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.
Erika Weiste
Year/s of residence : 2012, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Stephan Weitzel
Year/s of residence : 2022, Trame
Literature
Stephan Weitzel is a German and French speaking author. He studied theater at the University of Paris III and then moved to London and Norwich to study at art schools.
After a first professional career in the visual arts for twenty-five years, he now devotes himself to writing. In his writings, he tries to study the solitude of contemporary man and to reveal the traces left by historical processes in individuals and societies.
Living in Germany, he published in 2021 a long story about his home town, Leipzig, as well as an essay on allotments in Les Cahiers de l’École de Blois. In the same year, he wrote a short story about an incongruous chapter in Franco-German history: the forced exile of the Vichy government at Sigmaringen Castle in 1944/45.
He is currently working on his second novel in German. His residency at the Cité internationale des arts is an opportunity for him to devote himself to the writing of his new book in French, a portrait of the urban society of Greater Paris.
Artist's website
Jacob Weixler
Year/s of residence : 1982, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Nadine Weixler
Year/s of residence : 2019, Land of Salzburg
Visual arts
Andro Wekua
Year/s of residence : 2004, City of Zurich - Culture, Switzerland
Visual arts
Robert Wellington
Year/s of residence : 2011, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Literature
Eléonor Wells
Year/s of residence : 1966, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Sebastian Wells
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2–12
Visual arts
Sebastian Wells is a photographer from Berlin. He has been a member of the Berlin-based photographer’s collective OSTKREUZ since 2019 and works on documentary and artistic projects.
Since 2016 he has been photographing at Olympic Games all over the world, trying to deconstruct the spectacular sports stages with images. In 2022, he co-founded the Ukrainian-German indie magazine “Soлomiya” together with the Ukrainian photographer Vsevolod Kazarin as a reaction to the Russian full-scale invasion and deals with the question of how art can contribute to resistance.
In other projects, such as “La Rada di Augusta” (2019-2020), he accompanied the everyday life of the residents of an oil refinery in Sicily over 2 years, examined the growing nationalism and separatist movements in Flanders (“Typ/Traube/Tross”, 2021-2023) or embarked on a visual journey through the make-shift world of refugee camps in the orbit of the European foreign policies (“Utopia”, 2017-2018).
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Chao Wen
Year/s of residence : 2013, Tsinghua University Academy - Arts & Design, China
Visual arts
Cheng Wen
Year/s of residence : 2004, China Artists Association
Visual arts
Guo Zhang Wen
Year/s of residence : 1989, 2006, Central Academy of Fine Arts of China, Beijing, China
Visual arts
Ping Wen
Year/s of residence : 2018, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Visual arts
Xiaojing Wen
Year/s of residence : 2018, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Architecture and design
Nicolas Wenckheim
Year/s of residence : 1978, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Music
Theis Wendt
Year/s of residence : 2013, Danish Agency for Culture
Visual arts
Erik Wenes Conders
Year/s of residence : 2001, Frits Thaulow Foundation, Norway
Spectacle vivant
Kaixuan Weng
Year/s of residence : 2001, Sichuan Institute of Arts, China
Visual arts
Ming-Yu Weng
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2013, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Wuyue Weng
Year/s of residence : 2018, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
Architecture and design
Allan Wenger
Year/s of residence : 1969, Cité internationale des arts
Music
