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.
Bonita Alice
Year/s of residence : 1996, 2003, 2008, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Remo Albert Alig
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2005, 2013, Visarte Graubünden, Visarte - Graubünden Professional Association of Visual Artists, Switzerland, Visarte - Professional association of Swiss visual artists
Visual arts
Aida Alikadic
Year/s of residence : 1988, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Samira Alikhanzadeh
Year/s of residence : 2006, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Alisher Alikulov
Year/s of residence : 2006, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Adnan Alili
Year/s of residence : 2013, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Visual arts
Nour Eddine Alimazighi
Year/s of residence : 1977, Institut français
Visual arts
Mohammed Alimrani
Year/s of residence : 2022, Welfare Association (Taawon)
Visual arts
Reza Alipour Saadani
Year/s of residence : 2010, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Wilder Alison
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Simo Alitalo
Year/s of residence : 2020, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Music
Tuike Alitalo
Year/s of residence : 2020, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Alix Marie
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2–12
Visual arts
Alix Marie (born in Bobigny in 1989), is a multidisciplinary artist whose work mainly mixes photography, sculpture, and installation. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College (2011) and the Royal College of Art (2014) in London. Her work explores our relationship to the body and its representation through objectification, fragmentation, accumulation, and enlargement processes. The questioning of the construction of gender gets intertwined with autobiography and mythology to construct poetic and visceral experiences.
In 2019, she received the Vic Odden Award by the Royal Photographic Society, which recognizes the work of a photographic artist under 35 years of age. In 2021, she presents her new work Styx at the National Center of Photography in Ballarat, Australia and she is included in the “50 Pioneers Defining 21st Century Photography” in Charlotte Jansen’s Photography Now published by Tate Modern.
Recent Exhibitions: RAW, Rembrandt Museum (Rembrandthuis, 2022), Amsterdam; Nude, Fotografiska New-York and Stockholm (2022), Sorsi di Sale, NContemporary, (2022); Sucer La Nuit, Musée des Beaux Arts Le Locle (2019).
Dulat Aliyev
Year/s of residence : 2007, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Duman Aliyev
Year/s of residence : 2007, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Aisha Aliyu-Bima
Year/s of residence : 2023, Institut français du Nigéria
Curating
Peiman Alizadeh Oskouei
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Kamal Aljafari
Year/s of residence : 2025, Académie des beaux-arts
Cinema
Khaled Aljaramani
Year/s of residence : 2012, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Music
Wael Alkak
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2014, 2016, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Independent artist Damascus-born, Wael Alkak is an experienced author of unique electronic music that combines genres and cultures.
After graduating from the Damascus Conservatory of Music, he became interested in Syrian popular music at a very young age, practising a multitude of instruments such as bouzouki, percussions, saxophone and keyboards, and digital music.
Driven by democratic values and overwhelmed by the frozen elitism of the art world in his country, Wael Alkak participated in the first pacifist demonstrations in 2011. As a result of these events, he composed his first musical album: Neshama, a contemporary collective project that interprets traditional rhythms in electronic versions, combining folk music with classical Arabic, inspired from revolutionary anthems born from pacifist demonstrations.
Since 2013, Wael Alkak has been performing all over Europe, between Paris, where he now lives, Berlin, London and Copenhagen. He presents during his live set Neshama (2012) and Men Zaman (2017) which he mixes with new electronic musical compositions. Wael Alkak draws his repertoire from the folklore of the Levant (Chaâbi).
His live performances mix tradition and modernity, where synthesizer sounds and bouzouki melodies produce a transcendent style, inviting bodies to let go.
