NB! It is no longer possible to apply for the Voucher Development because the available budget has been spent.
How and when to apply
This grant is currently closed. 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
- You have been working as a professional artist for at least one year and are registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce; or you have completed at least three years of a Higher Professional Education (HBO) art course and have worked as a professional artist for at least one year. Or you have worked as a professional artist for three years or longer.
- You may not apply for the Development Voucher while studying at an educational institution (e.g. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programmes). The same applies for postgraduate and postdoctoral programmes.
- You are artistically active in the visual arts and in that capacity embedded in the professional visual arts practice in the Netherlands and/or the Caribbean part of the Kingdom.
Project plan
- The Development Voucher can only be used for a plan to develop and/or broaden your professional practice, which should be supported by your motivation and a quotation, registration or a document indicating commitment from the person, institution, course or workshop in question. In the case that you plan to purchase equipment, you must substantiate how this will contribute to the development or broadening or your professional practice. This contribution cannot be used to purchase a smartphone.
- Applications for the Development 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.
- 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 Mondriaan Fund
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 Development Voucher, and you have not subsequently received a negative advisory, Mondriaan Fund staff will assess whether your application for the Development 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 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.
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 (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.
Plan (max. 1 page)
What is your plan to develop or broaden your professional practice? Describe why, how and with what or whom you envisage achieving this. If the plan is related to the purchase of equipment, please also substantiate how this will contribute to the development/broadening of your work and/or practice.
Financial proof
This must show where the requested amount is based and what the price is. If a person’s institution is involved, we ask you to attach proof of registration or a commitment showing that the plan is actually being implemented.
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.
Extract from the Personal Records Database (BRP)
If you do not have the Dutch nationality, please upload a recent extract (no longer than one 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 three months old), so that we can confirm that the bank account is linked to a sole proprietorship.
