Since 1993, already over 600 public and private partners from all across Europe, ranging from individuals to small to mid-sized companies to the European Union, have participated in the realisation of over 200 art projects. Depending on the project and the local situation, up until now the projects have lasted one to four years and cost between 15,000 € and 1 million €.
With your support in the form of financial contributions or donations in kind, you make possible:
Region: the program NEW PATRONS in your region, by financing art education for residents
Artists: funding for an artist to realize a project
Project:a particular art project by participating on location in supporting production costs
Europe Network: national and European collaboration 24 mediators in 8 countries, by supporting the network, exchange, a conference, or a seminar
NEW PATRONS not only represents a progressive art patronage program, but also an economically new model for art production. Three quarters of the overall costs go directly into art production, and not into committees, administration, or public representation.
Residents in France, Belgium, Italy and Germany can turn to 24 renown mediators to develop an art project in the framework of NEW PATRONS. The program is organized by NEUE AUFTRAGGEBER in Berlin and the NOUVEAUX COMMANDITAIRES in Paris.
Program and Organisational Partners in Europe:
These partners enable art outreach of the program NEW PATRONS in a region and/or support the national organisation of the overall program, networking, and events across Europe.
- Fondation de France
- Fondazione Olivetti
- Alfred Toepfer Stiftung
- Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Kooperationspartner 2010
Project Partners in Europe:
Since 1993, 600 public and private partners, ranging from individuals through small to mid-sized companies to the European Union, have become involved in the program, and in so doing have played a key role in carrying out over 200 projects. In the Project Overview you can find a list of the partners and their respective projects.
Informational Materials
- An innovative economic model for the collection production of high quality art
- Diversity of partners
- Article: Chances and Responsibilities for Foundations in the European Context
- Powerpoint: Financing model for France in detail, Catia Riccaboni, Fondation de France
- Organigramm: Organisational structure, and programme partners in Germany and Europe
- Support and participate the program NEWPATRONS
Consultant: Annette Welling, Berlin
Quite concretely, you support art outreach: residents with a particular issue in mind can turn to an experienced art mediator. Their task is to support the participants in formulating their project and developing a relevant proposal. The mediator then suggests an artist of international renown appropriate to the project, and professionally accompanies the project until its completion
In eight European countries 24 renowned curators have committed themselves to develop the program NEUE AUFTRAGGEBER/NEW PATRONS with their institution or partner institution in addition to their institutional exhibition program. The annual support of 15,000 € goes toward funding art mediation by a freelance curator or an additional assistant.
To ensure the completion of the entire first phase of outreach and dialogue with the artist until the final phase of the project proposal, an average of 15,000 € is necessary for mediation and 10,000 € for the artist’s fees and travel costs, that is, 25,000 € per region annually.
The goal is to make the program NEWPATRONS in the coming years available to residents in all federal states and other European countries.
Each country has a national office and an academic advisory board.
Average artist’s fee: approx.15 000 € per project (15% of the overall budget)
Xavier Veilhan, The Monster, with shop owners and local residents in Tours, 2001-2004
Artist’s fee, total 15 244 € (overall budget 104 802 €)
Artist’s project proposal 10 671 €
Fee for realisation 4 573 €
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Interfaith Prayer Room with employees of Institut Paoli-Calmettes, a cancer treatment and research centre in Marseille, 1998-2000
1998-2000
Artist’s fee, 30 000 €
Gloria Friedmann, The Red Square/Shelter Painting, with a farmer in Burgundy,
1994-1997
Artist’s fee, 15 000 €
Alain Séchas, Monument to Jacques Lacan, with an association of psychoanalysts
2001-2002
Artist’s fee,10 573 €
If you are interested in supporting a particular artist, in the project overview you can find all projects currently in planning.
Participating artists have come from all realms of art: architecture, photography, painting, video, literature, music. Vito Acconci, John Armleder, Shigeru Ban, Andrea Blum, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski, Claude Lévêque, Gloria Friedmann, Annette Messager, Yan-Pei Ming, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Martha Rosler, Jessica Stockholder, Remy Zaugg, and many others.
Please contact us for more information at our Berlin office:
Production costs up until now have ranged from 15,000 € to 1 million € for each art project.
Project Example:
Partners: : City of Tours, DRAC Centre (Direction régionale des affaires culturelles), Ministry of Culture, Fondation de France
Office costs 2 000 €
Realisation fee, Xavier Veilhan 4 573 €
Architect’s fee for realisation 48 164 €
Construction: foundation, bricklaying, and installation: 11 000 €
Communication and documentation 6 533 €
Transportation costs 1 395 €
Overnight stays 250 €
Board 209 €
Organisation/Presentation 1 037 €
Artist’s fee: 18 000 €
Realisation: 70 000 €
Partner: :FR3 3 Bourgogne Franch-Comté (regional television network), City of Dijon, Fondation de France
Artist’s fee: 10 573 €
Realisation: 20 276 €
Partner: :Fondation de France
Artist’s fee: 15 000 €
Realisation: 65 144 €
Partners: :Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Fondation de France
Here you can find information on projects currently in development. If you have any questions, please contact us at our Berlin office
Once a year, a European Mediator Seminar takes place, very two years a national or European conference. Furthermore, the organizes the exchange of patron groups in Europe etc.
The NEUE AUFTRAGEBER/NEWPATRONS program in Germany is organized by a national non-profit organisation
On the European level, an academic advisory board accompanies the project:
- Chairman: Bruno Latour, philosopher and director, Sciences-po, Paris
- Richard Sennett, sociologist, London and New York
- Jean-Pierre Tolochard, cultural officer, Tours
- Anna Ottani Cavina, direct of the art history program of John Hopkins University in Bologna,
- »Chevalier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres« Académie Française
- Margit Rosen, art historian and theorist, ZKM Karlsruhe, Paris, Munich
- Laurent Dreano, cultural officer, Lille
- Philippe Senechal, art historian, professor Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens
- Jean-Lucien Tassy, president, southern region, Fondation de France PACA
You can support our work in general or in a specific country by way of certain events, congresses, or publications: Planned Events
Planned Events
The events of the support organisations in Germany and Europe rely on the projects of the currently 24 mediators in eight countries.
Belgium
- Joost Declercq, director, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
- Thérèse Legierse, freelance curator Brussels, Rotterdam
- Anne Pontégnie, independent curator, Brussels, Paris
Germany
- · Inke Arns, Director, Hartware Medienkunstvereins Dortmund, NRW
- Gerrit Gohlke, chairman of the board, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Brandenburg
- Nina Möntmann, freelance curator, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
- Frank Motz, director, ACC Weimar, Thuringia
- Barbara Steiner, director, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Saxony
- Axel John Wieder, director of Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
Finland
- Mari Linnman, International Business Campus, Helsinki
France
- Sylvie Amar, director, Bureau des compétences et désirs, Marseille
- Xavier Douroux, director, Consortium: Centre d’art contemporain, Dijon
- Bruno Dupont, Leiter des Centre d’art contemporain, Art connexion, Lille, France
- Valérie Cudel, curator, Association Art3 – Valence, France
- Anastassia Makridou, director, Eternal Networks, Tours, Brittany
- Mari Linnman, 3CA Paris, Ile de France
- Pierre Marsaa, Point de fuite, Aquitaine
- Jérôme Poggi, art historian and curator, objet de production, Paris
UK
- Sally Tallant, Serpentine Gallery and Mariana Canepa Luna, Louise Coysh, Royal College of Art, London
Italy
- Giorgina Bertolino, freelance curator and art historian, mediator, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, a.titolo, Turin
- Francesca Comisso, freelance curator and instructor, a.titolo, Turin
- Nicoletta Leonardi, freelance curator, Fulbright fellow, Colombia, Turin
- Lisa Parola, free curator and journalist, a.titolo, Turin, Milan
- Luisa Perlo, freelance curator and journalist, a.titolo, Turin
Sweden
- Mari Linnman, Stockholm
Spanien
- Cécile Bourne, association AMC (Asociación para la mediación cultural), Cadiz
Become inspired by the exchange with the artists, patrons, and mediators, and have your name associated with a sustainable, site specific, and progressive art project.
We are a registered charity, and contributions are tax deductible.
Support NEW PATRONS with financial donations or donations in any kind.
The program NEW PATRONS exist intentionally without an administration, so that the acquired funds can flow directly into art projects The artist’s fees are not based on the market value of their work, but the effective labour costs of the artist. The artists see the constellation of NEW PATRONS as a new challenge for their artistic work in direct dialogue with a concrete local public.
Almost 50% of the sponsoring partner of the NEW PATRONS program come from non-cultural realms, such as education, agriculture, research, or medicine. Since the local issue of the residents can refer to a rural farming region, an urban trouble sport, or a research lab, it evokes interest from the most varied sponsoring partners, from local companies to European institutions.
