The Noveau Grand Tour
The Nouveau Grand Tour, (NGT) conceived and designed by the Institut français Italia (IFI) and the Embassy of France in Italy, is an artistic residency project aimed at
young European talents under the age of 30 and implemented throughout Italy through a network of partner institutions including il Gattopardo. This important artistic program promotes cultural dialogue and European values of exchange and sharing.
This project inaugurates a contemporary form of the 18th-century tradition of the Grand Tour, which allowed the youth of Europe to travel from city to city to discover artistic heritage. This New Grand Tour will offer selected young artists the opportunity to be
accompanied in their creative process, without production constraints, and in so doing to connect with various local cultural actors.
Since its inception, the New Grand Tour has benefited from the support of the
Franco-German Office for Youth (OFAJ) in dialogue with the
Goethe Institut, thus enabling young German and French artists to be welcomed in residence throughout Italy.
Ardian has supported the program since its first edition in 2022.
In addition, from 2023, thanks to a collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture,
France will
host 50 young Italian artists each year in 25 partner residencies. In 2024, the
Netherlands is participating in the program, allowing 20 young French artists to work in ten residencies in the Netherlands and 2 Dutch artists to work in two Italian residencies.
This is made possible thanks to the
Embassy and Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Italy and the
Mondriaan Fund.
The Nouveau Grand Tour is a multidisciplinary program aimed at artists from
all fields of creation: visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, audiovisual, etc.), performing arts (theater, dance, circus, performance, music and sound creation), as well as CCI (fashion, design, architecture and landscape, gastronomy, crafts). For performing arts, some partners may welcome companies or collectives.
The jury will be composed of leading European personalities from the world of culture. The final selection of artists will be made by representatives of each residency.
