The recipient of the Erste Bank Art Award 2026 is Ana de Almeida!

We are delighted to announce that the Erste Bank Art Award 2026 has been awarded to Ana de Almeida in recognition of her outstanding artistic practice. The Erste Bank Art Award is a long-standing partnership project of DAS WEISSE HAUS and Erste Bank Sponsoring Programme. For its eleventh edition in 2026, the award is presented in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest. 

The Erste Bank Art Award is endowed with 5.000 euros and includes an exhibition at DAS WEISSE HAUS as well as a residency and the site-adapted version of the same exhibition in the respective host country. 

Ana de Almeida is an artist and author based between Lisbon and Vienna. She is currently researching on the production of images in an inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions. Her editorial work further complements her artistic practice, with contributions to publications and collective projects focused on decolonial and post-socialist perspectives.

Her current dissertation From the Shoebox to the Archive at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna investigates the intersections of personal memory, material culture, and historiography through a study of the archive as a living and performative site of knowledge production.