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.
Mizanur Chowdhury
Year/s of residence : 2022, Art Explora
Visual arts
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury was born in 1981 in Noakhali, Bangladesh. He is based between Dhaka, Bangladesh and the United states. His practice is interdisciplinary, playing with different languages such as installation, assemblage, movement, video, collage, sculpture, found footage and experimental fi lm to conjure multifaceted artistic universes.
Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury has been working with recycled, discarded and ordinary everyday materials for many years to explore energy, sustainability and the environment. While France is adopting a law to combat waste and to reuse energy to transition from a linear into a circular economy, it is, at the same time, discarding
a huge quantity of unwanted products that are being wasted because of overproduction. By investigating these contradictory policies and perspectives, his project will focus on how art-making can be an intervention to increase sustainability for the sake of the environment. Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury’s research will also look at some recycling procedures such as how the systems are maintaining incineration with energy recovery. The project will be developed through collaborations with different groups, communities and waste management industries.
Damyanti Chowla
Year/s of residence : 1970, 1971, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Snejina Choykova
Year/s of residence : 1991, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Ventzislava Choykova
Year/s of residence : 1991, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Said Chraibi
Year/s of residence : 1996, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Music
Martin Chramosta
Year/s of residence : 2016, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland
Visual arts
Raphaël Chretien
Year/s of residence : 1995, 1997, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Sabrina Christ
Year/s of residence : 2018, Aargauer Kuratorium
Visual arts
André Christe
Year/s of residence : 2001, Republic and Canton of Jura, Switzerland
Spectacle vivant
Karin Christen
Year/s of residence : 2020, Visarte Switzerland – Visual arts association Switzerland
Visual arts
Benhard Christensen
Year/s of residence : 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, Danish Agency for Culture
Music
Jeannette Christensen
Year/s of residence : 1983, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Kelly Christensen
Year/s of residence : 2019, Stanford University
Music
Ketil Christensen
Year/s of residence : 1975, Danish Agency for Culture
Music
Maria C Bernhardsson
Year/s of residence : 2026, Artists' Association of Sweden
Visual arts
Jean Christiaens
Year/s of residence : 1970, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Jayne Christian
Year/s of residence : 2023, Powerhouse Museum
Visual arts
Jayne Christian is a Baramadagal woman of the Reid/Goldspink family belonging to the Dharug Nation. Jayne chairs the Parramatta City Council First Nations Advisory Group and is an Ambassador for the Treaty Council. Jayne has practiced as a social justice lawyer for ten years, with a focus on working with Aboriginal Communities across NSW.
Jayne belongs to the weaving communities in both Wagga Wagga and Western Sydney, is a member of Parramatta Weaving Garden Collective and practices traditional and contemporary styles of weaving and bush dying. Jayne was awarded highly commended finalist in the Blacktown City Council Art Prize 2023. Jayne’s work has been acquired by the Australian Museum, Blacktown City Council and as part of a collective work acquired by the Wagga Wagga City Council. Jayne uses weaving as a cultural practitioner to maintain a strong Dharug presence on-Country and contribute to the process of truth-telling of this place, now known as Sydney.
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Sven Christian
Year/s of residence : 2025, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Curating
Katerina Christidou
Year/s of residence : 1996, 1997, 2003, Cité internationale des arts, Greek Embassy in Paris
Visual arts
William Christie
Year/s of residence : 1971, Cité internationale des arts
Music
