Applications are now open for the 2026 Prince Claus Fund Seed Award. Each year, the Prince Claus Fund offers a Seed Award to 100 emerging artists working in contexts where cultural expression is under pressure. 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. Each Seed Award recipient will receive €5,000 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.
Requirements
The award takes applications from individual applicants who:
are from, living, and working in our eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
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;
Method of Application
Create an account on the Prince Claus Awards Platform and start a ‘New Submission’ for the Seed Awards 2025.
Fill in all of the required fields and attachments. You can work on, and make changes to, and save the ‘in progress’ application up until the deadline. Please note that once you have submitted the application, you will not be able to make amendments to it. Only completed and submitted applications will be considered.
Once you have submitted your application on the Prince Claus Awards Platform, check that you have received an automatic email confirmation.
For More Information,
Visit the Official Webpage
Application Deadline: January 8, 2026.