Arts residencies

New photography creation residency launched in 2026, it is organized in partnership with La Villa Pérochon, Photo Phnom Penh Association and supported by Institut français.  This residency is part of the artistic dialogue between France and Cambodia and aims at supporting contemporary Cambodian photographic creation on the international stage. La Villa Pérochon, a center for contemporary photographic art, was awarded the “National Interest” label in 2018 by the French Ministry of Culture. Its project promotes an open and socially engaged contemporary photography, regardless of theme (social issues, environmental challenges, etc.).  Three to four exhibitions are presented each year, including monographic and group exhibitions. Villa Pérochon also organizes the Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale every spring: a city-wide exhibition program centered around a unique creation residency, offering a carte blanche to emerging French and international photographers.

This writing residency programme is one of the IFC’s flagship events. Each year, it welcomes 3 authors in residence for a period of 4 to 8 weeks. This new writing residency contributes to strengthening the IFC’s support for writing, translation and publishing, already committed to partners such as Sipar and the Cambodian Book Fair. The objective is to encourage the emergence of a new dynamic around writing, in line with today’s Cambodia, and to amplify the local emergence of the publishing sector, for a better influence of both French culture and language. Defending and supporting books, the leading French cultural industry, is indeed a real educational and intercultural challenge, in a country where the majority of the population is under 30.

“La Route des Résidences” cross-residency program is co-organized by the French Institute of Cambodia, the French Institute of Vietnam and the Alliance française of Chiang Mai. It offers several artistic residencies throughout the year, particularly writing and photography. Its objective is to promote the circulation of artists and ideas in a regional approach; to stimulate creative work nourished by broader intercultural relations; to offer the laureates varied places of work and residence, from the large cities of the Mekong to the Vietnamese, Thai and Cambodian countryside; to encourage encounters with distinct audiences and with diverse local artistic scenes; and finally to allow the creation of unique works, at the crossroads of four countries and cultures.

This program benefits from the support of the Fabrique des Résidences of the French Institute of Paris and OCIC Group.