SABAA | kukutana Art Award 2023
17 October 2025
kukutana / SABAA in 2023 will be awarding contemporary sub-Saharan African artists with 1.000€ each in the categories of painting, photography, illustration. The award is given every two years. This time the topical field is: #ChangingClimate #Nature.
In your art-work, SABAA | kukutana (among other things) is interested in: to know, to artistically discuss, to find something on the topic / of your view on / of your experience with todays nature and climate-changes.
Every two years SABAA | kukutana confers an art award to artistically reflect upon the special and individual experiences, ideas, images, and artistic positions of artists from Sub-Saharan African countries on urgent issues of our time and place. In order to frame and reframe, showcase, inform, evaluate, sustain, facilitate, inspire. And to propose African artistic positions & hints for handling our todays reality: LEARNING FROM AFRICA.
Award categories / prize money
- Painting: 1,000€
- Photography (an artistic approach, not a journalistic one): 1,000€
- Graphic arts | illustration (print, drawing, comic,): 1,000€
Timing
- Start submitting applications: 01. October 2022
- End of application period: 31. January 2023
- Informing the winners: 15. March 2023
- Exhibition (online): June to August 2023
- Catalogue published: June 2023
- Special exhibition (offline): July 2023
Jury
- Painting: William Bakaïmo | Wallace Juma
- Photography: Jacques Nkinzingabo | Antionette McMaster
- Graphic arts | illustration: Clara Aden | Alice Penda
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