About us
Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar (The National Association of Swedish Art Societies). Swedish Art Societies 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 Societies movement is the second largest voluntary nation-wide organisation – only choral societies exceed their number.
The first public Art Societie in Sweden was founded in 1832, Konstföreningen i Stockholm (The Stockholm Art Societie), today called Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening – SAK, now open for members all over Sweden.
The first Art Societie at a workplace was started in 1940 at the CAP chocolate factory in Gothenburg.
Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar was founded in 1973 to form an umbrella organisation for the member Art Societies in Sweden.
Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar has 610 member Art Societies. Half of these are public Art Societies, open to anyone, and the other half are to be found in workplaces, open only to the respective employees.
200 000 people are engaged in the Art Societies movement. Every year, these Art Societies arrange 3 000 exhibitions and 4000 various cultural programmes such as talks, study groups, excursions and visits to artists. Moreover, the Art Societies buy and distribute art for 20 million euro every year.
The principal undertakings of Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar are to provide advice and support to the member Art Societies, to promote knowledge about visual arts and handcraft, to produce and distribute educational material and to encourage the establishment of new Art Societies. Yet another undertaking is to distribute state-financed exhibition fees to artists who show their work at member Art Societies.
Contact us
Riksförbundet Sveriges Konstföreningar
Tegnérgatan 60 A
216 12 Limhamn
SWEDEN
+46 40-36 26 60
info@sverigeskonstforeningar.nu
www.sverigeskonstforeningar.nu