For more than a decade, NOBA has been building the largest contemporary art platform and information network in the Nordic and Baltic region, connecting artists, audiences, curators, galleries, collectors, and cultural institutions.
Today, NOBA maintains:
- More than 6,000 artworks by nearly 500 artists from across the Nordic and Baltic region
- The region’s largest contemporary art database
- An exhibition map featuring more than 250 exhibitions each month
- Art stories, interviews, and critical writing that increase public engagement with contemporary art
- The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award, a collaborative network connecting eight art academies and showcasing more than 300 graduation works annually
Your support helps us maintain this independent cultural infrastructure and ensure that contemporary art from our region remains visible, accessible, and internationally connected.
NGO Nordic Baltic Art Center NOBA
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NOBA is listed among organizations eligible for income tax benefits, which means:
- Legal entities can make donations tax-free.
- Private individuals can deduct donations from their taxable income.
Why Support NOBA?
NOBA is not only a platform for discovering art. It is a long-term infrastructure supporting the visibility, documentation, and accessibility of contemporary art across the Nordic and Baltic region.
By supporting NOBA, you help:
- Increase international visibility for artists from the region
- Ensure public access to information about exhibitions and artistic practices
- Strengthen collaboration between artists, institutions, curators, and audiences
- Preserve and document contemporary artistic practices for future generations
- Support emerging artists at the beginning of their professional careers
- Maintain an independent and publicly accessible cultural resource
What Your Support Makes Possible
Developing the Platform and Infrastructure
Your support helps keep NOBA up to date both technically and editorially.
The NOBA Art Guide is updated daily and presents more than 250 exhibitions each month, ranging from artist-run initiatives and project spaces to major museums and cultural institutions.
The service is free for galleries, institutions, and artist-run spaces, ensuring visibility is based on artistic quality rather than financial capacity.
Supporting Artists
NOBA works closely with artists to document, present, and promote their work professionally.
For many artists, a NOBA profile serves as their primary public portfolio and an important point of contact for curators, collectors, galleries, and institutions.
Through the platform, artists gain visibility that extends beyond national borders and reaches audiences throughout the Nordic and Baltic region.
Documenting Artistic Practice
NOBA actively records and preserves contemporary artistic production by maintaining artist profiles, documenting artworks, publishing interviews, and producing editorial content.
This creates a growing archive of contemporary art that benefits researchers, curators, institutions, and future generations.
Supporting the Next Generation of Nordic and Baltic Artists
The Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award is one of NOBA’s flagship initiatives.
Established in 2016 together with regional art academies, the award has evolved into a long-term collaborative network connecting eight art academies across the Nordic and Baltic region.
The initiative provides graduating BA and MA students with visibility, professional recognition, and international opportunities at a crucial stage of their careers.
Each year the network:
- Showcases more than 300 graduation works
- Connects artists, academies, curators, and institutions
- Promotes graduation exhibitions internationally
- Organises professional discussions and jury meetings
- Creates a unique overview of emerging artistic practices across the region
Your support helps strengthen this network and expand collaboration to additional Nordic countries in the future.
By supporting the Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award, you are investing not only in individual artists, but in the future cultural landscape of the Nordic and Baltic region.
Ways to Support
General Operational Support
Helps sustain NOBA’s daily activities, including:
- Maintaining artist profiles and artwork databases
- Developing the platform and technical infrastructure
- Updating the Art Guide
- Producing interviews, articles, and educational content
- Coordinating regional collaborations and cultural initiatives
Project Support
Support specific initiatives that expand NOBA’s impact:
NOBA Art Guide
A regional exhibition map featuring more than 250 exhibitions every month.
NOBA Find Art
A curated selection of more than 6,000 artworks by nearly 500 artists from across the Nordic and Baltic region.
Artist profiles present not only works available for purchase but broader artistic practices, providing valuable insight for curators, galleries, institutions, and collectors.
Art Stories and Interviews
Editorial content introducing artists, exhibitions, collections, and ideas shaping contemporary art today.
Nordic & Baltic Young Artist Award
A regional network supporting emerging artists and strengthening collaboration between art academies.
Support Through Art Purchases
One of the most direct ways to support artists is by acquiring their work through NOBA.
Every artwork purchase contributes to the sustainability of artistic practice and helps strengthen the contemporary art ecosystem across the Nordic and Baltic region.
Your contribution helps sustain an independent, high-quality cultural environment where art can remain visible, accessible, and internationally connected.
For partnership inquiries or targeted project support, please contact us at info@noba.ac.
The Nordic Baltic Art Center NOBA Team
