Short Description
During these harsh and precarious times, and with the colossal impact it is having on the Arab world and its diaspora, navigating how to be an art professional today comes with immense vulnerability and confusion. Nevertheless, collectivity, imagination, and hospitality are still resources available to tap into and assume as realities are reshaping, and relationships being reinvented. Mophradat’s program, New Agents, formalizes this experience and creates a frame in which a group is formed and brought together to try to harness their energies, desires, and tools, and mold them into a proposition to be realized and shared publicly.
Through this open call, Mophradat will compose a group of six people from across art fields whose practices are singular, future facing, and committed to public engagement. What the participants also share is that they come from territories whose pasts are formed by overlapping cultural references and conditions, their present tainted by overwhelming violence, and their future unpredictable.
Eligibility
New Agents is only open to those interested in taking part in a collective process and enthusiastic to attend its scheduled activities; full participation is therefore mandatory. To fulfill the program’s aspirations, participants must be ambitious, generous, curious, and precise.
In addition to complying with the general eligibility criteria that you can read here, please note the following:
- The applicant must be able to describe and demonstrate their commitment to an ongoing artistic practice and their current engagement in specific art projects.
- Regardless of their heritage, the applicant must have significant firsthand living experience in the Arab world, and having travelled in the region will be considered an asset.
- The applicant must have a track record of previously completed artworks/projects and must be actively working in the arts for at least four years.
- The applicant must be curious to engage with different kinds of practices from the textual to the performative and beyond.
- The applicant must be interested in working collaboratively and in learning about every aspect of a public project from conceptualization to production.
- The applicant should be a native Arabic speaker or have a strong command of the language, and basic use of English is needed.
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
Mophradat provides each participant with a stipend of 6000 USD to be used at their discretion, covers the retreat travel costs, and provides a budget for the public event. Mophradat also gives curatorial input through regular conversations with the group regarding their seminars and the eventual public event.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Brussels, Belgium
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 20 November 2025
- Program start date: January 15, 2026
- Program Duration: 12 months
Website Link: https://mophradat.org/en/program/new-agents/
