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.
Simindokht Aazami
Year/s of residence : 1987, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Soufiane Ababri
Year/s of residence : 2020, 2015, École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Georges Abadie
Year/s of residence : 1973, Cité internationale des arts
Literature
Petro Abadjiev
Year/s of residence : 1980, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Vassil Abadjiev
Year/s of residence : 2005, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Shay Abady
Year/s of residence : 2000, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Stanko Abadzic
Year/s of residence : 2010, 2011, Association of Croatan Artists, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Olivia Abaecherli
Year/s of residence : 2022
Visual arts
Eduard Abajyan
Year/s of residence : 2013, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Natalia Abalakova
Year/s of residence : 1996, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Herman Aballe
Year/s of residence : 2001, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Ma Victoria Abano
Year/s of residence : 2011, Institut français
Visual arts
Hassan Abarou
Year/s of residence : 2012, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Aram Abbas
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Aram Abbas was born in Paris, France where he currently lives and works. He was raised in Damascus, Syria, where he lived until 2012.
Trained in music, fine arts and film, Aram Abbas is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, performance and music composition. He also frequently takes part in collective initiatives in visual arts, theatre, dance and music. As an exiled composer and musician, Aram Abbas experiences a symbolic and personal exile from the field of music to the field of visual arts, what he calls “music exile”. His practice approaches remnants from the past and the process of identities in a permanent state of exile.
Through sound pieces, performances and music experiments, his practice deals with techniques that merge instrumental and non-instrumental sound experiences, music compositions and performative gestures. By twisting initial disciplines, he develops projects open to news forms of staging and recording. Harsh, unstructured, blasting and eerie, Aram Abbas’s music mixes the experimental, the abstract and the absurd in an odd and dramatic universe. His music features the use of unpredictable song formats along with a wide range of eclectic genres.
His work has been shown internationally in art institutions, galleries, concert venues, and alternative spaces.
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Fatin Abbas
Year/s of residence : 2018, Cité internationale des arts
Literature
WRITINGS
NOVEL
Fatin Abbas was born in Sudan and grew up in New York. She gained her BA from the University of Cambridge, her PhD from Harvard, and her MFA in writing from Hunter College, the City University of New York.
Her fiction has appeared in Freeman’s: The Best New Writing on Arrival, The Warwick Review and Friction, and her non-fiction and review essays have appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, The Nation, Africa is a Country, and openDemocracy.net.
She is the recipient of a Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize, a Hertog Fellowship, a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, and an Alumni Award from the Iceland Writers Retreat, among other writing awards. Currently, she is completing her first novel, Ghost Season.
Abbas Abbasi
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2007, 2009, Visual Arts Administration of Iran, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Alfredo Abbati
Year/s of residence : 2012, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Giacomo Abbruzzese
Year/s of residence : 2012, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Mo Abd-Ulla
Year/s of residence : 2021, 2–12
Visual arts
Alia Farid Abdal
Year/s of residence : 2015, Institut français
Visual arts
