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.
Emilia Ukkonen
Year/s of residence : 2012, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Kirill Ukolov
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2012, 2013, City of Toulouse - Direction des Affaires culturelles, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Dominique Uldry
Year/s of residence : 1987, 1988, Canton of Berne, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Gerd Ulfstrom Bjornberg
Year/s of residence : 1988, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Gianluca Ulivelli
Year/s of residence : 2005, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Bia Ullenius
Year/s of residence : 2021, Artists' Association of Sweden
Visual arts
Naomi Ullman
Year/s of residence : 1990, Cité internationale des arts, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Timo Ullmann
Year/s of residence : 2020, Visarte Switzerland – Visual arts association Switzerland
Visual arts
Sten Ulloa Carler
Year/s of residence : 2019, Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Music
Hakan Ulus
Year/s of residence : 2025, 2–12
Music
Maibritt Ulvedal Bjelke
Year/s of residence : 1998, 2006, 2007, 2009, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Ingrid Ulving Gjorven
Year/s of residence : 2005, Frits Thaulow Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Natalia Ulzytueva
Year/s of residence : 2006, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Rahman Umarov
Year/s of residence : 2011, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Luc Umbauer
Year/s of residence : 1988, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Catherine Umbdenstock
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Theater
Catherine Umbdenstock lives and works between Paris, Strasbourg, and Berlin. A graduate in directing from the “Ernst Busch” Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, she founded the Epik Hotel ensemble in Strasbourg in 2012. With this company, she has created about ten classical and contemporary repertoire plays.
As an associated artist at La Commune d’Aubervilliers (2014-2017) and then at La Comédie de Colmar, she practices “border-crossing” theater and regularly directs in Germany. She teaches in the Master’s program in Directing in Europe at the University of Lorraine.
With Epik Hotel, she designs and co-facilitates workshops for “distant” audiences, particularly with young actors with disabilities and at the Mulhouse-Lutterbach penitentiary center.
Gitenis Umbrasas
Year/s of residence : 2017, Vilnius Academy of Arts
Visual arts
Satoshi Umezu
Year/s of residence : 2018, Nagoya University of the Arts
Curating
Serge Umniakov
Year/s of residence : 1981, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Visual arts
Rosa Maria Unda Souki
Year/s of residence : 2020, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Rosa Maria Unda Souki is a painter and writer of Venezuelan and Brazilian origin. She studied at the Armando Reverón University Institute of the Arts (Caracas, Venezuela) and at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). She resided between 2004 and 2011 in Paris, during which time she won the Jury Prize at the Salon de Montrouge (2011). Her work has also been recognized by the Colas Foundation (Acquisition Prize 2014) and by the Canson Fund (Nominated in 2014).
Her work focuses on the memory and daily life of the “home” as an intimate space. Her works raise the question of the permanence of spaces and objects and the transience of human presence. During her creative process, she begins with iconographic, bibliographic, historical and photographic research that allows her to immerse herself in her creative subject.
Her work is also rooted in the observation, contemplation and personal and spatial experience of the chosen place, which she transcribes into annotations, sketches and research notebooks prior to creation on the canvas. The elaboration of the pictorial image occurs during this process, which refers not only to the formal experimentation of painting and its materiality, but also to a pre-construction of relationships and meanings around space, its inhabitant and memory beyond cultural or geographical boundaries.
Her work has been exhibited in Paris, Madrid, London, New York and São Paulo. Rosa Maria Unda Souki was invited by the Hermès Foundation to present her project around the Blue House of Frida Kahlo Angle London and Allende at the Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea, between December 2017 and February 2018.
