Eidolon Centre Grant 2025
Location
Budapest, Hungary (Eidolon Centre for Everyday Photography); open to international applicants
Open to
Artists, photographers, academics, researchers, collectors, and professionals whose work centres on vernacular photography and everyday imaging. Open to all geographies, research interests, and career stages.
Application Fee
Free
What’s Provided
A grant pool of €25,000, distributed across two categories:
Contemporary Everyday Photographic Cultures: Projects engaging with digital images, social media, and networked visual culture
Everyday Photographs of the Past: Projects on 19th–20th century vernacular archives and public/private image heritage
Funding may cover project development costs, travel, partner fees, research and production, events, publications, or exhibitions
Successful projects contribute directly to Eidolon’s annual programming and gain institutional visibility via their journal, public events, and curatorial initiatives
What the artist/applicant must cover
Core proposal development and research
Any expenses not covered by the grant allocation
Program-related overheads independently
Duration
Grant supports projects throughout 2025–2026 during Eidolon’s programming year (timeline flexible per project)
Deadline
August 31, 2025
Additional Notes
Projects may include long-form essays, multimedia artwork, digital or site-specific installations, exhibitions, workshops, video essays, talks, masterclasses, or translated publications (photobook proposals not accepted)
A diverse international jury—including theorists and curators such as Nathan Jurgenson, Barbara Levine, Lev Manovich, and others—reviews all applications
