The main aim of the grant is to support the creative process of a ceramic project.

Launched in 2023 by the Schleich-Lentz Foundation in partnership with Focuna, the grant is open to all artists or groups of artists of Luxembourg nationality or resident in Luxembourg, regardless of age, who can demonstrate a professional career of at least five years and who have already had a solo exhibition in an art institution or gallery. The aim of the grant is to support the completion of a ceramics project.

Following a call for projects, an independent jury from Luxembourg's cultural sector assesses the applications according to pre-established criteria. The jury then proposes to the Management Committee of the Schleich-Lentz Foundation the candidate(s) selected for the grant on the basis of the assessment criteria.

In 2023, the successful candidates are :

Claudine Arendt, for her ‘Invisible Ocean’ project, which involves making visible and tangible what is happening on the seabed. Anni Mertens, for two installations planned in the Netherlands in 2023 and 2024.

In congratulating the work of the two prizewinners, the jury was delighted to be able to support ‘on the one hand a very concrete project, subsequently exhibited in the United States, and on the other the projects of an emerging artist’.

Photo credit :
Anni Mertens, Tangerine Dip, 2023. photo on the left © Silvia Arenas. 
Claudine Arendt, Euphausiid 200-1000kHz, 2022. Photo on the right © Claudine Arendt.