Nouveau Grand Tour

The New Grand Tour, conceived and designed by the French Institute of Italy (IFI) / Embassy of France in Italy, is a residency project for young European talent under the age of thirty and deployed throughout Italy, through a network of partner institutions. A major issue of the Quirinal Treaty, this large-scale artistic programme promotes cultural dialogue as well as the European values of exchange and sharing.

This project was born out of a desire to inaugurate a contemporary form of the eighteenth-century tradition of the Grand Tour, which enabled the youth of Europe to travel from city to city discovering the artistic heritage. This new Grand Tour will offer the young artists selected the opportunity to be accompanied in their creative process, without any production imperative, and in so doing to be in contact with several local cultural actors.

In 2022, Germany is the guest country of this programme, thanks in particular to a partnership with the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ), and in dialogue with the Goethe Institute, allowing young German and French artists to be hosted throughout Italy for stays ranging from two weeks to four months. From 2023 onwards, the circulation will be extended to other European countries.

The Nouveau Grand Tour is a multidisciplinary program aimed at artists from all creative fields: Visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, audiovisual, etc.), performing arts (theatre, dance, circus, performance, music and sound design) as well as cultural and creative industries (fashion, design, architecture and landscape architecture, gastronomy, arts and crafts). In the performing arts some partner institutions may also host companies or collectives.

Newsletter "Residency Programmes"