The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, is establishing a fellowship in «Arts, Societies and Contemporary Mutations» In this context, the IAS in collaboration with local partners, Lieu Unique, the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts and Nantes Métropole, is offering an international artistic and research residency to artists from the global south. This residency is supported by Nantes Métropole – Culture Department.
s residency takes place at the Institut d'études avancées over a six-month period from September to February, and offers an original framework compared with the usual residencies for artistic creation. By inviting dialogue with other researchers, this residency creates a space for intellectual exchange between different disciplinary and geographical horizons.
The chair supports the development of research in art that dialogues with the humanities and social sciences in order to question the contemporary mutations of our societies. By considering artistic practices in terms of research, the residency participates in the emergence of new research territories (practices and forms, working methods, production regimes, etc.) exploring, through the crossing of disciplines, societal and environmental changes. It engages methodological questions and reflections on the nature of the knowledge incorporated, produced, and transmitted by these practices.

Profile and conditions

This residency is open to professional artists living and working in the Global South. More precisely, we are targeting artists whose nationality and residency are situated in the southern hemisphere excepting Australia, New-Zealand, Japan, South Corea and Guyane. Applicants are expected to have at least five years of professional experience at the time of the start of their residency, which should be supported through their active participation in public life, the dissemination of their work in an appropriate format such as exhibitions, publications, performances, etc.
 

This residency takes place at the Nantes Institute for advanced study over a six-month period from September to February, and offers an original framework compared with the usual residencies for artistic creation. By inviting dialogue with other researchers, this residency creates a space for intellectual exchange between different disciplinary and geographical horizons.

Drawing on a network of local partners, the residency also offers the opportunity to run a workshop for students at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and to interact with the Nantes public at an informal gathering at Le Lieu Unique.

A call for applications is published every two years in the autumn for the following year.

Two residencies have already taken place. The call for applications for the third residency, which will begin in October 2026, is open from September 29, 2025, to January 4, 2026.