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Grant Competition Results

January 6, 2016

Thank you to everyone who took part in the grant competition organised by the ABLV Charitable Foundation under the auspices of the programme “Support for Contemporary Art Exhibitions”!

In order to facilitate the successful fulfilment of the joint initiative supported by the ABLV Charitable Foundation to open the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2021, the goal of this competition is to generate public interest in contemporary art, not only by challenging people to think, but also by stimulating their appetite for learning, as well as by getting them to look in the mirror, ask themselves questions and swap ideas and experiences. Under the competition, grants are awarded to professional-level exhibitions of national importance that support cutting edge contemporary art in Latvia or provide coverage of research work into contemporary art. In particular, we would like to emphasise that this year, for the first time, it was also possible to apply for financial support for organising educational projects that will take place within the framework of the art exhibitions supported by the Foundation.

A total of 20 contemporary art exhibition projects were submitted in the competition.

The Foundation’s Board decided to award grants to the following 4 projects worth a total sum of EUR 34 000:

  • Exhibition “Territories, Boundaries and Connections” under the auspices of Riga Photomonth.
    Society “Riga Photomonth”.
    Funding awarded:
    EUR 8 000 for organising the exhibition;
    EUR 2 000 for organising an educational project under the auspices of the exhibition.
  • Project “Solo Exhibitions by Edgars Gluhovs and Daiga Grantiņa”. 
    Society “kim?”.
    Funding awarded: 
    EUR 8 000 for organising the exhibition;
    EUR 2 000 for organising an educational project under the auspices of the exhibition.
  • Project “An Exhibition Dedicated to Juris Boiko”.
    Society “Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art”.
    Funding awarded: EUR 9 500.
  • Exhibition “A Trip to Nowhere. A Joint Exhibition by Arturs Riņķis and Iveta Vaivode”.
    Society “Art Space”.
    Funding awarded: EUR 4 500.

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We wish the organisers of the other projects success in attracting the requisite funding and in the execution of their projects!

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