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.
Felipe Esparza Pérez
Year/s of residence : 2026, Institut français
Cinema
Filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores the tensions between cinema visual and arts. He has been an artist-in-residence at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France), a participant in Berlinale Talents (2016), and he was also a fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University (2023–2026). His work has been presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, the Guangzhou Image Triennial (China), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Videobrasil Biennial (São Paulo), Los Angeles Film Forum, the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema, Torino Film Festival, Curtocircuíto, MIDBO, among others, as well as at exhibitions across China, Europe, and Latin America.
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Johannes Esper
Year/s of residence : 2012, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Richard Konrad Peter Ess
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2–12
Visual arts
Richard Ess lives and works in Paris and Frankfurt. He is co-founder of Bauer Verlag.
Artist's website
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Mohamed Ali Essaadi
Year/s of residence : 1984, 2007, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Heritage Preservation, Tunisia
Visual arts
Boris Essah
Year/s of residence : 2024, Institut Français du Cameroun
Architecture and design
Hannes Esser
Year/s of residence : 1994, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Sarah Esser
Year/s of residence : 2010, Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France
Visual arts
Trude Esser
Year/s of residence : 1991, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Merran Esson
Year/s of residence : 2006, FONAS (Friends of the National Art School of Sydney), Australia
Visual arts
Ahmed Essyad
Year/s of residence : 1982, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Neus Estarellas Calderon
Year/s of residence : 2016, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Gaudi Este
Year/s of residence : 1999, 2000, Cité internationale des arts, Foundation for Culture and the Arts - Fundarte, Venezuela
Visual arts
Maria Loura Estevao
Year/s of residence : 1998, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Maria Silvia Esteve
Year/s of residence : 2023, Trame
Cinema
María Silvia Esteve is an Argentine director, screenwriter and producer, born in Guatemala. Trained in fine arts and music since her youth, she first studied opera singing before pursuing a career in film.
She studied and taught audiovisual arts at the University of Buenos Aires and was awarded by the Spanish Association of Authors of Cinematographic Photography AEC, before starting her career with the film “Silvia”. The feature film had its world premiere at IDFA 2018, received the “Artistic Vision Award” at Docaviv and won awards at DocLisboa and the Habana Film Festival, among others.
Selected for the Buenos Aires Youth Art Biennial, the filmmaker participated in IDFAcademy, IDFA Summer School and IDFA Project Space, with her new project in production phase, “Mailin”. The film was awarded the IDFA Bertha Fund, the Metropolitan Arts Fund, SCAM’s Draft of a Documentary Dream. It was a double winner at Visions du Réel Industry 2022 for the project with the highest international potential.
The only Argentine film at Cannes 2022, her short film “The Spiral” had its world premiere at the 54th Directors’ Fortnight, and has been selected for festivals such as New Directors/New Films at MoMA and Film at Lincoln Center, Hong Kong International Film Festival, IDFA, among others.
Currently, Silvia has started writing her first feature film “Fauces”, winner of the Focus COPRO’ 2022 – Cannes, selected for the TorinoFilmLab. The film is based on her film “Criatura”, which won the Pardino d’oro for best author’s short film at the Locarno Film Festival 2021.
As co-founder and president of the women’s audiovisual collective HANA Films, her films are stories of women, led by women, with strong experimental and plastic research.
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Carlos Estevez Carasa
Year/s of residence : 2003, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Estrella Estevez
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2014, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Jérôme Estienne
Year/s of residence : 2003, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Michel Estienny
Year/s of residence : 1971, City of Toulouse - Direction des Affaires culturelles, France
Visual arts
Sila Estigarribia
Year/s of residence : 2008, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Guillaume Estoppey
Year/s of residence : 2005, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
Visual arts
