2026 Artist Grant

The Artist Grant supports underrepresented artists who are working collaboratively to benefit their communities – offering time, visibility, and support to grow their practice.

Emily Sol
Sarah Ama Duah
Jaeho Hwang
Lorena Pires
Nilgün Özer
Carolina Riaño
Rawz

About the program

The Artist Grant is designed to help emerging artists from underrepresented groups whose practices involve some form of collaborative, collective, or creative process that benefits their community.

Through this grant we want to improve living conditions for artists, enable them to dedicate more time to developing their practice, increase the visibility of their work, and boost their self-confidence.

Key info

  • Applicant type:Individuals
  • Based in:Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, or the United Kingdom
  • Grant amount:10 unrestricted grants of €10,000, which will be transferred via monthly installments of €1,000
  • Deadline to apply:October 1, 2026 (11.00 AM CET)

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for this grant applicants must:

  • Identify as an emerging artist and have at least two and no more than 10 years of professional experience.
  • Be developing an artistic practice that involves some form of collaborative, collective, or creative processes that incorporates, or benefits, your community.
  • Identify as belonging to an underrepresented group, or as someone who consistently faces systemic barriers to equal opportunities in career development, exposure, or access compared to the majority of artists in the creative and cultural industries in your country.
  • Be based in either Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or the United Kingdom and have a personal bank account with IBAN number under your name in one of these countries.
  • Be born in or before 2005.
  • Have an updated website or public social media profile where your artistic works are publicly shared.
  • Clearly outline how you intend to use the grant, and explain the specific ways it will support your artistic development.
  • Be able to demonstrate how the grant will support you in overcoming economic, social, cultural, physical and health-related barriers that would otherwise prevent you from progressing your career.
  • Be willing to demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to being a positive ambassador for the growing TSAF Grantee Network.

This open call is not for: Former or current TSAF grantees.

Key dates

  • Call for submissions opens: September 1, 2026
  • Submission deadline: October 1, 2026 (11:00 AM CET)
  • Applications review: October 2026
  • Notifications to all applicants: late October 2026
  • Final review of shortlisted applicants: November 2026
  • Public announcement and transfer of first installment: January 2027

For a more detailed timeline please check the open call guide.

Selection Committee

Every year we pick an independent selection committee to review the applications and vote who should receive the grant.

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