FREE ENTRY / The COAL Prize 2026

The COAL Prize 2026 invites artists to defend the night as a common good and a major ecological issue for the regeneration of life. It is a refuge and a celebration of diversity and languages, as well as a right to rest and darkness. By inventing stories that help us to relearn how to inhabit the shadows and by creating art with the night, we can contribute to an ecology of rhythms. Reconnecting with our fear of the night is the perfect antidote to anthropocentrism because it humbles us by confronting us with the vastness of the sky and the immensity of the cosmos.