Meet our 2025 open call selection committee
With our latest open call now live, we figured it was high time we introduce you to the team who’ll be reviewing applications and selecting this year’s grantees. As usual, we’ve drawn on a breadth of experience and expertise spanning an array of disciplines. The unifying factor? An intimate understanding of the challenges emerging artists face today.
Artist Grant
The Artist Grant program is designed to help emerging artists from underrepresented groups whose practices involve collaborative, collective, or creative processes that incorporate or benefit their community. Here are the five selection panel members:
Myah Asha Jeffers
Myah Asha Jeffers is a London-based, Barbados-raised artist whose practice spans photography, theatre, television and film. Her work focuses on witnessing and documenting the nuances of daily life within diasporic communities. Jeffers was the 2024 Joan Wakelin Bursary recipient (Royal Photographic Society & The Guardian), and was Artist in Residence at Visual Studies Workshop (New York).
myahjeffers.com
@myah.jeffers
Lukas Feireiss
Lukas Feireiss is a Berlin-based curator, writer, and educator with over two decades of experience in the international cultural and educational sector. His work explores transdisciplinary artistic practices and the cultural dynamics of the present, combining critical reflection with creative application. He has curated numerous exhibitions, edited acclaimed publications, and taught at universities worldwide. In addition, he supports individuals and organizations as a coach in creative and professional transformation processes.
Holly Fraser
Holly Fraser is an editor and creative commissioner with over 15 years experience in media, working across film, art, fashion, music and photography. She is currently the VP Content at WeTransfer, and editor-in-chief of its art platform, WePresent.
@hollymercedes27
by Hugo ThomassenHicham Khalidi
Hicham Khalidi is the director of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands, where he oversees residencies for international artists and creative researchers. He curated the Dutch entry for La Biennale di Venezia in 2024 and was previously an associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris. Khalidi's curatorial practice focuses on the contexts and conditions of contemporary art and art institutional practice, particularly the impacts of climate change, crises, and colonial histories.
Honi Ryan
Honi Ryan is an artist and educator with a nomadic social practice. She lives and works between Paris, Melbourne, and Berlin. Ryan has exhibited and performed in twelve countries and represented Germany at the Karachi Biennale 2017 and the Lahore Biennale 2016. She is a member of the faculty at Paris College of Art.
Impact Grant
This grant program is designed to help arts-focused nonprofits that provide non-financial support to emerging artists from underrepresented groups. We focus on organizations whose approach is aligned with our own desired areas of impact: improving living conditions for artists, enabling them to dedicate more time to developing their practices, increasing the visibility of their work, and boosting their self-confidence.
Poetra Asantewa
Poetra Asantewa is a writer, singer, designer, entrepreneur, storyteller and community catalyst. She is the founder of Black Girls Glow, an arts nonprofit that fosters transformative opportunities for women's artistic growth, as well as Tampered Press, a Ghana-based independent publisher focused on books by and about Africans.
by Jordi de VettenJacquill G. Basdew
Jacquill G. Basdew is a socio-cultural initiator and intersectional thinker whose work bridges arts, activism, and social progress. An emerging voice in the international arts and cultural landscape, he leads bsdwcorp.—his artistic and social practice spanning curation, writing, performance, and public programming. He also serves on supervisory boards of major Dutch institutions, helping shape the future of cultural governance.
by Stathis MamalakisMaria-Thalia Carras
Maria-Thalia Carras is a curator, writer and film producer based in Athens, Greece. She is the founder and director of TAVROS, an independent arts space which fosters dialogue, inter-regional connectivity, and brings together divergent micro-communities whilst tackling vital social and political issues through contemporary culture.
Cassie Robinson
Cassie Robinson, co-founder of the Wealth Shift Studio and a core member of the Arising Quo team. Robinson has spent seven years working inside philanthropic institutions, designing and establishing the Emerging Futures programme at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, co-creating a field-building practice at Partners for a New Economy, and heading up Innovation, Policy and Practice at The National Lottery Community Fund. She is currently focussed on the Great Wealth Transfer.
by Dato CoridzeGiorgi Rodionov
Giorgi Rodionov is an artist and curator based in Berlin. His practice delves into themes of identity struggles, migration, queer issues, and the evolution of new forms of existence.
Rodionov founded Untitled Tbilisi, an art space dedicated to promoting collaboration among queer artists and art activists from the South Caucasus.
