Travel Grants

• International Call for Grant Applications to attend the CIMAM 2021 Annual Conference

  

  CIMAM offers around 40 grants to support the attendance of contemporary art curators and museum directors to CIMAM’s 2021 Annual Conference generously supported by Getty Foundation, V-A-C Foundation, Byucksan Foundation, Mercedes Vilardell and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

• Who can apply for a grant? 2021

  

  Grants are addressed to modern and contemporary art museum or collection directors and curators and indepdent curators in need of financial help to attend CIMAM’s Annual Conference.

• Application Form 2021

  

  The deadline to apply is 22 August 2021. Candidates are invited to complete an online application form and include a CV and short résumé, a motivation statement and two letters of recommendation.

• Travel Grant Funders 2021

  

  Find out more about our 2021 Travel Grant Funders: The Getty Foundation, V-A-C Foundation, Byucksan Foundation, Mercedes Vilardell and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Thank you all for your generous support!

• Selection Committee Travel Grants

  

  Travel grant applications are evaluated and conferred by CIMAM’s Travel Grant Committee, composed by members of the CIMAM Board, and the Travel Grant Funder. The 2020–22 Travel Grant Program committee consists of three CIMAM board members: Agustín Pérez Rubio, Eugene Tan, Victoria Noorthoorn and Ernestine White-Mifetu.

• About Travel Grant Program

  

  Launched in 2005, CIMAM’s Travel Grant Program is designed to foster cooperation and cultural exchange between contemporary art curators and museums directors in emerging and developing economies and their counterparts in other regions of the world.

• CIMAM Precedent Grantees

  

  Since 2005 over 300 young curators and museum directors from emerging economies have been awarded support to attend CIMAM’s Annual Conference. Over the years CIMAM’s travel grantees have constituted a remarkable group of professionals who have later become important protagonists in today’s modern and contemporary art museums and collections.