Announcing: the Transitional Justice with Artists Fellows
AFIELD, Arts of the Working Class, and Framer Framed announce the selection of six fellows for the Transitional Justice with Artists (TJA) Grant.
Selected from 364 applications from 34 countries, these practitioners are recognized for their long-term work addressing legacies of injustice and violence.
The TJA program supports creative practitioners who address historical harm through artistic methodologies, expanding the “justice imagination,” our collective capacity to envision ambitious forms of repair, truth-telling, and accountability that exist outside and beyond traditional legal frameworks.
Over two six-month fellowship periods in 2026 and 2027, the six fellows will each receive €10,000, and participate in a program which includes a peer-to-peer research group to share methodologies and resources; a published feature in artistic street journal Arts of the Working Class; and a seven-day residency hosted by Framer Framed in Amsterdam.
The Transitional Justice with Artists Grant is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
2026 COHORT
AIDA ŠEHOVIĆ (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
ŠTO TE NEMA Foundation
Artist Aida Šehović is awarded the TJA fellowship for the ŠTO TE NEMA Foundation, a participatory, nomadic monument and platform created to counter the ongoing denial of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide.
Co-created alongside a global diaspora of survivors and activists, the initiative uses public ritual, collective mourning, and intergenerational workshops to process and heal from historical trauma, reframing remembrance as a shared civic obligation.
FRANÇOIS MAKANGA (BELGIUM)
Cultural Marronage in the Public Sphere
Decolonial mediator and performer François Makanga is awarded the TJA fellowship for Cultural Marronage in the Public Sphere.
The initiative pursues transitional justice by contesting how coloniality shapes memory culture and occupying institutional gaps in Belgium. Through immersive, performance-based urban walks across Brussels and by subverting ethnographic galleries with temporary labels (cartels éphémères), the project injects missing African and Congolese perspectives into the public landscape to offer symbolic reparation and activate collective truth-seeking at the grassroots.
MIHAELA DRĂGAN (ROMANIA)
Giuvlipen Theatre Company
Actress and playwright Mihaela Drăgan is awarded the TJA fellowship for the Giuvlipen Theatre Company, Romania’s first independent Roma feminist theater company.
The initiative seeks to reclaim Roma history, art, and cultural identity by confronting systemic racism and gender oppression. Drawing from Roma Futurism (an artistic framework fusing heritage with technology and performance), Giuvlipen dismantles Eurocentric principles to demand intersectional narrative sovereignty.
2027 COHORT
ASTRIG AGOPIAN (ARMENIA)
Like There’s No Tomorrow
Journalist and documentary photographer Astrig Agopian is awarded the TJA fellowship for Like There’s No Tomorrow.
Informed by years of war reporting, this multimedia initiative addresses the mass displacement of over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh. By building an independent archive of personal testimonies and losses, the project creates a collaborative, community-centered space for truth-telling, preservation, and remembrance.
LUZ MARÍA SÁNCHEZ (NORWAY/MEXICO)
Vis.[un]necessary force
Transdisciplinary artist and researcher Luz María Sánchez is awarded the TJA fellowship for Vis.[un]necessary force.
Working directly with Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte, a civilian collective searching for victims of enforced disappearance, this initiative equips searchers with a grassroots field kit of geolocated, head-mounted cameras. The resulting community-controlled archive safeguards unedited forensic evidence for future accountability where the state has failed to act.
YEVHENIIA MOLIAR (UKRAINE)
DE NE DE
Art historian and curator Yevheniia Moliar is awarded the TJA fellowship for the collective DE NE DE.
Through flexible, field-based projects, the initiative integrates contemporary art into local museums throughout Ukraine. By transforming contested Soviet artifacts into “public assemblies,” the project creates safe, decentralized environments where conflicting historical narratives can coexist and be critically re-examined during an ongoing war.