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.
Adriana Ablin
Year/s of residence : 2023, Mozarteum Argentino
Visual arts
Ahmad Abo Gabi
Year/s of residence : 2020, Welfare Association (Taawon)
Music
Ammar Abobakr
Year/s of residence : 2019, Société des Amis de l'Institut du monde arabe
Visual arts
Mehri Abolghasem
Year/s of residence : 2019, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Svanhild Abonde
Year/s of residence : 1996, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Mathieu Abonnenc
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2009, 2010, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Paula Abood
Year/s of residence : 2007, Australian Arts Council
Literature
Ali Abou
Year/s of residence : 2003, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Sara Abou Ghazal
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Literature
Iman Abou Hmid
Year/s of residence : 2007, Institut français
Visual arts
Sara Abou Mrad
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français du Liban
Visual arts
Azzah Abou Ribeieh
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français
Alaeddin Abou Taleb
Year/s of residence : 2019, Tunisian Ministry of Cultural Affairs
Visual arts
Leila Abou-Hadid
Year/s of residence : 1979, Institut français
Visual arts
Elias Aboud
Year/s of residence : 2025, Berlin Senate Department for Culture und Social Cohesion (SenKultGZ)
Mohamed Abouelouakar
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Houda Abouz
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français du Maroc
Literature
Abdallah Abozekry
Year/s of residence : 2019, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Abdallah Abozekry was born on 16 February 1995 in Cairo into a family of lovers of Arab classical music. At the age of twelve, he began his musical studies at the House of Arab Lute in Cairo, with a Syrian Kurdish teacher. At the age of fourteen, he joined the Oriental Orchestra conducted by Naseer Shamma. He has participated in renowned festivals, such as the Baalbek and Carthage festivals.
At the end of 2010, he graduated from the Maison du Luth Arabe in Cairo with a “prize of excellence”. At the age of fifteen, he became the youngest teacher of Saz in the Arab world.
In 2017, two years after his arrival in France, Abdallah Abozekry began working with his older brother Mohamed Abozekry. For their first collaboration, the two brothers team up with Nicolas Thé, a renowned drummer, and present Don’t replace me by a machine.
Eli Abrahahmi
Year/s of residence : 1970, 1972, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Marion Abraham
Year/s of residence : 2025, Art Gallery of New South Wales
