Prince Claus Fund Seed Award 2025
€5,000 grant for 100 emerging artists in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure. Deadline: January 8, 2025.
The Prince Claus Fund is inviting creatives to submit applications for the 2025 Seed Award, providing funding to 100 emerging artists working in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure. Each Seed Award recipient will receive €5,000 (approximately $5,830) to invest in the growth of their artistic and cultural practice on their own terms.
The Seed Award is a trust-based grant that 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 award aims to provide emerging artists and cultural practitioners with the space and support to deepen their artistic interests and inquiries, amplify their practice, and help spark a new generation of changemakers.
The Seed Award supports talented and engaged emerging artists and cultural practitioners 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.
Eligible applicants must be: in the early and exploratory stages of their career (within 1-5 years of professional career, excluding study years); have established an innovative and interesting artistic or cultural practice addressing pressing social/political issues important within their local context; have received little to no institutional recognition and support; and be from, living, and working in eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.