This list of European art awards covers some of the main art awards given by organizations in Europe. Some are restricted to artists in a particular genre or from a given country or region, while others are broader in scope. The list is organized by region.
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltic states | Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature, the Arts and Science | Baltic Assembly | Outstanding achievements in three categories: literature, art and science [1] [2] |
| Slovenia | Jakopič Award | Academy of Fine Arts and Design etc. | Achievements in the fine arts children's literature [3] |
| Czech Republic | Jindřich Chalupecký Award | Jindřich Chalupecký Society | Young visual artists: Czech citizens under the age of 35. [4] |
| Poland | Paszport Polityki | Polityka | Various categories [5] |
| Poland | Nagroda Sztuki im. Marii Anto & Elsy von Freytag-Loringhoven | Maria Anto & Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven International Art Prize | Visual Art categories [6] |
| Poland | Kazimierz Ostrowski Award | Association of Polish Artists and Designers | Polish artists and designers in recognition of their excellence [7] |
| Ukraine | Future Generation Art Prize | Victor Pinchuk Foundation | Discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists [8] |
| Ukraine | Honored Worker of Ukraine Culture | ||
| Ukraine | Merited Artist of Ukraine | ||
| Ukraine | People's Artist of Ukraine | ||
| Ukraine | Shevchenko National Prize | ||
| Ukraine | Vasyl Stus Prize |
| Country | Award | Sponsor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | Artist of the Year | International Interartia Festival - International Art Society & Academy | Artists who gain a first prize (World Award) in all competitions held within the framework of the present InterArtia Festival [9] |
| Greece | InterArtia World Award in Art (InterArtia Prize) | International Interartia Festival - International Art Society & Academy | Various categories [10] |
The 1994 K Foundation award was an award given by the K Foundation to the "worst artist of the year". The shortlist for the £40,000 K Foundation award was identical to the shortlist for the well-established but controversial £20,000 Turner Prize for the best British contemporary artist. On the evening of 23 November 1993, Rachel Whiteread was presented with the 1993 Turner Prize inside London's Tate Gallery, and the 1994 K Foundation award on the street outside.
The K Foundation was an art foundation set up by Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, formerly of The KLF, in 1993, following their 'retirement' from the music industry. The Foundation served as an artistic outlet for the duo's post-retirement KLF income. Between 1993 and 1995, they spent this money in a number of ways, including on a series of Situationist-inspired press adverts and extravagant subversions in the art world, focusing in particular on the Turner Prize. Most notoriously, when their plans to use banknotes as part of a work of art fell through, they burned a million pounds in cash.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It hosts a frequently changing variety of exhibitions, events, and educational programmes with no permanent exhibition. The idea to open a centre for contemporary arts in Gateshead was developed in the 1990s, which was a time of regeneration for the local area—the Sage and Gateshead Millennium Bridge was also being conceived of in this period.
The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additional money from the European Regional Development Fund and City Challenge.
The Museum of the Year Award, formerly known as the Gulbenkian Prize and the Art Fund Prize, is an annual prize awarded to a museum or gallery in the United Kingdom for a "track record of imagination, innovation and excellence". The award of £100,000 is Britain's biggest single art prize, and the largest single museum arts prize in the world. The prize and is presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.
The Dylan Thomas Prize is a leading prize for young writers presented annually. The prize, named in honour of the Welsh writer and poet Dylan Thomas, brings international prestige and a remuneration of £30,000 (~$46,000). It is open to published writers in the English language under the age of forty. The prize was originally awarded biennially but became an annual award in 2010. Entries for the prize are submitted by the publisher, editor, or agent; for theatre plays and screenplays, by the producer.
Jerwood Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation in the United Kingdom. In 1999 the Jerwood Foundation established the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, a registered charity under English law.
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a United Kingdom-based charity established in 1988 to support closer links between Britain and Japan. It was founded with a benefaction from Daiwa Securities Co Ltd.
Cerith Wyn Evans is a Welsh conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker. In 2018 he won the £30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
Bedwyr Williams is a Welsh artist. He works across varied media including drawing, painting, writing and video..
The Eckersberg Medal is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting.
The Hepworth Wakefield is an art museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born and educated in the city. It is the successor of the municipal art collection, founded in 1923 as Wakefield Art Gallery, which spans the Old Masters to the twentieth century.
Haroon Mirza is a British contemporary visual artist, of Pakistani descent. He is best known for sculptural installations that generate audio compositions.
Carl Randall is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London.
Artraker is a UK-based Community Interest Company established in 2012 and the brain-child of political artist, Manali Jagtap. Artraker annually recognizes artworks that helps shape and inspire through visual arts how people and organisations understand, engage and respond to war, violent conflict and social upheaval.
Heather Phillipson is a British artist working in a variety of media including video, sculpture, electronic music, large-scale installations, online works, text and drawing. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022. Her work has been presented at major venues internationally and she has received multiple awards for her artwork, videos and poetry, including the Film London Jarman Award in 2016. She is also an acclaimed poet whose writing has appeared widely online, in print and broadcast.
Helen Elizabeth Marten is an English artist based in London who works in sculpture, video, and installation art. Marten studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford (2005–2008) and Central Saint Martins (2004). Her work has been included in the 56th Venice Biennale and the 20th Biennale of Sydney. She has won the 2012 LUMA Award, the Prix Lafayette in 2011, the inaugural Hepworth Prize and the Turner Prize, both in 2016. Marten is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery in New York.
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture is a biennial prize for sculpture named for Barbara Hepworth and awarded by The Hepworth Wakefield. The prize seeks to recognise "a British or UK-based artist of any age, at any stage in their career, who has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture".
Hitomi Hosono is a London-based ceramicist who won the inaugural Perrier-Jouët Arts Salon Prize. She is known for intricate ceramic pieces that are inspired by botanical studies and her memories of the Japanese landscape and the greenery of East London.