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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.
The residency at NIAS
Being the oldest institute for advanced studies in Europe, NIAS constitutes an intellectual haven for an international community of scientists, writers, journalists and artists, enabling them to devote themselves to an independent research project. Committed to promoting interdisciplinary, curiosity-driven research for established and early-career researchers in all the humanities and social sciences, the NIAS is a place where science and the arts meet.
This residency is aimed at two artists, designers or curators who need time and space to undertake research and/or to write and to work as a group on a project requiring a research or writing phase in the city of Amsterdam. The two Nouveau Grand Tour artists in residence at NIAS are invited to actively participate in the NIAS community of residents, by being present at the NIAS Office for at least four working days a week and by taking part in weekly lunches organised for all the residents.
There will be no formal labour relationship with NIAS.
How to apply?
Andréanne Béguin and Lucie Nezri on their research at NIAS
