Residency

• You must have been working as a professional visual artist for at least one year and be registered as such with the Kamer van Koophandel; or
  • you have studied for at least three years at a recognized art school and have been working as a professional visual artist for at least one year; or
  • you have been working as a professional visual artist for three years or more.
• You are active as an artist and part of the professional visual arts field in the Netherlands.
• At the moment you submit your application, you are not receiving other financial support from the Mondriaan Fund that covers the same costs.
• The resident is expected to contribute 10%. The Mondriaan Fund has automatically included this in its contribution. You do not have to do anything.
• Mondriaan Fund grants may not be used for or during study. You may not use a Mondriaan Fund grant at the same time that you are following a bachelor, master, graduate, postgraduate or postdoctoral programme at, for example, the Rijksakademie, BAK, de Ateliers, de Jan van Eyck Academie or EKWC).
• An artist may apply for two residencies in the Netherlands and two residencies in other countries in a given application round. A separate application, including the application form and PDF attachments, must be submitted for each location applied for, always with the applicant’s preferred dates and locations clearly indicated.

• You must have been working for at least one year as a curator or art observer in the field of visual arts or cultural heritage, and be able to demonstrate this with publications, exhibitions, research projects or projects you have initiated.
• You are active in and part of the professional visual arts field in the Netherlands.
• At the moment of your application, you are receiving no other financial support from the Mondriaan Fund that covers the same costs.
• The resident is expected to contribute 10%, this is settled by the Mondriaan Fund.
• You may not apply for a Residency Grant while you are studying in the Netherlands or another country.
• You may not use a Mondriaan Fund grant to pay for study. Mondriaan Fund grants may not be used at the same time that you are enrolled in any bachelor, master, graduate, postgraduate or postdoctoral programme.
• A curator/art observer may apply for no more than two residencies in the Netherlands and two residencies in another country during any application round. For each residency, a separate application form and PDF attachments must be submitted, clearly indicating the applicant’s preferred residency dates and locations.

• Visual documentation.
• Curriculum vitae.
• Explanation of your work and your artistic and substantive starting points.
• A plan, including a motivation of why you wish to attend the specific residency.

The advisory committee assesses both the quality and the development of your work, as well as the qualities of your plan and how it connects with the institution or programme where you wish to work out and execute your plan.

The quality and development of your oeuvre/practice:*

• Do you have a distinctive artistic vision and is this convincingly conveyed in previous work or activities, or does the committee recognise sufficient initiative in this regard?
• Does the oeuvre/professional practice exhibit quality?
  For artists: consider e.g. the significance of the oeuvre, the inherent imaginative strength, the command of the selected mediums and/or techniques and the work’s power of expression.
  For observers: consider e.g. professionalism and skill, the ownership or autonomy of the curatorial activities, the selection of artists/artworks, the reflection on the selected themes.
• Is there development appropriate to the phase of the professional practice?

The quality of your cultural entrepreneurship:*

• Are you actively focused on developing your practice, entering into collaborations, entering into the public eye and finding an audience for your work/activities?

In the case that the advisory committee positively assesses the above criteria, the committee will also assess:

The quality of the plan, the motivation for the residency and your approach to finding an audience for your work:

• Are the plan and motivation for the residency convincing and sufficiently suited to the location, facilities and (local) context of the residency?
• Does the residency offer added value for the development of your practice and network?
• Is it sufficiently apparent that your work and/or work process will be presented to the relevant people and/or a relevant audience? Consider e.g. an exhibition, website, blog, open studio or workshop.

* The background and context of the professional practice will be taken into consideration during the assessment, e.g. schooling, cultural context and the nature and duration of the professional practice.

Whether or not the applicant has received a grant for a residency in the past may play a role regarding prioritisation.

Explanation of work (max. 3 pages)
Outline the artistic/substantive vision of your work, how you express this in your work or activities, and the selected mediums and/or techniques. State what you do to develop your professional practice, such as entering into collaborations, entering into the public eye and finding an audience for your work. Wherever collaboration is involved, explain your part in that collaboration.

CV Artist (max 3. pages)
Upload your CV with the most important information about your entire artist practice, with an emphasis on the last 1 to 4 years, depending on when you began. Consider exhibitions (indicate whether they were solo or group exhibitions), sales and publications, acquisitions, commissions, grants or awards, and the associated years . Also list related activities, such as teaching and advisory positions.

CV curator / observer (max. 3 pages)
Upload your CV with the most important information about your entire professional practice, with an emphasis on the last 1 to 4 years, depending on when you began. Mention relevant articles and publications, research, exhibitions, manifestations, lectures, commissions, grants and prizes. Also mention related activities, such as teaching positions, advisory and committee positions.

Plan (max. 4 pages)
Describe your substantive motivation for attending this residency and describe your artistic plan. Outline how your motivation and plan are in keeping with the location, facilities and context of the residency. Describe how the residency represents added value for the development of your practice and network. Also describe how you intend to reach a suitable audience and link that audience to the project or the work you will complete during the working period. This can, for example, take the form of a blog or information posted on your website, or include an exhibition, open studio or workshops during the residency period.

Visual documentation

For artists
Compile a PDF document with no more than 20 images of your most important works from the last one to four years. Begin with the most recent work. It may also help to include a few images of the work as it appeared in presentations, such as an exhibition. Always include photographs of individual works. For those who create films, performances and/or installations, you can also upload sound, video or film fragments totaling up to 15 minutes (all together no more than 300MB).
Upload a separate list of your documentation, also in PDF format, corresponding to the chronology of your visual (or other) documentation. Include a description or caption for each image and/or sound or video fragment, for example: 01, title, 2021, loop 2 min. Click here for the technical specifications.

For curators or art observers
Your application will also be assessed on the basis of visual documentation, with the emphasis on the last one to four years. Compile a PDF document with a selection of no more than six of your most relevant and topical articles and/or no more than 10 images of recent exhibitions, events or other activities. You may also upload video or film fragments of projects you have realized (totaling no more than 15 minutes).
The visual material must be uploaded separately after you have submitted your application form. Together, they must not be more than 300 MB. You are also requested to upload a separate documentation list that corresponds with the visual material. When you submit your application form, you will immediately receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to a page where you can upload your documentation material. Click here for the technical specifications.

Where applicable:

Proof of residency in the Netherlands: Personal Records Database registration
If you do not have Dutch citizenship, you need to upload a recent copy (no more than three months old) of your registration with the Personal Records Database (uittreksel basisregistratiepersonen) of the municipality where you live. It shows that you reside in the Netherlands.

Banking information and Chamber of Commerce registration
We need your bank account number in order to transfer funds if your application is approved. If your current bank account number is known to the Mondriaan Fund, you do not need to provide any more information.

• If your bank account number has been changed or is new to the Mondriaan Fund, upload a recent bank statement that clearly shows the account holder’s name and IBAN.
• Do you have a business bank account for your one-person business? If so, also upload a recent copy of your registration with the Chamber of Commerce (uittreksel Kamer van Koophandel), no more than three months old. That confirms that your business bankaccount number is for your one-person business.

Diploma, art school deregistration, Chamber of Commerce registration
Have you been working as a professional visual artist for less than 3 years? If so, we need a copy of your diploma or degree from an institute for higher arts education, or a declaration from that institute confirming the date when you stopped being a student there. If you have not followed an art school education, you can instead include a recent copy of your registration with the Dutch Kamer van Koophandel or a non-Dutch Chamber of Commerce, no more than three months old. That will confirm that you are registered as a visual artist.