JODHPUR: On 2 October at Mandore Gardens, French artist Gaspard Combes presents Colours of Rajasthan, transforming everyday objects like lotas and plastic basins into monumental sculptures. Created with local artisans, the work draws on the site’s centuries-old cenotaphs and carved memorials, showing how ordinary forms carry cultural and historical weight.

BENGALURU: Fabien Toulmé, a French graphic novelist researching how couples meet, part, or stay together, has discovered both similarities and differences in Bengaluru’s approach to relationships

The Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques (Cirva) and Villa Swagatam announce an exceptional Carte Blanche entrusted to Indian artist Manish Pushkale, a leading figure in contemporary Indian abstraction, recently invited by the Musée Guimet in Paris for a major installation on memory and intangible heritage.

ActuaLitté était invité par l'Institut français en Inde (IFI), un des 98 établissements de la diplomatie culturelle française, pour découvrir le réseau de résidences.

The French Institute in India is pleased to announce the selection of 34 laureates for the third edition of its flagship residency programme,

NOUVELLE AQUITAINE : Le partenariat Villa Swagatam, entre l’Institut français en Inde et le Chalet Mauriac, prévoit d’accueillir en résidence un lauréat indien doté d’une bourse d’écriture, du 16 mars au 11 mai 2026, sur six semaines au Chalet, pour une immersion dans la forêt des Landes, puis sur les deux semaines suivantes à la Villa Valmont, la Maison des écritures et des paysages de Lormont (33), pendant le temps des Escales du livre de Bordeaux afin que le lauréat puisse y participer.

PARIS : Lancée en 2023, la Villa Swagatam tisse des dialogues inspirants entre savoir-faire français, indiens et sud-asiatiques. À travers ses résidences, elle offre aux créateurs une immersion dans des environnements artistiques variés, avec l’ambition de fédérer une communauté d’artistes engagés dans une dynamique résolument transfrontalière.

PARIS : Dans le dispositif des résidences françaises à l'étranger, la Villa Swagatam, lancée il y a seulement deux ans, s'appuie sur un réseau de partenaires à travers tout le pays, de Jaipur à Chennai. Elle vient de clore son 3e appel à candidature, qui a reçu 1250 réponses.

INDIA : The French Institute in India and the French Embassy in India announce the launch of the third edition of the Villa Swagatam cross-residency programme, which brings together around thirty partners across France, India, Bangladesh and as of 2025, Sri Lanka.

PARIS : Articulée autour des métiers d’art, la résidence, fondée par l’Institut français en Inde, a pour ambition de créer une nouvelle génération d’ambassadeurs culturels.

GOA: [From] two countries with very distinctive styles, Lokesh Khodke from India and Jean-Marc Troubert from France will be presenting their work based on their collaboration.

For much of the year, Mumbai-based Tony Xavier works as a chief learning officer with an edtech company but to pursue his passion for writing,

The French Institute in India announced the selection of the 28 laureates of the second edition of its residency programme Villa Swagatam for 2024-2025.

Deborah Fischer’s sources of inspiration can be found aplenty in our surroundings. Discarded waste, bunches of fabric scraps, cracks in a wall — the mixed-medium artist’s creative

New Delhi. 24 July 2024. The French Institute in India is pleased to announce the selection of the 28 laureates of the second edition of its residency programme Villa Swagatam for 2024-2025.

Vastrakala’s intricate hand embroidery is part of private homes in France, the Opera de Monte Carlo in Monaco, and even the refurbished throne of French emperor Napoleon.

The Embassy of France in India announced the launch of the second edition of the Villa Swagatam residency programme, a holistic network of residencies aimed at fostering cultural exchanges between France,

CHENNAI: Formative years of growing up between the diverse regions of Provence and Tamil Nadu, these are blurry borders for Victoire de Brantes.

The Embassy of France in India is thrilled to announce the launch of the second edition of the Villa Swagatam residency programme

January X, 2024 - Villa Swagatam, inaugurated in April 2023 by the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs

January X, 2024 - Villa Swagatam, inaugurated in April 2023 by the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna

LUCKNOW: Playing with the eye of aari and zardozi needles to create golden motifs on fabric was an ‘everyday affair’ for Mohd Shami until he met French Moroccan visual artist Yassine Bablzioui a few weeks ago.

On the occasion of the next India Art Fair, to be held in Delhi from 1 to 4 February 2024, the French Institute in India

Villa Swagatam, a platform for cultural exchanges between French and Indian artists, designers and writers, recently hosted Yassine Bablzioui, a French Moroccan Multidisciplinary Visionary at Kalhath Institute in Lucknow.

January 12th, 2024 - Villa Swagatam, inaugurated in March 2023 by the French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna

New Delhi. 14 September 2023. India is a country where the world of tomorrow is being built, where public figures and organisations

New Delhi. 17 July 2023. La Villa Swagatam a annoncé aujourd'hui les 17 lauréats sélectionnés pour sa première saison de résidences.

The event was attended by French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain, Emmanuel Lebrun-Damiens, Director, FII, and Catherine Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs

New Delhi.March 3, 2023. Visiting India for the G20 FMM, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna today inaugurated