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Board Member, Programming

Kanuti Contemporary Arts — Tallinn, Estonia

Nonprofit trusteeCultureIn personUnpaid5 board meetings/yearPetitions close 2026-10-01
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An independent performing arts house seeks a board member to steward artistic programming and audience development.

I · The seat

Kanuti Contemporary Arts commissions dance, sound and performance work and hosts a residency programme for Baltic and Nordic artists. The board is small, hands-on and looking for someone who can hold artistic ambition and financial reality in the same conversation.

II · Responsibilities

  1. II.1Review annual artistic programme and residency selections
  2. II.2Support fundraising conversations with cultural endowments
  3. II.3Advise on audience development and accessibility
  4. II.4Participate in the artistic director appraisal

III · Ideal profile

  1. III.1Background in performing arts, curation or cultural policy
  2. III.2Networks across Baltic or Nordic cultural funders
  3. III.3Estonian language useful but not essential
  4. III.4First-time trustees explicitly welcome

IV · Where this seat sits

This organisation operates under a two-tier structure. Supervision is a distinct body, and diligence is owed to the legal person rather than to the nominating constituency.

Three tiers of governance: shareholders elect the nõukogu or Aufsichtsrat, which appoints and supervises the juhatus or Vorstand.
Shareholders
Elect the supervisory board. They own; they do not manage. ↓ elect
Nõukogu · Aufsichtsrat
Supervisory board. Appoints and observes the executive; approves the decisions that bind the company. ↓ appoint & supervise
Juhatus · Vorstand
Management board. Runs the business day to day and answers upward.