Arts Collaboratory was established in January 2007 by Hivos and the DOEN Foundation, and is carried out in cooperation with the Mondriaan Foundation. Arts Collaboratory is a programme for visual artists’ initiatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and for exchange with visual arts organisations in the Netherlands.

Arts Collaboratory provides financial support, facilitates knowledge sharing, and promotes networking & exchange amongst its participating organisations.

  • Cultural entrepeneurship

    Arts Collaboratory offers support to organisation, programme and to specific projects that enhance the cultural entrepreneurship of your organisation.

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  • Dutch exchange

    The Mondriaan Foundation cooperates with Hivos and Stichting DOEN on the programme Arts Collaboratory. Arts Collaboratory aims to support artists’ initiatives in non-Western countries and to promote international exchanges and the exchange of knowledge with visual arts organisations in the Netherlands.

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  • Knowledge sharing

    In addition to moderating discussions under the Arts Collaboratory Forum, organising regional meetings, and pro-actively linking organisations up with each other, Arts Collaboratory offers small-scale financial support to special projects that enhance knowledge-generation, -sharing and –dissemination on a variety of themes. At the moment these themes include Re-writing Art History, Improving Cultural Management, and Methods & Content of Pedagogical Art Practice.

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Participating organisations