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.
Habib Bouabana
Year/s of residence : 1976, Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation, Tunisia
Visual arts
Lucas Bouan Tsobgny
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Dance
Lucas Bouan Tsobgny’s sculptures, whether long and brown, made of alimentary fabric, cardboard or a mixture of earth and silicones and covered in white dust, seem burnt and mummified, as if stopped in their tracks a long time ago.
Yet he breathes life into some of them, notably by dancing under a skin, in a performance that, like his installation, is highly organic. It is also ritual that Lucas Bouan Tsobgny, a lover of the stories he is told, conjures up through this experimentation with the body and materials. Métis, the rituals he reinvents evoke African traditions in which dancers emerge from the forest to embody animals or divine representations, as well as whirling dervishes. Each station is thus endowed with a specific narrative structure, which he traverses with grace. A chameleon-like performer, Lucas Bouan Tsobgny likes to slip organically into other skins and genders.
He sometimes imagines himself dancing next to the colorful, flowery wax fabric that symbolizes waiting, as a woman whose husband is not coming home. We also think of the women who have worn buckets on their heads for centuries, as he undulates his pelvis gracefully, shirtless, a bucket balanced on his head. It’s an aesthetic of debris and fragments. Earth, wax, tar. A little that suggests a lot. An exhibition that also tells the story of exile, inhabited by the artist who, he says, 4sees himself as a returnee. Marjorie Bertin, RFI journalist.
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Smail Bouanani
Year/s of residence : 2007, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Vassili Boubnov
Year/s of residence : 1999, 2000, 2003, 2008, International Confederation of Artists Unions, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Kamal Bouchali
Year/s of residence : 1974, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Dorothée Bouchard
Year/s of residence : 1992, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, Cité internationale des arts, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Jean Bouchard
Year/s of residence : 1971, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Jean Paul Bouchard
Year/s of residence : 1968, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Jérôme Bouchard
Year/s of residence : 2021, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
Visual arts
Jeanne Marie Bouchart
Year/s of residence : 1996, 1997, Cité internationale des arts, Private Action in favour of the Cultural World, France
Visual arts
Xavier Bouchaud
Year/s of residence : 2005, 2006, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Ghada Bouchehit
Year/s of residence : 2024, French Ministy of Culture
Literature
Michèle Boucher
Year/s of residence : 1983, 1992, Cité internationale des arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Fouad Bouchoucha
Year/s of residence : 2011, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Charlotte Bouckaert
Year/s of residence : 2023, Department of Culture, Youth and Media, Flemish Community
Visual arts
Dolores Bouckaert
Year/s of residence : 2015, 2016, Cité internationale des arts, Flemish Government - Directorate of Arts and Heritage, Belgium
Visual arts
Nicolas Boucov
Year/s of residence : 1990, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Slimane Boudaoud
Year/s of residence : 1979, 1980, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Bedria Bouder
Year/s of residence : 1982, Institut français
Visual arts
Véronique Boudier
Year/s of residence : 2002, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
