The Fine Arts

International Museum Fellowship

The Federal Cultural Foundation’s International Museum Fellowship programme offers museums and public collections in Germany the opportunity to hire young, top-level foreign researchers and curators to work at their organizations.
The goal of the fellowship programme is to encourage German museums to internationalize their topics, working methods and areas of emphasis and support them in applying new approaches to their established organizational structures. The programme also aims to improve intercultural competence within the museums themselves, as well as strengthen international networks between scientists, curators and museologists. The Federal Cultural Foundation invites museums to apply for an 18-month, project-based work and research fellowship to finance the visit of a young researcher or curator from abroad. For the fellows – outstanding young researchers, curators or museologists who already have initial working experience – this programme offers them the chance to gain further professional experience at a German museum.
Furthermore, the Federal Cultural Foundation aims to increase the continued impact of the programme by funding up to ten follow-up projects. When the fellowship funding period concludes, the participating museum can apply for funding for a follow-up exhibition, carried out independently by the fellowship holder.

Funding guidelines in German

Application form in German
  

 
Arts Fund Foundation

The Arts Fund Foundation supports contemporary fine arts in Germany. It focuses its activities on supporting young artists and innovative projects.
Although artists do not need a project to be eligible for a working grant, they can apply for funding to cover the material and travel expenses for a concrete artistic project. The Arts Fund Foundation also provides financial support to individual artists for media restoration projects. Occasionally artists also receive funding to cover the expenses of producing a catalogue of works. A jury comprised of artists, directors of art associations and gallery owners reviews applications and awards grants once a year.
The Arts Fund supports the field of fine arts by funding art exhibitions. These include contemporary fine arts exhibitions or the first solo exhibitions of works by qualified artists. The special funding programme "First Exhibitions" provides financial aid to nationally active German exhibition venues which hold the first, large-scaled solo exhibitions of fine artists who live in Germany. In addition, the Arts Fund provides funding to publishers, museums, art associations, galleries, art libraries, etc., to offset the cost of printing publications and documentation of artistic works of excellence. A second jury of experts at the Arts Fund meets once a year to select project proposals and award funding.