Artists in residence
Each year, the Cité internationale des arts welcomes more than 1,000 artists from around the world, offering them a space for creation, research, and exchange in Paris, in the Marais and Montmartre districts. Open to all artistic disciplines—visual arts, music, literature, film, design and architecture, performing arts, and curating—it enables artists to develop their projects in an environment that fosters experimentation and meaningful connections.
Terhi Silenius
Year/s of residence : 2012, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Ilona Silenti
Year/s of residence : 1994, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Catherine Silie
Year/s of residence : 1965, 1981, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Stina Siljing
Year/s of residence : 2025, Artists' Association of Sweden
Visual arts
Heidi Sill
Year/s of residence : 1995, 1998, 2000, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Maïmouna Silla
Year/s of residence : 2022, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso
Visual arts
Maïmouna Silla is a French multidisciplinary artist of Senegalese origin, born in eastern France in 1997. After a public preparatory class at the EMBA in Gennevilliers, she obtained her DNA at the ENSAD in Nancy in 2019, then was congratulated for her DNSEP at the Beaux-arts in Nantes in 2021.
In her practice, she materializes images and forms in order to provoke questioning, discussion and debate. She intends to “denounce horror without participating in the saturation of violent images”. Aware that this approach can provoke discomfort, uneasiness and other uncomfortable feelings, she nevertheless attaches great importance to deviating from the role of the mass media and prefers to inspire mental images.
It is mainly through sculpture, video or text that she navigates between the past and the present to reappropriate various stories and give them life in our contemporaneity. She deals with themes such as history, politics, transmission, spirituality, religion and the relationship to memory. Her creative process begins with meticulous research, the exploration of material archives, but also listening to the living stories she gathers during her investigations.
Gösta Sillen
Year/s of residence : 2000, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Visual arts
Christopher Silliman
Year/s of residence : 1987, University of Central Virginia, USA
Visual arts
Osmo Pekka Sillman
Year/s of residence : 1995, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Alexandra Silocea
Year/s of residence : 2008, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Jari Silomaki
Year/s of residence : 2010, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Carlos Silva
Year/s of residence : 1968, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Visual arts
Caterina Silva
Year/s of residence : 2012, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, International Artistic Association Incontri, Italy
Visual arts
Tindaro Silvano Correa Ribeiro
Year/s of residence : 2004, ICATU Foundation (Grupo Icatu S.A), Brazil
Spectacle vivant
Mariana Silvaraggio
Year/s of residence : 1992, 2009, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Romeu Silveira
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Visual arts
Jari Pekka Silvennoinen
Year/s of residence : 1996, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Shelly Silver
Year/s of residence : 1993, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Pierre Silverberg
Year/s of residence : 2016, Flemish Government - Directorate of Arts and Heritage, Belgium
Visual arts
Lourival Silvestre
Year/s of residence : 1974, 1976, 1977, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Music
