Paid Artist Residencies in France

Paid Artist Residencies in France

The INSTITUT FRANÇAIS launches a call for applications for its programme at the Cité internationale des arts for residencies between April 2022 and April 2023.

With the support and delegation of the French Ministry of Culture and the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, subscribers of studios at the Cité internationale des arts, the Institut français allows nearly 70 artists each year to benefit from a residency in the heart of Paris.

Since its creation in 1965, the CITÉ INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS has welcomed artists from all over the world.

It is a place of life open to dialogue between cultures, where artists meet their audiences and professionals.

In partnership with 135 French and international organizations, it welcomes each month more than 300 artists from all disciplines, generations and horizons.

Paid Artist Residencies in France - For Whom Is the Programme Intended?

This programme is intended for foreign artists, residing exclusively outside of France, wishing to develop a research and creation project in Paris, for a period of three or six months.

Applications must be supported by one or several cultural partners.

The partners associated with the artist may be: Establishments from the French Cultural Network Abroad Instituts français, Cultural Services of French Embassies, Alliances françaises And/or French or foreign cultural bodies Art center, association, multidisciplinary lab, gallery, museum, approved body, theatre, production venue for dance and street arts, concert hall, festival abroad, etc.

In France, priority shall be given to applications supported by certified bodies and networks of the ministry of Culture.

Paid Artist Residencies in France - Disciplines

Artists may present a research project on a topic/theme of their choice, within the disciplines mentioned below:

Architecture/landscaping/urban planning

Visual arts

Street arts/circus/puppets

Comic arts,

Cinema (fiction, animated cinema, creative documentary)

Exhibition curating/art critic

Digital creation (digital arts, video games, VR)

Dance

Design/graphism

Literature (fiction, essay, children's literature)

Crafts

Fashion design

Music (current, classic, contemporary and music for films and video games)

Photography

Pluridisciplinary projects

Theater

Paid Artist Residencies in France - Terms of Residence

The INSTITUT FRANÇAIS offers individual residencies and finances the accommodation in studio-apartments at the Cité internationale des arts, on the site of the Marais, in Paris.

The studio-apartments, of a surface of approximately 40m2, are equipped with a work area and a furnished living area (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen) and are fitted with a Wi-Fi Internet connection.

The PARTNER(S) ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARTIST, in France or abroad, shall commit to:

Finance round-trip travel expenses;

Ensure that the artist holds an insurance covering the following: repatriation, hospitalization fees, medical fees and civil liability;

Ensure that the laureate holds a visa enabling him/her to stay in France for his/her residency period.

Provide the artist with a minimum allowance of 700 euros, per month.

For the French cultural network abroad, new possibilities of financing the allowance through CAMPUS FRANCE are now opened.

Since 2020, and while waiting for the creation of a new parameter in the Crocus software currently under development, the Department gives the possibility for the French cultural network abroad to set up, via Campus France, "Artist-in-residence" fellowship, through the “SSHN - young researcher" grants.

In support of their application, the Institut français, SCAC or Alliance française will have to send the following documents to Campus France: photocopy of passport, letter of acceptance from the French host institution, letter presenting the project and the artist's CV.

As the overall cost of a residence can represent high amounts for a single partner, the residencies department of the Institut français encourages partners to develop co-financed projects in collaboration with several French and/or foreign associated structures.

The Institut français highly recommends that the associated partners contact Mathilde Lajarrige - mathilde.lajarrige@institutfrancais.com, prior to submitting applications, to build the project together.

The ARTIST (or the associated partner) will have to pay a deposit (approximately 200 euros) directly to the Cité internationale des arts one month prior to the date the residency begins (returned, after inventory, at the end of the stay).

There is a possibility to subscribe to various additional services and/or to come accompanied by an adult (162 € per month) and/or a child under 7 years old (about 119 € per month).

Fees are to be paid directly by the artist to the Cité internationale des arts.

N.B.

No allowance for production shall be paid by the Institut français or the Cité internationale des arts.

Artists from Africa and the Caribbean may also apply for the ‘‘Visas for Creation’’ programme, for which all living expenses shall be borne by the Institut français.

Paid Artist Residencies in France - Eligibility Criteria

The artist must: