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.
Leena Unkari
Year/s of residence : 1991, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
James Unsworth
Year/s of residence : 2005, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Ken Unsworth
Year/s of residence : 1979, 1985, Cité internationale des arts, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Visual arts
Christof Unterberger
Year/s of residence : 1993, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Solène Untereiner
Year/s of residence : 2022, École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Reims
Visual arts
INTERVIEW
Graduating from ESAD Reims in 2021, what role did your residency at the Cité internationale des arts play when you left the school?
“Being in residency at the Cité internationale des arts is an opportunity as a young artist. One of the most important roles at the Cité is networking with artists from all walks of life. It has allowed me to make new encounters, to be in contact with diverse backgrounds, practices, experiences and cultures. The permanent immersion with artists or members of the artistic milieu, the availability of a studio in the center of Paris has allowed me to consolidate my practice and my research by offering me such a working environment with multiple resources.”
What projects did you work on during your residency?
“During the residency I was able to work on several projects. This is the way I work. It was an opportunity for me to create a language between sculpture and painting, by inviting a drawn part. My reflections as for these projects were directed towards themes related to the history referring to the myth, to the notion of copy and that of model. It is a questioning on the way we live in the image by referring to the collective or singular memory.”
What are your future projects?
“The Cité internationale des arts has allowed me to engage in new reflections. First step in a long process, it is in the continuitý of the approach undertaken that my future projects oriented towards engraving, sculpture and cartography are oriented. Mixing scientific documentations, generic images from the internet and fiction, I tend to tell other narratives, having as a starting point the Indo-European languages.”
BIOGRAPHY
Solène Untereiner is an artist born in 1998 in Bar-le-duc. She lives and works in Paris.
Through sculpture and painting, Solène Untereiner seeks to extract herself from pre-established photographic frameworks in order to formulate new narratives and new imaginaries. Motivated by the way in which we write the history of individuals, it is under the perspective of the relations of interdependences between the precursor countries of Western civilization and the cradle countries of humanity in the Middle East and Asia that her research is centered.
Supported during a first artistic residency at La Fileuse de Reims in 2021, her work was recently shown in a group exhibition at Theleftplacetherightplace (Reims) last October, If there is feeling Life in other parts of the universe, there is music too*, then in a group exhibition in March 2022 at 6B (Saint-Denis).
Maurine Tric
Mascha Unterlehberg
Year/s of residence : 2025, Atelier Mondial
Literature
Andreas Unterreiner
Year/s of residence : 2016, Bavarian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and the Arts, Germany
Music
Motoo Uota
Year/s of residence : 1971, Musashino Art University, Japan
Visual arts
Urmila Upadhaya Garg
Year/s of residence : 1965, 1971, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Ferdinand Uptmoor
Year/s of residence : 2011, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
Maris Upzars
Year/s of residence : 2019, 2009, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Visual arts
Pnina Ur
Year/s of residence : 1968, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Kinuyo Urabe
Year/s of residence : 2013, Association for the Promotion of French teaching in Japan (AFEP)
Visual arts
Carmela Uranga
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Noriko Urata
Year/s of residence : 1999, Institut français
Music
Colette Urban
Year/s of residence : 1997, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Rolf Urban
Year/s of residence : 1992, 1995, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Dagmar Urbankova
Year/s of residence : 2022, Institut français
Literature
Francesco Urbano
Year/s of residence : 2008, 2014, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Marvicpermar Urbina
Year/s of residence : 2005, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Music
