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.
Rachid Boukharta
Year/s of residence : 2022, Trame
Visual arts
Rachid Boukharta is a visual artist born in 1988 in Amiens, where he studied at the Faculté des Arts de l’Université de Picardie Jules Verne. In 2014, he obtained his Master’s degree in Theory and Artistic Practices with the thesis title Arabesques et entrelas, miroirs d’une spiritualité et d’une corporéité.
His plastic work is in constant evolution: based above all on the evocation of a vital energy, it is nourished by both Western and Eastern references, linked to the arts of Islam. His paintings are animated by intense colors, supports of an interior will of expression. They invite us into a universe that is both dreamlike and real, intimate and universal, at the border of real space and alternative worlds, between vegetal and sexual suggestions and abstract structures. Through the use of these ambiguous motifs, Rachid Boukharta has always tried to translate his intimate and subjective vision of the world. Through his practice at the crossroads of civilizations, he unconsciously comes to employ fundamental unifying invariants, which can be found in all cultures.
Currently, the artist evokes in his works what affects him most intimately, his attractions, the modesty linked to religion, the duality between religious belief and sexual orientation. The evolution of his artistic practice progressively shifts his universe from the interior landscape to the fragmented body, the female sex, then to the frontal representation of the male sex in order to express his interrogations on sexual identity and the cleavage it can generate.
© Yoann Legros
Benachir Boukhatem
Year/s of residence : 1997, Institut français
Music
Rada Boukova
Year/s of residence : 2021, 2–12
Visual arts
Majd Boukthir
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Music
François Boulanger
Year/s of residence : 1984, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Guillaume Boulanger
Year/s of residence : 1998, 1999, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Erik Boulatov
Year/s of residence : 1991, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Christelle Boulé
Year/s of residence : 2020, General Management of Cultural Affairs of the State of Vaud
Visual arts
Fyzal Boulifa
Year/s of residence : 2016, 2017, 2025, Cité internationale des arts, 2–12
Cinema
Christian Boulinguez
Year/s of residence : 1971, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Kamal Boullata
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Gérard Boulle
Year/s of residence : 1984, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Thomas Boulmier
Year/s of residence : 2011, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Myriam Boulos
Year/s of residence : 2021, Institut français
Visual arts
MICHAYE Boulter
Year/s of residence : 2022, University of Tasmania
Visual arts
Stefán Jóhann Boulter
Year/s of residence : 2018, City of Reykjavík
Visual arts
Amadou Bouna Guazong
Year/s of residence : 2021, La ferme Godier
Literature
Bernadette Bour
Year/s of residence : 1976, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Henri Bour
Year/s of residence : 1975, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Ammar Bouras
Year/s of residence : 2003, 2024, City of Paris, France, France Algeria Association
Visual arts
