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The Annual Review of Public Art provides still images of how public art and the structures behind it are changing. The Annual Review seeks to address the themes, debates, hopes and sorrows that have revolved around public art in 2020.

The Ministry of Education and Culture has introduced the Education and Culture Administration 2030 reform project, which aims to merge agencies. The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) would merge to form the Culture Agency of Finland (Kulttuurivirasto) at the beginning of 2026. At the same time, the structure of the arts councils would change. The consultation round on the draft legislation is open until 31 January 2025. Taike will organise an open webinar on the draft legislation on 15 January 2025.

This year, three-year operational subsidies can be applied for within all artforms, whereas in previous years they have been offered only to performing arts communities.

Taike will be hosting several webinars this autumn covering this autumn’s calls for applications for grants and subsidies.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) is transferring some calls for applications for support intended for communities to Applyforgrants.fi, the new joint online service of government grant authorities.

Publishers and foreign and minority language writers will have the chance to meet at the Turku Book Fair on 4 October 2024. The programme also includes a panel discussion that will be open to the public.

The theme of this year’s Arts and Culture Barometer is funding and support for artistic work. We invite professional artists in different fields of the arts to respond to our open online survey. Respond to the survey by 1 October!

Taike will be hosting several webinars this autumn covering this autumn’s calls for applications for grants and subsidies.

A supplementary artist pension may be awarded as recognition of an outstanding contribution to the creative or performing arts. Supplementary artist pensions are intended to supplement the artist’s pension security.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) supported the arts and culture in 2023 by awarding 49.7 million euros in the form of grants, subsidies and prizes. According to the latest statistics, which have just been published, the number of applicants and applications continued to grow, while the number of positive decisions decreased compared to the previous year.

These general grants can be applied using Applyforgrants.fi online service.

These grants can be applied using Applyforgrants.fi online service.