Arts Council Norway

Arts Council Norway

Cover image: Battle by Agnes Nedregård. Artist’s documentation of performance, 2013. From the artist’s catalogue Performance Works. The Big Toe, supported by the Norwegian Cultural Fund’s programme for arts publi-cations in 2015.

Riddu Riđđu Music festival, Kåfjord

Cirka Teater Performing arts for kids, Trondheim

Apichaya Wanthiang Government Grants for Artists, Bergen

Barnebokfestivalen Literature festival, Grimstad

Hawaii Træna Cultural heritage project, Træna

Van Gogh + Munch Security funds and a government insurance , Oslo

Jørn Hilme-stemnet Traditional music festival, Fagernes

Photo: Ørjan B

ertelsen

Photo: Børre H

østland

Photo: Moa B

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Kunsthall Grenland EEA-funded cultural cooperation with Poland, Porsgrunn

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A RT S CO U N C I L N O RWAY

Van Gogh + Munch Security funds and a government insurance , Oslo

Jørn Hilme-stemnet Traditional music festival, Fagernes

Dark Ecology Visual arts and music project, Kirkenes

Photo: Ellen Persvold

Arts Council NorwayArts Council Norway supports arts and cultural projects throughout Norway. It conducts developmental work and is an advisor to the central government on cultural affairs.

Arts Council Norway helps to ensure that art and culture are created, documented, preserved and made accessible to the broadest possible audience. The aim is to guarantee an arts and cultural sector in Norway that is vibrant and diverse.

Arts Council Norway was established in 1965. Each year, the Council receives some 20,000 applications for funding. In 2016, the Council will handle around 139 million € of state funds earmarked for arts and culture.

For more information about Arts Council Norway: www.kulturradet.no/english

Arts Council Norway’s place in cultural policy

Leap Second Festival 2015 received support from the funding programme for arts and technology. The video Exitium by Christian Bøen was shown during the festival. Photo: Christian Bøen

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ARTS COUNCIL NORWAY provides funding for arts

and culture throughout the country, conducts develop-

mental work and advises on cultural issues.

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PARLIAMENT approves national cultural policy and sets a financial framework

for Arts Council Norway.

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THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE shapes the national cultural

policy and defines the overall guidelines for Arts Council

Norway in a letter of allocation.

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ARTISTS, ARTIST GROUPS, and ARTS AND CULTURAL

ORGANISATIONS can apply for funding from Arts Council Norway’s various

financial support programmes.

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AUDIENCES are able to experience art

throughout Norway.

Arts Council Norway’s budget for 2016

Organisation

139MILLION €

Norwegian Cultural Fund 98,2 mill. €

Government Grants for Artists 32,4 mill. €

Audio and Visual Fund 4,2 mill. €

Museum Development 2,9 mill. €

Norwegian-Icelandic Cultural Cooperation 0,2 mill. €

Arts Council Norway’s budget in relation to the national cultural budget

10%

Arts Council Norway 139 mill. €

Cultural budget approx. 1,39 bill. €

Number of applica-tions and grants in 2015

27 % granted

APPLICATIONS GRANTS

20 367

5 592

Audio and Visual Fund Board chairman: Stein Bjelland7 board members28 expert consultants

Government Grants for Artists Panel director: Alfhild Skaardal5 panel members 123 committee members

The Norwegian Cultural Fund Council director: Tone Hansen 10 council members112 expert consultants

Arts Council Norway – administration Director: Kristin Danielsen120 staff members

LOUD –a rock-music camp for girls, received funding from the Cultural Fund and the Norwegian-Icelandic Cultural Cooperation in 2016. Photo: Sofie Søndervik Sæther

DASS The collected works by John S. Jamtli and Vegard Skogmo. Production support for graphic literature from the Cultural Fund.

98,2MILLION €

Other activities 6,4 mill. €

Visual arts 13,6 mill. €

Music 39,2 mill. €

Performing arts 16,3 mill. €

Literatur 19,5 mill. €

Cultural heritage 3,4 mill. €

Norwegian Cultural Fund 2016

Applications vs. grants awarded in 2015

Funds applied vs. funds allocated in 2015

37 % granted

APPLICATIONS GRANTS

9 030

3 343

AMOUNT APPLIED FOR222 MILL. €*

THE CULTURAL FUND 71 MILL. €*

32 % granted*Not including purchasing programmes for literature

The Norwegian Cultural FundThe Norwegian Cultural Fund supports projects in the fields of literature, the visual arts, music, the performing arts, cultural and architectural heritage, and other areas of activity, and administers a separate allocation for research and development. The Fund is managed by a council appointed by the government.

The council and various panels of consultants, with a total of 122 members, distribute the Cultural Fund’s financial resources to arts and cultural projects throughout Norway. Council members and consultants come from all parts of

the country and meet several times a year to consider applications. Applications are assessed and prioritised on the basis of discipline-specific and artistic criteria.

The Cultural Fund accounts for around 7% of the state’s annual cultural budget. Since its founding in 1965, Arts Council Norway has received almost 130,000 applications for support from the Cultural Fund. Many thousands of artistic and cultural projects both large and small have been realised throughout Norway as a result of this funding.

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Research and developmentArts Council Norway develops, funds and commissions research programmes, projects and publications that examine the cultural landscape, trends and changes. Programmes and activities funded by the Council are regularly evaluated.

Arts Council Norway stands at the intersection between fields of artistic practice, cultural administration and the academic sector. The Council strives to use this position to foster dialogue and discussion through publications, conferences and seminars.

In the period 2015–2017, Arts Council Norway is running a special research programme to raise awareness for, and to reflect on, the preconditions for the assessment of aesthetic quality in the cultural field, including literature, music, the visual and performing arts and museums. The Council also works to provide data sets and

statistics to estimate the economic value of the various cultural industries. The material is intended as a basis for future statistical analysis of the different arts and cultural sectors, and to be comparable with data from Sweden and Denmark.

Recent and ongoing projects:• Aesthetic quality in the cultural field• Art and cultural arenas• Artist-run exhibition venues (evaluation)• Art and power• Church music in Norway• Contemporary performing arts

(evaluation)• The history of Arts Council Norway• Literature in a digital environment• Norwegian music, book and visual arts

industries (statistics)

All research publications can be downloaded at www.kulturradet.no/publikasjoner

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MuseumsArts Council Norway works to develop the museum sector in Norway and advises the government on museum matters. A major responsibility is ensuring that the museums supported by the Ministry of Culture operate and develop in line with approved policy in this field.

Main focus areas include developing sector-specific standards, statistics and skills, as well as digital access to collections via open platforms.

Arts Council Norway currently has four funding programmes for museum development 2015-2017:

• Digital development• Museums’ role in society• Collection management• Museum security In addition, Arts Council Norway administrates security funds and a government insurance programme that enables Norwegian museums and galleries to show international exhibitions of high quality.

Funds for the museum sector from Arts Council Norway are provided through revenue from Norsk Tipping, Norway’s national lottery.

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11,3 mill. visits to Norwegian museums in 2015

On average, 30 000 visits daily

Visits to Norwegian museums

Arts Council Norway facilitates international cooperation in the cultural field. The administration works with the EEA Grants Culture and Creative Europe, manages international projectsand initiatives, and the funds for Norwegian-Icelandic cultural cooperation. Arts Council Norway is involved in and works with several international networks and agencies:

• IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies)

• Monitoring Group on Cultural Heritage in the Baltic Sea States

• ICCPR (International Conference for Cultural Policy Research)

• Europeana• EGMUS – The European

Group on Museum Statistics• EU group for cultural heritage• The European network of

cultural routes• UNESCO Creative Europe Arts Council Norway is the national contact point for the culture programme under Creative Europe, the European Union’s programme for the cultural and creative sectors. Our tasks include to promote awareness and understanding of Creative Europe, and to provide free one-to-one advice sessions and support for applicants from Norway. Further tasks include organising workshops on the application process,

information seminars and other events related to the programme. Arts Council Norway can also help applicants to spread their partner search both in Norway and in Europe.

EEA Grants CultureThe Council is a donor programme partner and national contact point for the EEA Grants cultural cooperation programmes in the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Portugal. The EEA Grants were established by Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein in order to reduce economic and social disparities and to strengthen bilateral relations with 16 EU countries in Central and Southern

International activities

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Europe, and in the Baltics. The cultural cooperation programmes support a wide range of activities relating to contemporary and live arts. The Council contributes to the development of the programmes in the beneficiary countries and spreads information about the Grants to the Norwegian cultural field. We also facilitate establishment of partnerships between cultural actors in Norway and the beneficiary countries.

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Sniper’s Lake by Bezhlaví (CZ) and Bærum Kulturhus (NO). EEA-funded. Photo: Vojtěch Brtnický

Norway’s Documentary HeritageNorway’s Documentary Heritage is the Norwegian contribution to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme. Its purpose is to highlight documents, archives, manuscripts, audio-visual material and the like of central importance to Norway’s cultural heritage.

Established in 2012, Norway’s Documentary Heritage contains around one hundred entries – from the runic inscription on the Kuli Stone from around the year 1000, the first evidence of a unified Norway, to a minute-by-minute record of a Hurtigruten journey from 2011.

Revolution poster from Rjukan 1918/1919. The poster represents the revolutionary labour movement in the period after the First World War. Rjukan played a significant role in the Norwegian labour movement, and the poster is a impor-tant symbol for the Norwegian labour history. Photo: Norsk Industriarbeidermuseum.

The National Archive of Norway and the city of Oslo collec-ted and archived items left in memory of the terror attacks in Norway on July 22, 2011. The teddy bear and attached note is a part of the archive, which is entered on the list of Norway’s Documentary Heritage. National Archive, RA/S-6313, Memory material after 22.7.2011, partial record I, The city of Oslo.

Sailing of traditional clinker-built boats in the Sandefjord fjord. Knowledge about sailing and rowing of traditional boats is an example of intangible cultural heritage. Photo: Tore Friis-Olsen / Forbundet KYSTEN

Intangible cultural heritageNorway ratified UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2007. In 2010 it was decided to accord responsibility for implementing the Convention in Norway on behalf of the Ministry of Culture to Arts Council Norway.

As part of the work, the Council implements activities related to dissemination of information and awareness-raising, and the development and conserving of skills and knowledge relating to intangible culture. In accordance with the Convention, the Council works to ensure the widest possible participation of communities, groups and, where appropriate, individuals, who create, maintain and transmit intangible cultural heritage (ICH). The Council works with the relevant organisations and institutions to involve them actively in the management of ICH.

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Government Grants for Artists

Black sun by Eirin B. Hansen. Blown glass, silvered, metal structu-re. Hansen received a miscellaneous grant for newly graduated artists in 2015. Photo: Anders Beier

The objective of the grants and guaranteed income programme is to enable individual artists, by means of direct subsidies from the state, to contribute to a diverse and innovative arts scene. Grants are awarded exclusively on the basis of artistic quality and activity.

The grants programme includes work grants and miscellaneous grants. In 2016, the work grant has a value of roughly 230,000 NOK per year, and is awarded for between one and ten years.

24 grants committees, with a total of 123 members appointed by artist organisations, recommend recipients for government grants. The grants panel awards grants according to the committees’ recommendations.

The Audio and Visual Fund

Black Debbaths release tour in 2015 received funding from The Audio and Visual Fund. Photo: LP Lorentz

Søsken til evig tid – Amerikareisa. Finfilm AS received funding for the promotion of its documentary film Amerikareisa.

The purpose of the Audio and Visual Fund is to promote the production and dissemination of audio and film recordings. Funding is allocated for the benefit of copyright holders in the fields of music, stage, film and the visual arts. The Fund is a collective compensation scheme that reimburses copyright holders for legal private copying of their works.

Subsidies are granted for the production and dissemination of audio, text, visual arts, theatrical performances, short films and documentaries. Support is also given for the promotion of films and music, and for the revival of stage productions.

The Audio and Visual Fund is administered by a board, the chairman of which is appointed by the Ministry of Culture, the other members by trade organisations. With a total of 28 expert consultants, the advisory committees submit a recommendation on compensation for the applications.

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Kollwitz received concert and tour support for its Dissonance Tour in spring 2015. Photo: Øyvind Toft

Arts Council NorwayTel: + 47 21 04 58 00 Email: [email protected]: kulturradet.no

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