Conceptual Art Residencies in France

Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre - ACCR

Paris, France

The Association des Centres Culturels de Rencontre (ACCR) coordinates residency programs in French cultural centers located in historic monuments, primarily the Odyssée program for foreign artists, researchers, and cultural professionals, and the Nora program for refugee artists in France. These residencies support projects in fields like music, architecture, visual arts, writing, film, and more, offering free accommodation and technical resources to foster interdisciplinary creation and intercultural exchange.

La Source

Saint Thégonnec Loc Eguiner, France

La SOURCE is an international and interdisciplinary art residency center in Brittany, France, dedicated to practice-led research on 'Love-Studies' through inner-connective, inter-connective, and eco-connective layers, offering immersive programs like the Temenos fellowship with 11-week sessions in fall, spring, and summer. It provides facilities including studios, a greenhouse dome, hearth kitchen, wellness area, and valley for land art, culminating in exhibitions, conferences, and publications, with a Post-Graduate Diploma for completing three sessions. Residencies feature daily fees on a sliding scale for housing but no program fees beyond room, board, and admin costs, welcoming creators in conceptual, performance, installation, socially engaged, land art, and other fields.

PAF, Performing Arts Forum

St Erme Outre et Ramecourt, France

PAF (Performing Arts Forum) is an artist-run residency located in a former convent in St. Erme, 150km northeast of Paris, France. It serves as a platform for professional and emerging practitioners and activists across performing arts, visual art, literature, music, new media, theory, and cultural production who seek to research and determine their own working conditions. The residency is initiated and run by artists, theoreticians, and practitioners themselves as a user-created, informal institution.