Prince Claus Fund unveils Mentorship Award recipients

The award will bring together 12 mid-career artists and cultural practitioners from around the world in a year-long interdisciplinary programme. They will be supported by their peers and five mentors, working towards accelerating their community-based practices to address environmental issues.

This year’s participants hail from 12 different countries and work in a variety of disciplines, from architecture to photography, visual arts, biotech, sound art, and research, with most spanning multiple practices. The group is supported by five mentors as well as their peers and work at accelerating their engaged community-based practices addressing environmental issues.

The 2023 cohort is guided by scientist and gender diversity advocate Brigitte Baptiste, Etcétera Collective formed by Loreto Garín Guzman and Federico Zukerfeld, artist and technologist Irene Agrivina, and architect and gardener Benji Boyadgian.

Below are the 12 recipients:

• Yara Costa (Mozambique) – artist, filmmaker and storyteller.
• Marianne Fahmy (Egypt) – visual artist.
• Mohamed Sleiman Labat (Algeria) – multidisciplinary artist.
• Nana Opoku (Ghana) – artist and designer.
• Zayaan Khan (South Africa) – storyteller and interdisciplinary artist.
• Dan Li (China) – multidisciplinary artist.
• Lapdiang Syiem (India) – theatre artist.
• Monica Naranjo Uribe (Colombia) – multidisciplinary artist.
• Nova Ruth Setyaningtyas (Indonesia) – singer and musician.
• Sharon Chin (Malaysia) – curator and activist.
• Sofía Acosta (Ecuador) – interdisciplinary artist.
• Tareq Khalaf (Palestine) – design educator, filmmaker and cultural activist.