Most artist grants hand you a number and leave the budgeting to you. The Supporting Act Foundation’s Artist Grant does something less common: it pays €10,000 as €1,000 a month, for ten months. Applications close 1 October 2026, 11:00 CET.
That structure is the interesting part. A lump sum tends to get absorbed by whatever is most urgent the week it arrives. A monthly stipend buys the thing artists actually run out of, which is uninterrupted time — it functions as a floor under ten months of practice rather than a one-off injection into it.
Ten grants are available.
Who can apply
- Location: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, or the U.K. A local IBAN account is required — that’s the mechanism behind the monthly disbursement, and it’s a hard constraint, not a formality.
- Career stage: 2–10 years of professional practice, minimum age 21. Squarely mid-career: past the emerging-artist bracket, not yet established enough to have institutional support.
- Practice: Work involving collaborative or community-focused creative processes.
- Background: Applicants identify as belonging to underrepresented groups or as facing systemic barriers.
- Fee: None.
The foundation is registered as an ANBI, the Dutch public-benefit designation.
Why we’re flagging it here
Nothing in the criteria specifies a medium, which means the filter is entirely about how you work rather than what you work in. Digital and new-media practice qualifies on the same terms as anything else — and the collaborative/community-focused requirement is a good fit for a lot of creative-technology work by nature: workshop-based practices, open-source tooling built for a community of users, participatory installations, collectives running shared studios or servers.
If your practice is solitary and studio-bound, this one probably isn’t the fit, whatever your medium. If it’s built around other people, the medium isn’t the obstacle.
Also open this month
A few other deadlines with runway left, from Colossal’s September opportunities roundup:
- Art Omi: Dance, Music, and Architecture Residencies — October 1, international, open to composers, musicians, and sound-makers with no genre restriction; $15 fee.
- YICCA Art Prize — October 8, international, emerging artists, all media, €5,500 total prize pool.
- Hayama Artist Residency — September 30, four weeks in Japan with roundtrip airfare and an $800 stipend; $95 fee.