The 2025 TransCultural Exchange Conference with Bénédicte Alliot
Taking place at The Foundry, Cambridge’s inclusive hub for creative exploration, this unique global three-day gathering will bring to light challenges facing artists, including the pressing need for diversity, political equity, climate, and social justice. It will also be a celebration of the arts’ ability to provide joy, respite, and common ground for dialogue. This edition will feature programs designed to engage artists with other cultures and disciplines through a wide range of tools and means.
The conference will host major artistic figures and professionals, including Bénédicte Alliot, Head of the Cité internationale des arts since 2016. An assistant professor at Université Paris-Diderot until 2002, Bénédicte Alliot has been the Director of the French Institute of Johannesburg, the cultural attachée of the French Embassy in India, and Head of the Cultural Season Festival Programs at the Institut français in Paris.
Since its inception in 1989, the artist collective TransCultural Exchange has worked directly with hundreds of artists, arts organizations, foundations, galleries, museums and cultural centers in 60 countries to produce over 350 art projects. It aims to foster a greater understanding of world cultures through large-scale global art projects, cultural exchanges and educational programming, including the International Conferences on Opportunities in the Arts and TCE TV.