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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

32nd EDITION OF PARCOURS DE L'ART

October 16-25, 2026

 

 

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In the winter of 2020, Le Parcours de l'Art began a new chapter. The festival was then entrusted to a renewed collective of volunteers, driven by the desire to professionalize it and make it a reference for emerging artists, while affirming its vocation as a resource place open to the diversity of audiences.

 

Convinced that art is a powerful vehicle for community and a sensitive mirror reflecting our vulnerabilities and human experiences, we build on the successes of past editions to go even further. Creative residencies, improved professional support, strengthened connections between spaces within and outside the walls, and a wider range of offerings for all audiences: these are all initiatives that fuel our commitment.

 

Each autumn, Parcours de l'Art invites wonder, reflection and surprise, offering a stimulating field of exploration through the plurality of contemporary artistic forms.

Thematic

 

What if hospitality became a right rather than a duty?

 

Welcoming and being welcomed, like the ebb and flow of a wave, could become a metaphor for a true ecology of relationships. An ecology founded on alternation, listening, attention, and esteem, on curiosity about difference and complementarity, where welcoming the other is no longer a source of fear, but of transformation and enrichment.

 

How can we imagine a world free from alienating borders, where artists, guardians of a fragile balance, are both observers and activists of a collective thought in motion? By exploring new ways of inhabiting the world, they develop imagined senses of belonging, invent sensitive tools, and open up perspectives for tackling the challenges of the future together. Their works weave together cross-disciplinary communities that unite and create spaces of resonance.

 

For the duration of the festival, we invite you to celebrate these acts of hospitality through exhibitions, encounters, and screenings. We hope that the Célestins will be experienced as an oasis, a contemporary caravanserai: a place of passage and sharing where fragility and vulnerability, seen as treasures, can be deposited—the living and precious raw material of a counterculture in the making.

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Calendar

 

> Duration of Parcours de l'Art #32: 10 days of exhibition from Friday, October 16 to Sunday, October 25, 2026 (+ setup and dismantling).

> Opening of the call for applications: February 2, 2026.

> Closing date for applications: March 2, 2026 at midnight.

> Pre-selection result: March 23, 2026 (you will receive an email on this date informing you of your pre-selection).

> Final public selection: April 6, 2026

 

 

application procedures

 

For the application to be considered, the criteria below must be strictly met.

 

  • The candidate is at the beginning of their artistic career and is under 40 years old.

  • The candidate can prove their status as an artist with a SIRET number.

For a collective, one of the artists must meet the 2 previous criteria, he will be the sole contact person for Parcours de l'Art.

  • The works presented fall under the theme "Hospitality".

  • The candidate proposes works created by him or his collective, available on the dates of the 2026 Parcours de l'Art and finalized at the time of submitting the application file.

  • The festival is open to all artistic media (painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, video, etc.). Candidates whose work demonstrates a significant visual dimension will be considered for the official selection.

  • The candidate did not participate in Parcours de l'Art #30 and #31 (2024 and 2025).

 

 

ATTENTION: The pre-selected candidate must provide the information and documents listed in the charter (available for download on the website) before April 6, 2026 to validate their selection.

 

As part of a partnership with OVNI in Nice, the selected video works may also be presented at this festival in November 2026, according to the terms and conditions set out in the charter. 

application file

 

The application file must be sent to candidatures.parcoursdelart@gmail.com and be accompanied by the signed charter which can be downloaded below.

Any incomplete, late application or application that does not comply with the terms and conditions listed below will not be considered.

 

How to present your application

 

All documents must be compiled into a single PDF file (maximum 20 pages). The file size must not exceed 15 MB.

Video or audio works are presented in the form of URLs (Vimeo, Youtube…)

Please name your PDF file as follows: last_name_first_name_PDA32

 

The first page contains only the following information:

  • artist name (it will be used exclusively on all communication materials)

  • first and last name

  • SIRET number

  • mailing address

  • phone number

  • email address

  • social media accounts and website

  • If collective, names and surnames of artistic collaborators and name of the collective

 

On the following pages

  • A presentation of the artist(s) involved: bio (1 page maximum), portfolio (2 pages maximum).

  • A statement of intent describing the link of your artistic project with the theme "Hospitality" (maximum 2000 characters).

  • A presentation of the works that you are submitting to Parcours de l'Art and only those works (10 A4 pages max.).

  • A technical sheet for each work presented, according to the model (to be downloaded above).

 

 

ARTIST REMUNERATION AND CONDITIONS

 

Each artist will receive 500 euros (including VAT), comprising:

  • 200 euros for display (exhibition) rights.

  • 100 euros per diem.

  • 100 euros contribution towards the transport of the artworks.

  • 100 euros contribution towards the artists' trip, round trip.

  • On-site accommodation is provided by the volunteers of Parcours de l'Art. 

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