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In English
SVERIGES KONSTFÖRENINGAR
(THE FEDERATION OF SWEDISH ART CLUBS)
Swedish art clubs are non-profit organisations for promoting an interest
in the visual arts and handcrafts.They also create opportunities for artists
to exhibit their work and thereby become known to a wider public. The
Swedish art club movement is the second largest voluntary nation-wide
organisation – only choral societies exceed their number. The first public
art club in Sweden was founded in 1832, Konstföreningen i Stockholm (The
Stockholm Art Club), today called Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening – SAK,
now open for members all over Sweden. The first art club at a workplace
was started in 1940 at the CAP chocolate factory in Gothenburg.
Sveriges Konstföreningar was founded in 1973 to form an
umbrella organisation for the member art clubs in Sweden.
Sveriges Konstföreningar has 1 200 member art clubs. 350
of these are public art clubs, open to anyone, and 850 are to be found in
workplaces, open only to the respective employees.
400 000 people are engaged in the art club movement. Every year, these
clubs arrange 3 700 exhibitions and 5 500 various cultural programmes such
as talks, study groups, excursions and visits to artists. Moreover, the art
clubs buy and distribute art for 123 million Swedish kronor every year.
The principal undertakings of Sveriges Konstföreningar are to
provide advice and support to the member art clubs, to promote knowledge
about visual arts and handcraft, to produce and distribute educational
material and to encourage the establishment of new art clubs. Yet another
undertaking is to distribute state-financed exhibition fees to artists who
show their work at member art clubs.
Sveriges Konstföreningar aims at developing a dynamic national
educational visual arts programme. Our chairperson, Cecilia Nelson:
“The board of Sveriges Konstföreningar has taken on a challenge:
to be Sweden’s leading institution for visual art education! To achieve this,
both knowledge and insight are necessary. Knowledge is gained from the
environment, for example from courses and seminars, insight grows within
the individual. Art education – a process in two directions – is a tool with
which we can see and understand our entire existence. Let us embark on
this stimulating journey together!”
MEMBERSHIP
All art clubs are welcome to apply for membership in
Sveriges Konstföreningar.
The benefits of membership are:
The art journal, “Konstperspektiv”, 4 issues/year, 7 copies/issue
“Handboken”, the indispensable manual for art club leaders
Advice, support and help in your work with the art club
Education in such fields as art history, contemporary art, and running
an art club; these courses are free of charge or subsidised
Access to the prints bank Grafikbanken containing contemporary
prints that are on loan and may also be purchased
Loan of exhibitions of contemporary art, – the exhibits are also for sale
Loan of slides, video films and art video films
Special state-financed fee paid to artists exhibiting at member art clubs
Discount premiums for exhibition insurance
Special contract with bus (Visual Arts Copyright Society in Sweden)
Own homepage free of charge for public art clubs
Read more:
 Brochure of THE FEDERATION OF SWEDISH ART CLUBS
For further information please contact:
The secretariat of Sveriges Konstföreningar
Postal address: P.O.Box 60065, SE-216 10 Malmö, Sweden
Visiting address: Tegnérgatan 60A, Limhamn, Malmö
Telephone: +46-(0)40-36 26 60
Telefax: +46-(0)40-16 26 07
E-mail:info@sverigeskonstforeningar.nu
Website: www.sverigeskonstforeningar.nu
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