31 March 2008

Hungarian Government Establishes Contemporary Collection

Hungarian Culture minister Istvan Hiller announced in early March that the ministry will provide up to 50 million Hungarian forints (EUR 192,000/USD 300,000) each year for a new contemporary art collection. Under a three-year agreement, the ministry will contribute one forint for every two forints donated by the business sector.

The ministry's funding comes with a condition, however: that the contemporary art collection spend 5–10 million forints of the annual funding on works by artists involved in a government-backed scholarship system.

This development is certainly a postive step towards establishing awareness of contemporary art in Hungary.

InterUrbanArt will, through several channels, lobby to place artists that it is working with in this new collection.

2 comments:

anna said...

Hi,
you seem to know a lot about the hungarian cultural policy. Do you know where I can find information about the general cultural policy in English? Would be very usefull...
Thanks!

Edward Mocsi said...

http://okm.gov.hu/main.php?folderID=137