Institut français Nouveau Grand Tour
The Nouveau Grand Tour is a residency program that invites French artists, recent graduates from art and design schools, to the Netherlands. During their stay they are hosted by NIAS or one of the other partner residencies.
About the Institut français Nouveau Grand Tour
For young artists, the first few years after graduation are a critical period, when they need extra support to build lasting professional relationships outside their immediate environment. For this reason, the programme provides selected fellows with time and space to research, reflect and network with other artists and local institutions.
The Nouveau Grand Tour is designed as a professional springboard for artists at the beginning of their careers and as a showcase for the emerging French contemporary art scene for cultural institutions and festivals in the Netherlands. Supported by a network of residency partners, it offers artists, designers and curators from France who have recently graduated from an art or design school the opportunity to undertake creative and research residencies in the Netherlands.
On the website of Institut Francias you can find all the information about the residency at NIAS, as part of the call for applications for the Nouveau Grand Tour 2025.
Criteria
The Nouveau Grand Tour NL is aimed at recently graduated artists, designers and curators who wish to enrich their practices and develop a creative and research project that requires a period of immersion in the Netherlands.
The Nouveau Grand Tour NL offers creative and research residencies for artists who meet the following conditions:
- You have graduated from an art and design school within the last five years. Exceptionally, the call for applications is open to artists who graduated shortly before Covid. Artists who graduated between 2018 (included) and 2024 (included) are therefore eligible to apply.
- You are of French nationality or have been living in France for a minimum of five years.
- You have a good working level of English.
- You have an interest in the Netherlands and its cultural and artistic scene.
How to apply?
About Institut français
Institut français is a French institute dedicated to cultural cooperation.
- Promoting multilingualism and French language learning
- Enabling exchanges and partnerships in the fields of art, research, education, the French language and ideas.
- Assisting professionals from the culture, research and education sectors in their development.
- Organising events to bring people from European countries into conversation on topical issues.
About NIAS
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study is an intellectual haven for international researchers, writers, journalists and artists to pursue their research or projects, to work in an interdisciplinary environment and to share their knowledge with society.
It offers a diverse year-group of about 50 NIAS Fellows the opportunity to devote themselves to an independent research project. NIAS is the oldest Institute for Advanced Study in Europe whose founding mission is to foster curiosity-driven research. It is an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and is located in Amsterdam.