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Visual Arts Subsector

Do you work in the visual arts, for example as an artist or curator? Or do you occasionally commission an artist? If so, it is important to consider fair pay. Do you know what constitutes appropriate compensation for an artwork, project, or exhibition? And which working conditions apply? FairPACCT provides assistance with concrete guidelines and tools.

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Artists and other professionals in the visual arts deserve better

Research shows that many artists live on a relatively low income. They ‘collect’ this income through various sources, ranging from sales via galleries and fairs to commissions from governments, private individuals, and companies, and from participating in exhibitions to receiving subsidies.

To make ends meet, many artists hold a second job. The Visual Arts chain table aims to gain a clearer understanding of the exact balance between paid and unpaid work, and how artists’ incomes are evolving, in order to work effectively on fair pay improvements.

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About the chain table

All stakeholders from the field are represented within the Visual Arts chain table. This includes the visual artists themselves, as well as museums, presentation institutions, galleries, fairs, and art academies. The twelve members of this chain table have formed the BKNL network for years and became a chain table in 2024. Led by chair Marianne Versteegh, they work on tools and guidelines for fair pay to stimulate better working relationships in the visual arts. The chain table conducts and commissions research, performs analyses, and develops concrete fair pay products. Among other things, the chain table is working on updating the ‘Collectieve Selfie’. Version #5 was published in March 2025, containing financial data regarding artists and other professionals in the visual arts.

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Tools & downloads

The Visual Arts chain table is working on a single unified Artist Fee Guideline and a calculation tool for fair pay. This process will not be completed by January 1, 2026. Therefore, the chain table advises the use of both the former/classic and the new/revised guidelines, including calculation tools, as of 2026. Both were established with the help of independent research agencies. The Mondriaan Fund and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, which set the use of these guidelines as a condition for subsidies, agree to this.

Use this calculation tool to determine a fair pay starting rate for work on presentations (exhibitions, displays) in the visual arts. Anyone working in the visual arts—as an artist or art professional, at a museum, presentation institution, art initiative, or festival—can use this tool. The former guideline was established based on independent research.

Use this calculation tool to determine a fair pay starting rate for work on presentations (exhibitions, displays) in the visual arts. Anyone working in the visual arts—as an artist or art professional, at a museum, presentation institution, art initiative, or festival—can use this tool. The revised guideline was established based on independent research.

Here you will find the tables with freelance starting rates for artists’ fees for presentations and any art commissions. The former/classic guideline has been indexed up to and including 2026. The new/revised guideline has 2023 as its (research) base year: an index was applied in 2025 and not in 2026, so the rates are the same for both years.