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.  

The 2026 Seed Award 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.

Learn More and Apply Here

We welcome applications from individual applicants who:

• are within the initial 1 to 5 years of their professional career;
• have a practice that addresses pressing social/political issues;
• have received little to no institutional support for their artistic/cultural practices;
• are from, living, and working in our eligible countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.

The application deadline is 8 January, 2026, at 17:00 Amsterdam time.