Arts Collaboratory

Arts Collaboratory
Founded	2007
Founder	Hivos, DOEN Foundation in collaboration with Mondriaan Foundation
Location	The Hague
Method	Grants, funding, artistic exchanges
Website	www.artscollaboratory.org

Arts Collaboratory is a program promoted by Hivos and DOEN Foundation to support independent visual arts organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and social innovation. The program is having a major role in providing fundings for contemporary art and practices in countries where few resources in this field are available.

History

The program was established in 2007 by the Dutch organizations Hivos and DOEN Foundation and it is implemented in collaboration with Mondriaan Foundation.

Activities

The program provides funding and it supports knowledge sharing and artistic exchange. The fundings are

Long term support for independent visual arts organizations focusing on collaborative art practices and social innovation. The supports addresses independent visual organizations based in Africa, Asia and Latin America and it is provided for a 28 month-programme.
Project Fund for ‘Visual Arts and Social Innovation’ (up to 15'000 euro per project).

Partner	Country	Project	Period
Ugandan Arts Trust	Uganda	Artistic Exchange David Bade and 32º East	open
African Artists' Foundation	Nigeria	LagosPhoto Festival	open
ArtBakery	Cameroon	Present Perfect!	open
ArtEast	Kyrgyzstan	Art East Summer School, Boom Boom	open
Ateliers Sahm	Congo		open
Britto Arts Trust	Bangladesh	Britto 4th International Artists' Workshop, Britto International Artists' Workshop 2013, Britto New Media Festival 2009	open
Casa Tres Patios	Colombia	Residency Programme in Medellín	open
CCA Lagos - Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos	Nigeria	On Independence and the Ambivalence of Promise	open
CEIA	Brazil	Conversations, Drawing Revisited, MIP2 – Manifestaçao Internacional de Performance, Permeabilities	open
Centre Soleil d'Afrique	Mali	Festival Africain d’Images Virtuelles Artistiques (FAIVA), Kevin Dalton Johnson’s Art Residency at Centre Soleil d’Afrique	open
Coeur d’Artistes	Congo		open
doual'art	Cameroon	doual'art - SUD 2010, Le Jardin Sonore de Bonamouti	open
Enough Room For Space	The Netherlands	Present Perfect!	open
First Floor Gallery Harare	Zimbabwe		open
Hotel MariaKapel	The Netharldans	Elopement: A lovable exchange between The Netherlands and Cameroon	open
Invisible Borders	Nigeria		open
Kër Thiossane	Senegal	Afropixel #3	open
KHOJ International Artists Association	India	Empire Project, Ghoomakkad Toli – A Community Theatre Project at Khirkee Village, Khoj International Residency Programme, Khoj's Satpula Super Series II, Reconciling Ecologies in the Millenium City, The Khoj Marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist: A Series of Public Conversations	open
KIOSKO	Bolivia	"Salta Charcos", Artists residencies in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Curator-in-Residence Programme at KIOSKO, Make a Forest	open
L'Artocarpe	Guadeloupe		open
Les Palettes du Kamer	Cameroon	RAVY international festival of visual arts	open
Lugar a Dudas	Colombia	Sala de Estar, Sala de Estar: Workshop with Juan Mejía	open
Made in Mirrors Foundation	The Netherlands, Brazil, China, Egypt		open
Makan	Jordan		open
Making Snowballs	The Netherlands		open
Más Arte Más Acción	Colombia	Chocó Base, Nuevatopia	open
MAVA	Benin		open
Mohile Parikh Center for Visual Arts (MPCVA)	India	Traversing Precincts in Art	open
NIMk, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst	The Netherlands		open
Nubuke Foundation	Ghana		open
PICHA ASBL	Democratic Republic of Congo	Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Andrea Stultiens, Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Lard Buurman	open
Raw Material Company	Senegal		open
ruangrupa	Indonesia	A Joburger in Jakarta: notes on Ruangrupa and the Art of the Network, Ok.Video Comedy, ruangrupa and the shared history between Indonesia and the Netherlands	open
Sàn Art	Vietnam		open
SMBA	The Netherlands	Focus on doual'art	open
Taleb Cherche Midi	Morocco	Arab Media Lab, Digital Marrakech	open
Taller Multinacional	Mexico	Circulo de Ocio, Viernes Social	open
The One Minutes Africa	The Netherlands, Egypt		open
Theertha	Sri Lanka	A Land Where Thousands of Eyes and Minds are Pleased, Mapping Broken Hands and Goodwill Hardware, Sethusamudurum Art Project, Sethusamudurum Art Project - Work in Progress	open
Time_Frame	The Netherlands		open
Townhouse Gallery	Egypt	Speak, Memory; Townhouse Independent Study Program	open
Triangle Arts Trust	International	International Art Residencies at Batiscafo, Knowledge and Skills Sharing Residency Programme	open
Vasl Artists/Collective	Pakistan	Vasl International Artists' Workshop, Vasl International Artists' Workshop, 2012	open
Very Real Time	South Africa	Going inside time	open
Artellewa	Egypt	Artellewa Artist-in-Residence Programme, STOP: Artist Residency at Artellewa	closed
Bat Centre	South Africa		closed
Cascoland	The Netherlands	ArtEast and Cascoland, 'the real Kyrgyzstan artists', Dye Fixing	closed
CCAEA	Kenya	Amnesia, NomadicMILK	closed
Centraal Museum Utrecht	The Netherlands		closed
el despacho	Mexico	'Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner'	closed
Espira / La Espora	Nicaragua	TACON at Espira/La Espora, Themes and contents of pedagogical art practice	closed
Greatmore Studies	South Africa	Visiting Artists' Residency at Greatmore	closed
IVAA	Indonesia	The Archive Development Series Programme	closed
Kuona Trust	Kenya	15 Years Legacy of Kuona Trust, Urban Wasanii International Artist's Workshop 2008	closed
LOT - La Otra Orilla	Peru	Jan Fabre inspires Peruvian theatre company LOT, LOT project about sustainable landscape development in Peru	closed
MOCA	United States		closed
MUA	Honduras	Moving the Map	closed
Museo Blanes/Harto espacio	Uruguay		closed
n.e.w.s.	The Netherlands		closed
P.A.P.A., Participating Artists Press Agency	The Netherlands	P.A.P.A. Labs	closed
PULSE	South Africa		closed
Showroom Mama	The Netherlands	Project(OR) Art Fair	closed
TEOR/éTica	Costa Rica		closed
Troca-Trocas	Brazil		closed

References

↑ Polly T. Stupples, Breaking the frame: Art in international development, Ph.D. thesis, Massey University, Turitea, New Zealand, 2011, pp. 56-57; Iolanda Pensa, La Biennale de Dakar comme projet de coopération et de développement, Ph.D. thesis, EHESS-Politecnico di Milano, 2011, pp. 150 and 295.

Bibliography

Jos Schuring, Artscollaboratory, programme by Hivos, DOEN and Mondriaan Stichting in "The Power of Culture", June 2007.
Arts Collaboratory: Best Practice Presentation, res artis, Amsterdam, 2008.

External links

[1] Polly T. Stupples, Breaking the frame: Art in international development, Ph.D. thesis, Massey University, Turitea, New Zealand, 2011, pp. 56-57; Iolanda Pensa, La Biennale de Dakar comme projet de coopération et de développement, Ph.D. thesis, EHESS-Politecnico di Milano, 2011, pp. 150 and 295.