FAQs on Exhibition Funding

• High standards of artistic quality.
• Invitation by a non-commercial foreign exhibition institution (not a private gallery).
• Project clearly situated in a non-commercial context.
• Considerable achievements in its own right by the foreign institution concerned.

• The application can be made by:
• Artists
• Exhibition institutions
• Curators

• In case of applications for biennials or group exhibitions with participation of several German or German artists, an overall application for the German contribution must be submitted. If this is not possible, please contact us.

   

Curators are excluded from funding.

No. It is possible that an application can be made for a subsequent exhibition, provided that it is open to the public.

No, only projects in the field of fine arts are eligible for funding.

No, at the time of application the studies must have been completed. Students are advised to contact the DAAD (www.daad.de).

• Yes, if you are applying for funding for different projects.
• No, if the applications refer to the same project being worked on in different countries. In this case, please submit one application only.

• Yes, there is another funding option: The program Artists' Contacts subsidize travel and work-related stays by cultural workers from developing and emerging countries who want to carry out a project in Germany.
• Also German people working in the cultural sector or culture workers with at least 5 years of residency in Germany who are planning a project in a developing or emerging country have the opportunity to apply for funding of travel expenses and thus establish contacts and networks with developing and transition countries.
  In case an exhibition is involved in the project, the module „exhibition funding“ is mandatory for the funding procedure.

Yes, you can submit an application to the relevant grant programme for different aspects of your project. However, you cannot apply for funding with respect to the same expenses.                                                                                                                                                                                   

Yes, the organisations to which you are also applying for funding must be listed under item 5.2.2 on your application.                                                                

Deadline: 15 July (date of postmark): Applies to projects that take place in the following year at the earliest. If the project begins in December of the current year and takes place for the most part in the following year, you can submit an application by 15 July of the current year. In the case of funding, only invoices incurred after the approval date will be accepted. The decision on funding will be made by 15 November at the latest.

• No, it is not possible to apply for funding for a project that has already started.
• A project that was started before the written acceptance is not eligible for funding.

Via our online application form. Only signed applications that are sent by post after digital submission will be considered.

Applications can be submitted in either German or English.

• Under project description, point 4 in the application form, please present your project in the form of a coherent text. The project idea and its implementation should be presented in such a way that the jury  gets a realistic idea of your project. Avoid applications in the style of essays.
• With the project description, we expect a short, meaningful summary of the project thematically / in terms of content (max. 2,700 characters including spaces). This should include the following points:
  • Concrete target, target group and planned effect for your project.
  • Motivation of cooperation with a planned project partner, mention of previous co-operations

• In the signed invitation letter the exhibition institution should confirm your project and name all of the artists who have been invited as well as the scheduled duration of the project.
• The invitation letter must include information on the legal status of the institution (non-profit organisation, foundation, artists’ association, etc.).

Submitted applications will be presented to an expert jury. Funding is also decided taking into account the ifa budget available for this purpose and in relation to other applications.

All applicants will receive a written acceptance or rejection within three months after the deadline.

If the application is submitted on time, documents can be submitted in exceptional cases and only after consultation with us in a timely manner. 

Grants can be applied for expenses in the areas of travel and accommodation, transport of the artworks, as well as the rental of technical equipment.

Yes, you can apply for a daily allowance for food and drink. If you receive funding, you may be approved for a daily allowance of up to a maximum of 14 days. This amount is based on the guidelines published by the German Federal Government. The current daily rates can be downloaded from our website.

No additional funding is available for materials, printing, and production costs.

• For flight, transport of the art work and rental expenses for technical equipment upload three respective estimates (see upload-area).
• Offers from the Internet are accepted.
• We do not require additional estimates for comparison if you are traveling by train or with your own car to the exhibition location.
• If artists will be arriving from several German cities in the same time period, you only need to submit a total of three flight estimates from one German airport.

You will find a template of a detailed financing plan under item 5 on the application.

When carrying out a project, expenditure from funds can be made only if compatible with general Federal budgeting principles (see: www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bho).

• You can start working on the relevant part of your project as soon as you receive written confirmation of funding from ifa.
• Flights for which you have applied for funding, for example, may only be booked after you have received written confirmation of funding.

• We will reimburse you after you have sent in the original receipts.
• You can apply for an advance payment of accommodation costs, which we will transfer to you around two weeks before you are scheduled to leave.
• Receipts issued prior to written authorisation cannot be reimbursed.

• You will receive a funding agreement from us, in which you will be informed about the funding amount and the payment arrangements. Further you will find important information on this in our instruction sheet Invoicing Modalities which you can download from our website.
• After completing the project, we need the completed evaluation form. The form serves as a project report and is available for download from our website.

In order to be always up-to-date, it is necessary that ifa is kept regularly up to date on the project and informed of changes immediately.

• The ifa logo is available for download on the website. The logo is to be used on all media material (print media, internet etc.) relating to the funded project. Furthermore, the ifa logo has to be published in the exhibition rooms as close as possible to the artwork.
• For the documentation, publication and advance notice on the ifa website as well as in social networks (e.g. Facebook) and our newsletters, the projects funded require rights-free images.

• You cannot reapply for funding for the same project.
• You may reapply by the submission deadlines for funding for a new project.

The reasons for the decision won't be made public by the board.