The CHANEL Tradition Fund has named the recipients of its 2026 CHANEL Subsequent Prize, awarding €100,000 every to 10 artists working throughout visible artwork, efficiency, design, music, and movie.
The style home’s Tradition Fund is a international programme of initiatives and partnerships that “search to champion equality of voice and provides visibility to international recreation changers at a time when the humanities present an important supply of inspiration and shifting views on the best way we view the world,” CHANEL stated on its web site.
Introduced on January 19 in London, the biennial prize was launched in 2021 and is now in its third version. It acknowledges modern practitioners whose work is considered reshaping their fields and influencing the way forward for tradition.
This 12 months’s cohort consists of artists from ten completely different nations: visible artist Álvaro Urbano; jazz musician Ambrose Akinmusire; designer Andrea Peña; artist and filmmaker Ayoung Kim; designer Bárbara Sánchez-Kane; sound artist Emeka Ogboh; choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira; experimental musician Pan Daijing; filmmaker Payal Kapadia; and painter Pol Taburet.
Along with the unrestricted funding, every winner will take part in a two-year mentorship {and professional} growth program organized in collaboration with CHANEL’s cultural companions, together with London’s Royal School of Artwork. CHANEL stated the initiative is designed to supply artists with long-term assist somewhat than project-based commissions, permitting them to pursue bold work on their very own phrases.
“The CHANEL Subsequent Prize creates the circumstances for artists to thrive on their very own phrases,” Yana Peel, CHANEL’s president of arts, tradition, and heritage, stated in a press release. “Every winner is a trailblazer shaping the now and defining the following with creativity and audacity.”
2024’s version of the CHANEL Subsequent Prize included artists Tolia Astakhishvili, Ho Tzu Nyen, and Dalton Paula amongst its winners.
“The CHANEL Subsequent Prize marks the newest chapter within the Home’s century-long dedication to the humanities—a legacy that started with Gabrielle Chanel’s assist of avant-garde pioneers, from Salvador Dalí to Jean Cocteau,” CHANEL stated.
