Flanders Arts Institute

Questions? Join us for a Morning Coffee

Flanders Arts Institute invites you to an online coffee bar: on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 to 10 AM you can simply “walk in” and join our colleagues for a chat about whatever is on your mind.

Operating grants - deadline December 1

Are you submitting an application on December 1 for operating funds within the Arts Decree?

Do the test! (In Dutch) Are you ready to translate your plans into a solid subsidy file? Go through our checklist.
We will put you on the right track! Need more explanation about the different questions? Read our advice.
Ask us your questions! You can always send us an email (advies@kunsten.be) or drop by at our virtual coffee bar (morning coffees every Monday and Wednesday).

Read our advice here

RESHAPE closing conference: What kind of future do we want for the cultural sector?

04 Oct 2021

Report

A Fair New Idea: a feminist server as a digital working, residency and presentation platform

30 Sep 2021

Update

Better Practices for Safe(r) Spaces #4: safe spaces for queers and feminists

24 Jun 2021

Article

News

Online events

Working visit to Institut pour la Photographie in Lille

18 Nov 2021 Visitor's programme Rijsel

Public talk: Identity, hybridity, creolisation

11 Sep 2021 Publiek gesprek Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussel)

Visitor's programme Biennale Chroniques

13-19 Sep 2021 Visitor's programme

Meetings and programs

A Fair New Idea?! - Open Calls

Working honestly and with care, internationalising sustainably, using digital media, and embracing diversity. The Arts face immense challenges, especially at this time of a global pandemic. In 2021, Flanders Arts Institute supports the elaboration of ideas around these crucial challenges.

A Fair New World?! is a project of Flanders Arts Institute. It bundles and connects today’s major challenges with research into the impact of the corona crisis.

Discover all ideas here

Article by Stefan Vanthuyne

Discover Photography in Flanders: A multifaceted and full-fledged artistic medium

Photography has been subject to technological developments since its origins, but rarely have these changes been so profound and far-reaching as in the past twenty years.

Interface organisation and expertise centre for

Visual Arts

Masters from Flanders in major art collections and art biennials all over the world. From van Eyck to Tuymans, a centuries’ long tradition of visual artists.

Performing arts

The Flemish performing arts’ field is a landscape of relations with a dense network of interdependent functions. Flanders is envied for the great diversity of its houses and institutions.

Music

The importance Flanders has afforded to music appears to date back as far as Flanders itself. An historical retrospect reveals that not only listening to music acquired a prominent social position in Flanders.

Expertise centre for performing arts, music and visual arts