Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2026 (up to €5,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 8, 2026

Applications are open for the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2026. Each 12 months, the Prince Claus Fund affords a Seed Award to 100 rising artists working in contexts the place cultural expression is below stress. The Seed Award supplies recipients with the house and help to deepen their creative pursuits and inquiries and amplify their follow — serving to spark a brand new technology of changemakers.

The 2026 Seed Award is an OPPORTUNITY devoted to providing help to rising artists and cultural practitioners that add a brand new wave of concepts, views, and vitality to the pressure of tradition.

Award

• Each Seed Award recipient will obtain €5,000 to spend money on the expansion of their creative and cultural follow on their very own phrases. As a belief-based mostly grant, the Seed Award locations full confidence within the imaginative and prescient and autonomy of its recipients, permitting them to select how finest to use the help for his or her creative and cultural growth. Whether exploring new views, nurturing connections, investing in supplies, or just taking the time to experiment and create with out monetary pressure, the Seed Award affords the liberty and house wanted to let their follow flourish.

Eligibility

They welcome functions from particular person candidates who:

• Are within the early and exploratory levels of their profession, inside the preliminary 1 to 5 years of their skilled profession (excluding study years);
• Have established an progressive and fascinating creative or cultural follow that addresses urgent social/political points which are vital inside their native context;
• Have obtained little to no institutional recognition and help for his or her creative and/or cultural practices;
• Are from, residing, and dealing within the eligible nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

Application

The application type contains questions on your follow and venture and requires supplementary supplies which embody: samples of your work, a C.V. and reference letter, and a pitch video/audio that solutions the query: What drives you as an artist?

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For extra data, go to Seed Award.