The Boghossian Foundation organizes international art prizes to encourage intercultural dialogue and support artists with a wide range of practices.
Art Prizes
International Prize
Reflecting its mission to bridge East and West through the arts, the Boghossian Foundation International Prize celebrates designers whose work fosters a better mutual understanding among cultures.
The Prize celebrates Design and Crafts – two disciplines that lie at the intersection of contemporary creation and ancestral know-how. Artists and designers are invited to submit one or more proposals that reinterpret Eastern heritage through everyday objects.
The Prize includes an amount of 12.000€.
The application deadline is 15 November 2026.
Submit your application via this link
Prize Lebanon
Since 2012, in its desire to promote and strengthen the East-West links through art, the Boghossian Foundation Prize in Lebanon has awarded prizes to young Lebanese artists.
Three awards are granted:
- The Visual Arts Prize, which includes all disciplines (painting, sculpture, photography, design, illustration…). Prize-winners are chosen by an international board of personalities from the artistic world, chaired by Louma Salamé, director of the Boghossian Foundation in Brussels.
- The Prize ‘Cinéma Coup de Cœur’ in partnership with the ‘Liban Cinéma’ Foundation to support Lebanese filmmakers.
- The Prize ‘Littérature Jeunesse’ (Youth literature) in Arabic, for children aged 8 to 12, in partnership with the Association of Municipal Libraries Assabil.
Prize-winners receive the amount of 5,000$ (Visual arts), 1,500$ (Youth literature, Manuscripts, and Illustration) and 10.000$ (Cinema), and are invited to Artist in Residence stays at the Villa Empain in Brussels. In addition to the opportunity to exercise an artistic practice in the workshop made available, the residency offers visibility in Belgium and an opening to Europe.
Previously
In its concern to support research, the sciences and the arts, the Boghossian Foundation organized and financed prizes awards in Belgium and abroad from 2000 to 2012.
