The winners of the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Prize ’26 have been announced. The eleventh and final edition of the competition within the S+T+ARTS Initiative (Science, Technology and Arts) received a record-breaking 2,719 submissions from 110 countries.
The Grand Prize – Innovative Collaboration, endowed with €20,000, goes to Agnes Meyer-Brandis for her long-term interdisciplinary art and research project Office for Tree Migration (OTM). Hito Steyerl receives the Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration, also endowed with €20,000, for her video installation Mechanical Kurds.
Both projects will be presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2026, taking place from 9–13 September. Interviews with the winners are already available on the blog.
