The call for applications will be open from Thursday 18 September 2025, until Sunday 26 October 2025, at 12:00 pm CET / 10:00 pm AEDT.
The inaugural Resonance Grants Program—the first grant scheme of its kind between France and Australia—is dedicated to visual arts projects and research initiatives that foster collaboration between France and Australia.
This program specifically aims to:
- Support individual or group exhibitions and artistic projects of France-based artists in Australia and Australian-based artists in France, contributing to their visibility in new professional contexts.
- Facilitate curatorial research trips between the two countries, enabling curators to deepen their understanding of each other’s art ecosystems.
The objective is to encourage innovative projects.
Eligibility Criteria
Projects must align with FACEF’s vision, mission and values.
Applications for exhibitions and artistic projects will have to be submitted by eligible artistic organisations and not by the artists themselves. Projects must be affiliated with the visual arts and initiated by non-profit organisations such as: Contemporary art centres, museums, artist-run spaces, and project spaces, art education institutions, research centres, online curatorial or artistic projects.
Applications for curatorial research trips will be submitted directly by the curators. Projects must demonstrate a clear link to a specific curatorial or exhibition context (an art centre, institution, or major event).
Eligible projects may be awarded funding of up to AUD $15,000.
Please note that Resonance Grants will give priority to innovative practices and the creation of new works.
Selection Process
The projects will be selected through a single open call and evaluated by FACEF’s Jury of experts:
Bénédicte Alliot, Director, Cité internationale des arts
Daria de Beauvais, Senior Curator, Palais de Tokyo
Suzanne Cotter, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) – Chair of the jury
Tony Ellwood, Director, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
Emmanuel Kasarhérou, President, Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Kimberley Moulton, Senior Curator, Southeastern Aboriginal Collections at Museums Victoria, Adjunct Curator Indigenous Art Tate Modern, Senior Curator RISING Festival
George Petitjean, Curator of the Fondation Opale / Collection Bérengère Primat
Application Forms
All applications must be submitted in English.
Along with your submission, please send a confirmation email to info@facef.org.
For each submission, the candidate will receive a confirmation email.
