Frame Contemporary Art Finland opens a new round of project grant applications for international contemporary art projects featuring Finnish and Finland based artists in 2025. From 1 to 31 March applications are invited for project grants. Travel grants can be applied continuously.
Frame’s grants are available to artists, contemporary art professionals, and local and international contemporary art organisations. The grants are awarded to promote and support the presentation of Finnish art abroad, such as for the purpose of international exhibitions and publications, the participation of Finnish galleries in international art fairs and networking-related travel by contemporary art experts.
Grants are awarded in the following fields: visual art, photography, media art, applied art, comics art, performance art and sound art.
Call for project grant applications throughout March
Project grants can be applied for by organisations planning international contemporary art projects with Finnish and Finland based artists in 2025. In addition, project grants are available to artists and organisations for the purpose of producing international art publications.
The deadline for project grant applications is Monday, 31 March 2025 at 11.59 pm Finnish time (UTC +3).
Artists and art professionals can apply for travel grants at any time
Travel grants are available to artists, art professionals and work groups. Frame accepts applications for artists’ travel grants for 2025 continuously from 1 November 2024 until 31 October 2025. Art professionals can apply until 31 August 2025.
- Visual artists who are Finnish or based in Finland can apply for travel grants for exhibitions outside of Finland. Artists can apply for our grants to cover the expenses of travel, accommodation, transport and insurance.
- Finnish and Finland based art professionals can apply for travel grants for work-related trips abroad.
- International contemporary art professionals can apply for travel grants for work-related trips to Finland.
- Organisations based in Finland can apply for travel grants in order to invite an international art professional to Finland.
Travel grant decisions for artists are made every other month. Decisions regarding travel grants for art professionals are made four times a year.
How to apply
Application languages are Finnish, English or Swedish. Detailed instructions [↗]can be found on Frame’s website. Submit your application online on Frame’s grant service [↗].
All applicants will be informed of Frame’s decision personally by email. The names of grant recipients will also be published on Frame’s website.
Upcoming grants info session
Frame hosts a general info session at Frame office (Töölönkatu 11 A, Helsinki) on Wednesday, 12 March, at 10 am in Finnish and in Zoom at 11.15 am in English (Finnish time UTC +2). During the 45-minute session, Grants Coordinator Veera Lizé talks about Frame’s grant application process.
No pre-registration is needed for the grants info session.
Book a grant clinic appointment
We will conduct one-on-one grant clinics via Zoom, at our office or by phone on Wednesday, 12 March, between 12.30 pm – 4 pm Finnish time (UTC +2).
During the clinic appointment, you may ask our grant coordinator about how to apply or about Frame grants in general. The grant clinics are held in Finnish and English.
Frame grants in a nutshell
- Frame awards grants to promote Finnish contemporary arts internationally. With our grants we promote the international career development of Finnish and Finland based artists by promoting their networking and opportunities to exhibit or perform abroad.
- A total of over 600 artists and art practitioners apply for Frame grants every year. The sum applied for annually is 2 million euros. On average we award grants for 170 projects and over 200 artists and art professionals per year.
- Annually Frame awards a total sum of 260,000 euro in grants.
- There are two rounds of project grants and six rounds of travel grants. Travel grant decisions for artists are made every other month, and for art professionals four times a year.
Kirsi Kivivirta in a duo show with Bente Skjøttgaard at Hostler Burrows Gallery HB381 in New York 25 October – 7 December 2024. Supported by Frame travel grant.