Our 2025 Impact Grant recipients

To refresh your memory, these are the five members of the selection committee:

You can read more about them all here.

90mil
@90mil___
A community art space based in Berlin championing underrepresented artists, formats and sounds.

Selection Committee: 90mil creates space for Berlin's grassroots and migrant communities at a time when political and economic pressures are making access to culture hard for those who need it most. Their mix of local grounding and international exchange builds real solidarity and opens doors for future generations of artists. In this climate their work's not just important, it's essential.

Association ZOFI
@zofi_asso
An organisation based in Martinique dedicated to promoting cultural and artistic development in the Caribbean. Le Studio Lumina is their space for creation, research and expositions.

SC: Le Studio Lumina is a critical site of cultural freedom and experimentation, of making and gathering in Martinique. It supports artists, nurtures vital practices of artists of African and Indigenous descent, women and LGBTQ+ artists, and practitioners based in peripheral territories such as Martinique and the wider Caribbean that face challenges in having their voices heard.

CUE Collective
@cue_org
A music collective based in Amsterdam on a mission to tell stories that need to be heard, developing projects at the intersection of music and social/environmental change.

SC: CUE Collective brings emerging musicians together, creating communities, supporting sonic practices, connecting music making with social impact. Through listening sessions and musical events in various parts of the world they give opportunities to less represented cultural practices.

EXIS Inclusive Dance Company
@exisdancecompany
A dance company based in Athens creating performances with disabled and non-disabled dancers.

SC: EXIS challenges the conventional boundaries around who belongs in professional dance spaces. By creating opportunities and performances that center disabled dancers as artists and collaborators, they are actively reshaping the Greek arts landscape. We are particularly impressed by their commitment to employment equity, ensuring disabled artists have access to sustainable careers in dance. Their belief in the "uniqueness of every body" isn't just rhetoric, it's embedded in their practice. We are confident this grant will enable them to continue to build a more inclusive dance sector in Athens and beyond.

InForm – Platform for Inclusive Minds
@inform_pim
A performance arts center in Tbilisi dedicated to bringing more inclusivity and accessibility to the performing arts by offering theatre, dance and education to disabled and non disabled artists.

SC: InForm is truly filling a gap in Georgia, where artists with disabilities and other marginalised voices often have almost no visibility or access to resources. Their community-driven approach creates rare opportunities for people who are usually pushed aside, especially in a region shaped by instability. Supporting them now means investing in a more inclusive cultural future (hopefully).

Institute for Postnatural Studies
@instituteforpostnaturalstudies
A center for ecological research and education, based in Madrid, offering academic programs, residencies and platforms that bring artists and researchers together.

SC: The Institute for Postnatural Studies is a relational ecosystem for artists, culture-makers, activists, and thinkers reimagining ecological and cultural futures. IPS acts as an ally and amplifier for migrant and diasporic artists whose work emerges from lived entanglements with climate collapse, displacement, and territorial memory—holding space for multi-species and planetary voices. Through this grant we wanted to platform the animist, other-than-human, and earth-centred consciousness that threads through their work, and see them expand their experimental cross-cultural pedagogies.

Musikarama
@musikarama
A free music school and recording studio run by volunteers and community members in Athens, giving those facing financial or social barriers access to music.

SC: Musikarama offers more than music lessons, they offer belonging. Born out of the refugee crisis following the Syrian civil war, this free music school and recording studio has evolved into a vital space for cultural exchange and creative expression. We were moved by their commitment to prioritizing young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, ensuring that those most marginalized have access to professional music education and mentorship. Their work goes beyond skill-building - it creates community and affirms dignity in a context where displacement can feel isolating. We believe this grant will strengthen their capacity to continue being a place where people on the move can truly belong!

Oyoun Berlin
@oyounberlin
A platform for intersectional artistic and socio-cultural practices rooted in decolonial, queer* feminist thinking and focused on voices and perspectives that challenge dominant narratives.

SC: Oyoun Berlin is a living, breathing infrastructure for cultural resistance and relational repair. At a time when extractive logics have dominated the creative and cultural sectors, Oyoun Berlin offers a counter-current: one that centers the wisdom, leadership, and world-making power of queer, racialised, neurodivergent, migrant, and exiled artists. These are creators too often rendered peripheral and economically precarious by institutional arts systems and the gig economy. We were impressed by how the organization is reconfiguring the terms of engagement: meeting systemic hostility and cultural erasure with collective ingenuity, joy, and radical hospitality. They've already seeded and are stewarding a vital ecology of practice and we hope this grant strengthens their ability to keep expanding.

Tarkib
@tarkib_baghdad
An artistic center and platform in Baghdad, dedicated to research, training, production, and the presentation of contemporary work by emerging Iraqi artists.

SC: Tarkib is an Iraqi art space bringing art and activism together to challenge global injustices. They bring marginalised voices to the frontline of resistance, inclusivity and socio-cultural change-making. It is crucial to use art as one of the main tools to open the dialogue between communities for better co-existing, as Tarkib does.

TAWNA
@tawna_cine
A multicultural cinema and art organization based in Ecuador with a focus on Amazonian narratives.

SC: TAWNA is not only decolonizing Amazonian storytelling but paving the way for future generations of art activists, giving them the experience-based tools to amplify indigenous struggles. Using new technologies in defending nature, local narratives and culture is extremely important as it doesn’t try to freeze the art in time but gives heritage a new life to invent new chapters of stories. With the world on the edge of ecological catastrophe, the work of Tawna Cine is crucial as they bring the local wisdom to the rest of the globe.