Arts Collaboratory


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
PartnerCountryProjectPeriodReferencesNote
Ugandan Arts TrustUgandaArtistic Exchange David Bade and 32º Eastopen
African Artists' FoundationNigeriaLagosPhoto Festivalopen
ArtBakeryCameroonPresent Perfect!open
ArtEastKyrgyzstanArt East Summer School, Boom Boomopen
Ateliers SahmCongoopen
Britto Arts TrustBangladeshBritto 4th International Artists' Workshop, Britto International Artists' Workshop 2013, Britto New Media Festival 2009open
Casa Tres PatiosColombiaResidency Programme in Medellínopen
CCA Lagos - Centre for Contemporary Art LagosNigeriaOn Independence and the Ambivalence of Promiseopen
CEIABrazilConversations, Drawing Revisited, MIP2 – Manifestaçao Internacional de Performance, Permeabilitiesopen
Centre Soleil d'AfriqueMaliFestival Africain d’Images Virtuelles Artistiques, Kevin Dalton Johnson’s Art Residency at Centre Soleil d’Afriqueopen
Coeur d’ArtistesCongoopen
doual'artCameroondoual'art - SUD 2010, Le Jardin Sonore de Bonamoutiopen
Enough Room For SpaceThe NetherlandsPresent Perfect!open
First Floor Gallery HarareZimbabweopen
Hotel MariaKapelThe NetharldansElopement: A lovable exchange between The Netherlands and Cameroonopen
Invisible BordersNigeriaopen
Kër ThiossaneSenegalAfropixel #3open
KHOJ International Artists AssociationIndiaEmpire 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 Conversationsopen
KIOSKOBolivia"Salta Charcos", Artists residencies in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Curator-in-Residence Programme at KIOSKO, Make a Forestopen
L'ArtocarpeGuadeloupeopen
Les Palettes du KamerCameroonRAVY international festival of visual artsopen
Lugar a DudasColombiaSala de Estar, Sala de Estar: Workshop with Juan Mejíaopen
Made in Mirrors FoundationThe Netherlands, Brazil, China, Egyptopen
MakanJordanopen
Making SnowballsThe Netherlandsopen
Más Arte Más AcciónColombiaChocó Base, Nuevatopiaopen
MAVABeninopen
Mohile Parikh Center for Visual Arts IndiaTraversing Precincts in Artopen
NIMk, Nederlands Instituut voor MediakunstThe Netherlandsopen
Nubuke FoundationGhanaopen
PICHA ASBLDemocratic Republic of CongoRencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Andrea Stultiens, Rencontres Picha, Biennale de Lubumbashi 2013 – Lard Buurmanopen
Raw Material CompanySenegalopen
ruangrupaIndonesiaA Joburger in Jakarta: notes on Ruangrupa and the Art of the Network, Ok.Video Comedy, ruangrupa and the shared history between Indonesia and the Netherlandsopen
Sàn ArtVietnamopen
SMBAThe NetherlandsFocus on doual'artopen
Taleb Cherche MidiMoroccoArab Media Lab, Digital Marrakechopen
Taller MultinacionalMexicoCirculo de Ocio, Viernes Socialopen
The One Minutes AfricaThe Netherlands, Egyptopen
TheerthaSri LankaA Land Where Thousands of Eyes and Minds are Pleased, Mapping Broken Hands and Goodwill Hardware, Sethusamudurum Art Project, Sethusamudurum Art Project - Work in Progressopen
Time_FrameThe Netherlandsopen
Townhouse GalleryEgyptSpeak, Memory; Townhouse Independent Study Programopen
Triangle Arts TrustInternationalInternational Art Residencies at Batiscafo, Knowledge and Skills Sharing Residency Programmeopen
Vasl Artists/CollectivePakistanVasl International Artists' Workshop, Vasl International Artists' Workshop, 2012open
Very Real TimeSouth AfricaGoing inside timeopen
ArtellewaEgyptArtellewa Artist-in-Residence Programme, STOP: Artist Residency at Artellewaclosed
Bat CentreSouth Africaclosed
CascolandThe NetherlandsArtEast and Cascoland, 'the real Kyrgyzstan artists', Dye Fixingclosed
CCAEAKenyaAmnesia, NomadicMILKclosed
Centraal Museum UtrechtThe Netherlandsclosed
el despachoMexico'Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner'closed
Espira / La EsporaNicaraguaTACON at Espira/La Espora, Themes and contents of pedagogical art practiceclosed
Greatmore StudiesSouth AfricaVisiting Artists' Residency at Greatmoreclosed
IVAAIndonesiaThe Archive Development Series Programmeclosed
Kuona TrustKenya15 Years Legacy of Kuona Trust, Urban Wasanii International Artist's Workshop 2008closed
LOT - La Otra OrillaPeruJan Fabre inspires Peruvian theatre company LOT, LOT project about sustainable landscape development in Peruclosed
MOCAUnited Statesclosed
MUAHondurasMoving the Mapclosed
Museo Blanes/Harto espacioUruguayclosed
n.e.w.s.The Netherlandsclosed
P.A.P.A., Participating Artists Press AgencyThe NetherlandsP.A.P.A. Labsclosed
PULSESouth Africaclosed
Showroom MamaThe NetherlandsProject Art Fairclosed
TEOR/éTicaCosta Ricaclosed
Troca-TrocasBrazilclosed