Culture provides individuals with the means to shape their actions, lifestyles, and self-expression according to their own desires. When public freedoms and the right to voice opinions are curtailed, it becomes essential to foster environments where liberty can thrive and be deliberately sustained.
Main cover image: courtesy of Kobra Akbari.
One artist using art as a form of resistance is Lucrezia, who lives in a country where where queer existence is met with silence, repression, or outright hostility. For her, art becomes both sanctuary and defiance, creating a brighter future.
Since 2021, the Fund has awarded nearly €X.XXX.XXXX to support more than XXX artists in over XX countries, all developing unique and effective approaches to defend freedom of expression.
Through our Seed, Fellows, and Impact Awards, we accelerate engaged community-based art practices that use culture as a powerful tool to defend liberty, shaping spaces where expression and resistance can thrive.
Your support for inspiring changemakers is more urgent now than ever. Learn all the ways you can support their work through the three Prince Claus Awards.