Cultural Education

In the area of Cultural Education, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne supports projects that bear a significant relation to Visual Art or Music. The target group includes children and teenagers, particularly from underprivileged backgrounds, who are introduced to art and music in the context of curricular or extracurricular activities. In this way, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne offers support to teenagers in their personal development and, at the same time, trains the next generation of artists as well as a future audience. A project request can only be submitted provided that the programs are developed, conducted, and realized by a professional artist or a recognized public institution. Furthermore, the projects should have a long-term horizon and be accessible to as wide a group of participants as possible. Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne funds both expansion and continuation of ongoing projects as well as the launch of exemplary pilot projects. In addition, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne supports institutions in the publication of artistic and scholarly book projects as well as exhibition catalogs.

Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne does not award grants for one-off events.  

Selection of supported projects

Antikenmuseum Basel, Basel
New presentation of the Egyptian collection, 2021

Art Access Association, Zurich 
Educational project for art in public spaces «Artspotting», 2021

Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Cape Town
Music education «Youth Development & Education Programme», 2021 and 2022

C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin
Educational program for the exhibition «Send me an Image. From Postcards to Social Media», 2021

DFF- Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt a.M.
Education and research project «Discover RWF!», 2020

Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung, Frankfurt a.M. 
Publication on the portrait collections of the Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung, 2020

GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig
Transdisciplinary educational project «Das ist es mir wert», 2021/22

Haus der Kunst, Munich
Artistic and scholarly publication for the exhibition «Phyllida Barlow, frontier», 2021 


Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M.
Exhibition project «Frankfurt und der NS. Eine Stadt macht mit», 2021

mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Educational project «Scratch Lab», 2021

Pro Juventute, Lucerne
Children's cultural project «Kultissimo», 2021

Stiftung Pestalozzi Schulcamps, Basel
Educational program «Pestalozzi Schulcamps», 2020 and 2021

Wim Wenders Stiftung, Düsseldorf
Educational project «Für eine Europäische Schule des Sehens», 2022