Applications Invited for Prince Claus Mentorship Awards

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About the Organization:

The Prince Claus Fund was established on 6 September 1996 as a tribute to HRH Prince Claus's dedication to culture and development.  Since then, the Fund has created opportunities for connection and exchange and stimulated cultural expression, primarily in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. They honour the outstanding achievement of visionaries at the front-line of culture and development with annual Prince Claus Awards. They support innovative, high-quality cultural initiatives through grants and mentoring, especially where opportunities are limited, whether by poverty, conflict, marginalisation or political repression.

Prince Claus Mentorship Awards

This mentorship is a year-long interdisciplinary programme that creates space for artists and cultural practitioners to explore critical artistic practices on the intersection of arts and environmentalism.

Artists and cultural practitioners across the world are setting up initiatives and rethinking responses to environmental change and the climate crisis. Now, more than ever, we need the arts and culture to help us respond; to inspire and motivate us by challenging our perceptions, encouraging us to change our habits by introducing intersectional and trans-disciplinary perspectives, and centering indigenous forms of knowledge and ways of living to envision alternative models of climate justice in the world.

Since 2018 the Goethe-Institut and Prince Claus Fund have been supporting artists and cultural practitioners working on the intersection of the arts, environmental change and the climate crisis – supporting a total of 54 exceptional initiatives from around the world, examples of which are presented in the online exhibition Take Me To The River. They are now building on this experience and launching this exciting new mentorship programme through which we solidify our joint commitment to addressing the climate emergency.

Through this mentorship programme we aim to:

• support critical and unconventional work by emerging artists working on a range of issues related to environmentalism, the climate crisis and climate justice;
• stimulate leadership of individuals whose artistic work fosters awareness and empathy;
• accelerate the artistic practices of artists and cultural practitioners who show a commitment to creating lasting change through environmental activism;
• facilitate exchanges, meaningful connections and learning between engaged practitioners;
• strengthen and amplify new perspectives on environmentalism, the climate crisis and climate justice.

Eligible Candidates:

• Support is only given to individual persons from, living, registered and working in our working countries.
• This mentorship programme is specifically meant for individuals with ±8-15 years of relevant professional experience, individuals who do not have this level of experience are not eligible to participate in the programme.
• The Goethe-Institut and Prince Claus Fund hold a broad disciplinary understanding of arts and culture. With artists and cultural practitioners they mean people who have an individual artistic practice – be it as a visual artist, curator, writer, musician, performer, designer, architect, interdisciplinary artist, etc. Individuals who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers or other, without an individual artistic practice are not considered to fall under this category, and as such are not eligible to apply.

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