A well-known author for young people, Marion Achard benefited from a residency in Mongolia with the Institut français Stendhal programme to write her latest book, Tumee, l'enfant élastique. The author...

Choreographer Amala Dianor has been awarded a residency at Villa Albertine. In duo with photographer Grégoire Korganow, their residency will take place in three American cities, in search of new...

A prolific illustrator of comics and children's books, Marc Boutavant was the winner of the 2022 Grande Ourse prize at the Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunesse in Seine-Saint-Denis. The SLPJ and...

Olivier Ratsi's light installations appeal to the viewer's senses, to better question how digital technologies resonate with techniques of representation inherited from the Renaissance. Several of his...

The visual artist Mimosa Echard, whose work intertwines organic elements and industrial detritus, has just been awarded the prestigious Marcel Duchamp Prize. 

The young author Hamza Lenoir offers a rereading of the choreographic traditions of Mayotte through his show Le Corps de Jésus. A creation where body and words are intimately linked. 

Olivia Rosenthal, a well-known figure on the contemporary literary scene, has just published Un singe à ma fenêtre, a novel written at the end of her residency at Villa Kujoyama in Japan. 

The work of this artist couple, who like to stage their intimate lives in the internet age, is presented in the travelling exhibition Escape, a journey to the heart of digital cultures. On the...

S. Pierre Yaméogo's cinema is deeply rooted in social criticism and is one of the most striking oeuvres in recent decades. On the occasion of the Lumière Festival, the Cinémathèque Afrique of the...

One of the most iconic figures in contemporary French theatre, Joël Pommerat has written nearly twenty shows over the last two decades, most of which have been performed on international stages. The...

The Haitian author and director Gaëlle Bien-Aimé has just been awarded the 2022 RFI Theatre prize, organised in partnership with the Institut français, for a work of powerful lyricism, rooted in the...

The French-Algerian artist Kader Attia, whose work has explored memory and colonial issues for two decades, has just been appointed curator of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (11 June - 18...

For two decades, choreographer Alexandre Roccoli has been interested in the healing powers of dance. His show Long Play (LP), first created with the dancers of the Marseille Ballet, will soon be...

Emerging in 2018 with her dazzling solo Pode ser, choreographer and performer Leïla Ka has just won the Danse Élargie competition, organised by the Théâtre de la Ville with the support of the Institut...

First seen in Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine et le Mulet, Hafsia Herzi has established herself as an audacious actress with a diversity of projects, collaborations and strong characters. Having moved...