Visual Arts & Design

The Institut français du Royaume-Uni carries out a mission of cultural cooperation in favour of visual arts and design. It supports emerging talent and connects French artists with the British art scene.

Bilateral Programmes


Fluxus Art Projects

Fluxus Art Projects encourages artistic cooperation between France and the UK, supporting venues offering exhibitions of artists from the French scene in the UK and vice versa and supporting curators on curatorial research trips to France and the UK. It has also built a network of artist residencies within the framework of the new Magnetic programme.

Magnetic Residencies

Magnetic is a Franco-UK joint initiative that brings together 10 venues to create a programme of two-month artists’ residencies in France for UK-based artists and in the UK for France-based artists. Magnetic is gradually building a network of partner institutions with shared commitments and values.

Public Events

At the Institut français

Art Matters

A series of discussions revolving around art, societal and environmental issues with artists, curators, or thinkers, based in France or the UK.

Design in an Expanded Field

A series of conversations between French and British designers, Design historians and curators, associated to key art and design institutions in France.

Look-out

A series of conversations between French and British experts in the same field discussing their artistic vision and practice.

We Support or Recommend

Fluxus Events

Exhibitions and events not to be missed in the UK, supported by Fluxus Art Projects.

Beyond

Projects in the UK led by artists or curators from the French art scene we support or recommend.

What's On

 

Contacts

 

  • Main image: David Douard, Melody (detail), 2022, © Filipe Barga. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel

  • Image Art Matters: Detail © Zineb Sedira/ ADAGP, Paris, 2019. Courtesy Kamel Mennour Galleries, Paris/London and The Third Line, Dubaï

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