Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Fine Arts Department
In 2008, the Fine Arts Department
Amounts in euros
continued its distribution activities Personnel costs 475 719
to support creativity, dissemination
and research into the various artistic
fields that fall within its scope
Operating costs
Departmental activities
68 294
55 821
of competences – the visual arts,
Subsidies and scholarships 1 318 757
architecture and design, history of art, Awards 53 601
archaeology and heritage, film and Total 1 972 192
theatre. This was achieved through
the award of grants and subsidies.
Receipts 138 694
Its main objectives include support for high-quality new projects designed to bring a new dynamic
to Portuguese arts and sciences and to promote Portuguese art and artists in the international
circuits, particularly involving partnerships with significant Portuguese and foreign institutions.
In conjunction with this, direct activities were undertaken in keeping with the Department’s objectives,
most notably in the form of two partnerships: firstly, one with Maumaus for the presentation
of the “E-Flux Video Rental” project; and, secondly, one with the World One Minutes Foundation,
in Amsterdam, giving rise to two unique experiences in the audiovisual field. The Fine Arts Department
also collaborated with the International Department on the organisation of an exhibition and the
associated publication of a catalogue dedicated to the painter Jorge Martins, in Paris.
Dance also played a leading role this year, with the Dance Support Programme (pad) being
transferred to the Fine Arts Department in the middle of the year. A new version of the regulations
outlines the programme’s guidelines in systematic and detailed fashion. The Music Department
was still responsible for the support given in 2008.
The first Support for Young Researchers in Art Studies was awarded. In 2008,
this was given to the projects of two researchers working in the field of contemporary art.
Visual arts [3261 045]
Tripartite Agreement [341 990]
In 2008, the Tripartite Agreement programme brought together the joint contributions of the
Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the Luso-American Development Foundation (flad) and the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation in support of quality projects designed to promote Portuguese art abroad
and develop international artistic exchanges.
Nineteen projects benefited from this programme, mainly receiving support that enabled roughly
fifty Portuguese artists and five Portuguese curators to individually and collectively participate
in international events and exhibitions.
096. 097
Annual Report 2008