OPEN CALL: Centro Botín international 33rd annual Art Grants, 2026

 

Fundación Botín is pleased to announce the 33rd edition of its Art Grants, offering six scholarships for artists of any nationality. This scheme has an expected duration of nine months and an endowment of 23,000 euros for each selected project. The Art Grants support artists´ development, research and production. In addition, the programme includes the public premiere of the works developed over the grant period in a collective exhibition at Centro Botín, Itinerarios. At the end of the grant period, Fundación Botín continues its commitment to the artists by closely following their career and, where appropriate, by acquiring works for the Collection or inviting to present their work in the exhibition series “Enredos”.

Artists interested should make an initial application using the registration form available on the websites of Fundación Botín and Centro Botín, and submit the required documentation on paper by May 8. Every application received is evaluated by a specially convened external jury composed by artists, curators and other art professionals, which rotates for each edition. From July, the jury´s final decision will be made public on Centro Botín and Fundación Botín websites.

Since the Art Grants were launched in 1993, more than 200 artists have benefitted through its dynamic stimulus to contemporary art, supporting practitioners seeking to develop research projects in the visual arts. A large number of Fundación Botín grant recipients have established themselves on the international art scene and are regularly present at significant arts events.

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Recent and upcoming exhibitions by grant recipients include: Carlos Bunga at CAM – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa; Fernanda Fragateiro at Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto; Lucía C. Pino at CA2M, Madrid; Pedro G. Romero at Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York; Teresa Solar at Kunstverein Hannover; and Oriol Villanova, representing Spain at the 2026 Venice Biennale.