UN OHCHR International Contest for Minority Artists 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 1, 2026

Applications are open for the UN OHCHR International Contest for Minority Artists 2026. On the event of minorities day – the anniversary of the adoption in 1992 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities – UN Human Rights (OHCHR) and its companions announce the launch of the fifth version of the International Contest for Minority Artists (2026). The 2026 theme of the Contest is War and Reconciliation.

Minority artists can play a key function in advancing peace, transitional justice, mutual understanding and reconciliation. Artists doc battle and battle by preserving reminiscences, humanizing victims, and difficult official narratives by mediums equivalent to portray, images, sculpture, installations, digital arts, movie, music and dance. Their work can evoke empathy, provoke thought, and function a robust type of protest and a software for therapeutic and shaping public discourse in any respect levels of battle, in addition to lengthy after the cessation of open hostilities.

Award Categories

Up to eight, non-hierarchical awards complete might be made within the following classes:

• Main Award
• Minority Youth Artist (reserved for artists underneath the age of 35 and preferentially youthful than 24 as of 1 March 2026)
• Minority Community Engagement (reserved for artists whose work actively includes or advantages the broader group, together with by demonstrating a powerful participatory and/or group mobilization dimension).

Eligibility

• Artists who self-establish as belonging to a nationwide, ethnic, spiritual or linguistic minority are invited to submit excessive-high quality digital photographs of 5 artistic endeavors associated to the 2026 theme of the International Contest for Minority Artists.
• Women and LGBTQI+ artists belonging to minorities are notably inspired to apply.

Application

The application kind requests details about the artist or artists submitting, in addition to a imaginative and prescient assertion explaining hyperlinks between the artworks submitted and the theme of War and Reconciliation. The application kind additionally requests a number of affirmations, together with consent to be acknowledged publicly, within the occasion of a profitable application. Consent supplied could also be withdrawn at any time.

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For extra info, go to UN OHCHR International Contest for Minority Artists.