Prince Claus Fund Building Beyond Cycle 5 Call for Applications (up to €10,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 13, 2025

Are you an artist or cultural practitioner engaged with modalities of spatial examination or intervention in your city context? They invite you to apply for Building Beyond Cycle 5. Building Beyond is a multi-disciplinary programme that helps inventive practices exploring how communities relate to one another and public house in cities, creating alternatives for collectively imagined realities.

Building Beyond brings collectively 9 mid-profession 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 observe and the way to activate it of their context; and to facilitate dialog and change between the cohort, its rising community, and related exterior practitioners.

grant

• Each participant receives an Award of €10,000 and steering from the Senior Fellows to work on the idea for a physique of labor that’s outlined of their application. While the grant just isn’t restricted to a strict venture plan or finances, the participant’s proposed venture can be used as a baseline for the programme and can orient its content material. 

Eligiblity

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

• Are from, stay and work in any of the eligible international locations on the African continent. 
• Are artists, cultural practitioners, or creatives whose particular person observe relates to structure, design, spatial observe, public house, and concrete communities. When referring to artists and cultural practitioners they imply individuals who have a person creative observe. They maintain a broad definition of artwork and tradition and recognize interdisciplinary practices. Individuals who’re arts managers, facilitators, tutorial researchers or others, with out a person creative observe, don’t fall underneath 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 partaking in knowledgeable creative observe to the date of submitting their application.  
• Are ready to talk in English to preserve consistent with the communication within the Fellows award programme.  

Application

The application consists of questions relating to your involvement within the Fellows Award, your observe, and the idea define of labor to be developed inside the programme. They additionally ask for a portfolio of earlier work, a C.V. and references, and a pitch video. The deadline for the submissions is 13 August 2025 at 17.00 Amsterdam time.

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For extra info, go to Prince Claus Fund Building Beyond Cycle 5.