Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award

The yearly Bio Art & Design (BAD) Award aims to stimulate emerging designers and artists to delve into the world of bio art and design, and produce new multidisciplinary work. This can encompass numerous fields - from sustainability, food and health, to biotechnology, horticulture, and agriculture, from new materials to ethics and from molecules to the universe and every bio entity in-between, natural and synthetic.

In 2025, the 15th edition of the BAD Award is made possible by MU Hybrid Art House and connected to an extensive network of current and former scientific and cultural partners from Eindhoven and the Netherlands, amongst which are BioArt Laboratories, Dutch Design Foundation, MU Hybrid Art House, Next Nature Museum, NWO and ZonMW.

Aim of the BAD Award

  • Stimulate interest, excitement and debate about the (life)sciences through original artistic practice in combination with cutting edge research;
  • examine the social, cultural and ethical contexts of the (life)sciences through the arts;
  • promote high-quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborations between art/ design and science/technology.

We invite designers and artists who are interested in bio art & design & graduated within the last five years in the field of art or design (at either master’s or bachelor’s level), to propose projects for collaborative work across disciplines. Next open call for the BAD Award 2025 is now open.

Bio Art & Design exhibition

In the winter of 2025/2026, the two winning projects will be on show in the creative city of Eindhoven (The Netherlands) at MU Hybrid Art House on Strijp-S, where they will be presented in a thematic exhibition alongside other bio art & design works.