Handmade

Handmade in focus

Craft- and material-based practices have a growing interest within all art and culture fields.

Are you interested in Handmade-related questions and have a new project idea based on cooperation, please have a look at the descriptions of the fund’s current grant programs, the assessment criteria for Opstart, Project Funding, Globus Opstart and Globus Call.

Handmade 2016 – 2018

The Nordic Culture Fund explored the theme with a special support program Handmade in 2016 – 2018. The Fund supported both 32 cooperation projects and the development of new project ideas with 7.700.000 DKK in total. The supported projects were to a great degree interdisciplinary and researched the handmade and the meanings of it with an experimental spirit and a wish to review common expectations.

Besides financial support, the fund also facilitated a network between funded projects and established new networks. The Fund inspired new collaborations by partnering with the Handmade-relevant art support organizations in the Nordic countries, Arctic Arts Summit 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland and The Nordic Museum in Seattle, USA.

Handmade supported and researched especially:

• the made-by-hand, the role of the crafts in all art fields and the new interest and exposure
• challenging traditional boundaries between institutions, genres and cultures
• reactions to structural changes, the handmade today and in the future
• local initiatives’ Nordic perspectives and collaborations
• artistic reflection, showing and describing, craft theory and curating
• discoveries; many big things begin with the small – on the periphery, in the undiscovered, the forgotten
• new voices, diversity and variety in expressions and the makers
• new ways to interpret the Nordics