Applications are now open for the 2025 British Council Biennials Connect Grants. Biennials Connect Grants support visual artists’ participation in UK and international festivals and biennials. The grants directly benefit artists by facilitating opportunities for travel, the production of new work, networking, skills building, and showcasing through biennial partners.
Eligibility Criteria
Organizations applying must:
- Be one of the following:
- UK biennials or festivals supporting international visual artists’ participation
- international biennials or festivals supporting visual artists’ participation from the UK
- or other visual arts organisations collaborating with a biennial/festival.
- be based in UK or an eligible international country
- be primarily a visual art biennial or festival. Multi-arts biennials and festivals can apply but they must demonstrate a focus on visual arts within their programme
- Be supporting artists over the age of 18. If artist travel is included in the project, the artists must be able to travel internationally on valid passports (organisations must arrange travel, transport, accommodations, insurance and visas themselves)
- be supporting artists you have either not previously worked with or supporting new projects with artists you have worked with before
- share the British Council’s commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and will embed best EDI practices into the activity.
- share the British Council’s commitment to paying artists fairly and will ensure artists are fairly compensated for their participation.
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How to Apply
Our Biennials Connect Grants are open to UK (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales) and international biennials, festivals, and art organizations. Individual artists are not eligible to apply.
Application Timeline:
- Application deadline:14 September 2025, 23.59 (BST)
- Information session, option 1:9 July 2025, 9.00–10.00 (BST)
- Information session, option 2:9 July 2025, 15.00–16.00 (BST)
- Notification of decisions will be sent to applications in the autumn of 2025.
- Projects start in February 2026.
- Projects finish by the end of February 2027.
