Working-Class Grant
The Working-Class (Creative) Grant is funded through a portion of my art sales and supports other artists and creatives directly. It is a one-off €500 grant awarded throughout the year to a different working-class creative anywhere in the world.
The grant is intended for people who receive little or no institutional support and who would benefit from practical financial assistance. There are no strings attached and no expectation of exchange. The grant does not require an artwork donation or reporting. It is offered in the spirit of informal patronage and mutual support.
The funds may be used freely: for materials, equipment, research, travel, development, printing, subscriptions, studio time, or simply to help cover rent, food and living costs.
How to apply
Please send an email to karim@karimboumjimar.com
Subject line: Grant: Your Name
Include:
- A brief introduction to yourself
- Your contact information
- An example of your work or a short description of your interests and situation
Selection process
This is artist-run, small, and real, not institutional.
Recipients are selected according to the resources available within my independent artistic practice at the time. If you are not selected immediately, your application will remain in the pool for future consideration. You do not need to reapply. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. There is no fixed deadline.
Awarded grants
Kevin Kim
March 2026 — Grant recipient 005
Kevin Kim (b. United States) is a photographer and writer working with travel, memory, and observational image-making. Born to Korean-American parents, his practice follows encounters across landscapes, often structured through long-distance motorbike journeys. His current project Coffee & Flowers gathers photographs taken between 2016 and 2025, forming a photobook about slowness, chance meetings, and everyday life on the road.
Klau Skuza
March 2026 — Grant recipient 004
Klau Skuza (b. 1998, Warsaw) is a visual artist working across sculpture, performance, and video. Their work blends real and imagined narratives into immersive, dream-like situations that move between childish naivety and adult anxiety. Approaching life as a continuous rite of passage, Skuza treats alienation as a transformative state that opens new spaces for exploration.
Leviathan Furtilius
May 2025 — Grant recipient 003
Leviathan Furtilius (b. 1988, Copenhagen) is a visual artist working across sculpture, writing, costume, and installation. Their work explores relationships between technology, nature, and queer identity through hybrid figures and constructed environments. Recent projects include Queer Fauna and The Rusted Archive.
Ghazaal Nasiri
May 2025 — Grant recipient 002
Ghazaal Nasiri (b. 1991, Shiraz) is an Oslo-based visual artist working with drawing, textiles, ceramics, and embroidery. Her practice connects personal memory with inherited Qashqai craft traditions and addresses migration and intergenerational storytelling. She is currently developing ceramic paintings informed by Persian mythology.
Vukadin Filipović
February 2025 — Grant recipient 001
Vukadin Filipović (b. 2000, Užice) is a Vienna-based artist working with drawing, text, photography, and embroidery. Using autobiographical material and personal archives, his work examines home, memory, and belonging. His ongoing series The Following traces fragmented narratives of desire and return.