The residency programs

The Medici Residency programme aims to welcome French-speaking artists, authors and researchers from all disciplines to Villa Medici throughout the year in order to carry out a specific project of creation, experimentation or research for a period not exceeding six months. These residencies are not part of the annual Fellows’ competition. They are short residencies, allowing the realisation of a specific research or creation project.

On the application deadline, candidates must be over eighteen years of age (no maximum age limit). Applicants must be French-speaking, without any nationality criteria. Group applications are allowed.

Applications are examined during two sessions held each year in January and June:
Session n°1: applications to be submitted before 31 December of each year
Session n°2: applications to be submitted before 30 June of each year

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Applications must be submitted exclusively by electronic means, via the following platform:

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In 2019, the French Academy in Rome and the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, in partnership with the ADAGP, have set up a residency programme focused on comics art aimed at supporting innovative projects by established authors in the field of comics and illustration. 
Each year, following a call for applications, a winner is selected to spend several months in residence at Villa Medici.

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The winners:
2021: Guillaume Trouillard
2020: Isabelle Boinot, Matthias Lehmann 
2019: Céline Guichard

The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici and the City of Montauban have created a joint drawing residency programme in 2021 in partnership with the magazineThe Drawer.

Following a call for applications, a laureate will be selected to participate in a creative residency within the two partner institutions.

The winner will receive a grant, a one-month residency at Villa Medici in Rome and a one-month residency in the city of Montauban. He or she will have access to the collections and archives of the Musée Ingres Bourdelle and will receive support throughout the project.

The call for applications is aimed at artists, creators or researchers with a creative project in drawing or cross-disciplinary drawing fields. Applicants must be French-speaking, with no age limit or nationality criteria.

The winners :
2021: Louis Hervé

Are you interested in this programme? See the last call for applications for more information.

Applications must be submitted exclusively at the following platform:
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As part of a partnership with the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation initiated in 2014, three laureates of the Lagardère Foundation grants (of any nationality, age and discipline) are selected each year to spend a one to four week residency at Villa Medici to develop a specific research or creative project.

The winners:
2021: Pierre Maillard, Tian Doan Na Champassak, Virginie Boda
2020: François-Henri Désérable, David Robert
2019: Baptiste Rossi, Bastien Daret
2018: Harchi Kaoutar, Stéphanie Lacombe and Eugène Riousse
2017: Isidore Béthel, Melissa Laveaux, Yann Charbonnier
2016: Maciek Pozoga, Audrée Wilhelmy, Alexandre Westphal
2015: Yann Apperry, Arnaud Gerber, Julien Golsdtein
2014: Angelo Cianci, Julien Hamelin, Djeff Regottaz

Created in 2018 in partnership with the Occitanie Region, the Occitanie-Médicis Prize aims to promote artistic creation in Occitanie and expand its international influence.

This prize is open to visual artists, living in Occitanie or having a link with the Occitanie Region (birth, education), and whose professional work has an international dimension. Each year, following a call for applications, one artist is welcomed in residence at Villa Medici for three months to carry out a specific project. The aim of this residency programme is not only to provide artists with the conditions for research, reflection and creation, but also to expose them to Italian culture and to meet the other fellows and resident artists at Villa Medici, in a dialogue between disciplines.

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The laureates:
2021: Paul Loubet, ÎLE/MER/FROID (Antony Lille, Hugo Lemaire and Boris Geoffroy)
2020: Noëlle Pujol
2019: Antoine Renard, Agathe Pitié
2018: Abdelkader Benchama

Initiated by the French Embassy in Italy and the Institut Français Italia in partnership with the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the XR Farnese – Medici Residency is a programme dedicated to immersive creation and virtual reality. Launched in partnership with NewImages Festival – an international event dedicated to XR – the residency is endowed with a grant of 6,000€, and will allow a French author to develop his or her XR project during a stay at Villa Medici. This residency will be an opportunity to meet Italian institutions, artists and professionals.

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Created in 2002 in partnership with the École française de Rome, the Daniel Arasse Research Grant is intended for French-speaking researchers who are doctoral candidates or for a first post-doctoral fellowship in the history and theory of the arts and who wish to travel to Rome to carry out research in Roman and/or Italian institutions concerning the modern and contemporary period. The amount of the scholarship is 1,000 euros per month. Eight monthly instalments are foreseen within the framework of this research grant.

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Créée en 2010 en partenariat avec l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), la bourse André Chastel est destinée aux chercheurs et chercheuses de niveau avancé. Ce programme permet d’accueillir chaque année à la Villa Médicis deux chercheurs post-doctoraux pour une résidence de recherche portant sur l’art de la Renaissance à nos jours.

Created in 2010 in partnership with the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), the André Chastel Research Grant is intended for advanced researchers. Each year, this programme allows two post-doctoral researchers to be hosted at Villa Medici for a research residency on projects from the Renaissance to the present day.

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