Villa Arson is continuing and strengthening its commitment to arts and cultural education (ACE) in 2026, closely involving its alumni in several projects carried out with schools and cultural partners in the region. Following calls for applications launched in the fall of 2025, five artists who graduated from Villa Arson were selected to work with different audiences.

Marc-Aurèle Ngoma, a 2024 graduate of Villa Arson, completed a residency at the Les Étoiles Cultural Center in Fez, Morocco, from October 6 to November 2, 2025. He led theater and choreography workshops with volunteer participants. These workshops served as the starting point for research into the conditions and modalities of producing a play, from both a decolonial and communist perspective, involving a transformation of his own practice.

On January 19, 2026, Rachida DATI, Minister of Culture, following the recommendation of the institution’s Board of Directors, appointed Ulrika BYTTNER as Director of Villa Arson, National School of Art and Contemporary Art Center, located in Nice.

To mark the centenary of Michel Marot’s birth (1926–2021), Villa Arson pays tribute to the architect who designed the site, highlighting the originality and significance of his work. Designed as a place for living, creation, and transmission, the Villa embodies a vision of architecture that is both modern and deeply humanist, where space is shaped in the service of use, encounters and experiences.

Villa Arson is pleased to announce the participation of four artists who graduated from the school in the Bullshit Job exhibition presented at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles on the occasion of the fifth edition of LABOS_DEMOS: Clémentine Blaison VanDenHende, Élie Bolard, Évangéline Font, and Reem Hasanin. The exhibition is curated by Élise Boudin and will be open to the public from October 1 to November 10, 2023.