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Romania in France, France in Romania

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...

Updated on 27/04/2022

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba

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”.

Updated on 04/05/2022

N’Goné Fall

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.

Updated on 04/05/2022

The opening of a new artists’ residence in Senegal: Villa Saint-Louis Ndar

Its inauguration scheduled for 8 June 2019 will be the starting point for a new artistic and cultural impetus in Senegal and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. A first call for applications was launched in the spring.

Updated on 27/04/2022

Martine Rey

A lacquer artist specialising in "urushi" plant-based lacquer, Martine Rey discovered this ancestral technique 40 years ago, during her studies at the University of Fine Arts in Kyoto, Japan. Trained by Master Shinkaï, since her initiation into the art she has been developing a sensitive and...

Published on 07/08/2019

Manuela Paul-Cavallier

A true craftswoman, Manuela Paul-Cavallier uses gold leaf in exceptional creations, whether reinventing luxury objects or creating her own works.

Updated on 17/04/2019

The Cité Internationale des Arts opens its workshops to the public

Around the world in 14 hours? It’s possible at the Cité Internationale des Arts! Embark on this new edition of the Traversées du Marais on 6th and 7th September 2019 and travel to the heart of workshops featuring all kinds of artists: photography, painting, sculpture, writing, music and performance...

Updated on 27/04/2022

Collective open-studio at the Cité internationale des arts

18 artists in residence at the Cité internationale des arts open the doors to their workshops. Coming from all over the world, they will share with the public their work in progress and their experiences of residency in France.

Updated on 27/04/2022

Laurel Parker and Paul Chamard

The bodies and souls of Laurel Parker Book, Laurel Parker and Paul Chamard are much more than the directors of an exceptional bookbinding workshop. Both defenders of tradition and explorers of innovative techniques, the duo are the very heart of a dedication to sublimation.

Published on 13/12/2019

March 8, 2020: International Women's Rights Day

On the occasion of March 8, International Women's Rights Day, the Institut français chose to highlight meetings, works, or portraits of women who, from Mexico to Tunisia, from Haiti to South Africa, from France to India, fight, through art and culture, for women's rights and explore the feminine...

Updated on 09/05/2022

#Culturecheznous (Culture at home)

Archaeology, cinema, museums, audiovisual, shows, youth, heritage, dance, archives... Discover the exceptional digital cultural offer offered by the Ministry of Culture and its operators on culturecheznous.gouv.fr.

Updated on 04/05/2022

Online open-studios #1 – April 2020

On Thursday, April 2, 2020, the recipients of the Institut français / Cité internationale des arts programme shared their residency experiences on the social networks. Follow this digital journey to the heart of their studios!

Updated on 27/04/2022

Le rêve du Paquebot (The Ocean Liner Dream) by Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin: learning between Nantes and Dakar

With Le Rêve du Paquebot, Olive Martin and Patrick Bernier follow the route of a ship built in Saint-Nazaire in the 1960s to understand the geopolitical and cultural ties linking France, Senegal and China. For this project, they collaborated with master weaver Ousmane Kà's workshop in Dakar...

Updated on 06/07/2020

Contemporary ceramic residencies at the Auberge de France in Rhodes

After a first pilot edition in 2019, the Auberge de France in Rhodes is opening its doors wide this year to host contemporary ceramic research residencies. Three artists will be hosted in autumn 2020.

Updated on 06/07/2020

Festival French Waves

The greatest French artists will be on-stage in your living room from 5th June to 16th July, as part of the French Waves online festival.

Updated on 27/04/2022