To mark the 58th Congress of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), which will take place in Rennes from 12 to 16 October 2026, AICA International and Documents d’artistes Bretagne are joining forces to invite six AICA members to take part in a special Meet-up from 9 to 12 October 2026.
The Meet-up is an annual programme of studio visits organised at federation level (Documents d’artistes Network) and run by all Documents d’artistes groups in their respective regions for French and international professionals. These carefully planned visits promote the discovery of regional art scenes and help to raise the profile of artists and their work at national and international levels.
This four-day exploratory trip, reserved for a small group, is designed to foster professional exchanges and encourage an understanding of artists’ work, as well as the discovery of the local visual arts ecosystem. We will move from studios to exhibition visits, meeting those who bring the Rennes art scene to life, across all media and generations.
AICA International and Documents d’artistes Bretagne are launching a call for applications aimed at exhibition curators, arts programmers and AICA members wishing to discover artists from the Rennes scene through exclusive visits.
Call for applications open until June 14, 2026.
Dates of the Meet-up : from late afternoon on Friday 9 October to midday on Monday 12 October
List of the artists to meet : Claire Guetta, Quentin Montagne, Fanny Gicquel, Jocelyn Cottencin, Alisson Schmitt, Julie C. Fortier, Yann Sérandour
Terms of the Residency: Accommodation : Costs are covered from 9 to 12 October (3 nights). Meals: All meals are provided from the evening of 9 October through the evening of 11 October. Please note that lunch on 12 October is not included.
Participants are responsible for their own travel costs.
Eligibility: This call is open to exhibition curators and professionals involved in artistic programming who are interested in collaborating with the selected artists.
Languages: The residency will be conducted in French and English.
For further information: aica.office@gmail.com
Application procedure: Please send applications to Sonia Recasens, Director of AICA International: aica.office@gmail.com
About Documents d’artistes Bretagne & Documents d’artistes network
Since 2009, Documents d’artistes Bretagne (DDA Bretagne) has been publishing monographic dossiers in collaboration with artists from Brittany. Fully accessible online, these dossiers help to promote their artistic practices and offer an insight into a dynamic regional art scene. Committed to supporting the artists in its archive, DDA Bretagne accompanies them throughout their careers and mobilises networks of professionals around their practices and projects.
Documents d’artistes Bretagne is a member of the Réseau documents d'artistes, a federation of Documents d'artistes associations in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Centre-Val de Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Réunion, Occitanie, Geneva, the Caribbean and the Amazon.
Founded in 2011, the Réseau documents d’artistes brings together and coordinates local Documents d’artistes associations. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, it is a leading organisation dedicated to supporting professional artistic practices and promoting them to a wide audience. It works to enhance the national and international visibility of the artists it supports, whilst developing shared initiatives within the network. Its editorial platform, reseau-dda.org, provides access to monographic dossiers on several hundred visual artists produced by the Documents d’artistes, and offers, through the dissemination of original content (critical texts, residency journals, filmed portraits, etc.), a space for discovering contemporary art in France and the Canton of Geneva.
This open call is also available in PDF format in English and French.