Call for applications: Q-INTERNATIONAL grant

The Fondazione Quadriennale di Roma is proud to announce the launch of the first Q-INTERNATIONAL grant, aimed at supporting non-Italian institutions and organisations which showcase Italian artists.

The Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma is Italy’s national institution aimed at promoting contemporary Italian art. 

The Rome Quadriennale, the large-scale exhibition held every four years in Rome since 1931, showcases the most significant trends in the visual arts in Italy. In addition, the Foundation coordinates other initiatives related to research, training and promotion of Italian art throughout the year.

The Q-INTERNATIONAL grant is part of the new programme of the Quadriennale di Roma, aimed at increasing the visibility of Italian artists outside the national boundaries through an activity of constant dialogue and exchange with international organisations.

Eligible for Q-INTERNATIONAL grants are non-Italian non-profit public or private organisations whose purpose is the promotion of the contemporary visual arts: museums, university institutes, kunsthalle, kunstverein, kunsthaus, centres for contemporary art, foundations, alternative spaces, cultural associations and organisations such as biennials, triennials and quadrennials can apply for funding for projects which involve one or more Italian artists.

Q-INTERNATIONAL wishes to provide an opportunity for flexible and rapid support for expenses linked to the organisation of the artistic events, from art transport costs, to artists’ travel and accommodation expenses, to contributions for performance fees or publications, with the exclusion of costs related to the production of artworks.

Applications for the first Q-INTERNATIONAL call (Spring 2018) can be downloaded from the Foundation website at the following link.

Application deadline: Monday, June 11, 2018 by 12pm CEST.

The second call (fall 2018) will be published on October 1, 2018.

The applications received will be assessed by a committee composed of Cristiana Collu (director of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome), Alberto Garutti (artist and professor), Cesare Pietroiusti (artist and professor) and Andrea Viliani (director of MADRE - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples). The committee, headed by Franco Bernabè, president of the Fondazione Quadriennale di Roma, will also include its artistic director, Sarah Cosulich, and its curator Stefano Collicelli Cagol. The biographical details of the members of the committee are published on the Foundation website.

Artistic director of the Quadriennale di Roma is Sarah Cosulich, entrusted with the task of leading the Foundation for the next three years and curating the 17th edition of the Rome Quadriennale exhibition, the main event in Italy’s cultural agenda for Italian art. The programme proposed by Cosulich, who was selected through a public call in December 2017, marks a radical change in the Foundation’s strategy by aiming at strengthening the role of Italian artists abroad. Stefano Collicelli Cagol has been appointed as co-curator for the 2020 exhibition as well as of the research, workshop and symposium activities of the three years leading up to the exhibition.  

The Fondazione La Quadriennale di Roma is a non-profit organisation owned by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, the city of Rome and the Lazio Region.

The next Rome Quadriennale, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, will inaugurate in Rome in October 2020.