Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2025 (€5,000 grant) Deadline: 21 January, 2025

Applications are open for the Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2025. Each year, the Prince Claus Fund grants the Seed Award to 100 emerging artists who work in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure. The Seed Award is intended to give emerging artists the chance to amplify their practice and interests, thereby sparking a new wave of changemakers.

Emerging artists and cultural practitioners bring a new wave of ideas, perspectives, and energy to the force of culture. They play a pivotal role in shaping new norms through free expression and creating safe spaces, fostering cooperation in times of community crises, and promoting just and fair ways of being. As such, emerging artists deserve the chance to experiment and build momentum in their work, and the Seed Award aims to support this journey.

Award

• Each Seed Award recipient will receive a grant of €5,000 to invest in developing their artistic and cultural practice on their own terms.

Eligibility

Open to individual applicants who:

• are in the early and exploratory stages of their career, within the initial 1 to 5 years of their professional career (excluding study years); 
• have established an innovative and interesting artistic or cultural practice that addresses pressing social/political issues that are important within their local context; 
• have received little to no institutional recognition/support for their artistic/cultural practices; 
• are from, living, and working in eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. 

Application

Note that only completed applications that are submitted via the Prince Claus online application platform will be considered. The application deadline is January 21, 2025, at 17:00 Amsterdam time. 

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For more information, visit Prince Claus Fund Seed Award.