Deadline: 4-Nov-22

The Art Explora foundation, in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts, welcomes every year about twenty residents, artists and researchers from all over the world. This programme offers the possibility for artists and researchers to carry out research and creation work in the heart of Paris, in connection with the French artistic and professional scene.

The residents’ work focuses on the theme of scientific and technological exploration and confronts the major social and environmental issues of this time.

To encourage cultural exchanges with as many people as possible, Art Explora renews the dialogue between the arts and the public on a local, national and international scale. Convinced that mobility and digital technology can broaden the boundaries of the human imagination, Art Explora encourages new forms of public access and engagement. Together with artists, cultural organisations and local actors, the foundation explores contemporary creation in all its forms and creates unique cultural experiences.

To accomplish this mission of public interest, the foundation supports several projects: the Art Explora Academy, launched in 2022, the first entirely free digital platform dedicated to learning about art history; the HangarY, which will become, at the end of 2022, a new cultural space dedicated to contemporary creation and to a renewed dialogue between the arts and the public; itinerant projects such as the MuMo, the mobile museum created in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, as well as the ArtExplorer, the world’s first museum boat, which will sail out in 2023 to meet the communities of all the continents of the globe.

Program

• SOLO Programme 
  • For artists only.
  • The programme invites candidates to propose a project that questions contemporary issues, including new technologies, the links between art and science, and environmental and social issues.
  • Eligible artistic disciplines: visual arts, performing arts, digital art.
  • Art Explora will have 8 studio apartments and a common space for all the residents of the site.
  • Each resident will benefit from:
    • A 6-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Montmartre.
    • A studio apartment of about 50m2 (only one double bed), fully equipped and furnished.
    • A grant of 1,000 euros per month.
    • A production grant of up to 3,000 euros, delivered upon justification.
    • A round trip to the residence.
• DUO Programme 
  • For a collaboration between an artist and a researcher or scientist based in France, or an artist collective.
  • The residency programmes invite artists and researchers to present a project that questions the art/science links and on the theme of scientific exploration, technological exploration and exploration of the world.
  • Eligible artistic disciplines: visual arts, performing arts, digital art.
  • Eligible areas of research: humanities, social sciences, sciences, technological innovation & sustainable development, art criticism & exhibition curating.
  • Art Explora will have 8 studio apartments and a common space for all the residents of the site.
  • Each resident will benefit from:
    • A 3-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Montmartre.
    • A studio apartment of about 50m2 (only one double bed), fully equipped and furnished.
    • A grant of 1,000 euros per month.
    • A production grant of up to 3,000 euros, delivered upon justification.
    • A round trip to the residence.
  • NB: For the DUO program, only one studio apartment (a bedroom with a double bed, a workspace, a kitchen and a bathroom) can be made available: exclusively for the artist in the context of a collaboration with a researcher based in France, or for one artist from a collective. The workspace may be shared with the researcher or other members of the collective. The living grant will be paid only to the resident housed at the Cité internationale des arts de Montmartre and a common production grant will be allocated to the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• The programmes are open to artists and researchers of all nationalities, with no age limit. Eligible artists are those who can justify a minimum of five years of professional activity.
• In addition to the evaluation of the candidate’s professional background, the committee members pay particular attention to the quality of the project, its link with the theme of the residency (art & science, as well as exploration) and the importance of its location in France for the advancement of its research.
  • Eligible artistic disciplines: visual arts, performing arts, digital arts.
  • Eligible areas of research: humanities, social sciences, sciences, technological innovation & sustainable development, art criticism & curating.
• The programme encourages creation in all its forms while facilitating its distribution to the general public, in line with Art Explora’s global mission. Meetings with artists, studio visits, workshops, performances, film screenings, etc. are thus organized. In this respect, the residence opens its doors to the general public in July for the festival Croisements : les rencontres de Montmartre.

For more information, visit https://www.artexplora.org/en/the-artists-residencies-programme-presentation