Art Fund Foundation
The Art Fund Foundation (formerly the Art Fund eV ) is a foundation established in 1980 and based in Bonn . It supports contemporary visual arts in Germany through grants, prizes, project grants and publication grants. It supports artists, galleries , museums , art associations and art publishers. It also awards the HAP Grieshaber Prize every year . The Kunstfonds Foundation also maintains the Art Fund Foundation's archive for artists' bequests in Pulheim , which in certain cases also takes care of individual bequests .
history
In 1980 the German Bundestag decided to support contemporary visual arts with five million marks. In the same year, the art fund was founded, initially as a non-profit association, by the BBK , the German Association of Artists , the GEDOK , the BVDG , the Bild-Kunst collecting society and the artist Rune Mields . The international artists' committee and the working group of German art associations later also joined the association. In 2000, it was converted into a foundation under the full name “Foundation Art Fund for the Promotion of Contemporary Fine Art”. The former members of the association, with the exception of Rune Mields, became members of the board of trustees . In 2005, the Federal Cultural Foundation also joined the Board of Trustees.
literature
- Pia Gamon among others: Basis artist archive : Art between studio and museum. The archive for artist estates of the Kunstfonds Foundation , Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903004-16-0 .