We support engaged artists and cultural practitioners in places where culture is under pressure.
Important dates
2025 SEED Award call for applications
December 2024
2024 IMPACT Award public announcement
December 2024
Moving Narratives Cycle 2 public announcement
January 2025
CAREC Cycle 4 public announcement
January 2025
Building Beyond Cycle 4 public announcement
February 2025
Awards
Encouraging the careers, creativity and experimentation of 100 emerging artists whose work engages with socio-political issues within their local context.
Offering 50 artists a year-long programme to accelerate their socially engaged art practices and facilitate meaningful connections between creatives working on similar themes.
Building Beyond
In collaboration with Creative Industries Fund NL, this programme re-imagines public space and community in the built environment on the African continent.
CAREC
Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis (CAREC) accelerates engaged community-based art practices that address climate justice and the connection between the climate crisis and social, racial, and environmental issues.
ADPP
In collaboration with the Arab Fund for Art and Culture and Magnum Foundation, the Arab Documentary Photography Program nurtures compelling documentary photography across the Arab region.
Moving Narratives
In collaboration with the British Council, this programme amplifies artistic practices that reexamine history and challenge dominant narratives.
Honouring pioneers and role models whose work and positive impact on their societies deserve wider recognition.
Programmes
Co-curated in collaboration with our Impact Awardees, the Mobile Labs respond to the necessities of their specific community, serving needs on the ground while enabling knowledge to be shared through lectures, workshops, discussions, and field trips.
A programme offering additional support and opportunities to Prince Claus Seed Awardees by connecting key organisations from our global network that offer the artists a platform to showcase their work, participate in residencies or workshops, to catalyse their professional development.
