The 2024 Art Explora – Académie des beaux-arts European Award
The leading European award championing new dialogues between the arts and audiences
Open to all non-profit European cultural organisations, the European Award encourages new forms of audience engagement and participation in arts and culture, supporting innovative projects, across all art forms, that can be shared, replicated and scaled across Europe.
The 2024 preselection
Category 1 – cultural organisations with up to €500,000 annual expenditure
"Diaries: Lindart and the Albanian Women Artists Association":Invite local and international audiences to participate in the creation of the online archive fund with the first association of women artists in Albania.
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Invite local and international audiences to participate in the creation of the online archive fund with the first association of women artists in Albania.
"Promote universal access to art and well-being": Invite sighted or visually impaired individuals to slow down and experience a moment of well-being through a multisensory exploration of artworks.
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Invite sighted or visually impaired individuals to slow down and experience a moment of well-being through a multisensory exploration of artworks.
"Curating the Periphery": Encourage the residents of Bihać to take ownership of the art centre by co-creating the programme of events.
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Encourage the residents of Bihać to take ownership of the art centre by co-creating the programme of events.
"Go on With the Story": Inmates from the only female penitentiary in Croatia, writers, visual artists, and musicians create together a digital collection of short stories for everyone to read and share.
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Inmates from the only female penitentiary in Croatia, writers, visual artists, and musicians create together a digital collection of short stories for everyone to read and share.
"The Significance of Art at Work": Make art accessible to people at workplaces and create new perspectives and dialogue with a conversation kit.
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Make art accessible to people at workplaces and create new perspectives and dialogue with a conversation kit.
"Objective: Independent Lives": Provide people with diverse abilities, along with the broader community, the opportunity to become commissioners of public art to encourage independent living in the community.
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Provide people with diverse abilities, along with the broader community, the opportunity to become commissioners of public art to encourage independent living in the community.
"KORAL": Empower individuals with disabilities to play and compose music together without false notes through an application which transforms smartphones into musical instruments.
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Empower individuals with disabilities to play and compose music together without false notes through an application which transforms smartphones into musical instruments.
"Libraries on Prescription": A cross-sectoral collaboration involving libraries, health professionals, and proposing cultural activities to help improve mental health and well-being through cultural prescribing.
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A cross-sectoral collaboration involving libraries, health professionals, and proposing cultural activities to help improve mental health and well-being through cultural prescribing.
"FilmSight": A programme for blind or visually impaired young people to develop their skills in the art of film making.
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A programme for blind or visually impaired young people to develop their skills in the art of film making.
"Hear My Voice": A series of performances, written with young Afghan women, to inspire other groups of women who have experienced disempowerment to share their stories and create performances of their own.
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A series of performances, written with young Afghan women, to inspire other groups of women who have experienced disempowerment to share their stories and create performances of their own.
Category 2 – cultural organisations from €500,000 to €2 million annual expenditure
"L'événement 25 - les Chemins du vivant": Transforming the territory through cultural initiatives connected to the living world, with the active participation of local residents.
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Transforming the territory through cultural initiatives connected to the living world, with the active participation of local residents.
"PerformanceBus (with Studio ALTA Prague)": A traveling bus to encourage artistic encounters and create more access to contemporary art and performance across Hungary.
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A traveling bus to encourage artistic encounters and create more access to contemporary art and performance across Hungary.
"Suitcase Theatre: Co-created puppet shows, from a suitcase, made with and for marginalised groups, including incarcerated adults, survivors of domestic violence and their children, promoting inclusion and connection.
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Co-created puppet shows, from a suitcase, made with and for marginalised groups, including incarcerated adults, survivors of domestic violence and their children, promoting inclusion and connection.
"AMP-lifying Musical Inclusion": A digital toolkit to help arts organisations identify barriers, implement change and embed inclusive practices to open up music to young disabled musicians.
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A digital toolkit to help arts organisations identify barriers, implement change and embed inclusive practices to open up music to young disabled musicians.
"Museum for Rookies": Invite the general public, as well as students, to participate in the creation of an original museum exhibition aimed at caring for cultural heritage and collaborating with the local community.
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Invite the general public, as well as students, to participate in the creation of an original museum exhibition aimed at caring for cultural heritage and collaborating with the local community.
Category 3 – cultural organisations with over €2 million annual expenditure
"Palau Vincles": An annual music and arts programme for 950 young people who are living in vulnerable situations across Barcelona.
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An annual music and arts programme for 950 young people who are living in vulnerable situations across Barcelona.
"Nelli the Dog and a Friend": Creating knowledge and interaction between the museum staff and residents of Espoo by letting them decide collectively on the location of a public artwork and the participatory programme around it.
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Creating knowledge and interaction between the museum staff and residents of Espoo by letting them decide collectively on the location of a public artwork and the participatory programme around it.
"1 km de danse": Get as many people as possible dancing over 1 km by organising an annual event in collaboration with dance organisations from involved cities.
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Get as many people as possible dancing over 1 km by organising an annual event in collaboration with dance organisations from involved cities.
"Tell Me Your Story: A Digital Repository of Cycladic Heritage": Involving local communities in the creation of a digital repository to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of 3 Cycladic islands, Anafi, Sikinos and Kea.
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Involving local communities in the creation of a digital repository to preserve the intangible cultural heritage of 3 Cycladic islands, Anafi, Sikinos and Kea.
"Treeline": A cycling journey through the ancient forests of 8 European countries to raise awareness about ecology while composing musical works with local communities.
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A cycling journey through the ancient forests of 8 European countries to raise awareness about ecology while composing musical works with local communities.
The 2024 jury
President and founder of Art Explora
Composer, Permanent Secretary of the Académie des beaux-arts
Managing Director at Trans Europe Halles
Dancer, choreographer and Academician
Head of the Citizen Art Programme at the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation
Professor at the University of Lille
General & Artistic Director of the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Contemporary painter
The 2024 agenda
Jury meeting: Mid-November 2024
Award Ceremony: 11 December 2024
Eligibility requirements
Why apply?
- Join our Arts & Audiences! professional network events during the year
- Compete for one of three Awards of €50,000
- Compete for the Special Jury Award of €20,000
- Compete for the Audience Choice Award of €10,000
- Feature in our publication with Beaux-Arts Editions
- Promote your project with our social media tools