Applications for the second edition of the Salt Artistic Research and Production Grant Program are now open. Launched in collaboration with the BBVA Foundation, this grant program aims to provide a dynamic space for artistic research and production and is geared towards artists from Türkiye who investigate contemporary social questions through interdisciplinary approaches.
The program offers two types of grants to support artists and researchers working across diverse media and methodologies in art, architecture, design, and social and urban studies: Artistic Research Grant and Production Grant.
The Artistic Research Grant supports an interdisciplinary research project addressing contemporary topics, particularly concerning societal and environmental issues. The Production Grant supports an artistic production that engages with the moving image’s dynamic, diverse, and evolving nature while responding to pressing societal and environmental issues. Applicants for both grants are encouraged to focus on critical and timely issues at the intersection of art and design, technology, and ecology.
The application period for the 2025 edition will run from February 10 to April 7, and the selected projects will be announced on May 7. Each project will receive funding support of 20,000 EUR. The program will also cover an optional trip to Madrid and additional costs to present the research outcomes and body of works produced within the scope of the grant program in an exhibition scheduled for early 2026 at Salt Galata in Istanbul.
This year’s selection committee comprises Amanda de la Garza (Artistic Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), María Berríos (Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Guillermo Zuaznabar (Curator of Design and Architecture, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao), Marina Otero Verzier (Architect-Researcher), Özge Ersoy (Senior Curator, Asia Art Archive), Laura Poderoso (Deputy Director, BBVA Foundation), and Fatma Çolakoğlu (Director of Research and Programs, Salt).
The projects selected last year for the program’s first edition will be presented at Salt Galata from March 18 to June 15, 2025. The exhibition will feature Aslı Uludağ’s research project Geothermalisms, Ali Taptık’s Looking at Osmanbey: Social and Spatial Entanglements of Fashion Trade, and Merve Mepa’s An Interwoven Network: Threads and Trace.
For further information and application, please visit saltonline.org.
Founded in 2011 by Garanti BBVA, Salt is a not-for-profit cultural institution engaging in research, exhibitions, publications, web projects, and public programs at the intersections of visual practices, the built environment, social life, and economic history.
The BBVA Foundation, as the corporate social responsibility of the BBVA Group, is committed to advancing society by promoting and disseminating knowledge through research-based, artistic, cultural, and scientific projects.
