1st Edition
Cultural Philanthropy and Entrepreneurship
The continuing pressure on the funding of arts and culture across Europe is forcing cultural organisations to rethink their traditional ways of working. This book examines how an entrepreneurial cultural organisation can generate a form of cultural philanthropy as a viable source of alternative funding.
The authors in the book address issues that include how to build trust and the language of the cultural entrepreneur; how to create and develop sustainable partnerships; and overcoming the dominant logic of cultural organisations as an obstacle in an engaged collaboration with private partners.
Through expert insights and a comprehensive analysis of real-life case interviews, this book offers fresh perspectives on the challenges and opportunities inherent in cultural philanthropy. It provides invaluable insights for scholars and practitioners alike offering a multidisciplinary exploration from historical, legal, and management viewpoints within the arts sector.
Introduction
Annick Schramme & Nathalie Verboven
Part 1: Philanthropy and cultural entrepreneurship
1: The Anxiety of Asking: Entrepreneurial and Patronage Practices in the Creative Sector
Helleke van den Braber
2: A Value Based Approach to Philanthropy: How to Do Right By Contributing
Arjo Klamer
3: What a Girl Wants, What Culture Needs: Exploring Women’s Motivations to Give to the Dutch Cultural Sector
Janneke Wienen
Part 2: Tax incentives and Philanthropy
4: Tax Incentives for Cultural Entrepreneurship
Sigrid Hemels
5: Art Collections: Boon or Curse for Philanthropic Opportunities in Belgium?
Oliver Lenaerts
6: Are Private Art Loans Philanthropic? Private Art Collectors as a Key Element in the Collection Management Policy of Public Museums
Laura D’hoore
Part 3: Philantropy and museums from an historical perspective: the case of Belgium
7: Private Collectors and Public Museums: Historical Perspectives on a Complex Relationship, Nineteenth Century to Today
Ulrike Müller
8: Locally Anchored? The Antwerp Art World and the Modern Art Collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Herwig Todts
Appendices: Interviews with cases
Case 1: Middelheim museum
Sara Weyns
Case 2: Préhistomuseum
Fernand Collin
Case 3 : Musée de la Photographie
Selin Eskin
Case 4: From Maecenas to The Giving Pledge
Wim Pijbes
Case 5: Introdans
Marieke van ’t Hoff
Case 6: Flagey
Olivier Thuysbaert
Biography
Annick Schramme is a Professor and Academic Director of the Master of Cultural Management and a postgraduate program on Responsible Fashion at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Ulrike Müller is an Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Nathalie Verboven is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management and the Summer School on Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Laura D’hoore is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
