Short Description
The space in a city, framed by the various scales of the built environment, is often conceived according to logics of the control of the body. Space in the city is designed and built to control the location, behaviours, and relationships of bodies with each other. African cities are experiencing dynamics such as increasing urbanisation, shifts in response to the high pressures of imposed modernisation, changes in climate, and burgeoning populations, which increases the pressure on this control.
Despite this, there are spaces and communities that are reconsidering the logics of control by consolidating the material conditions of the physical city with the dynamics of the living city. Creatives engage with the built environment as an interpretive and alterable world and are poised to move it beyond its perceived confines. They engage with the built environment as the intersection and interaction of people and objects, spaces and material, and personal and shared identities. Their practices offer productive forms that align our city making with the constellations that our urban environments hold.
Eligibility
With this open call we invite applications from individual, mid-career artists and cultural practitioners who:
- Are from, live and work in our eligible countries on the African continent. *Please note that that is an expanded list from previous years, so if you have not been eligible before, please check if you are eligible now.
- Are artists, cultural practitioners, or creatives whose individual practice relates to architecture, design, spatial practice, public space, and urban communities. When referring to artists and cultural practitioners we mean people who have an individual artistic practice. We hold a broad definition of art and culture and appreciate interdisciplinary practices. Individuals who are arts managers, facilitators, academic researchers or others, without an individual artistic practice, do not fall under this category, and as such are not eligible to apply.
- Have ±7-15 years of relevant professional experience. The Fellows Award is meant only for individual artists who, regardless of age, meet the professional experience criteria, counting from the date they started engaging in a professional artistic practice to the date of submitting their application.
- Are able to communicate in English to keep in line with the communication in the Fellows award programme.
How to Apply
Online Application
Program Benefits & Awards
Building Beyond brings together 9 mid-career creatives (± 7-15 years of relevant professional experience) working across diverse mediums, approaches, and interpretations of the overarching theme. Supported by 3 Senior Fellows, this cohort will come together over the course of 9 months to support each participant in their own individual practice and how to activate it in their context; and to facilitate conversation and exchange between the cohort, its growing network, and relevant external practitioners.
Each participant receives an Award of €10.000 and guidance from the Senior Fellows to work on the concept for a body of work that is outlined in their application. While the grant is not limited to a strict project plan or budget, the participant’s proposed project will be used as a baseline for the programme and will orient its content.
Entry Fee
None
Location
Netherlands
Timeline
- Application Deadline: 13 August 2025
Website Link: https://princeclausfund.nl/awards-and-programmes/fellows-award/building-beyond/cycle-5-call-for-applications
