Artist Grant
The next application deadline will be in autumn 2025.
About the artist grant
Each grant consists of NOK 150,000 and is given to up to 30 professional creators of art in Northern Norway. The grant should help the artists immerse themselves in their work, working on a project described in their application, and through this develop their own artistic practice.
Application criteria
- You must have an organization number
- Your company must have a registered address in Northern Norway, and you must have a residential address in Northern Norway.
- You must have a specific project for which you wish to use the grant
- There is a one-year quarantine period if you have previously received the Samfunnsløftet artist grant. For example, if you received the grant in 2023, you can apply again in 2025.
- The application must contain the following mandatory attachments:
- CV. This must include relevant artistic education and courses. An overview of artistic activities in general: Exhibitions, publications, performances, films, concerts, collaborative projects, awards, scholarships, etc.
- Documentation of previous artistic work in the form of text/images/film, etc.
When it comes to literature, you must include text from previous work, maximum 15 pages.
For film and/or video, we recommend links to websites, preferably Vimeo. Remember to provide passwords where needed. Dropbox cannot be used.
All attachments must be included when the application is submitted; they cannot be sent later.
Who can apply?
- Professional artists of all nationalities with residential addresses in Nordland, Troms, Finnmark, or Svalbard. The applicant must have artistic activities as their main occupation and must demonstrate this through the application and attachments.
- The applicant must have an organization number, and must work and have their company registered in Northern Norway.
- The grant is aimed at independent and professional creators of all types of art, such as music, performing arts, film, photography, literature, visual arts, and handicrafts.
- The grant is given to the individual artist and cannot be applied for by groups or on behalf of another artist.
Q & A
A broadly composed jury with representatives from various art disciplines will, based on an overall professional judgement, assess the applications and award up to 30 grants.
The jury emphasizes:
- Artistic level and activity
- Willingness to explore own practice
- How the grant may contribute to artistic development
- Theme and content
- Genre and breadth of expression
- Distribution between established and new artists
- Geographical diversity
The jury consists of:
- Brynjar Rasmussen, artistic leader, Scene Nord, Vadsø
- Therese Bakkevoll, writer, Tromsø
- Eva Charlotte Nilsen, director and filmmaker, Vesterålen
- Neal Cahoon, freelance curator and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lapland
- Kristoffer Nohr Unstad, songwriter and musician. Works as a producer in DKS, Nordland. Bodø
- Maria Landmark, choreographer, educator, and producer, Alta
- Jury leader Vilde Fjeldheim Wold from Samfunnsløftet Spare Bank 1 Nord-Norge
The grant is to be used for work, including a specific artistic project, professional specialization and development, as well as other costs directly related to the creative activity. The grant cannot be used for the following:
– recording or releasing music or film
– printing or distributing music or books
– marketing
– staging performances, exhibitions, or similar events.
No. If you are a working artist (with an organization number and residential address in Nordland, Troms, Finnmark, or Svalbard) you may apply.
Choose the art group that best matches your professional artistic activity. If there are several matches, choose the one where the main focus of your activity lies.
Within literature, one cannot apply for non-fiction.
There is a one-year quarantine period if you have previously received the Samfunnsløftet artist grant. For example, if you received the grant in 2023, you can apply again in 2025.
Yes, you may. It will be up to the jury to assess whether the application and the project are of such a nature that they are eligible for further support from Samfunnsløftet.
The application deadline will be in the fall of 2025, but the exact dates for the application and response deadlines in 2025 have not yet been determined.
As the recipient, you are responsible for complying with your personal tax obligations. More information can be found at skatteetaten.no. If you are unsure, you can clarify questions with the tax office, since they must assess several specific circumstances.
The project must be completed and reported within two years of grant approval.
All recipients must report on the grant received. A link to the report form will be in the e-mail you receive upon award, together with other information about documentation requirements and the like.
All applications must have attached:
- CV. This must include relevant artistic education and courses. An overview of artistic activities in general: Exhibitions, publications, performances, films, concerts, collaborative projects, awards, scholarships, etc.
- Documentation of previous artistic work in the form of text/images/film, etc.
When it comes to literature, you must include text from previous work, maximum 15 pages.
For film and/or video, we recommend links to websites, preferably Vimeo. Remember to provide passwords where needed. Dropbox cannot be used.
All attachments must be included when the application is submitted; they cannot be sent later.
If the application does not include these mandatory attachments upon submission, it will be automatically rejected.
Yes, you may use the grant to develop a new project or complete a project that has already been started.
Norwegian or English.
Yes, you can reapply.
No, unfortunately not.
