Statens Kunstfond - Performing Arts Grants for International Activities 2026 (With up to DKK 100,000 in Funding)

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About Statens Kunstfond - Performing Arts Grants for International Activities

The Danish Arts Foundation international performing arts programme is designed to strengthen the global reach of Danish performing arts. It supports artistic exchange, collaboration, and mobility rather than production-based creation. The focus is on enabling Danish artists and organisations to engage in international contexts and build long-term cross-border artistic relationships.

• Sponsor Organisation: Statens Kunstfond

Benefits of Statens Kunstfond - Performing Arts Grants for International Activities

• The maximum amount you can apply for has been raised from DKK 75,000 to DKK 100,000

Statens Kunstfond - Performing Arts Grants for International Activities Requirements

• Smaller theatres, performing arts groups, independent performing artists and operators organising or working with performing arts activities.

Who may not apply?

• Support cannot be granted for projects, which are carried out exclusively by the large institutional theatres. By large institutional theatres we mean The Royal Danish Theatre, the Danish regional theatres, the Jutland Opera, and the theatres in the Copenhagen theatre association may not apply.

You cannot receive funding for the following purposes

• activities initiated ahead of the deadline

• educational purposes for individuals

Grants from this funding programme is not considered as support for production of performances. If you receive support from this funding programme your project will therefore not automatically be approved to be included in the Refund Scheme (Refusionsordningen). If you wish to apply for support for productions you can apply the funding programme 'Performing arts for children, young adults and adults'.

Application Date and Process

• You must submit your application using our Grant Portal. They do not accept paper forms.
• The Grant portal requires that you log in using MitID (Denmark's common secure login on the Internet). As a foreign applicant, you must order a login unless you have the right to have a Danish MitID. Read more about the Grant Portal and order a login here.

They recommend you to use the browsers Chrome or Firefox when you fill in the application form.

In your application, the committee expects you to describe:             

• the primary idea and artistic vision
• realisation – work method/process
• the group’s structure – participants in the project
• presentation and relevance to the audience
• information about target audience: children and young people (age groups), partly children and young people or adults

The following information must be entered in the application form:

• a short project description, including the primary idea and artistic vision (max 2400 characters). Please specify:  
• whether you are applying for funding for the same project from another Danish Arts Foundation committee
• if your target group is children and young people
• your choice of genre: Street theatre/site specific, choreographic/physical theatre, contemporary circus, object/animation, performance, text-based or cross-disciplinary
• the date/period of the project’s period of expenses must be clearly stated

You must attach the following:

• Budget and a specification of goals/activities (use this template in excel)
• Participants’ CVs (max. one page per person)
• Documentation of the agreement with the international partner and/or an invitation
• For applicants with foreign bank accounts, a completed bank information form (form for wire transfers to countries using IBAN or form for wire transfers to countries NOT using IBAN).

You may also attach:

• A document with max. 3 links to relevant information about, for example, a festival, a residency, or partners. It is the applicant’s responsibility that the links are working

Please be aware of the following:

• that the attached annexes does not exceed 25 MB in total
• that attachments can only be received in the formats: PDF, Word and Excel. We do not accept ZIP files
• that before the deadline expires, you can edit an already submitted application and submit a new version
• that after the deadline you can not send attachments or edit an application
• that it is always the most recently submitted application that is processed by the committee
• that it is always the most recent application you have sent to us that will be assesed by the committee
• that your application must contain all mandatory appendices in order to be assesed by the committee. Additional material, in addition to that described in the application guide, will not be included in the assessment of your application
• that you are responsible for ensuring that the application form is completed correctly and that all the required appendices are attached. Therefore, check your submitted application in the portal to ensure that all documents are included

Application Deadline

01 October, 2026

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