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.
Gaëlle Choisne
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2016, Art Explora, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Born in France in 1985, Gaëlle Choisne lives and works in Paris. The daughter of a Haitian mother and a Breton father, Gaëlle Choisne blends oral traditions, Creole mythology and popular culture in works that reflect both Haitian history and her own personal narrative. Her practice combines a documentary approach (photography and video) with the use of raw materials, addressing socio-political issues linked to the over-exploitation of natural resources and colonial history.
She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Acacia Art Center (France, 2023), MAC VAL (France, 2022), MAMVP (France, 2022), Galerie Air de Paris (France, 2021), GIBCA Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art (Sweden, 2021), 5th New Museum Triennial (USA, 2021), The Mistake Room (USA, 2019) and Bétonsalon (France, 2018). Gaëlle Choisne was recently nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024.
Reiffers Opening 2023
Badamjav Choksom
Year/s of residence : 1996, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Kiril Cholakov
Year/s of residence : 2023, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Jitti Chompee
Year/s of residence : 2014, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
Daniel Chompre
Year/s of residence : 1971, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Chris Chong Chan Fui
Year/s of residence : 2016, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Gayle Chong Kwan
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2008, 2013, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Keng Kwang Choo
Year/s of residence : 1998, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Visual arts
Emilia Chopova Panaiotova
Year/s of residence : 1994, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Nikhil Chopra
Year/s of residence : 2022, Art Explora
Visual arts
Nikhil Chopra was born in Calcutta, India, in 1974. He is based in Goa, India, where he co-runs HH Art Spaces. Nikhil Chopra’s artistic practice interweaves performance, drawing, photography, sculpture and installations. His performances, in large part improvised, dwell on identity and its construction, autobiography and authorship, the pose and self-portraiture. His work refl ects on the process of transformation and the part played by the duration
of performance. Nikhil Chopra is represented by Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, Sao Paulo, Paris).
During his residency he will develop the project Recomposing the Panorama, a six-month immersive artistic adventure in the heart of Paris, in the shadow of the Sacré Cœur, which will unravel in two folds.
Part 1: To gather (September-January)
Slow walks, long observations, conversations, performances, drawings, cooking and eating sessions, dialogues and engagements will become a way of discovering, collecting, recording and remembering. The atelier at Art Explora will become home, studio, workshop, kitchen, living room, dining table, library, gallery, theatre and a place for silence. It will serve as a container and store house of experiences and memories.
Part 2: Together (February)
The fermentation and pickling of ideas and bodies will come together in the form of an event; a gathering, a happening, a party, an exhibition, a celebration and a performance. An attempt will be made to stitch together a new narrative around time spent with a city and its inhabitants in the form of an exquisite reimagined panorama.
Grant Chorley
Year/s of residence : 1976, 1977, 1978, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Elisabeth Chosson
Year/s of residence : 1980, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Gaelle Chotard
Year/s of residence : 1998, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Viryia Chotpanyavisut
Year/s of residence : 2017, Institut français
Visual arts
Vera Chotzoglou
Year/s of residence : 2025, EMΣΤ | The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
Music
Hsin Chun Chou
Year/s of residence : 2017, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Kuan Jou Chou
Year/s of residence : 2019, Centre national de la danse
Dance
Man-Nung Chou
Year/s of residence : 2025, Taiwan Cultural Center in Paris
Theater
Shen Lin Chou
Year/s of residence : 1981, 1986, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Institut français
Music
Shu-I Chou
Year/s of residence : 2009, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
