Institut Français NL in collaboration with Nieuwe Instituut announces the recipient of the 2025 Nouveau Grand Tour NL Residency
Nieuwe Instituut has once again partnered with Institut Français NL to host the 2025 Nouveau Grand Tour NL digital residency. Starting in April, Franco-Cameroonian multidisciplinary artist, interaction designer, and programmer Iyo Bisseck will join -1 Digital Lab for a three-month residency.
10 March 2025
The Nouveau Grand Tour programme is intended as a professional springboard for budding artists, with the aim of closer collaboration between the Dutch art world and emerging French artists.
Bisseck, a 2021 graduate of École Polytechnique in Paris, holds a degree in virtual and augmented reality. Her artistic practice blends immersive digital environments, sculptural installations, moving images, and video games.
Research on algorithms
During her residency at Nieuwe Instituut, Bisseck will explore the algorithms used to combat social fraud, examining their impact on households in both France and the Netherlands. By drawing connections between different contexts and struggles that share similar dynamics, her project will investigate the intersections of domestic surveillance, border control, and the prison system. It will also explore the historical links between these systems, focusing on the invention of statistics and the creation of racial categories since colonial times.
This marks the second residency resulting from the successful partnership between Nieuwe Instituut and Institut Français NL. Last year, Annika Boll participated in the -1 residency program as part of the 2024 Nouveau Grand Tour NL, developing her work alongside other early-career artists and designers engaged with digital culture.
-1 Digital Lab
Nieuwe Instituut's residency program at -1 Digital Lab offers early-career artists the opportunity to develop their practice and research while presenting their work to the public in an ever-evolving exhibition space.
Nouveau Grand Tour
The Nouveau Grand Tour residency programme focuses on innovation and research. Every year, the Institut français NL welcomes a dozen French artists who have recently graduated from an art and design school in France. They are given the opportunity to stay in one of the Dutch residencies participating in the programme.