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.
Catarina Botelho
Year/s of residence : 2020, La Escocesa
Visual arts
Conrad Botes
Year/s of residence : 2005, 2012, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Sybrandt Lourens Botes
Year/s of residence : 2010, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Atanas Botev
Year/s of residence : 2006, 2007, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Visual arts
Vesselina Boteva
Year/s of residence : 1996, Institut français
Music
Lien Botha
Year/s of residence : 1990, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Asil Bothun
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2011, 2015, Frits Thaulow Foundation, Norway, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Tea Botkoveli
Year/s of residence : 2004, 2006, Cité internationale des arts, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Ken Botnick
Year/s of residence : 2013, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
Josip Botteri
Year/s of residence : 1985, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Louis Bottero
Year/s of residence : 2015, City of Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Visual arts
Colin Bottinelli
Year/s of residence : 2023, Education and Culture Direction of the Canton of Berne
Literature
Martina Bottinger
Year/s of residence : 2025, Visarte Switzerland – Visual arts association Switzerland
Visual arts
Yara Bou Nassar
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Visual arts
Bouzid Bou-Aoud
Year/s of residence : 2008, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
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
