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.
Ana Cecilia Kesselring
Year/s of residence : 2007, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP), Brazil
Visual arts
Tahar Kessi
Year/s of residence : 2023, French National Centre of Cinema
Cinema
Ulrike Kessl
Year/s of residence : 1996, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Gun Kessle
Year/s of residence : 1972, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Helmuth Kesting
Year/s of residence : 1976, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
Tiina Ketara
Year/s of residence : 2024, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Markus Ketola
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2012, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Sirkku Ketola
Year/s of residence : 2013, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Günther Keusen
Year/s of residence : 2010, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Hermann-Josef Keyenburg
Year/s of residence : 1991, 1992, 1994, 2000, Cité internationale des arts, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Minoo Keyhan
Year/s of residence : 1974, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Karen Keyrouz
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Visual arts
Karen Keyrouz is a multidisciplinary artist, her practice is a “back and forth” between drawing, comics and video.
In 2017 she founded the Zeez collective and joined Samandal Comics in 2018, two collectives where she writes, draws comics and is part of the editorial board. In 2017 with some friends.es, she organized the drawn concert in Beirut which became a monthly meeting in the city. Through this practice of drawing in public, she develops a specific language of visual improvisation based on “Pareidolia”.
Today, she is working on her experimental comic strip Quelques danses pour combattre la migraine. Based on elements of reality and of her life in Beirut, this comic book mixes documentary, fiction and daydreaming. As its name suggests, this project is a chaotic journey into emotion, an attempt to heal a seemingly incurable disease. We accompany characters in scenes that are sometimes real but mostly nightmarish.
This project raises many questions about the codes of comics, drawing and improvised narration.
Shadan Keyvani
Year/s of residence : 2008, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Keywan Karimi
Year/s of residence : 2019, Cité internationale des arts
Cinema
Born in 1985, Keywan Karimi is an Iranian filmmaker of Kurdish origin. His short films, such as Broken Border (2012) and The Adventures of a Married Couple (2013), have been screened at numerous international film festivals. Because of his documentary Writing on the City (2015), which focused on graffiti on Tehran’s walls from the 1979 Islamic Revolution to the re-election of Mohamoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, Karimi was arrested and kept in isolation for two weeks in December 2013.
In October 2015, he was sentenced to six years in prison and 223 lashes for “insulting the sanctity of Islam”. In February 2016, the judgment upheld all the convictions, but reduced the prison sentence to one year while retaining the 223 lashes. His freedom is currently in a state of limbo: he has not yet been imprisoned, but he has not been acquitted and he can no longer appeal his final sentence.
Keyman Karimi considers Yılmaz Guney (Turkish director of Kurdish origin, who won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for YOL in 1982) as a source of inspiration. Like him, he is a filmmaker who defends freedom of expression. DRUM is Keywan Karimi’s first feature film.
Willy's Kezi Niangi
Year/s of residence : 2013, Institut français
Visual arts
Jurica Kezic
Year/s of residence : 1985, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Irina Khabibova
Year/s of residence : 2016, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Anait Levai Khachatryan
Year/s of residence : 2015, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Madlen Khachatryan
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, Armenia State Academy of Fine Arts, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Varazdat Khachumyan
Year/s of residence : 2006, Cité internationale des arts
Music
