How and when to apply
Applications may be submitted at any time of the year, provided sufficient budget remains. You will require an account in order to submit an application. New accounts can be requested on the website. Applications will be accepted a maximum of 4 months and a minimum of 5 weeks before the commencement date of the plan. We aim to process all applications within 5 weeks, although the procedure can sometimes take longer. In no cases will a contribution be granted in retroaction.
Conditions
Schooling, professional practice and the artisan
- Applications may only be submitted by artists who have been active as a professional visual artist for at least 1 year:
- If you have completed a Bachelor’s degree programme (HBO) with a visual arts curriculum, the date on your diploma will be considered the start of your professional practice. If there is an interim period between your graduation from the Bachelor’s programme with a visual arts curriculum and the start of your Master’s programme, this period will count as part of your professional practice.
- If you have not completed a Bachelor’s degree programme (HBO) with a visual arts curriculum, the date on which you first presented work in professional art circles will be considered the start of your professional practice.
- In order to be eligible for support, you must be artistically active within the visual arts field, and in this capacity, part of the professional visual arts practice in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.
- You cannot apply for or use a contribution while enrolled to study at educational institutions for e.g. Bachelor’s, Master’s or postdoctoral programmes. This also applies to participation in programmes at postgraduate institutions, and to PhD programmes. The exception is part-time programmes (not Bachelor’s programmes) of less than 20 hours a week.
- Artisans live in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and have been working as a professional artisan for at least one year.
- The Mondriaan Fund considers an artisan to be:
Someone who is active in the production, transformation, repair or restoration of objects, who offers services related to manual aspects, whose activities have an authentic character, and who develops knowledge focused on quality, tradition, creation or innovation.
The Mondriaan Fund considers Artisan(al) to be more specific than the terms craftsmanship or craftsperson, which solely focus on capably practising a profession. The board may decide not to accept an application if it is of the opinion that the artisan fails to satisfy the above definition.
At the heart of this voucher is the exchange between artist and artisan, specifically to preserve, pass on or further develop an artisan from the original tradition.
Project plan
- The Artisan Voucher can only be used to cover payment of the artisan. The application should therefore be supported by a quotation from the artisan.
- Applications for the Artisan Voucher made during the term of any other financial support from the Mondriaan Fund will not be accepted in the case that the board is of the opinion that the contribution covers the same expenses.
- Applications for support for regular production expenses such as framing, web design, sound effects and assembly will not be accepted.
Assessment
The submitted application and appendices will be checked for completeness. A simplified procedure is used for the Artisan Voucher.
Fund Agency Assessment
In the case that you received a positive advisory for an application for the Artist Start (formerly ‘Young Talent Work Contribution’), Artist Basic (formerly ‘Proven Talent Work Contribution’), Artist Project (formerly ‘Project Investment Artist/Intermediary’) and/or Publications Contribution schemes in the four years preceding your application for the Artisan Voucher, and you have not subsequently received a negative advisory, Mondriaan Fund staff will assess whether your application for the Artisan Voucher satisfies the conditions. If so, the application will be granted.
Assessment by the advisory committee
In the case that this is your first application to the Mondriaan Fund, or if you received a negative advisory for your last application, your application will be tested against the conditions, and your CV will be presented to the Artisan Voucher advisory committee.
This advisory committee assesses the level of recognition and its importance for Dutch visual art: based on solo or group exhibitions, sales, publications, commissions, subsidies and – if applicable – awards. An Artisan Voucher can only be granted with a positive advisory from the committee.
Due to budgetary restrictions, we are unfortunately not always able to award grants to all applications that receive positive advisories from the committee. In this case, the Mondriaan Fund will prioritise the applications with positive advisories according to when they were received. This means that an application may receive a positive advisory, but that a grant is nevertheless not awarded, or a lower grant is awarded.
Checklist
In order to process your application, the Mondriaan Fund requires various information: details that you can enter in the application form and documents that you can upload. Below is a checklist outlining all of the required information, following the layout of the application form.
Tip: gather all of the required information before you start completing the online application form. Appendices can be uploaded as PDFs. Please ensure that your documents satisfy the stated requirements, otherwise we may not be able to process your application. Ensure you do not exceed the maximum number of pages, where stated.
Checklist
Cv artist (max. 3 pages)
Upload the most important information about your professional practice, with an emphasis on the last one to four years. Consider, for example, exhibitions (indicate whether it was a solo or group exhibition), events, commissions, awards, subsidies and publications. Also mention any ancillary activities, such as teaching and consulting positions.
Cv artisan (max. 3 pages)
Upload the most important information about the artisan’s professional practice, with an emphasis on the last one to four years. If possible, include a website URL.
If applicable, the Mondriaan Fund may request a Chamber of Commerce extract for the artisan.
Please add the two CVs to one PDF.
Plan (max. 1 page)
What is your motivation for hiring an artisan? Describe how the artisan contributes to your research, work or project, and to which specific aspects they contribute.
Quotation/agreement and statement
Upload the quotation/agreement and the declaration from the artisan. The quotation/agreement must show how much compensation the craftsman receives. The statement signed by the artisan must show that the artisan agrees to submitting the application.
Please note: The amounts must be stated excluding VAT. The amounts are allocated excluding VAT, unless you are not liable for VAT. Then send proof from the tax authorities showing that you are not liable for VAT.
If applicable:
Personal Information Provision Netherlands Antilles and Aruba (PIVA)
Are you registered in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom? If so, please send a recent extract (no more than 1 year old) from the PIVA/population register.
Extract from the Personal Records Database (BRP)
If you do not have the Dutch nationality, please upload a recent extract (no more than 1 year old) from the Personal Records Database (BRP).
Diploma/deregistration or Chamber of Commerce extract
If you have been professionally active for less than three years, we require a copy of the diplomas from any completed art courses with visual art curricula, or in the case that you did not complete the course, confirmation of deregistration from the academy. If you have not attended art school, you can submit a recent Chamber of Commerce extract (no longer than 3 months old).
Bank details
We require your bank account number in order to transfer the contribution, if granted. If this is your first application to the Mondriaan Fund, or if your bank account number has changed since the last application, please upload a recent bank statement that clearly shows the name of the account holder and the IBAN/bank account number of the applicant. Applicants living in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands can upload a bank statement or other bank document showing the name of the account holder and the bank account number.
If you have a corporate bank account for your own business, please upload a recent extract from the Chamber of Commerce (no longer than 3 months old), so that we can confirm that the bank account is linked to a sole proprietorship.
