About This Opportunity

The Rencontres d'Arles is opening its call for applications for the 2026 Discovery Award Louis Roederer Foundation, part of the festival's 57th edition.

The award's aim is to promote the work of the selected artists, who will be showcased in the Discovery Award exhibition; and to reward the winning projects with the jury award of €15,000 and public award of €5,000.

Since 2021, the Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award has integrated organizations that foster emerging artists—community spaces, independent exhibition sites, artist-run spaces, hybrid exhibition spaces, galleries, institutions, foundations—pave the way to identify and support artists.

These organizations, important actors in supporting photography and artists, thus become mediators and discoverers, introducing to the Discovery Award artists whose work they have identified and followed.

These organizations are invited to propose an exhibition project by an artist they support whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be seen by an international audience.

Projects selected for exhibition in the 2026 edition of the Rencontres d'Arles, in the Discovery Award exhibition Louis Roederer Foundation, will be accompanied by the festival team and an exhibition curator invited by the Rencontres d'Arles.

What You'll Get

Rewards Details

Types: EXHIBITION, CASHPRIZE, FUNDING, OTHER

The Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award has two missions: → Promotion of work by artists using images through exhibitions of projects shortlisted for the Discovery Award. → Reward of the winning artists & organizations : The Jury Award honors the winning artist and supporting organization through the acquisition of a selection of works in the amount of €15,000 (including tax). The Public Award honors the winning artist and supporting organization through the acquisition of a selection of works in the amount of €5,000 (including tax). The works thus acquired enter the collection of the Rencontres d'Arles. The Discovery Award is part of the Rencontres d'Arles exhibition program. An exhibition curator is associated with the Discovery Award and will work on the development of the projects, from the selection to exhibition design, from concept to completion. Each project selected will have an exhibition space of approximately 10 linear meters (50 m2). The exhibition design for this space will be determined after the selection is made, in cooperation with the exhibition curator and the Rencontres d'Arles team. → The organization is responsible for: \- production of the works in ready-to-hang condition \- roundtrip transportation of the works to Arles or to Paris (in this latter case, the festival can provide of the transportation to Arles) and insurance of works during transportation \- supervision of the project with the artist, in coordination with the Rencontres d'Arles and the curator The organization and/or artist agree to retrieve the works after the exhibition. → The Rencontres d'Arles will be responsible for: \- providing a production budget envelope of €3,000, for the production of the project exhibited \- insuring the works (for their production value) during their exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles \- exhibition design \- mounting and dismantling of works \- the artist's visit in Arles: 2 nights' accommodation in Arles during opening week of the festival; and the artist's roundtrip travel to Arles

Eligibility

Other Requirements

Each organization (gallery, art center, community space, independent exhibition site, institution) may present, in the form of an exhibition proposal, a single artist (or a single artists' collective working as a single artistic entity). **The application must:** → propose a photographic exhibition project by one artist whose work has recently been discovered. → be submitted by an organization only (artists may not apply directly). Organizations that may participate are: galleries, art centers, community spaces, public institutions, and independent exhibition spaces. The organization's primary function must be the exhibition of artists' work. → if selected, the organization and artist agree not to show the project, in whole or in part, before its exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles 2026. → if selected, the organization and artist agree to produce the exhibition project for the Rencontres d'Arles, based on the production budget supplied by the festival.

Discovery Award

About This Opportunity

What You'll Get

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Rencontres d'Arles

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