Call for Projects: COAL Prize 2026 (€12,000 grant) – YOA

Deadline: April 28, 2026

Applications are invited for the COAL Prize 2026. The COAL Prize 2026 is devoted to the theme of night time. The COAL Prize invites artists to defend the night time as a typical good, a serious ecological difficulty for the regeneration of life, a refuge, a range of languages to be celebrated, a proper to relaxation and to darkness. Inventing tales to relearn easy methods to inhabit the shadows, creating artwork with the night time, is to contribute to an ecology of rhythms. Restoring the concern of the night time is an ideal antidote to anthropocentrism, as a result of it forces us to be humble, confronting us with the depths of the sky, the intimacy of the huge, the immensity of the cosmos.

Grant

• The artist awarded the COAL Prize receives a grant of €12,000 and a inventive residency on the coronary heart of the Domaine de Belval, property of the François Sommer Foundation, supported by the scientific and academic groups of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and people of the Domaine de Belval. A real observatory of rural life and wildlife, the property hosts chosen artists annually for the relevance of their contribution to renewing the imaginative and prescient of the human relationship with the pure atmosphere.
• The artist awarded the Special Jury Prize receives a grant of €3,000. The artist awarded the Ateliers Médicis point out advantages from a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois/Montfermeil, in reference to the regional forest of Bondy. The artist awarded the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/Paris point out, also referred to as Le Vaisseau, receives a grant of €2,000 and can be invited to exhibit on the Parisian establishment.

Eligibility

• Open to artists from all over the world.
• Artistic worth, relevance to the problems, originality (new approaches, themes, or views), pedagogy (potential to convey a message and lift consciousness), social and participatory strategy (engagement, testimony, effectivity, societal impression), eco-design, undertaking feasibility, and collaboration with nature conservation actors are taken into consideration. The COAL Prize helps inventive initiatives in progress or forthcoming. Its grant shouldn’t be supposed to cowl the complete manufacturing prices of the undertaking and ought to be thought of as help for its improvement.

Application

The application file should encompass the next paperwork, compiled right into a single PDF file named SURNAME_First name_2026_Project title (the file should not exceed 30 MB):

• the application type, accessible for download HERE
• An in depth description of the proposed undertaking, presenting its inventive dimension, its relevance to the theme, in addition to a technical notice and a price range estimate
• At least two HD visuals illustrating the undertaking
• A Curriculum Vitae and a creative portfolio

All proposals should be submitted by 23:59 on 28 April 2026 on the newest, through the COAL server: upload.projetcoal.org

For extra info, go to COAL Prize.