Prince Claus Fund announces recipients of 2022 Mentorship Awards

The announcement follows an open call for artists and cultural practitioners to respond to the environmental crisis by engaging their communities, proposing inventive solutions and imagining alternative futures.

The initiative is designed to bring together 12 emerging artists and cultural practitioners from around the world in a year-long interdisciplinary programme. The recipients will be supported by four mentors and their peers to work toward accelerating their engaged community-based practices with regard to environmental issues.

The group is guided by scientist and gender diversity advocate Brigitte Baptiste, the Etcétera Collective formed by Federico Zukerfeld and Loreto Garín Guzman, and artist and academic Serkan Taycan.

This year’s awardees will work in a variety of disciplines, including sound art and research, architecture, photography, visual arts and biotech. They were drawn from 11 countries, namely Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, India, China and the Philippines.

Below are the recipients:

• Koloto Siraji (Uganda)
• Tamzyn Botha (South Africa)
• Renzo Alva Hurtado (Peru)
• Guely Morató Loredo (Bolivia)
• Maya Quilolo (Brazil)
• Benji Boyadgia (Palestine)
• Long Pan (China)
• Prin Rodriguez (Peru)
• Paribartana Mohanty (India)
• Razcel Jan Salvarita (Philippines)
• Daniel Godínez Nivón (Mexico)
• Bermet Borubaeva (Kyrgyzstan)