Filmmakers Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf have created Tigritudes, an anthology of 126 films, exploring the continent's film production that remains largely unknown. They talk about the genesis of this...

Fabienne Azzaro is the administrator of FAIR, a scheme to help new music artists at the start of their careers, which supports 14 emerging artists each year, particularly in their initial...

Circus artist and director Maroussia Diaz Verbeke is about to present her new show, 23 fragments de ces derniers jours (23 fragments of these last days), created in collaboration with the Brazilian...

Fabien Barati is the head of Emissive, a company specialising in immersive technologies, which offers visits to heritage sites through life-size virtual expeditions. We spoke with him about the...

Natacha Poutoux and Sacha Hourcade are the co-founders of design studio natacha.sacha. Returning from a residency at Villa Kujoyama, they tell us about their process combining technology, ecology and...

Attached to the defence of local values, Mamou Daffé is the head of several organisations and events in Mali. In particular, he directs the Centre Culturel Kôrè in Ségou, a partner of the Institut...

Planned for 2022, the France-Portugal Season will bring together artists, thinkers and scientists from both countries around common themes. As part of the Portuguese and French presidencies of the...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this second part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this first part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation...

The Franco-Syrian artist Bady Dalloul was born in Paris in 1986, and is the first artist – and only artist for now – who has been able to go to Villa Kujoyama, in Japan, to do a residency in 2021. His...

Buhlebezwe Siwani is a multi-media artist from South Africa who currently divides her time between Cape Town and Amsterdam.  She works predominantly in the medium of performance and installations. She...

The Trianon Dialogue was launched by Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Poutine in 2017 with the aim of reinforcing links between the Russian and French civil societies by developing new opportunities for...

Andrew Manning is the Director of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). With members in every EU country and over 133 ‘Clusters’ worldwide the organisation believes in the power of...

Director of the Musée de l’Orangerie, Cécile Debray is an iconic figure in the French contemporary art scene. Curator of several major international exhibitions – most recently “Préhistoire, une...

Marc Dondey is Director of the Scène de recherche (Research Stage) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) – Paris-Saclay which opened in January 2020. He works for interdisciplinarity between artists...