About
Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome is the oldest and most generous award for artists and architects (up to 35 years) in the Netherlands. The prize was established in 1808 by King Louis Napoleon.

Originally the winners of the Prix de Rome won a trip to Rome, where they could study classical painting in the academic tradition. Today the mission of the Prix de Rome is tracking talent and identifying trends in art and architecture in an international context.
Prix ​​de Rome is organized and facilitated by the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.

The Rijksakademie offers the four nominated shortlist artists or architects a residency there to develop new work for the final presentation.

This new work is presented in an exhibition and evaluated by an international jury. From the four shortlist nominees the jury choses the winner of the first price (€45,000,-), the runner-up (€20,000,-) and artists who get the two basic prices (€10,000,- each).
Since 2005 in a four-year cycle one edition on Architecture and two editions on Fine Arts are organized. In 2010 Olv Klijn won the Prix de Rome Architecture. Pilvi Takala won the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2011.

Previous winners include Nicoline van Harskamp (2009), Vivianne Sassen (2007), Ronald Rietveld (2006), Alicia Framis (1997), Paul Kooiker (1996), Erik Andriesse (1988), William Quist (1958), Cornelis van Eesteren (1921) and Jan Sluijters (1904 ).