Grants

APRE Grants

Nuture. Integrity. Research. Future.

The Grants initiative reflects APRE Art House’s commitment to extending the role of the gallery beyond exhibitions into long-term ecosystem building. Established to respond to structural gaps that often limit access and opportunity in South Asia, the program is conceived as a gesture of trust and responsibility. It is offered without expectation, rooted in the belief that sustained creativity and cultural production thrive when given frameworks of care and support.

Mission

The mission of the APRE Art House Grants is to strengthen the South Asian art ecosystem by supporting artists, researchers, and cultural practitioners through purposeful financial assistance, mentorship, and visibility. Our grants provide timely interventions at pivotal stages in a career, enabling practitioners to expand their work with confidence, integrity, and ambition.

Vision

We envision a South Asian art landscape that is resilient, diverse, and internationally engaged, where early-career practitioners are supported with the same rigor and seriousness afforded to established voices. Through the Grants, APRE Art House affirms its role in strengthening cultural infrastructure by cultivating practices that might otherwise remain unseen, ensuring that experimentation, critical dialogue, and research are sustained with integrity

Why Grants?

APRE Art House offers grants to emerging practitioners across the South Asian art ecosystem whose work demonstrates both promise and rigor. At formative stages, even modest support can have a lasting impact, enabling practitioners to deepen their research, develop new projects, or present their work to wider audiences.

Grants 2025

The APRE Artist Grant 2025 offers emerging practitioners a comprehensive platform to develop their work, providing financial assistance of INR 60,000 to support the creation of new or ongoing projects. Recipients also receive a year-long mentorship with the APRE team, offering guidance and critical feedback to refine and strengthen their practice. In addition, the grant includes the opportunity to present work within the gallery’s program, situating the artist within a professional and critically engaged context that fosters visibility, dialogue, and meaningful engagement with audiences, collectors, and peers.

2025 Grantee: Arieno Kera

Arieno Kera belongs to the Naga indigenous community and is currently based in Nagaland. She is interested in process-based art practice and engage with painting, drawing, installation and video, as an archive of local tradition and cultural memory.



Exploring a material-based practice she engages critically with tools of representation derived from various traditional elements from her own indigenous background from Nagaland and interprets them into contemporary idioms of image making conversing with practice of drawing as an interface of representation, process and mark making. She translates personal experience into a performative signifier of memory and transformation.

Future categories will extend to researchers, curators, and cultural producers, ensuring that the full spectrum of artistic and intellectual practice is supported. The structure is holistic, designed to strengthen the cultural ecosystem at multiple points of engagement.

Patrons interested in contributing to the APRE Art House Grants and fostering the growth of South Asian art are invited to contact us at info@aprearthouse.com

Image Credits:

Pahul Singh, Pragati Dalvi Jain, Radha Rathi