AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from e-flux Agenda

Arts of the Working Class
Berlin
Schillerpromenade 10,
Berlin, 13533
Germany
https://artsoftheworkingclass.org

Arts of the Working Class, together with AFIELD and Framer Framed, launches the Transitional Justice with Artists (TJA) Grant. Co-funded by the European Union, the program will award six grants of €10,000 and a six-month fellowship to practicing artists, cultural practitioners, or key members of initiatives addressing legacies of injustice and violence.

Transitional justice is traditionally viewed through the lens of legal and institutional frameworks designed to address human rights violations in the wake of conflict or repression. However, as early advocates like South African constitutional judge Albie Sachs recognized, legal tools alone cannot bridge the gap between formal proceedings and the lived needs of survivors seeking accountability. He argued that culture is essential for imagining a new society, and through confronting traumatic histories and preserving memory, artistic practices foster a form of restoration and repair that the law cannot achieve.

Within a European context, whose global entanglements are currently marked by multiple and overlapping crises, ranging from rising nationalism and democratic backsliding to climate-induced displacement and systemic discrimination, the limitations of purely judicial efforts are clear.

To address these disparities, the Transitional Justice with Artists program supports Europe-based practitioners and initiatives that advance justice through:

Truth-finding and truth-telling methods that challenge dominant institutional narratives and center marginalized voices. Memorialization and the preservation of memories for future generations. Tangible repair facilitating environmental, economic, or cultural restoration. Institutional reform that ensures human rights are respected.

The grant & fellowship
Six practitioners will be selected to enter a six-month fellowship between 2026 and 2027. It includes:

–10,000 grant EUR (€9,000 EUR unrestricted and 1,000 EUR for travel/residency)
–Joining AFIELD’s international network of 140+ socially engaged artists
–A published feature in the artistic street newspaper Arts of the Working Class (Berlin)
–A seven-day residency at Framer Framed (Amsterdam)
–Regular, thematic meetings (online)

Eligibility
Open to practicing artists and cultural practitioners who are legal residents of an EU Member State or a Creative Europe associated country. Initiatives must have been active for at least two years.

Applications are open until May 2, 2026 (11:59pm CET). For full details and how to apply, visit afield.org.

AFIELD is an international network of cultural changemakers anchored in the fundamental belief that artists are essential to the fabric of society, as thinkers and visionaries. By providing the resources and support, AFIELD believes in their ability to lead meaningful change in their communities and society as a whole.

Framer Framed is an Amsterdam-based platform for contemporary art, visual culture, and critical theory and practice. With the belief that critical and contextualised programming is best explored with an open door and low threshold, Framer Framed’s exhibitions and public programmes are always free of charge and resources are made readily available to emerging and established local and transnational communities, artists and curators to turn their own ideas into tangible realities.

Arts of the Working Class is a multilingual publishing program at the intersection of art, society, poverty and wealth. Sold on the streets, vendors keep 100 percent of the revenues. This model is the collaboration between private and public institutions, organizations, artists, and allies.

Transitional Justice with Artists is co-funded by the European Union.