Open call: Prince Claud Fund Seed Award 2025

The Seed Award provides recipients with the space and support to deepen their artistic interests and inquiries and amplify their practice, helping spark a new generation of changemakers. It is an opportunity dedicated to offering support to emerging artists and cultural practitioners that add a new wave of ideas, perspectives, and energy to the force of culture.

Each Seed Award recipient will receive €5 000 (about $5 830) to invest in the growth of their artistic and cultural practice on their own terms. As a trust-based grant, the Seed Award places full confidence in the vision and autonomy of its recipients, allowing them to choose how best to use the support for their artistic and cultural development

The Seed Award offers support to talented and engaged emerging artists and cultural practitioners who are committed to strengthening their contexts and societies through socially and politically engaged work that contributes meaningfully to free expression and safe spaces in civil society, participation and structural equity, or environmental sustainability.

The organisers welcome applications from individuals 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 and support for their artistic and/or cultural practices
• Are from, living, and working in our eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe

Interested artists should submit applications via the Prince Claus Awards Platform before 8 January. The application form includes questions relating to the artist’s practice and a project that they would like to develop. Read the application guidelines here.

All questions should be submitted via e-mail at awards@princeclausfund.nl.

“We are committed to recognising those whose work is both grounded and inventive, and whose approaches are inclusive in their process, thoughtful in their execution, and expansive in their reach,” Prince Claus Fund said.

View the original call here.