Swedish Arts Grants Committee — Visual & Applied Arts Working Grants (2026 Call)
Support to sustain a professional visual or applied arts practice connected to Sweden. Foreign nationals may apply, but this is not a worldwide residency: applicants must live in Sweden or conduct most of their artistic practice there.
Sweden
Before you apply
Check residence and nationality requirements separately, confirm what costs you would cover, and allow time to prepare every required document. This listing is a guide; the organiser makes the eligibility decision.
- Status
- Open
- Organizer
- Swedish Arts Grants Committee
- Who can apply
- Individual professional visual/applied artists living or primarily practising in Sweden; foreign nationals eligible. Must earn at least partly through art and present work regularly. No more than half-time study at decision. Prior-award, public-debt, bankruptcy and state-aid restrictions apply; see official terms.
- Funding & support
- Committee assigns one, two, five or ten years. One/two-year awards: SEK 120,000 per year, tax-exempt. Longer awards: three price-base amounts yearly, taxable. English and Swedish pages display different current cash equivalents; consult the current award terms.
- Application fees
- Application fee not stated.
- Travel support
- No separate travel package stated.
- Accommodation
- No accommodation package stated; this is a working grant, not a residency.
- Disciplines
- Visual art, Photography, Design, Crafts, Illustration, Textile art, Architecture
- Deadline
- 11 November 2026 at 14:00 CET (13:00 UTC).Organiser timezone: Europe/StockholmAccra time: 11 Nov, 13:00 GMT
- Programme dates
- Call open 9 October–11 November 2026; decisions April 2027.
- What to prepare
- 5–10 recent work samples: JPG up to 2 MB; MP3 up to 20 MB; MP4/MOV up to 50 MB each.
- How to apply
- Complete mandatory form fields and work samples through the official e-service; paper alternative available. English accepted. Submitted applications become public records.
- Selection process
- Artistic quality and financial need assessed by the Visual Artists’ Fund. Decisions expected April 2027; the committee determines grant duration.
- Admission & access
- Direct individual application; applicants elsewhere must demonstrate that Sweden is their principal place of artistic practice.