Atoosa Pour Hosseini, résidente dans son atelier de la Cité internationale des arts, 2024
© Maurine Tric

Residency

Architecture

Visual arts

Photography

Cinema

Design

Arts & Crafts

Book

Graphic novel

Fashion

Music

Digital creation

Theatre

Dance

Street Arts / Circus / Puppetry

Institut français x Cité internationale des arts Residencies

Call for applications open

From 11 September 2024 to 25 October 2024

Foreign professionals / Members of the French cultural network

The Institut français x Cité internationale des arts residency programme is aimed at artists and cultural professionals who have lived abroad for at least 5 years and who wish to develop a research and creative project in Paris, during a three, six or nine-month residency.

Artists are supported by one or more cultural partners (French cultural network abroad, French or foreign cultural structures - art centre, association, gallery, museum, conventioned structure, theatre, production site, concert hall, festival, etc.) who submit their application and then pay for their international travel and living allowance. The Institut français offers the winners free studio accommodation at the Cité internationale des arts.

The Cité internationale des arts is located in Paris, on two separate sites, and has 325 studio flats. The management of 22 studio flats has been delegated to the Institut français by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Call for applications open until 25/10/2024

Apply

Terms and conditions

CALENDAR

Submission of applications: until 25 October 2024, included
Selection committee: December 2024
Notification of results: January 2025
Periods of residency: April 2025 – April 2026

APPLICATION SUBMISSION

Applications must be submitted by the associated partners via the IF Prog platform. Applications submitted directly by artists will not be considered.

DISCIPLINES

The selection process is open to artists and cultural professionals of all ages from all countries in the following disciplines:

Architecture, landscape , urban planning
Street arts, circus, puppetry
Plastic arts
Comic strips
Film (animation, fiction, creative documentaries, video art)
Digital creation (digital arts, video games, VR)
Art criticism and curating
Dance, performance
Design, graphics
Gastronomy
Literature (fiction, essays, children's literature, comics)
Arts and crafts
Fashion
Music (classical and contemporary, modern and jazz)
Photography
Theatre

TERMS OF RESIDENCE

The Institut français de Paris rents individual studio flats at the Cité internationale des arts. These are located on the Marais site (18 rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004). They are furnished, equipped with a Wifi connection and include a work room with a bedroom area, a bathroom and a kitchenette.
The associate partner(s) undertake to cover the cost of return travel; to ensure that the artist has insurance covering repatriation, hospitalisation costs, medical expenses and civil liability; to ensure that the artist has a visa allowing him/her to stay in France for the duration of the residency; to provide the artist with a living allowance of at least €1,000 per month.

DURATION OF THE STAY