Puppets, along with cubes, ropes, and many other everyday items, diverted from their daily use to become poetic objects, with sets often reduced to the bare minimum... Discover, in ten shows, what is known as the “theatre of objects”.

From April to June 2019, several French theatre companies presented performances to Russian audiences in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, the Stolby Nature Reserve and Voronezh.

For a few years, new artist forms come forth at the intersection of innovation and art. In the area of virtual reality, creators take hold of this medium and mix it with performance art, journalism, and visual art, to bring spectators new experiences. Artists, always pioneers, have anticipated the...

Festival OFF d'Avignon 55th edition will be held from 7 to 31 July 2021. Discover in pictures La Manufacture, le Théâtre des Doms and le Théâtre du Train Bleu, three theatres renowned for their artistic excellence and their commitment to contemporary forms and writing, as well as some shows...

Futurologies fluorescentes – Centre Pompidou - 18 March to 2 April 2022 

As part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season, the Centre Pompidou's Spectacles Vivants and the Teatro Municipal do Porto have joined forces to offer an abundance of programming: Cornucópia, the latest creation by the mala...

The France-Romania 2019 Season ended in France on 16 April, and continues in Romania until 14 July 2019. French culture will be showcased there through its visual and stage arts, gastronomy and music...a look back at the highlights from France and a look foward to the opening of the season in...

Pablo Gershanik is the 2019 Institut français/Cité internationale des Arts resident. An actor and director, he is the creator of the project Quatre Vingt Balles dans l’Aile and Maquettes Intimes, an investigative-creative process through which the artist examines resilience in art and the link...

A multidisciplinary artist, Nicolas Floc’h questions, through installations, photographs, films, sculptures and performances, our era of transition marked by flux, disappearance and regeneration. For the past ten years, he has been conducting research on the representation of the underwater...

Launched on 12 and 13 February in Paris, followed by the 16th in Lisbon and the 18th in Porto, the series of opening events delighted officials and the public who turned out in force to celebrate the creativity and talent of our two countries. 

With contemporary art, classical and contemporary...

Launched by French President Emmanuel Macron and dedicated to the 54 nations of the African continent, Africa2020 Season drew to a close on 30 September 2021. After a rich and varied ten-month programme across both metropolitan and overseas France, relive the Season through ten of its highlights.