Talents Contemporains is an annual international competition for visual art organized by the François Schneider Foundation in France. The competition is open to artists from around the world, regardless of nationality, and is aimed at both emerging and established professional artists as well as recent graduates from art schools. The theme of all submitted works or projects must fundamentally be about water.

The disciplines accepted are painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video and textile art. Performing arts and music are excluded. Existing works are accepted for all these visual disciplines, while proposals for projects not yet produced are reserved for sculpture and installation proposals that require a production budget.

Winners receive 15,000 EUR each, and sculpture/installation projects may additionally receive up to 50,000 EUR in production funds. The winning works are included in the foundation's permanent collection, displayed in a dedicated group exhibition at Wattwiller Art Center in France, and presented in a bilingual publication as well as a video portrait of the artist.

• Who can apply: Visual artists from around the world, regardless of nationality – emerging or established professionals, as well as recent graduates from art schools
• Field of culture: Visual art (painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video, textile art)
• Covered / paid out: 15,000 EUR prize per winner, up to 50,000 EUR production support for sculpture/installation projects, placement in the foundation's collection, group exhibition at Wattwiller Art Center, bilingual publication and video portrait
• You pay yourself: Not specified
• Application deadline: 22.11.2026
• Place: Europe / international (exhibition in Wattwiller, France)
• Organizer: Fondation François Schneider