The Absa L'Atelier Art Competition is a South African annual art award for South African visual artists between the ages of 21 and 35.
The competition is run in conjunction with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA).
From 2004[2] the Gerard Sekoto award was added to the competition, to support the most promising artist taking part in the competition with an income of less than R60 000 per annum.
In the early 1980s SANAVA acquired three atelier apartments[3] at the Cité internationale des arts from where the name Atelier Competition has its origin.
These assets are held in trust in terms of an Occupational Rights Agreement by the SANAVA Cité des Arts Trust, valid until 22 March 2060.