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.
Sasha Kagan
Year/s of residence : 1969, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Simon Kagan
Year/s of residence : 1978, 1979, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
Anas Kahal
Year/s of residence : 2019, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg
Visual arts
Dina Kahana Gueler
Year/s of residence : 1994, 1995, 2012, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Gernot Kahl
Year/s of residence : 1969, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Christelle Kahla
Year/s of residence : 2022, General Management of Cultural Affairs of the State of Vaud
Visual arts
Karin Kahlhofer
Year/s of residence : 2007, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Hannu Kahonen
Year/s of residence : 1994, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Bernhard Kahrmann
Year/s of residence : 2004, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Annika Kahrs
Year/s of residence : 2015, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Visual arts
Sven Kahrs
Year/s of residence : 2019, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Music
Joseph Kai
Year/s of residence : 2019, Institut français
Visual arts
INTERVIEW
A residency in Montmartre, at the Cité internationale des arts, how is it?
“That’s cool! A real moment of reflection, questioning and prolific creation in a magnificent green setting.”
What are your current projects?
“I’m developing an autobiographical comic strip fiction. My first long graphic novel. The story revolves around an artist whose imagination is conditioned by a latent anxiety. A kind of fear that he has internalized since his childhood in post-war Lebanon, and that he now seeks to sublimate.”
BIOGRAPHY
The unspoken, as well as other subjects such as gender, marginalization and non-conformism, are themes of predilection in Joseph Kaï’s current comic book work. His delicate style favouring line and his introspective tone combine a traditional Franco-Belgian language with an experimental Beirut tendency which formed him a lot after his studies at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts.
In 2010, Joseph Kaï joined the Lebanese comic book collective Samandal (alternative comic book prize at the Angoulême 2019 Comic Book Festival) where he discovered the alternative comic book scene in his city and participated in the creation of a new series of collective publications for which he published Géographie in 2015, and a new platform for author comics publishing for which he currently supervises the first serial publication Antoine by Mazen Kerbaj.
Joseph Kaï has also participated in numerous festivals, comic book exhibitions and round tables in Paris, Berlin, London, Beirut and Brussels.
He is currently working on his first graphic novel Sissies.
Joseph Kaï’s residency is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Cité internationale des arts as part of its action to promote Francophone creation.
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Antti Kaihola
Year/s of residence : 2000, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Ilari Kaila
Year/s of residence : 2012, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Tuukka Kaila
Year/s of residence : 2023, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Kirtika Kain
Year/s of residence : 2024, National Art School
Visual arts
Jouni Ilari Kaipainen
Year/s of residence : 1983, 1985, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Ella Kaira
Year/s of residence : 2025, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Architecture and design
Viesturs Kairiss
Year/s of residence : 1998, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Spectacle vivant
Narius Kairys
Year/s of residence : 2019, Vilnius Academy of Arts
Curating
