiar with the procedures of the advisory committees and agree with them.

Advisers will receive the application form, (visual) documentation and other attachments submitted by the applicant in preparation for the meeting. In the case of individual applications, they do not have access to the income data of applicants. Applications will be assessed on the basis of the application form and documentation. Any visual documentation can be viewed again on a large screen by the advisors during the meeting. The advisory committee judges on the basis of the criteria as stated in all online explanations under the heading ‘assessment’. If during the meeting it appears that the committee has not obtained sufficient clarity, it can decide to request additional information or, in the case of an artist’s application, to pay a studio visit. No studio visits are made abroad.

Applicants must allow for a total processing period of a maximum of 3 months. Incomplete submissions will be held up in the application process. We will contact you if anything is missing or if there are any questions or uncertainties. However, due to the many applications to the fund, the processing time can take longer then expected.

You can. But you cannot apply twice for the same cost item. With some grants, the committee’s advice may have consequences for a different application. An artist who has been rejected before on the basis of artistic performance cannot submit another application for a period of 12 months, unless it is about a completely different plan, which is expected to take the development of the applicant’s work into a different direction.

The Mondriaan Fund believes it is important that artists are paid a realistic fee. Institutions are therefore asked to substantiate the size of the fee in the plans they submit. The Mondriaan Fund will then assess whether this amount is realistic. In the budget, use one of these two calculators for your fair fee calculations. All cultural institutions subscribe to the Fair Practice Code (Dutch only), the Culture Governance Code (Dutch only) and the Diversity & Inclusion Code (Dutch only). Compliance with the Fair Practice Code automatically means that the institution implements the codes.

Organisations that present visual art and/or heritage as a core activity can apply for the Artist’s Fee grant to help cover the artist’s fee.

Click here for more information about submitting your documentation.

No, it should not. All amounts must be listed exclusive of VAT. The sums will be allocated exclusive of VAT, unless the applicant is not subject to VAT; in those rare cases you should first contact the Mondriaan Fund finance department.

In most cases yes, but to be sure, contact the project employee of the scheme for which you have submitted a final statement. At the bottom of each scheme you will find the corresponding contact persons.

To be eligible for a grant, you must be active as an artist and part of the professional visual arts field in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.

If you do not have the Dutch nationality and live or work abroad, you are not eligable for our grants. However, if you have the Dutch nationality, but live or work abroad, you are eligible.

In the second case, we will determine whether you are sufficiently active and professionally embedded within the visual arts field of the Netherlands and/or Caribbean part of the Kingdom.

Individual applicants are expected to make a personal contribution of at least 10% of the eligible costs. A personal contribution must be a monetary contribution. This can be your own investment, but also a contribution from a third party or via an interest-free loan from Fonds Kwadraat or crowdfunding.

A personal contribution cannot consist of another financial contribution from the Mondriaan Fund.

In principle, this is possible. However, the exact conditions that apply differ per grant. You cannot apply for costs that are covered by another contribution from the Mondriaan Fund in the same period of time.

For all applications applies, if the deadline for submitting your final report has already passed for your current application, you must first complete the previous contribution before you can apply again.

Yes, you can. Keep in mind that you must have been working professionally as a visual artist for at least 1 year to be eligible for our subsidies. In this case, you must also be registered as a visual artist with the Chamber of Commerce.

The employees of the fund cannot provide substantive feedback on your application. However, they can check whether it is complete before you submit it.

For substantive feedback, we recommend that you have your application read by friends, family and colleagues. They can check whether your application comes across as you intended and whether it is understandable to an outsider.

We recommend you to always contact the contact person of the grant. This way you can discuss your personal situation.

If you are able to write an application, but with difficulty, we recommend that you explain this in your application. By doing so, you make the advisory committee aware of your situation. It is therefore not a problem to make spelling and/or grammatical mistakes.

Certainly! After a year you can submit a new application for the same grant.

It is possible to apply for a different grant in the meantime, in case you submit a completely new plan.

It is not possible to apply as a student. You can submit an application to us from 1 year after graduation.

The project plan must be nearly finished. You can only apply for projects that have not yet started or for preliminary research. Take into account that the fund needs 3 months to process your application. Meaning, that the starting date of your project should be at least 3 months ahead when you submit your application.

When in doubt, or in the case of a follow-up to an existing project, we recommend you to first contact a grant officer. At the bottom of each grant page you will find the corresponding contact persons.

The Mondriaan Fund grants are subject to the general terms and conditions and to the conditions stated in the explanatory notes of the relevant grant. This means, amongst other things, that you are required to notify the Mondriaan Fund in writing about substantial changes in the realisation, budget, or financing scheme of your project, and that you must send the Mondriaan Fund a final report within 3 months after the final date of the project.

Furthermore, everyone receiving a grant from the Mondriaan Fund, for example for the realisation of a project or presentation, must mention that it was (partly) made possible through financial support from the Mondriaan Fund (in Dutch: Mondriaan Fonds). The Fund should be mentioned in this respect in invitations, colophons, press releases, websites, publications, credit titles, captions, etc. The logo can be downloaded here. We ask you to send the Mondriaan Fund invitations for and announcements of any results of the grant.

The Mondriaan Fund attaches great importance to the use of its name to give the public, policymakers and potential applicants an insight into the projects that were supported with a contribution by the Mondriaan Fund. It shows how Dutch society is investing in visual art and cultural heritage through the Mondriaan Fund. In this way, the Mondriaan Fund aims to increase the support base for visual arts and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.

You can find the logo here in a number of different file types.

The grant is awarded under the general terms and conditions, and under the conditions stated in the explanatory notes of the relevant grant. The specific conditions holding for your grant can be found on the back of the confirmation statement from the Mondriaan Fund. All substantial changes in the realisation, budget and finance scheme must be reported in writing.

The various grants make different demands on the payment of advances, and apply different advance percentages. In the explanatory notes of the grant, you will find the information that is relevant to your situation.

For certain grants, the final report must be submitted through our online application system. You will receive a reminder one month before your project’s end date to submit the report. After the end date of your project, you will have 3 months to submit the final report.

That depends on the grant you have received. With most grants, it involves a report concerning the content of the project, with an evaluation of your activities, and a financial report. The specific conditions for your grant can be found on the backside of the written confirmation from the Mondriaan Fund. You should submit the final report digitally through the online application system. You will automatically receive a notification when you have to submit the final report.

You can request a postponement of the submission of your final report via the application platform, this does not apply to the Art Platform Programme. When submitting a postponement request, we need a new end date and explanation why you cannot meet the deadline. We will confirm by email whether your request has been accepted or rejected.

In case of negative advice and if the advice is not included in the decision, the applicant can request justification for the rejection within 14 days after the date decision was publicised. This can be done by sending an email to vasb@zbaqevnnasbaqf.ay, stating the application reference number.

This justification is an abbreviated version of the advisory committee’s assessment and outlines – based on the assessment criteria – how the committee reached this decision.

The Mondriaan Fund is an independent administrative body and is governed by General Administrative Law Act. This means that applicants can lodge an objection if they do not agree with a decision. That is possible if an application is rejected, but also if the Mondriaan Fund allocates a different amount than requested. An applicant can also lodge an objection if the definitive grant deviates from the amount that was originally allocated. An applicant can lodge an objection up to a maximum of 6 weeks after the day when the decision was publicised. After those 6 weeks have elapsed, it will no longer be possible to lodge an objection.

When a detailed justification is requested, an objection on ‘grounds to be submitted’ can be submitted within six weeks of the decision date. The grounds for the objection must then be submitted no more than 6 weeks after the detailed justification was sent.

An objection must be signed by the applicant and include at least the applicant’s name and address, the date, the application reference number and written justification for the objection.

The assessment of the objection focuses mainly on the justification for the objection and the explanation of that justification at a hearing. When an objection is being assessed, one important point of focus is whether the interested party can provide information that could shed new light on the application. This information will be taken into account when evaluating the objection.

If the objection is rejected, within 6 weeks of the decision an appeal can be made to the administrative law sector of the Dutch District Court.

You must send your signed objection to the Fund by regular mail not more than 6 weeks after the decision was made. It is also possible to send it as a PDF file with your signature to vasb@zbaqevnnasbaqf.ay along with your application number. If you have asked for a detailed justification and have not yet received it, you must still lodge a pro forma objection within 6 weeks based on grounds still to be specified. After you have received the detailed justification, you can substantiate your objection in writing.

For more questions see FAQ objections