
image for illustration: Villa Medici, Rome by Laterbat, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons
Académie de France a Rome announces applications for the 2025-2026 fellows selection open call will be open to Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 12:00 (midday – CET).
Académie de France à Rome writes:
Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is a French establishment located, since 1803, in the Villa Medici, a 16th-century villa surrounded by a seventeen-acre park, on Mount Pincio, in the heart of Rome. A national public institution under the authority of the Ministry of Culture, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici fulfils three complementary missions: to welcome high-level artists, creators and art historians in residence for one-year stays or shorter; to set up a cultural and artistic programme that includes all fields of the arts and creation and is aimed at a broad audience; to conserve, restore, study, and make its architectural and landscape heritage, as well as its art collections, known to the public.
Each year, the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici organises an international competition to select Fellows who will be hosted at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency for creation, experimentation and research (beginning of the residency in September, end in August). The competition is open to established French-speaking artists, authors and researchers, regardless of nationality. Applications are accepted from all disciplines of literary and artistic creation, arts and crafts, as well as history and theory of the arts or restoration of works of art or monuments.