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