Visual Art
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne’s concept of «Visual Art» encompasses not only the classical genres of art such as painting, sculpture, graphic art, drawing and photography, but also new forms of expression and media such as performance, experimental film and video. The Foundation provides funds for regular and special exhibitions as well as their accompanying catalogues at publicly accessible, well established museums and art collections provided that the exhibitions funded are international in their orientation, relevant from an art historical perspective, and carefully curated. Furthermore, Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne supports innovative und interactive projects that explore new approaches to fostering art education so as to attract new audiences. In principle, the Foundation also provides funds for the involvement of modern media in the expansion or presentation of significant pieces of art in the context of major museum projects.
Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne does not award grants for biennials, triennials or art fairs, commercial galleries, local art associations, happenings and art initiatives.
Selection of supported projects
KirchnerHAUS MUSEUM, Aschaffenburg
Exhibition project «Kirchners Badende: Neuschöpfung und Erinnerung», 2021
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Anniversary project «Produktive Bildstörung. Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today», 2021
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Retrospective «Meret Oppenheim. Mon Exposition», 2021
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Exhibition «Tobias Rehberger - I do if I don't», 2022
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Retrospective «Samuel Fosso», 2021
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Exhibition «Soutine/ De Kooning», 2021
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Exhibition «Paris - Athènes. Naissance de la Grèce moderne 1675-1919», 2021
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Exhibition «Caspar David Friedrich and the Düsseldorfer Romantics», 2021
Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK, Frankfurt a.M.
Exhibition «Marcel Duchamp. Eine Revision des Objekts», 2021
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Retrospective «Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction», 2021
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Exhibition «Aaron Siskind: Mid Century Modern», 2021
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Sculpture Exhibition «Elsworth Kelly in the Rijksmuseum Gardens», 2021
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Exhibition «Francis Bacon: Man and Beast», 2021
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Exhibition «True Pictures? Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Kanada und den USA», 2021
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Exhibition «Kirchner and Nolde: Expressionism. Colonialism», 2021
STOA169 Stiftung, Polling
Open hall with artist-designed columns «STOA169», 2020