Deadline: 09-Oct-2025
The Prince Claus Fund invites artists and cultural practitioners working across diverse forms, including, but not limited to, moving image, performance, writing, and archival research, to investigate how narratives shape society.
Moving Narratives will be carried out with three main goals in mind: firstly, to foster conversation, collaboration, and exchange within the cohort; secondly, to support each artist in their own individual practice; and, thirdly, to facilitate interchanges between the cohort and relevant external practitioners.
The programme welcomes proposals that challenge and reimagine the frameworks through which knowledge, memory, and social relations are constructed, recognising artistic practices as a vital force for questioning assumptions and cultivating new modes of engagement. Moving Narratives especially encourages projects that re-examine historical legacies, challenge Eurocentric discourses, and connect contemporary emancipatory movements with their historical roots. Through the intersection of formal experimentation, socially engaged content, and ethical responsibility, the programme amplifies artistic practices that are at once critical, generative, and self-reflective.
To facilitate inter-cohort connections, the programme will encourage participants to interact in group and sub-group sessions, ranging from presentations to workshops and an in-person Lab Week. To support the participants’ individual artistic practice, there will be encounters in sub-groups and one-on-one sessions with the Senior Fellows to dive further into the development of their body of work. To facilitate exchanges with practitioners, relevant guests are invited to be a part of the programme.
Fellows receive €10,000 to invest in the growth of their practice and take part in a programme dedicated to developing creative strategies that challenge, inspire, and transform. The Prince Claus Fund covers the costs related to the Fellows programme itself, including travel, visa costs, and stay, while individuals are responsible for their own travel insurance. Further details on covered expenses will be communicated to successful applicants.
The programme will begin in February-March 2026 and will be ongoing consistently for the duration of 8 to 9 months. Expectations will be communicated in a timely manner, and the schedule will be shared with the participants in early February 2026 to provide them with enough time to plan for their participation.
The programme structure includes a pre-introduction in December 2025, where participants receive a set of readings, prompts, and questions to prepare the cohort for the programme. The introduction session will allow each participant to present the concept or body of work they intend to pursue. The main chapters of the programme will take place online, including guest talks, workshops, reading groups, sub-group sessions, and one-on-one meetings, curated by the Senior Fellows and tailored to participants’ practices and goals.
Eligible applicants are individual, experienced artists and cultural practitioners from eligible countries who have between 7-15 years of relevant professional experience, possess an individual artistic practice, and can communicate in English. Applicants who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers, or without an individual artistic practice are not eligible.
The deadline for submissions is 9 October 2025 at 17:00 CET.
For more information, visit Prince Claus Fund.