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Prince Claus Fund

An independent foundation dedicated to culture and development. The Prince Claus Fund believes that culture is a basic need. Join us in moving forward.

We enable artists and cultural practitioners to work freely & without restrictions creating culture that inspires positive social change, leading to a future that is equitable, inclusive, peaceful, and environmentally sustainable. The Fund was established as a tribute to HRH Prince Claus's dedication to culture and development more than 25 ago. Now, we are a forerunner in the unrestricted funding

field, fostering meaningful connections within a worldwide community of creative changemakers. Through our Awards, we amplify young & emerging talent, accelerate future leaders and recognise change makers where cultural expression is under pressure. Contribute to a world where culture is a basic need.

01/06/2026

As part of our Exchanges programme with W139, we invite you to meet Seed Awardee Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra of Colectivo Amasijo for an inspiring gathering on June 11!

🌾 On June 11, 17.00-18.30 artists will join W139 curator maria khatchadourian for a conversation at Domo. More information about the event here: https://loom.ly/CeMDVXE

Martina Manterola and Carmen Serra are the artists behind Colectivo Amasijo, a collective rooted in the shared labour of making -kneading, firing, gathering- as a form of cultural memory and resistance. Their practice draws on food, soil, and material processes to explore belonging, displacement, and collective care. Join us to explore how Amasijo works with everyday materials as carriers of history and meaning.

This gathering marks a moment in their ongoing residency at W139, part of the Exchanges programme, in which the Prince Claus Fund connects international awardees with Dutch cultural organisations through sustained, reciprocal exchange. The evening is an opportunity to hear directly from the artists about their work and what has emerged during their time in Amsterdam.

Exchanges are made possible through the generous support from Gemeente Amsterdam.

26/05/2026

Rraine Hanson is a 2025 Seed Awardee and transdisciplinary artist based in Jamaica. Rraine designs worlds through mixed media to tell stories centring the imaginations of q***r and trans people of colour. His visual style is heavily informed by surrealism and the aesthetics of his Caribbean upbringing and is always seeking to answer the question: what can be found in the crevice between our dreams and our memories?

“I’m drawn to cinema for its ability to depict new realities, and to show us something we may not have yet visualized, or otherwise feels out of reach,” he shares.

Rraine is a 2026 Director in Residence with Comfrey Films and a 2025 Sundance Institute Trans Possibilities Intensive fellow for his short film “Transcend”, whichexamines hypermasculinity upheld in Black communities and the often-authoritative style of parenting typical in Jamaican culture. Previously, he was awarded the 2020 Barbara Hammer Le***an Experimental Filmmaking Grant for his short film “Mooncake”.

When he’s not experimenting with his own storytelling, he works on other productions helping art departments build a myriad of different worlds. The hands-on crafting experience informs the methodology behind all his personal creative endeavours. He has also curated for publications, exhibits and assisted film festival programming teams as a means to champion other unique, underrepresented makers.

Read Rraine Hanson’s and other inspiring artists’ stories in the 2025 Annual Report: https://loom.ly/TRfiNWM

21/05/2026

As part of our “30 Years, 30 Stories” series—celebrating three decades of the Fund’s legacy and impact—we spotlight 2017 Prince Claus Awardee L'Art Rue - الشارع فن, a collective of visual artists and cultural organisers based in Tunisia. Founded in 2006 by sibling choreographers and dancers Selma and Sofiane Ouissi, L’Art Rue has fostered public art projects that engage communities and revitalise urban spaces across the country.

Through their “Dream City” biennial festival, L’Art Rue brings contemporary art into public space. The festival has brought together artists, citizens, and communities to reflect on the urgencies shaping everyday life. In their words:
“We wanted to dream of a better future for our country, Tunisia, where there is an artistic moment on every street corner.”

Since receiving the Prince Claus Award, L’Art Rue has grown “Dream City” into one of North Africa’s most vital artistic gatherings, expanding from 5-day festival in 2015 to a 17-day in 2025. Continuing their commitment to making culture accessible, the collective engages diverse audiences, including children and communities from historically marginalised districts.

L’Art Rue will also serve as a central axis of this week’s Lab Week of the Fellows Award Moving Narratives, which brings together the Fund’s Fellows for a 10-day in-person gathering in Tunis. During the programme, participants will explore the historic Medina of Tunis, engage with the cultural ecosystem and local practitioners, and learn about “Dream City”’s vision, history, and role as a platform for artistic and civic transformation. The Lab Week’s programme will also include a trip to Sejnane, a region in northwest Tunisia known for its rich ceramic tradition, which inspired L’Art Rue to initiate “Laaroussa” project in 2011.

Discover L’Art Rue and other inspiring artists profiles on our website.

The Prince Claus Fund is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken and the Postcode Lotterie.

Special thanks to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tunis Ambassade des Pays-Bas en Tunisie for their support in collaborating on the Moving Narratives Lab Week in Tunis.

14/05/2026

What does it mean to create as a trans femme artist in a world that so often demands explanation, performance, or resilience just to exist?

From 17–26 April, the Fund’s Exchanges programme—made possible through the support from Gemeente Amsterdam—partnered with Los Angles Collective to bring together trans artists from across networks for a 10-day interdisciplinary gathering rooted in collaboration, care, and artistic exchange.

As part of the public programme at Domo, Seed Awardees Lucrezia, Princesa Hardcore, and Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı came together in conversation with Los Angles to reflect on artistic autonomy, survival, visibility, tokenisation, and the realities of working within systems that continue to marginalise trans creatives.

Moving between personal experience and broader structural questions, the discussion explores the pressures of visibility, the exhaustion of constantly being asked to represent or explain oneself, and the importance of reclaiming storytelling as a form of agency. Throughout the conversation, the artists return to the necessity of community; not only as support, but as a condition for sustaining creative practice and imagining different futures together.

At its core, the talk is a powerful reflection on resilience, collective care, and the importance of creating spaces where trans artists can exist and work on their own terms.

Read the full story here: loom.ly/2BNlz8g.

12/05/2026

Join us on 21 May at de Appel between 18:30—20:30 CEST, where we present the event "Culture is — arts, imagination, and the planetary now", exploring culture as an urgent necessity that offers relational language, radical imagination, and care.

In this conversation, Teesa Bahana (Director of 32° East, a not-for-profit contemporary art space in Uganda, currently on study leave) and Ola Hassanain (artist and architect) will explore our time of ecological collapse, political fragmentation, and growing inequality, in which culture is not a luxury—it is a necessity. Yet around the world, artists and cultural spaces are under threat: defunded, censored, co-opted, or erased entirely. In this moment of planetary crisis, the arts provide a language of relation, a tool for radical imagination, and a practice of care that transcends borders.

Culture shapes how we live, how we move through the world, and how we relate to the land and to each other. As civic and artistic freedoms shrink under the weight of nationalism, austerity, and extractive systems, we must ask not only how to defend cultural space, but how to expand it.

Learn more and RSVP here: loom.ly/7WGKmug.

This conversation is part of Exchanges, the Fund’s platform for creative cross-pollination that connects our international network with Amsterdam’s cultural landscape while building long-lasting relationships across the city’s diverse artistic scenes.

Exchanges is made possible through the generous support from the Gemeente Amsterdam.

Cover image courtesy of Building Beyond Fellow Ìfẹ́olúwa Ọ̀ṣúnkọ̀yà.

07/05/2026

This edition of our “30 Years, 30 Stories” series features Mohamed Mahdy—2018 Prince Claus Awardee, documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work makes visible the lives of communities too often buried beneath neglect and environmental destruction.

Just ten minutes from where he lives lies Wadi El Qamar, or “Moon Valley,” a neighbourhood in Alexandria, Egypt, over 60,000 residents live beside a cement factory that blankets their homes in toxic dust. Between 2016 and 2020, Mohamed captured how the community struggles yet continues to survive despite the long-term effects of pollution on their health, homes, and daily lives.

Around half of the population, from children to the elderly, suffer from asthma, lung cancer, chest sensitivities, and chronic infections. Many working men are no longer able to support their families due to deteriorating health conditions. Mohamed, who also has asthma, experienced firsthand how harmful the emissions could be. He rented a place in the area and stayed in residents’ homes for weeks to immerse himself and collect community testimonies.

In the “Moon Dust” exhibition in Cairo, Mohamed wrote, “My camera focused on the spaces the dust has not touched, in attempt to make a phoenix rise. I want to shed the light on these people’s lives and keep the conversation going with the media, environmental activists and all the community.”

Following the exhibition and a feature in The New York Times in 2018, growing national and international attention helped amplify residents’ ongoing legal complaints. The company installed filters to limit their pollution and the health minister promised help with medical costs for the worst affected. Continuing to draw global recognition, “Moon Dust” was recently announced as one of the winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest.

Read Mohamed Mahdy’s full story on our website: https://princeclausfund.nl/stories/saving-lives.

Mohamed’s portrait by Abdallah Sabry.

03/05/2026

In the next chapter of our “30 Years, 30 Stories” series celebrating the Fund’s legacy and impact, we feature Samuel Fosso, 2001 Prince Claus Awardee, whose work both celebrates and questions notions of African identity.

Since the mid-1970s, Fosso has explored self-portraiture after opening his own photo studio in Bangui, Central African Republic. He would take photographs of himself after studio hours, using leftover film to send images to his grandmother in Nigeria.

Reflecting on this early period in an interview with Okwui Enwezor, he shares: “I did not know I was making art photography. What I did know was that I was transforming myself into what I wanted to become.”

Now internationally renowned, Samuel embodies historical figures to construct and deconstruct identities through chameleon-like, experimental performances. His notable works include Tati (1997), Le Rêve de mon grand-père (2003), African Spirits (2008), The Emperor of Africa (2013), Black Pope (2017), and SIXSIXSIX (2020).

Samuel’s work has been exhibited globally, including a retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, and is held in prestigious collections such as MoMA and Tate.

Discover Samuel Fosso and other inspiring artist profiles on our website.

Cover photo courtesy of Samuel Fosso and Jean-Marc Patras.

30/04/2026

We just wrapped up our first Exchanges of the year!

In collaboration with trans-femme led collective Los Angles, we brought together three Seed Awardees from the Fund’s global network—Princesa Hardcore, Lucrezia, & Okyanus Çağrı Çamcı—and three artists from the collective’s local network— Aron Saxe, Rita Bifulco, & Ada Maricia Patterson—for a 10-day programme of exchange, collaboration, and shared reflection.

The programme kicked off with studio days at Nowhere, where the three artist pairs worked alongside one another across disciplines and mediums, seeing where their practices intersect and spark new collaborative works that were shown at the end of the programme’s public event.

As part of the Exchange, the visiting artists also spent time immersing themselves in Amsterdam’s art scene first-hand. They were welcomed at Buro Stedelijk and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten for guided tours where they could meet with the institutions’ curators and teams, during which conversations were sparked about sustainable artistic infrastructures and continued international collaboration.

The week also created moments for public exchange. On 22 April, the programme featured a panel talk at Domo, where the participating artists and Los Angles’ founders reflected on the marginalisation of trans communities, the politics of hypervisibility, and how to better support trans creatives in today’s contemporary moment.

The Exchange culminated in a public art showcase at Studio Wieman, where the three artist pairs shared their collaborative studio work alongside local peers through visual art, poetry readings, performance, fashion, and a celebratory party featuring Jason, Princess Vineyard, and YoungWoman.

All images courtesy of Catalina Reyes Navarro.

With sincere thanks to Gemeente Amsterdam for making this Exchange possible.

29/04/2026

As the 4 new Fellowships unfold, we invite you to reconsider how art can respond and reshape the urgencies of our time.

9 Building Beyond Fellows representing 6 African countries reimagine the future of their homelands through architecture, urbanism, digital design, research, and performance, with a shared focus on the circular economy, collective history, and community.

10 ADPP Fellows explore themes of displacement and migration, personal and collective trauma, memory and identity, and the intimate, often overlooked realities of everyday life.

Discover Obiajulu, Ammar and all the inspiring new Fellows on our website: https://loom.ly/Zx01jf8.

Cover image courtesy of Moving Narratives Fellow Abdessamad El Montassir.

28/04/2026

We are proud to introduce 37 new Fellows whose work engages climate action, shape future cities, and challenge dominant narratives

9 Moving Narratives Fellows work across artistic research, film, performance, visual and video art—responding histories, racial justice, and the climate crisis, while challenging the boundaries between art, politics, and history.

9 CAREC Fellows explore the connection of climate justice with social, racial, and environmental issues through media studies, curatorial practice, visual arts, filmmaking, sound, and design.

Discover Yhuri, Naomi and all the inspiring new Fellows on our website: https://loom.ly/Zx01jf8.

Cover image courtesy of Moving Narratives Fellow Mai Huyền Chi.

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Dinsdag	09:00 - 17:00
Woensdag	09:00 - 17:00
Donderdag	09:00 - 17:00
Vrijdag	09:00 - 17:00

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