Call for Applications: Exhibition of Danish Art Abroad

Purpose of the Program

The Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding wants to promote Danish and foreign contemporary art in Denmark and Danish contemporary art abroad.

You may apply for funding within the following areas:

• Presentation
  • Funding for presenting Danish and international contemporary art in printed or digital form. Presentation must be related to a project or have an appropriate recipient, either in form of a publisher or an exhibition agreement. It is not sufficient to have an agreement with a printer. Please note that they do not fund presentation projects that concerns a foreign artist and which is aimed at a foreign audience. Art books, catalogues and publications are only funded in cases where it is especially relevant for the artist or the project. Typical expenses: Translation, printing and layout.
• Exhibitions Abroad
  • Funding for exhibitions with Danish contemporary artists abroad.
  • Typical expenses: Transport of works, insurance for works, rent of technical equipment, installation, the artist’s travel, hotel or other expenses that are related to the exhibition, but that are not production of the work or works themselves, and exhibition fees.
• Fees for Exhibiting Artists
  • Exhibition venues are encouraged to pay fees to artists in connection with their work with an exhibition. The exhibition venue may apply for partial funding of fees for exhibiting artists. The fee covers the artist’s work in connection with an exhibition, which is not directly linked to the production of works – for example, the artist’s participation in meetings, setting up and dismantling an exhibition, participation in PR and presentation.

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply if you intend to exhibit and/or disseminate contemporary Danish visual art abroad.
• You cannot receive funding for:
  • Invitations, meals, etc. in connection with exhibition openings
  • Travel and accommodation of assistants (as a general rule)
  • Travel and accommodation in connection with exhibitions in galleries with which the artist is already working regularly
  • Local transport
  • Project applications that the Committee has previously processed (reapplications)
  • Exhibitions opening before the application deadline
  • Exhibitions in galleries with which the artist is regularly affiliated are not funded unless the committee assesses that they involve a special effort.

For more information, visit Danish Arts Foundation.