Prince Claus Building Beyond Programme 2025 for artists and cultural practitioners – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline:  13 August 2025 at 17.00 Amsterdam time.  

Applications are actually open for the 2025 Prince Claus Building Beyond Programme. Building Beyond is a multi-disciplinary programme that helps inventive practices exploring how communities relate to one another and public house in cities, creating Opportunities for collectively imagined realities.

Building Beyond brings collectively 9 mid-career creatives (± 7-15 years of related skilled expertise) working throughout numerous mediums, approaches, and interpretations of the overarching theme. Supported by 3 Senior Fellows, this cohort will come collectively over the course of 9 months to help every participant in their very own particular person follow and tips on how to activate it of their context; and to facilitate dialog and change between the cohort, its rising community, and related exterior practitioners.

Eligibility  

With this open name we invite purposes from particular person, mid-career artists and cultural practitioners who:

• Are from, reside and work in our eligible countries on the African continent. *Please observe that that’s an expanded record from earlier years, so when you’ve got not been eligible earlier than, please check in case you are eligible now.  
• Are artists, cultural practitioners, or creatives whose particular person follow pertains to structure, design, spatial follow, public house, and city communities. When referring to artists and cultural practitioners we imply individuals who have a person creative follow. We maintain a broad definition of artwork and tradition and admire interdisciplinary practices. Individuals who’re arts managers, facilitators, tutorial researchers or others, with out a person creative follow, don’t fall below this class, and as such aren’t eligible to apply.  
• Have ±7-15 years of related skilled expertise. The Fellows Award is supposed solely for particular person artists who, no matter age, meet the skilled expertise standards, counting from the date they began participating in an expert creative follow to the date of submitting their application.  
• Are in a position to talk in English to maintain in step with the communication within the Fellows award programme.  

Benefits

• Each participant receives an Award of €10.000 and steering from the Senior Fellows Fellows to work on the idea for a physique of labor that’s outlined of their application.
• While the grant is just not restricted to a strict challenge plan or funds, the participant’s proposed challenge might be used as a baseline for the programme and will orient its content material. 

How to apply  

• First, you may create an account on the Prince Claus Awards Platform and begin a brand new submission for the Fellows Award: Building Beyond.  
• Fill in all required fields and attachments. You can work on, and make adjustments to, and save the application up till the deadline. Only accomplished and submitted purposes might be thought-about. Please observe that upon getting submitted the application, you will be unable to make amendments to it. If you’ve any questions alongside the way in which, please confer with our FAQ or e-mail us at [email protected];  
• Once you’ve submitted your application on the Prince Claus Awards Platform, check that you’ve obtained an computerized e-mail affirmation.  

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Prince Claus Building Beyond Program