Coronavirus COVID-19 : Africa 2020 Season postponed

The President of the French Republic announced in November 2017 in Ouagadougou, before confirming the news on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos, that a special season would be organized in France to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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!

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. 

In the context of confinement that still affects many countries, the « Des/confinés » programme offers weekly meetings with cultural figures on social networks.

The Institut français presents the results of the France-Romania Season 2019 in augmented reality, following more than 8 months of multidisciplinary programming in France and Romania, followed by 2.5 million people in both countries

A free “France-Romania Results” app has been specially designed...

On Saturday 28 November 2020 from 5pm to midnight, Télérama and Le Centquatre have teamed up, in partnership with the Institut français, to give the opportunity to twenty or so artists to speak. The event has been named “Jour d’artistes” (Artists Day), and will be relayed on this page. 

The artists in residence through the programme of the Institut français at the Cité internationale des arts will be featured from December 7 to 10, on the Facebook and Instagram pages of the Institut français.

For the 5th edition of French Culture Month in Cuba organised from 18 to 31 May 2021, all the Cubans have to do is get comfortable in their living rooms to follow one of the unmissable events in their cultural calendar.

In an intense crisis that is having a heavy impact on the Lebanese cultural scene, and in the continuity of the emergency aid to Lebanon announced by the French Head of State in September 2020, the Institut français is taking action to support Lebanese artists and creators. Following the launch of...

For their third edition, the online open-studios of the recipients of the Institut français / Cité internationale des arts residency programme are back on the Institut français Instagram account. From 22 to 24 March 2021, see the work and research of these artists-in-residence in Paris.

Europe Day has been marked on 9 May since 1985 to commemorate the Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950, considered the cornerstone of the European project. On this occasion, the Institut français is highlighting European players from very different backgrounds!