Application deadline: March 3, 2025, 11:59pm
Hyundai Artlab has announced the third year of the Artlab Editorial Fellowship for 2025.
Within the realm of art, writers act as vital, informed connectors, materializing entangled relationships and articulating the bonds of artistic communities. As our world continues to become more interconnected, vast, and contradictory, a keen eye and voice are all the more valuable in understanding the complex webs of contemporary life.
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, Hyundai Artlab is looking to support two art writers whose forward-thinking insights connect across boundaries, bridging cultural communities in ways both big and small.
This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world and at any stage of their career. The two selected Fellows will be provided $10,000 each to produce three pieces of writing every other month for Artlab Editorial in 2025 and will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Rahel Aima, and Orit Gat, for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program.
The application is open now through March 3, 2025, 11:59pm EST. Apply here. Eligibility requirements and FAQs can be found here.
Artlab Editorial
Artlab Editorial is a destination for critical engagement with contemporary art. With interviews, reviews, essays, and profiles, Artlab Editorial publishes writing that offers an opportunity to better understand the past, reconsider the contemporary, and envision the future. In its first three years, Artlab Editorial has published writers from around the world, including Rahel Aima, Melissa Baksh, Shumon Basar, Julie Baumgardner, Allie Biswas, Hunter Braithwaite, Nancy Baker Cahill, Dawn Chan, Scarlet Cheng, Minji Chun, Samantha Culp, Joshua Paul Dale, Mira Dayal, Travis Diehl, Aindrea Emelife, Claire L. Evans, Mary Flanagan, Orit Gat, Ayana Jamieson, Ladi’sasha Jones, Charlotte Kent, Dean Kissick, Shannon Lee, Michelle Lhooq, Camila Marambio, Christina Catherine Martinez, Irini Mirena-Papadimitriou, Manuela Moscoso, Cassie Packard, Lee Pivnik, Syaura Qotrunadha, Andrew Russeth, Kenny Schachter, Barry Schwabsky, Diana SeoHyung, Mindy Seu, Elizaveta Shneyderman, Monica Uszerowicz, Wendy Vogel, Claire Voon, Linda Yablonsky, Mika Yoshitake, LinYee Yuan, and Gary Zhexi Zhang, along with past Artlab Editorial Fellows, Olamiju Fajemisin, Laurie Rojas, Skye Arundhati Thomas, and Kira Xonorika.
To further support new voices and strengthen connections across boundaries, Hyundai Artlab launched the Artlab Editorial Fellowship in 2023, providing two art writers based anywhere in the world the opportunity to write about their cultural community.
Fellowship Structure
The Fellowship is designed to produce a vibrant body of new art writing and foster global connections between writers, readers, and artists. With guidance from Artlab’s Editors and Advisors, Fellows will write three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial.
Fellows will be committing to writing one 700-word article in English every other month, for publication on Artlab Editorial from May through December of 2025. They will be expected to develop each article over the course of eight weeks, meeting with their Advisor for in-depth development sessions, and working closely with Artlab Editorial’s Editor via monthly touch-bases.
Artlab Editorial Fellowship Advisors
To enrich the experience of the Fellows and strengthen Artlab’s community of writers, Fellows will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Rahel Aima and Orit Gat, to receive regular mentorship, create article outlines, and get guidance on the production of their articles during the course of the program.
They will also work closely with Artlab Editorial’s Editor, Shannon Lee, via monthly check-ins for additional guidance and to ensure timely publication.
Rahel Aima is a writer, editor, and critic from Dubai. She is the Editor of BXD: The Postwestern Review. She is currently at work on a book about coastal terroirs, where oil meets water on the Arabian Peninsula, and becoming postwestern, as well as a collection of short exhibition fiction that springs from solar and lunar events. Published by Artlab Editorial in 2022, Aima wrote “The Artist as Sentinel,” a review that juxtaposes Tania Bruguera's Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with works by Agnieszka Kurant and Doreen Chan, showcasing how artists employing experimental media critique and celebrate the diverse possibilities of our shared future.
Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London. She has written about contemporary art, books, digital culture, and football for numerous magazines including The White Review, Frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Camera Austria, and Cultured, among others. She won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category in 2015 and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the International Award for Art Criticism (2017, 2018). Published by Artlab Editorial in 2022, Gat wrote “How Digital Lineages Change How We Make and Own Artworks,” a discussion on how we care for art in the digital age.
Shannon Lee is a writer and editor covering art, culture, the environment, and the Asian diaspora. They are the current Editor of Artlab Editorial in addition to The Amp at Asian American Arts Alliance. Previously, they were an Associate Editor at Artsy and Editor and a Senior Producer at Silica Mag. For their first piece for Artlab Editorial, Lee reflected upon Choe U-Ram’s “Little Ark” at MMCA Seoul, questioning how we define progress—both cultural and personal.
About Hyundai Artlab
For over a decade, Hyundai Motor has deepened its partnerships with global museums and cultural organizations, including MMCA, Tate, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Hyundai Motor’s own art initiatives include Artlab Editorial, a digital platform dedicated to art writing by international voices and open call programs like the VH AWARD and the Hyundai Blue Prize. Our ongoing collaborations and programs embrace the complexities of the cultural landscape by exploring new ideas and perspectives with individuals and organizations within and beyond the art ecosystem. The team steering these partnerships and initiatives is Hyundai Artlab. Our goal is to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations that connect across boundaries by supporting art that inspires us all.
