Resonance Programme 2026 for Artists based in Nigeria (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: June 14, 2026

Applications are open for the Resonance Programme 2026 for Artists based in Nigeria. ART X Lagos, the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the Embassy of France in Nigeria / Institut Français du Nigeria have co-constructed an annual residency programme for visible artists, designers and curators of all nationalities based in Nigeria, known as RESONANCE.

Initiated in 2020 by Cité internationale des arts and the Institut Français du Nigeria, the purpose of the programme is to facilitate mobility and help analysis, in addition to the enlargement of the skilled community of actors throughout the Nigerian artwork scene.

In 2025, by partnering with West Africa’s main worldwide artwork truthful, ART X Lagos, the programme was opened to visible artists, curators, and designers residing in Nigeria. During the three-month, totally financed residency, the chosen visible artist, designer and curator might be in dialogue with a mentor based in France and profit from skilled networking, with the help of the Cité internationale des arts.

Benefits

Residents will profit from:

• Dedicated help and dialog on inventive, curatorial and design practices with a France-based skilled;
• Visits and networking alternatives organized by the Cité internationale des arts;
• A live-in-studio on the Marais web site of the Cité internationale des arts;
• A month-to-month residing allowance (1,200 euros);
• Travel charges to and from Paris lined (visa and insurance coverage to be lined by the artist).

Eligibility

The programme is open to:

Curators

• of all nationalities who stay and work in Nigeria;
• who’re aged over 23 on January 1st of 2026;
• who can justify at the least 5 years of expertise in curatorial practices (minimal of two exhibitions curated and two publications in referenced artwork media);
• who can totally commit in the course of the residency interval to the event of their analysis mission with the mentor, and to connecting with the Cité’s setting.

Artists of all disciplines throughout the subject of visible arts (plastic arts, digital arts, pictures, efficiency)

• of all nationalities who stay and work in Nigeria;
• who’re aged over 23 on January 1st of 2026;
• who can reveal at the least 2 years of expertise in inventive practices in their portfolio;
• who can totally commit in the course of the residency interval to the event of their analysis mission with the mentor, and to connecting with the Cité’s setting.

Designers of all disciplines (furnishings, object, digital and print):

• of all nationalities who stay and work in Nigeria;
• who’re aged over 23 on January 1st of 2026;
• who can reveal a dedication to the apply as knowledgeable and a researcher;
• who can totally commit in the course of the residency interval to the event of their analysis mission with the mentor, and to connecting with the Cité’s setting.

Application

Required paperwork: 

• A Resume presenting your tutorial {and professional} background, and your contact and postal tackle (most 4 pages)
• A Portfolio explaining your curatorial, inventive or design method and presenting a number of latest initiatives consultant of your work (5 to most 20 pages)
• A Research Focus assertion explaining the analysis angles that you simply wish to develop throughout your residency, together with a residency transient with a listing of artists, specialists or cultural establishments with whom you want to collaborate with (most 3 pages)
• (Optional) One of the next recordsdata: A video hyperlink consultant of your work (most 3 minutes) OR a letter of advice supporting your curatorial, design or inventive mission at Cité Internationale des Arts (most 1 web page)
• A legitimate passport (with 6 months of validity after journey)

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Resonance.