The Executive Board of SAR announces the opportunity to nominate candidates for the Annual SAR Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publication and to give visibility to the qualities of artistic research artefacts. The Executive Board will appoint a jury to assess the submissions. The jury consists of one member of the SAR Executive Board, one representative from the Portal Partners and one former RC prize winner.
 

Last years' winners and finalists can be found here. 

 

^{Winner of the RC Prize 2024, Kerstin Frödin and Åsa Unander-Schairin, Fragmente2, in the exhibition space Färgfabriken, Stockholm, 2021. Photo credit: Patrik Eriksson.}
 

Facts and Figures:

• Deadline for nomination submission: Jan 31, 2026.
   
• Publication period of exposition: Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025.
   
• Prize Award: € 500.
   
• Anyone is invited to make a nomination.

Conditions:

• The exposition must have been published (not only shared) on the Research Catalogue platform, within the set publication period.
   
• Submissions must be in English only. Due to the linguistic diversity of the RC, we cannot guarantee adequate peer review capacity across all languages. We are investigating expanding the language options for future editions.
   
• The following must be communicated by identifying the metadata of the exposition: Author(s), Title, Research Catalogue URL (including date of publishing) and identified in this format: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/xxxxx/xxxxx
   
• Address for submissions: rc.prize@societyforartisticresearch.org.
   

The finalists and winner will be announced during the Award Ceremony at the International Forum on Artistic Research 2026, 17th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research. More details about the 2026 Forum edition, dates and location will be shared soon.

The winner (or one representative of a winning team) is invited to attend the ceremony and participate in the Forum free of charge in person (travel and accommodation not included).
 

contact: info@societyforartisticresearch.org