Zero Project Arts Awardees 2026

The Zero Project is delighted to announce the Zero Project Arts Awardees of 2026 – a specially designated cohort of innovative solutions relating to accessibility for and in the arts. This milestone aligns with the growing momentum of the Zero Project Inclusive Arts initiative.

Zero Project Arts Awardees receive more than recognition—they become part of the global Zero Project Network, present at the Zero Project Conference at the United Nations Office at Vienna and receive other opportunities to advance their solutions.

• Corporación Antilén (Chile): Working with festivals and cultural events to make them inclusive by and for neurodivergent persons
• Motiva Institute (Brazil): Metro stations showcasing artists through fully accessible exhibitions
• Omnium – A Bold New Circus (USA): Inclusive circus setting new standards for accessible on-stage entertainment
• Sencity (Netherlands): Multisensory music festivals making live performances enjoyable for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Skånes Dansteater (Sweden): International partnership transforming performing arts through leadership of artists with disabilities
• Suisha Inclusive Arts Horizons (Ireland): Inclusive arts platform empowers artists with intellectual disabilities, embedding creative access and co-design into artistic process and output
• Wien Museum (Austria): A museums´s multisensory approach to its exhibitions

In a selection process led by Isabella Essl, Head of Inclusive Arts, the Zero Project Arts Awardees will emerge from nominations submitted through the Zero Project Call for Nominations (#ZeroCall26). 

In the first stage of the specialized selection process, 48 inclusive arts nominations were peer-reviewed by members of the cross-sectoral Zero Project Inclusive Arts Community. As a result, 13 innovations have now been shortlisted.

All shortlisted inclusive arts initiatives will now be evaluated by an International Arts Experts Panel.

Shortlisted nominations will be evaluated by an international panel consisting of 18 experts from different fields and regions in the arts and culture sector. They will review each of the shortlisted #ZeroCall26 nominations relating to accessibility for and in the arts, and decide on the final cohort of Zero Project Arts Awardees 2026.