2025 artlab editorial fellowship open call

Established in 2022, Artlab Editorial, an initiative by Hyundai Artlab, has witnessed first hand how providing a platform for critical art writing is essential to a thriving global art ecosystem. As part of our ambition to spark meaningful dialogue, cultivate empathy, and facilitate collaborations, we’re thrilled to announce the third year of the Artlab Editorial Fellowship.

The application is open now through March 3, 2025, 11:59pm EST.

Eligibility requirements and FAQs can be found on our website artlab.hyundai.com

We are looking for two art writers whose forward-thinking insights connect across boundaries, bridging cultural communities in ways both big and small.

This Fellowship is open to art writers from anywhere in the world, and at any stage of their career. The two selected Fellows will be provided $10,000 each to produce three pieces of writing for Artlab Editorial in 2025. Additionally, each Fellow will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors for regular one-on-one guidance and mentorship throughout the program.

Fellowship Structure

The Fellowship is designed to produce a vibrant body of new contemporary art writing and connect writers, readers, and artists around the world. With guidance from Artlab’s Editors and Advisors, Fellows will write three pieces of web-based editorial content for publication on Artlab Editorial.

Fellows will be committing to writing one 700-word article in English every other month, for publication on Artlab Editorial from May through December of 2025. They will be expected to develop each article over the course of eight weeks, meeting with their Advisor for in-depth development sessions, and working closely with Artlab Editorial’s Editor via monthly touch-bases.

Fellowship Advisors

To enrich the experience of the Fellows and strengthen Artlab’s community of writers, Fellows will be paired with one of this year’s Fellowship Advisors, Rahel Aima and Orit Gat, to receive regular mentorship, create article outlines, and get guidance on the production of their articles during the course of the program. They will also work closely with Artlab Editorial’s Editor, Shannon Lee, via monthly check-ins for additional guidance and to ensure timely publication.

Rahel Aima is a writer, editor, and critic from Dubai. She is the Editor of BXD: The Postwestern Review. She is currently at work on a book about coastal terroirs, where oil meets water on the Arabian Peninsula, and becoming postwestern, as well as a collection of short exhibition fiction that springs from solar and lunar events. Published by Artlab Editorial in 2022, Aima wrote "The Artist as Sentinel," a review that juxtaposes Tania Bruguera's Hyundai Commission in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with works by Agnieszka Kurant and Doreen Chan, showcasing how artists employing experimental media critique and celebrate the diverse possibilities of our shared future.

Orit Gat is a British writer and art critic living in London. She has written about contemporary art, books, digital culture, and football for numerous magazines including The White Review, Frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Camera Austria, and Cultured, among others. She won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category in 2015 and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the International Award for Art Criticism (2017, 2018). Published by Artlab Editorial in 2022, Gat wrote "How Digital Lineages Change How We Make and Own Artworks," a discussion on how we care for art in the digital age.

Shannon Lee is a writer and editor covering art, culture, the environment, and the Asian diaspora. They are the current Editor of Artlab Editorial in addition to The Amp at Asian American Arts Alliance. Previously, they were an Associate Editor at Artsy and Editor and a Senior Producer at Silica Mag. For their first piece for us, Lee reflected upon Choe U-Ram’s “Little Ark” at MMCA Seoul, questioning how we define progress—both cultural and personal.