12 Sep '17

Arts and culture project grants good for €1.9 million

Summary

Flanders’ culture minister has announced that 35 artists and organisations have received subsidies for specific projects in the third round of applications for 2017

 

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Flemish culture minister Sven Gatz has announced the list of 35 recipients in the third and final round of project subsidies for this year. There were 287 applications for grants for arts and culture projects, of which 78 were successful. The total amount of the subsidies came to €1.9 million.

There are four kinds of project subsidies: short-term grants, multi-year grants, individual artists and organisations. The system is for specific projects and is separate from structural cultural subsidies – although the same groups can apply for both. The latest round brings the total for the three rounds of project subsidies in 2017 to just over €8 million, or €2.2 million more than last year.

Subsidies are granted to artists or organisation that receive a rating of “very good” from the evaluation committee. For organisations, the grant requires the same rating on the artistic merit of the project as well as its business plan.

Among the organisations receiving subsidies in this round are the Brussels-based theatre group Tristero (which lost its structural subsidy last year but now picks up €34,700), music centre Artrisjok in Mechelen, and robot orchestra Logos Foundation, which also lost its structural subsidy.

Individual artists accounted for 19 subsidies, which includes sculptor Peter Buggenhout, ceramics artist Anne Marie Laureys and painter Cindy Wright. In additions to those, short-term subsidies worth more than €159,000 were given out, as well as five multi-year subsidies worth some €108,500.
Photo: Peter Buggenhout in front of one of his monumental sculptures at Hamburg’s contemporary museum of art and photography
©Axel Heimken/dpa/BELGA

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Belgium is a federal state with several regional governments. The northern, Dutch-speaking region of Flanders is governed by the Flemish government, which was created when the Flemish Region and the Flemish Community joined forces in 1980. A minister-president presides over the government of Flanders, and Brussels is the capital city.
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