cifra award: restart reality

We are celebrating artists who will define the future — creators whose work can be seen as future recipes, shaping how we imagine, experience, and inhabit the world to come. Our focus is not on what simply breaks through the screen or captures fleeting attention. We seek work that challenges systems, redefines context, and proposes new ways of being together.

Our selection is guided by diverse perspectives: we champion artists from all backgrounds, disciplines, and geographies. We aim to support their vision and amplify it globally, so that these ideas can reach audiences far beyond their immediate surroundings. That is why CIFRA Award is nomadic, traveling across the world to bring these voices into dialogue with new communities, new cultures, and new realities.

At CIFRA, we are curating art for collective world-building, work that contributes to a better, more interconnected, more conscious future. This is about fostering art that doesn’t just reflect the world, but actively helps shape it, forging pathways for tomorrow, today.