Curatorial Research Programme

• Curators, directors of exhibition venues, art critics and art mediators working with contemporary art.
• Danish art institutions or other Danish art professionals can apply on behalf of one or more foreign curators, provided that the Danish actor undertakes programming and hosting the foreign curator's visit to Denmark.
• Applicants with Danish CVR/CPR/ NemKonto must apply via the Danish version of this pool

The programme is primarily aimed at applicants who already have contacts on the Danish art scene or candidates who wish to develop a project involving specific Danish artists or institutions. Applicants must be able to organize meetings and studio visits on their own.

You can receive funding for

• Grants of up to DKK 15,000 per person for travel and accomodation.

You cannot receive funding for:

• Travel with a view to participating in exhibition openings, conferences, seminars, international art fairs, biennales or the like.
• Per diems. Exception: Applicants from UN's list of least developed countries: Find the current list here.
• Travel for inspiration and general orientation
• Travel in connection with already programmed exhibitions
• Local transportation over short distances in Denmark (<15 km)
• Visa, travel insurance, entrance fees.

Danish Art Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding wants to promote Danish contemporary art abroad and contemporary art in Denmark.
Therefore, the committee provides travel grants to Danish and foreign curators, so that they can meet new artists, gain insight into other contemporary art scenes and enter into exchanges and new dynamic collaborations.

Applicants are themselves responsible for organizing the program of the research trip, i.e. meetings and visits to artists, institutions and other relevant actors.

Your application will be assessed based on these criteria:

• Your practice must meet the committee's criteria for high artistic quality or art professional level
• The applied project must meet the committee's criteria for high artistic quality or art professional level
• Aim: Your journey must have a clear aim towards future professional curation, art criticism or art dissemination.
• Programme: There must be a clear art professional day program for the trip
• Network: Your trip must promote and strengthen international networks and collaborations between the Danish and foreign contemporary art scene.

If you have applied for a grant from Danish Art Foundation within the last three years, this information will be used as part of the assessment of your new application. 

Sustainability
Danish Arts Foundation encourages applicants to incorporate green sustainability into their activities. Consider, for example, your form of transport in relation to how far you have to travel and how long the trip lasts.

We recommend that you use the browser Chrome or Firefox when completing your application.
You submit the application with a user name via the Grant Portal, which you access from this page by pressing 'Apply'.

You must attach 3 mandatory annexes:

1. Goals, day program and budget* - (max 2000 characters) in the required official template 
2. CV detailing your curatorial practice. The committee only wants to see the 10 most important points from your CV. Use this template.
3. The required offical template for international bank wire transfers. Find and download here the form for countries with IBAN and countries without IBAN.

*If you have to report for a subsidy, we will check whether you have met the goals you write in your application. The goal of this pool is typically meetings with named artists, curators, institution managers or others who work professionally with contemporary art.

If you are applying for funding for the same research trip from other committees in Danish Arts Foundation, you must write this in the application.

Please be aware of the following:

• Make sure that the application is properly submitted i.e. has the status "submitted". 
• The attachments you attach must not exceed 25 MB in total.
• We only accept attachments in the following formats: PDF, Word, MP3 and MP4. ZIP files cannot be used.
• Until the application deadline expires, you can edit your already submitted application and submit a new version of the same application.
• After the application deadline, you can no longer edit your application.
• The committee always processes the latest version of your application.
• Your application must contain all mandatory attachments in order to be processed. Extra material not mentioned in the application instructions will not be included in the assessment.
• You yourself are responsible for ensuring that the application form is filled in correctly and that all necessary attachments are attached.
• Attachments received after the application deadline will not be added to your application.
• As a general rule, you cannot transfer your application or any commitments to another person or company. Therefore, make sure to clarify who the applicant is before you send the application. 

• The committee provides grants of up to DKK 15,000 per person for travel and accomodation.
• If an institution or other agent on the art scene applies for funding for several curators' visits at the same time, they must send one combined application for all visitors. A maximum of DKK 15,000 is given per curator.
• Both travel and accomodation must be in "economy class", and a typical research trip lasts between 3 and 7 days.

The committee reserves the right to grant a smaller amount than applied for. 

Payment

When applying, foreign applicants must sumbit bank information in required offical template for international bank wire transfers. See "What must the application contain".
If you receive a subsidy, we will pay the amount as soon as possible.

You will receive an answer to your application no later than eight weeks after the application deadline.
You will receive a notification email when your answer is ready on your profile in the Grant Portal, unless you have opted out of this.

In the period until then, all applications will be prepared and sent to the committee and then read and processed.
We publish all awarded grants on our website (in Danish), once the applicants have received the committee’s decision.

The names of all applicants are made public on our website in the committees’ minutes (in Danish).

When you have submitted your application in the Grant Portal, you will receive a screen receipt which you can download if you want, but you can always see your application and its status in the Grant Portal under "My applications". When it has been submitted correctly, it has the status as "Submitted".

You will not receive an email receipt when you have submitted an application.

On your application file in the Grant Portal, you can also see what annexes you have attached to the application. It is your own responsibility that the necessary attachments are enclosed, so remember to go through your application carefully.

You can edit an application even if you have already submitted it. As long as it is before the deadline. If you edit a submitted application, you must again ensure that all necessary attachments have been sent. The committee deals exclusively with the most recently submitted application.

If you need to contact a case worker in the secretariat, you must do so via the contact button on your case in the Grant Portal.

Decisions are made in accordance with section 3(1), cf. (2) and (3) of the Danish Act on the Danish Arts Foundation’s Activities (Act no. 458 of 8 May 2013).

When the Danish Arts Foundation awards grants, it is important, and not least legally required, that the money is used for the purpose you have described in your application. Therefore, you must report on your project to the Agency for Culture and Palaces. How you must report depends on the grant amount you have received. Read more about how to report on your project.

Danish Arts Foundation's Committee for Visual Arts Project Funding.