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.

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Created in 2010 by the COAL association, the COAL Prize is a vehicle for identifying, promoting, and disseminating artists who, throughout the world, bear witness to, imagine, and experiment with solutions for transforming territories, lifestyles, organisation, and production. Together, these artists help to make changes visible and build a new collective narrative, a shared heritage in development, and a positive and necessary framework for everyone to find the means and inspiration to implement changes towards a more sustainable and just world.

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