Guest accommodation in Paris, Swedish Institute

The Swedish Institute’s six guest flats are located in Sweden’s only cultural centre abroad: a 16th-century building in the Marias district in the heart of Paris. In 2019, the flats were renovated and furnished by some of Sweden’s leading interior architects and designers.

The one-room flat has two beds and a small area for working at a desk in the room. The flats are mainly residential and cannot be used as a studio or rehearsal space. Pets and children under the age of 15 are not allowed in the guest flat.

Virtual tour of the flats at the Swedish Institute

1 month during autumn/winter 2025-2026

Preliminary periods:
1/10 –  28/10
31/10 – 27/11
29/11 – 26/12
2/1 – 29/1 (2026)

The grant is aimed at professional practitioners in the field of visual arts. In order to apply you should have an artistic practice in, for example, the visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art or architecture.

SEK 30,000. This grant is intended to cover travel and living expenses as well as some material costs during the residency.

2024
Katarina Bonnevier
Evamarie Lindahl
Ayedin Ronaghi
Katarina Löfström

2023
Katja Aglert
Oskar Laurin
Daniel Hofman
Angelica Elliott

2022
Nina Svensson
Salad Hilowle
Katarina Elvén
Pernilla Jansson

2021
Nina Maria Gisela Andersson Voigt
Patrik Elgström
Jesper Jenemark
Karl Oskar Natanael Persson

2020
Åsa Pärson
Ana Maria Ferreira Mendes
Adriana  Seserin
Jessika Thörnqvist
Knutte Wester

You must be a professional artist in the field of visual arts or design.

You have an artistic practice in, for example, the visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art or architecture. To be considered a professional artist, you must earn a living entirely or partly from your artistic activities and regularly present your art to an audience or in an artistic context.

You must be a resident in Sweden or practice most of your art here.

You can be a foreign citizen and apply for our stipends and grants, but you must be a resident in Sweden or primarily practice your art here. If you are a Swedish citizen but live abroad, you must be able to demonstrate that most of your artistic activity takes place in Sweden.

You must not be a student for more than 50 per cent of your time when an award decision is made.

This means being enrolled in any type of studies, from undergraduate studies to doctoral studies and post-graduate education. You can be studying when you submit your application, but when a decision is made you cannot be enrolled for more than 50 per cent for a course or programme.

You must not owe any unpaid Swedish taxes or fees to the Swedish Enforcement Authority or be declared bankrupt.

This means that you cannot owe a debt on your Swedish tax account that has been passed on to the enforcement authority. This does not apply to other types of debts or charges from public organisations or private companies.

You must not have received de minimis aid exceeding a total of 300,000 euros during the last three-year period.

Stipends and grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee are subject to the provisions of the European Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2031 on state funding, also known as de minimis aid.

The application for the guest accommodation is open once a year. See the application deadlines.

In order to submit an application, you need to answer all the questions marked as mandatory in the form and attach work samples.

If you are part of a duo/group, one of you submits the application and in the text indicates additional artists included in the application. The applicant uploads their own work samples or common work samples for the duo/group. Please note that if the grant is awarded, the grant amount is to be shared.

Applications must be submitted by 14.00 CET on the application deadline.

Work samples are mandatory

Choose current work samples that are representative of your artistry, preferably from the last two years. Keep in mind that it can be a good idea to choose both close-ups of your works and images that show how your works are presented in context.

When you upload your files with the application, you can specify the title, year, technique, size and description for each file.

Number of files: 5-10
File formats: jpg (2 MB), mp3 (20MB), mp4 och mov (50 MB)

You can submit your application on paper

We recommend using our e-service to submit your application. It makes it easier for you to ensure that your application was registered and it allows you to follow your case via “My pages”.

Application on paper

When we receive your application, we verify that you meet all the formal requirements. Members of the international panel of the Visual Artists’ Fund will then read your application. The members are practising artists or experts in the field of art. At least three people read each application. The Visual Artists’ Fund selects 3–5 candidates for the residency, after which the residency’s management makes a first and second choice. The decision is then made by the Visual Artists’ Fund.

If a member has a conflict of interest in relation to an applicant, that member is forbidden from participating in the review process or award decision for that application.

How is your decision made?

We select grant recipients based on the quality of artistic activities and the applicant’s financial need. This means that we assess the quality of the work samples and reference material that you submit. At the same time, we make an assessment of your financial need. This can mean, for example, that we do not prioritise an applicant who has a high income or has recently received other grants or stipends.

In our selection, we aim to distribute the grants to artists in different parts of the country and across a variety of artistic expressions.

How we avoid conflicts of interest

The grant does not need to be reported financially, but the grant holder reports about the visit after returning home.

The grant are exempt from tax.

If you are awarded a grant for the residency programme, you must state in all communications about your residency that it was carried out with the support of the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Please use the wording “with support from IASPIS, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee´s International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts.”

Use the IASPIS  logo in the appropriate contexts.

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