Voucher Development

How and when to apply

You can apply at any time of the year provided the budget is sufficient. 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 and professional practice

• 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.
• The Development Voucher cannot be awarded to an artist who received an Artist Start grant less than 1 year prior, or an Artist Basic grant less than 4 years prior.

Project plan

• Applications for the Development Voucher can only be submitted for a plan to develop and/or broaden your professional practice. This should be supported by your substantive motivation and a quotation, registration, commitment from the person, institution, course or workshop in question. If you plan to purchase specific equipment, you must substantiate how this will contribute to the development or broadening of your professional practice. Due to budgetary constraints, the purchase of the following equipment is excluded: smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, laptops and cameras.
• Applications for the Development Voucher made during the term of any other financial support from theMondriaan Fund will not be accepted in the case that the board is of the opinion that the contribution covers the same expenses.
• The Development Voucher contribution will be granted a maximum of once in a twelve-month period.

Assessment

The submitted application and appendices will be checked for completeness. A simplified procedure is used for the Development Voucher.

Assessment by the Fund Office

If you received a positive recommendation for an application for the Artist Start, Artist Project and/or Publication in the 4 years preceding your application for the Development Voucher, and have not subsequently been rejected for a grant, Fund Office staff will assess whether your Development Voucher application satisfies the conditions. If so, the application can be accepted.

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 CV will be presented to the Development 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. A Development 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.