Winners of the Transformative Territories award

Winners of the Transformative Territories award

With Se Transformer, the COAL 2024 Prize calls for culture to be seen as the breeding ground for our relationship with nature, and thus our greatest asset for bringing about a radical and sustainable change in society. By cultivating resistance and resilience in the face of the world’s Great Transformation, this fifteenth edition of the COAL Prize underlines that artists are not only actors of change, they give us the power to embody it and thus answer Gandhi’s call: “Be the change you want to see in the world”.

Published on 10 July 2024


Fifteen years after its creation
the Prix COAL returns to its roots to reveal the power of art not only to alert and denounce, but also to repair and connect through gestures of care and sharing in the face of the global ecological crisis. At a time when knowledge alone is no longer enough to motivate action, The Prix COAL 2024 calls for transformation from within, of the senses, of care, of oneself with others. The ten artists nominated for the Prix COAL 2024 and the three students nominated for the Prix COAL étudiant deploy restorative practices, We offer a wide range of activities: individual and group reconnection; somatic, sensory and spiritual reconnection; hand and earth skills; often in atypical, non-institutional cultural settings, veritable open-air laboratories where we can experiment with concrete, realistic ecotopias for better living together.

FIVE ARTISTS WIN THE TRANSFORMATIVE TERRITORIES AWARD

This Creative Europe 2024-2026 program, led by COAL with five European partners, explores the role of the arts and artistic practices in transforming territories through transnational research and creation, collective events, support for a scientific committee, and the creation and dissemination of methodological tools. Five artists will be invited to the five partner venues of the European Transformative Territories program, and 100 projects revealed through the call for projects will be promoted on its platform and within its network.


Martha Fely (France),
From mountain to mountain

Nuno da Luz (Portugal),
Feral Songbook

Margherita Pevere (Italy),
Lament

Caroline Le Méhauté (France),
Tellus project

Iwrds Duniam, (Perou), Khipucamayoc: weaver of arboreal entanglements

  • About us
    About us

    COAL mobilizes artists and cultural actors on societal and environmental issues and accompanies the emergence of a new culture of ecology through its actions such as the COAL Prize, curating exhibitions, advising institutions and communities, European cooperation, and the animation of conferences, workshops and the first dedicated website Ressource0.com

  • COAL PRIZE
    COAL PRIZE

    COAL has been awarding the COAL Prize Art and Environment every year since 2010 and the COAL Student Prize - Culture & Diversity since 2020.

  • Projects
    Projects

    Major projects linked to the major events in political ecology, in connection with natural or urban environments.

  • Artistic direction
    Artistic direction

    About fifty exhibitions throughout France, cultural actions, works in the public space, and project support to contribute to the emergence of a new culture of ecology.

  • SHARING
    SHARING

    Cooperation programs on a European and international scale, support for institutions in their ecological transition through tailor-made accompaniment and training, promotion of arts and ecology issues through publications and numerous conferences and workshops.