Dublin/Paris International Residency Exchange
A residency exchange between Dublin and Paris offers visual artists based in Ireland or Irish artists living abroad to spend two months in residence at Bétonsalon, Paris. The exchange also supports French artists to work from a studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
The Dublin/Paris International Residency Exchange is a new opportunity in partnership with Bétonsalon, Paris, offering a two-month research residency to a professional artist and includes living accommodation Couvent des Récollets, and a stipend to cover the artist’s living and research expenses, and travel to and from Paris. This opportunity is supported by Dublin City Council and The French Embassy in Ireland, with thanks to The Irish Embassy in France.
Founded in 2003, Bétonsalon – centre for art and research, is located within the Université Paris Cité. The organisation is one of the earliest organisations in France to recognise art’s position at the crossroads of various fields of research, linking artistic practices to their cultural contexts, and asserting feminist and decolonial positions. Today, the program revolves around sensitive/sensory experience as a factor of experimentation around social, racial, gender and environmental issues. Developing its activities in collaboration with local, national and international organizations, Bétonsalon is a source of situated practices and knowledge generating new approaches of artistic research across exhibitions and education, and an accessible and hospitable public institution, where the quality of attention is a daily commitment.
This opportunity will afford an artist the chance to take time to live in Paris and research from Couvent des Récollets. The accommodation offers 40 – 60 square live/work furnished accomodation with an equipped kitchen area, bathroom, sleeping area and a work area for research in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. It offers a chance to develop their artistic research, build professional networks, and engage with a community of French and international resident artists. The artist will have the chance to visit museums, galleries and other cultural organisations in a major city. At the beginning of residency, artists will be invited to present their practice to the Bétonsalon team and from thereafter will be free to undertake their artistic research, with support from Bétonsalon.
