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.
Siamon Matalianets
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institut français
Visual arts
Elisabeth Mathisen
Year/s of residence : 2018, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation
Visual arts
Megumi Matsubara
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institut français
Visual arts
Anna Mc Grath
Year/s of residence : 2018, Cité internationale des arts
Cinema
Elizabeth Mead
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2015, Virginia Center for the Arts, University of Central Virginia, USA
Visual arts
Francisco Medail
Year/s of residence : 2018, Mozarteum Argentino
Visual arts
Manoela Medeiros
Year/s of residence : 2018, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Manoela Medeiros is a visual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
In her research, she uses various media, including sculpture, painting, performance and installations that articulate ambivalent relationships between language, nature and ruin.
Her personal exhibitions include: Poeira Varrida, Fortes D’Aloia and Gabriel – São Paulo; Analogies Vivantes, comissioner by Alicia Knock, Saint-Sévrin – Paris 2019, Falling Walls, Galerie Double V – Marseille.Among his group exhibitions and awards: Villa Noailles – Toulon, Espaces Témoins, Praz-Delavallade – Paris,, Pipa Prize, MAM – Nominated, Brazil, Vivemos na melhor cidade da América do Sul, Fundação Iberê Camargo – Porto Alegre, 67th prize Jeune Création, Thaddaeus Ropac – Pantin, 62nd Salon de Montrouge, Le Belffroi – Montrouge; Hallstatt, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel – São Paul.
Anaïs Meier
Year/s of residence : 2018, Atelier Mondial
Literature
Daniel Meir
Year/s of residence : 2018, Association Belmachine
Visual arts
Mariam Mekiwi
Year/s of residence : 2018, Société des Amis de l'Institut du monde arabe
Cinema
Darja Melnikova
Year/s of residence : 2018, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Visual arts
Arttu Merimaa
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2011, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Vanja Mervic
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2015, 2016, Association of Visual Artists of Slovenia, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Visual arts
Luzie Meyer
Year/s of residence : 2018, Cultural Foundation of Hesse
Cinema
Basel Mfarrage
Year/s of residence : 2018, Franco-Palestinian Cultural Institute
Visual arts
Niko Mihajlevic
Year/s of residence : 2018, Croatian Association of Visual Artists
Visual arts
Niko Mihaljevic
Year/s of residence : 2018, Croatian Association of Visual Artists
Visual arts
JP Mika
Year/s of residence : 2018, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
INTERVIEW
What changes and developments are to be noted in your work thanks to the residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Montmartre?
“The studio on the Montmartre site offers me better light, thus optimizing my work. Despite the somewhat aging aspect of the studio and the inconveniences that can go with it, the light and space it offers are precious help so that I can work in good conditions.”
An anecdote about your residency at the Cité internationale des arts?
“The residency at the Cité internationale des arts allows me to be more comfortable working and more focused than I can be in my country. I am very happy here. My residence allows me to work in a quieter space and that’s what I’m most satisfied with.”
BIOGRAPHY
After having followed painting courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, JP Mika attended ARAP, a Popular Art Research Workshop, created by the artist Chéri Chérin and with whom he perfected his technique. In 2004, he created his own workshop, which he named EBA (Événement des Beaux-Arts).
An exceptional draftsman, JP Mika has long borrowed the themes and compositions of his elders and mentor Chéri Chérin. Like Chéri Samba before him, JP Mika often stages himself, painting self-portraits or integrating into a group composition, always dressed as a Sapper. He developed his own style, centred on the portrait, simplifying his staging by using fabrics with very colourful motifs as backgrounds. This “discovery” and the unconstrained use of colour give a very positive energy to her work, which now stands out deeply from the works of her peers. His very realistic compositions, with an incredible attention to detail, tendernessly depict a modern and dynamic Africa.
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Ivana Milev
Year/s of residence : 2018, Union of Associations of Fine Arts of Yugoslavia (SULUJ)
Visual arts
Momchil Mirchev
Year/s of residence : 2015, 2018, Sofia National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
