Art policy and art decree | Flanders Arts Institute

Flanders Arts Institute is an interface organisation and expertise centre for the arts from Flanders and Brussels. Through research, we produce evidence and intelligence that supports art organisations to improve their practice. Our research helps to inform art and culture policy.

Looking for articles, analyses and numerical research on the Arts Decree?

Flanders Arts Institute organises information sessions on grants and subsidies within the Arts Decree. For those who want to prepare their application well, the subsidy lines and assessment criteria are explained with the help of concrete cases.

2020: Strategic Vision Statement for the Arts

The new Strategic Vision Statement for the Arts has been published. In this policy document, Minister of Culture Jan Jambon sets out the main lines of his arts policy for the coming years. As described in the Arts Decree, the Vision Statement also contains considerations for assessing subsidy applications. The Vision Statement is a further elaboration of the Culture Policy Memorandum 2019-2024 and includes input from the Landscape Sketch of the Arts.