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.
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
François Bourassa
Year/s of residence : 2015, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Badr Bourbian
Year/s of residence : 2012, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Lolita Bourdon
Year/s of residence : 2022, On~des
Visual arts
Lolita Bourdon was born in 1996 in Saint Denis de la Réunion. She began her studies in Cape Town (South Africa) in Fashion Design, then returned to the fine arts of Reunion Island in 2015. She joined Jutta Koether’s painting class for a year at the HFBK in Hamburg, Germany, and obtained her DNSEP in 2020 with honours. After several residencies (Friche 2020, Jardin d’Eden 2021), she won the grand prize at the Tropical Drawing Festival on her native island.
Using painting and drawing as her main medium of expression, Lolita Bourdon feeds off everything that surrounds her, making no distinction between sources, no boundaries between genres, schools, movements, classes, or eras. Everything is reset to zero, there is no nobler subject, more just or more profound than another. The whole of her environment becomes material for painting. The studio is, for her, a primordial place. It is in doing, experimenting and especially in failures that she can find her energy. She has to construct, reconstruct and deconstruct images. She listens to her painting as a devotee would follow his religion, and thus tries to explore the different paths it opens up.
Gradually her painting is filled with signs and symbols, which she aims to simplify. It is no longer a question of abstraction or figuration, of representation or imagination, the journey has more value in her eyes than the finished work because when everything is finished́ she just has to start again, over and over again.
Recognisable by her flamboyant palette, her painting is meant to be a free exploration of form and colour. She thus attempts to question, not without humour and provocation, our conceptions and presumptions about our surrounding reality, challenging the vision of a coherent world, of an era that makes us see all kinds of colours, and also the very nature of the artist.
She sees her work as a space for reflection on the act of painting, of looking, and in particular on the multiplicitý of points of view depending on who is looking, when, where and how. What should we show? What should we hide? Are there still prohibitions in the art world? These are questions that often come up in her practice. Hungry for images, she picks from art history without hierarchy, spontaneously, like a pastry chef who mixes different ingredients to make a successful recipe, and make the cream rise without it turning to butter.
Patrick Bourdon
Year/s of residence : 1967, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Barbara Bourek
Year/s of residence : 1999, Association of Croatan Artists
Visual arts
JeanYves Bourgain
Year/s of residence : 1974, 1976, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
