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Magnetic 5 Residency Announced

Elijah Ndoumbe, Stills from 16mm from Le rhythme de l’esprit initiated in Grand Popo with Finding Etherea and Institut Francais du Benin

24 July 2026

Residency Types

Magnetic Partnership

Artforms

Visual Arts

Elijah Ndoumbe ↗

Image: Elijah Ndoumbe, Stills from 16mm from Le rhythme de l’esprit initiated in Grand Popo with Finding Etherea and Institut Francais du Benin

Magnetic, managed by Fluxus Arts Projects, is a Franco-UK network bringing together five organisations from France and five from the UK to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in both countries. Cove Park is the Scottish partner in Magnetic and we work in collaboration with Villa Arson, Nice, on the appointment of the participating artists.

We are excited to announce that the Magnetic 5 laureate is the Marseille-based artist Elijah Ndoumbe. Elijah will be the sixth artist from France to travel to Cove Park for this prestigious two-month residency and we look forward to welcoming them here in 2027.

Elijah is a multidisciplinary artist, award-winning moving image maker, dream weaver, and collaborator. In between mixing live, they can be found cooking in Marseille wine bars, deepening familial food research in Douala, and building transatlantic collaborations via their lens-based arts practice.

Elijah Ndoumbe (photography, Francisco Miala)

Cove Park is the Scottish residency taking part in Magnetic, a Franco-UK network bringing together five organisations from France and five from the UK to create a programme of funded residencies for visual artists based in both countries. In 2025, the participating venues are: Bétonsalon – Centre for Art and Research, CAPC in Bordeaux, Frac Bretagne, FRAC Grand Large in Dunkerque, Villa Arson in Nice, and five in the United Kingdom for French based artists – Gasworks London, Wysing Arts Centre in England, Flax Art Studios in Northern Ireland, Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales, and Cove Park. Now in its fourth year, Magnetic is building an expanding network of partner institutions with shared commitments and values.

Magnetic is a programme of Fluxus Art Projects, which is supported by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Institut français, French Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales/Wales International, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council, and its private patrons and friends.

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