On Monday 8 March 2021, for the International Women’s Day, the Institut français is giving you the opportunity to discover women who fight for women’s rights through culture, initiatives aiming to promote egality, or works that question women’s status in France and throughout the world.

The Institut français is posting a series of short stories on its social networks every Friday. 

Officially inaugurated on 12 February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season seeks to give the French public the opportunity to meet the many faces of modern Portugal and to take a fresh look at its neighbour. The implementation of the French portion has been entrusted to the Institut français.

Founded in 2016 on the initiative of Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto and the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the ¡Viva Villa! festival was born of a shared desire to offer a regular event in the form of a collaborative venture between the three institutions. Held in...

With MIRA - Mobilité à l’International de Recherche Artistique (International Travel for Artistic Research) the Institut français is updating the way in which it supports French artists with their international research projects. Calls for applications are open from 12 July to 31 August 2023! 

During their residency at Villa Kujoyama in 2021, Natacha Poutoux and Sacha Hourcade from the natacha.sacha. design studio set out to find new, more responsible and sustainable development protocols for the design of technological devices. Their research project took the form of the eco...

The Design Sediments exhibition can be seen from 31 January to 24 March 2024 at the Huidenclub in Rotterdam. This multi-disciplinary exhibition, curated by Léo Orta and Olivier Zitoun, was supported by the Institut français as part of the IF Export programme. The exhibition is featuring the French...