OPEN CALL: 2026 Artlab Editorial Fellowship at Hyundai Artlab.
We are looking for two writers at any career stage and from anywhere in the world whose texts on contemporary art exercise critical empathy, navigating the balance between care and critique, the interrogative and intuitive, the perceptive and imaginative, and engaging through dialogue to deepen understanding.
Art writers today are compelled to attend to the range of human experiences, navigating the familiar and unfamiliar, idiosyncratic and interconnected, coherent and contradictory. Within our contemporary cultural landscape, it is imperative that critics value nuance and interpersonal understanding in equal measure with intellectual precision.
Established in 2022, Artlab Editorial, an initiative by Hyundai Artlab, has witnessed firsthand how platforms for critical art writing are essential to a thriving global art ecosystem. As part of our ambition to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations, we are looking to support two art writers whose texts on contemporary art exercise critical empathy. These writers should navigate the balance between care and critique, the interrogative and intuitive, the perceptive and imaginative, and engage through dialogue to deepen understanding.
This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world and at any career stage. The two selected Fellows will each receive $10,000 to produce three pieces of writing every other month for Artlab Editorial in 2026 and will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Mira Dayal and Gary Zhexi Zhang, for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program.
deadline: 9 March 2026 (11:59pm EST)
more info: https://artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/2026-artlab-editorial-fellowship-open-call
