Unclassifiable and multiform, Ernesto de Sousa is one of the major figures of the Portuguese avant-garde. An exhibition, supported by the Institut français of Portugal, was dedicated to him earlier this year in Lisbon. The exhibition was also programmed as part of the France-Portugal Season 2022 but...

The French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri won the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale for his sculpture series Titans. He was able to take part in the international exhibition The Milk of Dreams due to the support of the Institut français’ Relance Export programme for six contemporary artists on the...

As part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français on the French side, the Serralves Foundation is organising a retrospective in Porto on the work of Agnès Varda, from 21 June to December 2022. We look back on the career of this key artist. 

N'Goné Fall, the General Commissioner of the Africa2020 Season, wished to place this ambitious project under the banner of pan-Africanism and collective intelligence.

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba breathe new life into the world of contemporary art: based in Berlin, they design exhibitions and founded the magazine Contemporary And, a demanding print and digital publication whose aim is to “connect cultures”.

Born in Hamilton, Canada, in 1978, Kapwani Kiwanga explores societal and historical themes through various media: performance, sculpture, video, and photography. The 2020 Marcel Duchamp Prize winner, her work has been exhibited all over the world, in Vancouver, London, and Paris where she lives...

Damien Odoul is a filmmaker and cross-disciplinary artist. He depicts the dark side of humanity through the arts, all while claiming its eccentricity. He is lively and sensitive, refusing norms in order to put the public’s habits to the test. Damien Odoul has built a discreet but unusual career.

The Théodora Barat artist manipulates light to create landscape-works in the form of films or installations. Her latest project, Micromégas, looks at the electricity infrastructures of Hong Kong.

A pioneering filmmaker and visual artist since the 1980s, Pierre Coulibeuf has shifted the boundaries of disciplines and shaken up creative codes.