Art Residency · Loire Valley, France
Where art keeps its own hours
An international residency inside a private French château. Twelve artists, one season, sixty hectares of quiet.
— 01 / The Residency
Art Elfouly
Residency.
Art Elfouly Residency is an international artist residency program created to support artists through creativity, cultural exchange and immersive artistic experiences. Held inside a private French château, it offers an inspiring environment in which to develop new ideas, produce new works and connect with a global creative community.
Through carefully curated experiences, dedicated creative spaces and meaningful conversations, the residency encourages artistic exploration and personal growth — a house kept, for a season, for the making of something considered.
— 02 / Why here
For those who have earned the right to be unhurried.
One château. Twelve artists. No more.
The estate is never shared with the world outside. It becomes, for a season, a private studio, a private library, a private park.
France, as a way of thinking
Six centuries of stone, wine and craftsmanship — a country that has never confused ambition with noise. The residency inherits that composure.
An international curatorial council
Studio visits, evening conversations and quiet counsel from curators, gallerists and collectors invited from Paris, Copenhagen, Vienna, New York, Tokyo.
Hospitality shaped for people who make things
Linen sheets, candlelit dinners, a resident chef, wine from the neighbouring domaines. A house that understands the rhythm of a working artist.
— 09 / The experience
A transformative journey where art, culture and inspiration meet.
Hover to playCreative Environment
Studios shaped around the light.
Vaulted ateliers, quiet reading rooms and long avenues of trees — the whole estate arranged for the making of work.
Hover to playArtist Community
Twelve international voices, one long table.
Painters, photographers, sculptors and writers whose practices sit beside one another for the length of a season.
Hover to playCultural Experience
France, offered slowly.
Truffle dinners with neighbouring vignerons, Romanesque abbeys, evenings with visiting curators — the country revealed on its own terms.
— 10 / From the archive
Fragments of a season.
— 11 / The house, page by page
Every chapter has its own room.
Spring & Autumn cohorts · Applications open
Come and stay a while.
Twelve places each season. Applications are read personally by our curatorial council, without hurry and without algorithm.