Welcome to outset partners

With Outset’s support, we will be able to move forward with the archive and set new levels for communicating the critical social, intellectual and deeply humanist belief systems articulated by the many remarkable artists with whom we work.

[This award] will allow us to create an energised way of connecting contemporary artists and art institutions across the continent with its various diasporas through meaningful exhibition-making metabolised through intellectual rigour and in-depth research.

Outset’s support offers a vital opportunity to address something often overlooked by traditional funding structures: the sustainable, long-term transformation of an institution’s foundation. Amid this lack, having Outset by our side provides the flexibility we urgently need —particularly as the Albertinum, with its expanded temporal definition of modernity, strives to be a responsive institution driven by dynamic curatorial thinking.

As you probably know, or can easily imagine, it’s much less difficult for an institution to find support for more conventional projects, whose form or contents or mediums are less challenging to norms and spectators. Sometimes, with the support we can muster, we can manage to get a project realised in a form that doesn’t compromise the artist’s original vision.