The 1998 Prince Claus Awards
- Theme
"The Art of African Fashion"
- Laureates
- Alphadi (Niger) (Principal Award), fashion designer
- Oumou Sy (Senegal) (Principal Award), fashion designer
- Tetteh Adzedu (Ghana) (Principal Award), fashion designer
- Rakhshan Bani-E'temad (Iran), film maker
- Heri Dono (Indonesia), artist painter, sculptor and installation artist
- Ticio Escobar (Paraguay), art critic, curator and museum director
- Jyotindra Jain (India), art and culture scientist
- Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga (Burkina Faso), archeologist and historian
- David Koloane (South Africa), visual artist and curator
- Baaba Maal (Senegal), singer
- Carlos Monsiváis (Mexico), writer, philosopher and journalist
- Redza Piyadasa (Malaysia), artist and art critic
- Rogelio Salmona (Colombia), achitect
- Kumar Shahani (India), film maker
- Tian Zhuangzhuang (China), film maker
- Nazik Saba Yared (Lebanon), writer, essayist and literature critic
- Committee
Adriaan van der Staay, Charles Correa, Emile Fallaux, Mai Ghoussoub, Gaston Kaboré, Gerardo Mosquera.
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