Artist Start Grant
Mondriaan Fund Netherlands
Dutch public grant giving early-career visual artists a year of funding to develop their practice, make new work and take part in exhibitions.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
What it offers: €24,900 for 12 months.
Also: can fund materials, equipment, research and exhibitions.
Who can apply: Visual artists active professionally for 1–4 years and embedded in the art scene of the Netherlands or Caribbean Netherlands.
Free to apply.
Continuous; apply any time. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: portfolio, cv, plan.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “How much € 24,900 for 12 months.”
Who can apply
- Open to creators and freelancers
- Visual artists active professionally for 1–4 years and embedded in the art scene of the Netherlands or Caribbean Netherlands.
What you will need
- PortfolioUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Business planUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your application narrative and project proposal for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Mondriaan Fund without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.