The Visual Arts Department connect the UK’s visual arts sector with professionals internationally, focusing predominantly on staging and supporting contemporary art projects in areas of the developing world. Primary activities include exhibitions, training and development, professional study exchange visits and the sharing of our unrivalled knowledge and advice on the logistics of working internationally in the visual arts and museums sector.
Visual Arts
- Grant call for Creative Collaborations 2023-2024
- Unlimited Forum - Arts for All
- Architecture Design Fashion
- Creative Economy
- Cultural Skills
- Film
- Literature
- Grant programme for creative collaborations
- Music
- Theatre and Dance
- Visual Arts
- Our global work in arts
- Open Call for Creative Producers Programme 2022-23
- Women and Leadership in Arts and Culture Programme

Current projects
This year, aiming to bring a new exhibition experience by moving arts to the digital environment, we have launched ‘Almost There’, the fourth edition of the digital arts platform ‘Museum without Walls’. For the first time this year, the exhibition curators were selected outside of Turkey as well, and this year’s curators are Teona Burkiashvili from Georgia, Tatiana Kochubinska from Ukraine and Seyhan Musaoğlu from Turkey.
‘Almost There’ features selected artworks from Georgia, Turkey and Ukraine alongside the works of artists in the British Council Collection to create an extensive assembly of art in its various forms, including photography, video, recorded performance art, painting and installations. Visit the exhibition.
- Grant call for Creative Collaborations 2023-2024
- Unlimited Forum - Arts for All
- Architecture Design Fashion
- Creative Economy
- Cultural Skills
- Film
- Literature
- Grant programme for creative collaborations
- Music
- Theatre and Dance
- Visual Arts
- Our global work in arts
- Open Call for Creative Producers Programme 2022-23
- Women and Leadership in Arts and Culture Programme