New Agents (Open Call)
Deadline
November 20, 2025
22 days left
Application Fee
FREE
Rewards
Multiple Rewards
Interest
High
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About This Opportunity
During these harsh and precarious times, and with the colossal impact it is having on the Arab world and its diaspora, navigating how to be an art professional today comes with immense vulnerability and confusion. Nevertheless, collectivity, imagination, and hospitality are still resources available to tap into and assume as realities are reshaping, and relationships being reinvented. Mophradat’s program, New Agents, formalizes this experience and creates a frame in which a group is formed and brought together to try to harness their energies, desires, and tools, and mold them into a proposition to be realized and shared publicly.
Through this open call, Mophradat will compose a group of six people from across art fields whose practices are singular, future facing, and committed to public engagement. What the participants also share is that they come from territories whose pasts are formed by overlapping cultural references and conditions, their present tainted by overwhelming violence, and their future unpredictable.
Practically, the New Agents will collaborate and learn together and eventually co-develop and realize a proposal that would be made public, in the form of a live event such as a conference, festival, exhibition, or something else. Over the course of one year, the New Agents take part in online workshops with invited artists; one-on-one conversations with an advisor from Mophradat to support them in their individual trajectories; and organize and participate in six weekend-long online seminars, each curated by one of the participants for the group. Midway through the program, the New Agents will be invited for a one-week retreat to work together to produce a complete proposal for the public event that will take place at the end of the year.
What You'll Get
Types: FUNDING, OTHER
Mophradat provides each participant with a stipend of $6,000 USD to be used at their discretion, covers the retreat travel costs, and provides a budget for the public event. Mophradat also gives curatorial input through regular conversations with the group regarding their seminars and the eventual public event.
Application Requirements
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- If you are interested in being considered to join New Agents, please fill the form provided and make sure you answer all parts of the questions. We want to get to know you through this application process and we don’t evaluate applications based on writing ability, so please be aware that we don’t want to read AI generated answers.
Eligibility
Other Requirements
New Agents is only open to those interested to take part in a collective process and enthusiastic to attend its scheduled activities, full participation is therefore mandatory. To fulfill the program’s aspirations, participants must be ambitious, generous, curious, and precise. In addition to complying with the general eligibility criteria that you can read [here](https://mophradat.org/en/what-we-are-doing/), please note the following: * The applicant must be able to describe and demonstrate their commitment to an ongoing artistic practice and their current engagement in specific art projects. * Regardless of their heritage, the applicant must have significant firsthand living experience in the Arab world, and having travelled in the region will be considered an asset. * The applicant must have a track record of previous completed art works/projects and must be actively working in the arts since at least four years. * The applicant must be curious to engage with different kinds of practices from the textual to the performative and beyond. * The applicant must be interested in working collaboratively and in learning about every aspect of a public project from conceptualization to production. * The applicant should be a native Arabic speaker or have a strong command of the language; and basic use of English is needed.
Mophradat
Brussels, BE
Verified Organization
Active since 2020
Ready to take the next step?
Don't miss out on this opportunity. Applications close on November 20, 2025.