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.
Galaad Van Daele
Year/s of residence : 2022, Académie des beaux-arts
Architecture and design
Galaad Van Daele is an architect, editor and researcher active in Paris, Zurich & Brussels. His research focuses mainly on spatial objects that challenge the separation constructed between nature and culture. He has tackled questions of artificial topographies around the Mediterranean; of extractivism and nature politics; of images, spaces and decoration as ideological tools; and is recently focused on the possibility of writing a history of architecture that acknowledges the various layers of geological presence existing inside of built spaces. Tapping into philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, political theory but also geology or biogeochemistry, and working with writing and photography as media, he outlines alternative and transversal modes of thinking about spatial productions and architectural historiographies, beyond the dissociation between the human and the terrestrial.
After several years practicing in Belgium at 51N4E, he has been teaching architectural design since 2017 at the Chair of Affective Architectures – Studio An Fonteyne at ETH Zurich. Since 2020, he is a doctoral candidate in that same school, with a research project focusing on the Grotta Grande – a cave-like building erected in Florence in the 16th century. In parallel, he is also one of the editors of Brussels-based architecture and art magazine Accattone. Beyond the many texts he publishes there, he also regularly contributes articles to other European publications, such as “Extractopia” and “Planetary Rights, at Last!” in Arts of the Working Class (Berlin, 2020), “Le Rocher de l’Être Suprême” in Plan Libre (Toulouse, 2021), or “Geophilia” in Habitante (Paris, 2022). As an independent researcher, he has been associated with international architecture exhibitions with projects such as Hidden Dimensions at the Lisbon Triennial in 2019, or 2038 in the German Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale (as a member of the scientific committee).
Karin Van Dam
Year/s of residence : 1998, Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands
Visual arts
Lidwien Van De Ven
Year/s of residence : 2005, 2006, City of Paris, France, Institut français
Visual arts
Michael Van Den Abeele
Year/s of residence : 2017, Department of Culture, Youth and Media, Flemish Community
Visual arts
Christoph Van Den Berg
Year/s of residence : 1996, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland
Visual arts
Clive Van Den Berg
Year/s of residence : 1988, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Delene Roché Van Den Berg
Year/s of residence : 2023, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Eric Van Den Broeck
Year/s of residence : 1987, Institut français
Visual arts
Koen Van Den Broek
Year/s of residence : 2001, Flemish Government - Directorate of Arts and Heritage, Belgium
Visual arts
Felicia Van Den End
Year/s of residence : 2006, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Jeanette Van Der Does
Year/s of residence : 1996, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
Franz Joseph Van Der Grinten
Year/s of residence : 2003, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Alf Van Der Hagen
Year/s of residence : 2017, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Literature
Eric Van Der Hilst
Year/s of residence : 1984, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Moana Van Der Maesen
Year/s of residence : 2024, High Commission of the French Republic in French Polynesia
Visual arts
Moana Van Der Maesen is a Franco-Tahitian painter who grew up on the island of Tahaa in French Polynesia, a paradise known as the “Vanilla Island.”
After a career in the private sector, Moana chose to follow a passion for nature and environmental conservation. In 2019, during a world tour exploring innovations in environmental protection, painting emerged as a new form of expression and a way to channel this mission. Deeply transformed by this journey, Moana has dedicated themselves fully to painting since 2021.
Self-taught, Moana draws inspiration from the beauty of marine life and is driven by a commitment to preserving the planet.
Avec l'aimable autorisation de l'artiste |_@_|Courtesy of the artist
Elizabeth Johanna Van Der Merwe
Year/s of residence : 2012, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Roelof Charles Van Der Merwe
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2008, 2012, Cité internationale des arts, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Maria Aletta Van Der Merwe/Schoon
Year/s of residence : 1997, 2016, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Wim Van Der Plaetsen
Year/s of residence : 1987, Flemish Government - Directorate of Arts and Heritage, Belgium
Visual arts
Kai Van Der Puij
Year/s of residence : 2015, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
