COAL Prize 2025 "Freshwater"

Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize is a vehicle for identifying, promoting and disseminating artists around the world who bear witness to, imagine and experiment with solutions for transforming territories, ways of life, organisation and production.

Eligibility: 18+

What you get:

The winning artist of the COAL Prize will receive €12,000 and a creative residency at the heart of the Domaine de Belval, owned by the François Sommer Foundation and run by the scientific and educational teams of the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Domaine de Belval. A true observatory of rurality and wildlife, each year the Domaine welcomes artists selected for their contribution to renewing the vision of the relationship between humans and their natural environment.

The winning artist of the Special Jury Prize receives 3,000 EUR.

The winner of the Ateliers Médicis award will benefit from a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, in association with the Bondy regional forest.

The winning artist in the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles/ Paris aka le vaisseau award receives 2,000 euros and will be invited to exhibit at the Paris institution.

Deadline 20 April 2025

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