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.
Eduardo Adao Abdala
Year/s of residence : 2018, Centre national de la danse
Dance
Maitha Abdalla
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Maitha Abdalla is a visual artist born in 1989 in the United Arab Emirates.
Her practice combines photography, film, sculpture, painting, and performance often in dialogue with one another. The artist takes the contrived character of theatre to expand upon that which cannot be easily articulated via the written or spoken word: the difference between the imaginary and the real. By mapping the liminal space between these interconnected worlds, she plays out many questions of personal and collective identity.
As if harnessing the subconscious, Maitha Abdalla’s art oscillates between the diaphanous, vibrant and surreal, and is always marked by an atmosphere of reminiscence and nostalgia. Often evolved into series articulating strong cultural narratives, her multidisciplinary works are assemblages of memories, interrogations of social practices and normative value systems, tradition and human interactions explored through the lens of theatre.
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Zeinab Abdel Aziz
Year/s of residence : 1979, 1983, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Mohamed Abdel Rahim
Year/s of residence : 1975, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Year/s of residence : 2021, Creative Australia
Literature
Mohamed Abdelaziz Tajina
Year/s of residence : 1977, Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation, Tunisia
Visual arts
Ines Abdeldaim
Year/s of residence : 1981, Institut français
Music
Iman Abdeldaim Moustafa
Year/s of residence : 1989, Institut français
Music
Sam'a Abdelhadi
Year/s of residence : 2017, Zamkana Association
Music
Hakim Abdelnaeem
Year/s of residence : 2019, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
WRITINGS
PERFORMANCE
Hakim Abdelnaeem is an Alexandria theatre maker and writer based in Cairo. He studied Directing and Acting at Alexandria University. His relationship with the theatre began at an early age, and he has participated in numerous theatre projects as an actor. In 2012, he directed his first piece “Light is out”, and in 2014 he was awarded a production grant from the Arab Fund for Culture and Arts (AFAC) for his second project, “The Mincer”.
Hakim has worked on a number of artistic projects as researcher including for the documentary theatre piece “ZigZig”, directed by director Laila Soliman. He has also done dramaturgical work for several productions, the latest being “Without Damage”, a performance piece that was part of the 2018 Festival d’Avignon. He also has experience in other artistic media such as video art. Hakim writes widely on local, regional, and international cultural and artistic production for the independent Egyptian online newspaper, Mada Masr.
Since 2016 he has been working on a live documentary performance based on a series of found letters written by a girl who disappeared leaving nothing else behind. (She would write the letters and mail them to herself.)
Artist's website
Adel Abdessemed
Year/s of residence : 1999, 2002, Cité internationale des arts, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Bahman Abdi
Year/s of residence : 2015, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Farzane Abdoli
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Hyacinthe Abdoulaye Tobio
Year/s of residence : 2004, 2005, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Lida Abdul
Year/s of residence : 2006, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Agron Abduli
Year/s of residence : 2008, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Visual arts
Rif Abdulin
Year/s of residence : 2006, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Nazar Abdulla Yahyia
Year/s of residence : 2004, Al-Mansouria Foundation, Saudi Arabia
Visual arts
Danah Abdullah
Year/s of residence : 2018, Franco-Palestinian Cultural Institute
Architecture and design
Selim Abdullah
Year/s of residence : 1989, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, Visarte - Professional Association of Plastic Artists of Ticino, Switzerland
Visual arts
