Rubis Mécénat has been committed to highlighting contemporary creation by providing production assistance to emerging and mid-career artists to create new work. Aware of the importance of emerging and new creative voices, as well as unequal access to an artistic career, the fund also supports emerging artists through several professionalisation and awareness-raising programmes.
In 2025, Rubis Mécénat joined forces with La Station Culturelle, a major cultural player in Martinique, and the unRepresented by a ppr oc he salon to create a grant to support contemporary French Caribbean and Amazonian creation.
The grant will enable an artist living and working in Martinique, Guadeloupe or French Guiana to present his or her work at the unRepresented fair in Paris, and to benefit from a programme of professional meetings tailored to the development of his or her artistic career.
This project aims to promote the dynamism of contemporary Caribbean and Amazonian art in France, while addressing the inequalities linked to the visibility and mobility of artists from these territories.
2025 winner: Jordan Beal (Martinique)
Since 2024, Rubis Mécénat has been collaborating with LE BAL by supporting La Fabrique du Regard – Le Festival, which presents the collective work of young people and artists as part of the programmes of La Fabrique du Regard, the educational and creative centre of LE BAL.
La Fabrique du Regard trains young people in and through the visual arts and works in depth with young people in urban policy neighbourhoods, priority education networks and areas far from cultural and artistic facilities.
Since its inception, the programme has involved 24,000 young people, 1,320 teachers, 550 artists and other members of the educational and cultural community in 275 neighbourhoods, from primary to secondary school level, in schools and social facilities.
Since 2023, Rubis Mécénat has been supporting the Young Creation workshop developed by the Ateliers Médicis as part of the Cinémathèque idéale des banlieues du monde in partnership with the Centre Pompidou and with the support of the Centre National du Cinéma for young artists and filmmakers making a film or audiovisual project.
In addition, the Young Creation Grant of the Ateliers Médicis and Rubis Mécénat is awarded each year to an artist from the workshop for the development of one of their projects.
Winner 2023: Rayane Mcirdi, for the production of his short film Après le soleil presented publicly at the Contemporaine de Nîmes in 2024, and then selected for the Quinzaine des cinéastes at the 2024 Cannes film festival.
Winner 2024: Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui for the development of her film project Al Thurya.
