Artists in residence

French-Swiss librettist and stage Director, Chloé Lechat joined the Ecole supérieure d’art dramatique of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in 2004, under the direction of Stéphane Braunschweig, in the Direction and Creation class. She then accompanied various stage directors (Christophe Honoré, Stefan Herheim, Barrie Kosky, Mariame Clément, Stéphane Braunschweig, David Marton, Alfredo Arias, Katharina Thalbach) as an artistic collaborator in several opera houses and festivals for about ten years.

In 2019, she has taken part in the workshop Opera in creation of the Academy of the International Festival of Lyric Art of Aix-en-Provence directed by Pascal Dusapin. She will then write her first libretto for the chamber opera Nach dem Kuss, for which she received the Beaumarchais-SACD writing grant in 2019 (musical composition: Clara Olivares), a project supported by La Chartreuse-CNES. In 2020, she continued with the Amsterdam Opera & Writing Workshop under the direction of Luc Joosten, organised by the Dutch National Opera & Ballet, after which she created the music theatre company Liese Nebel in collaboration with the dramaturge and musicologist Raphaëlle Blin.

During the 2021-2022 season, she directed La Traviata at the Opéra de Limoges. She was interested in the myth of the character of the Lady of the Camellias, locked in a patriarchal economic and political system. One of the themes of this work: the perpetual construction of hierarchies echoes her own research.  She now wishes to pursue the exploration of these issues in a broader historical and cultural perspective. During her residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, she is working on the writing of the opera WoMen.

In the 2022-2023 season, she will stage a project at the Philharmonie de Paris honoring the composer Germaine Tailleferre.

Chloé Lechat is a member of the Réseau des Autrices Francophones de Berlin and of the Young Opera Makers program of the ENOA network.

Born in Belgium in 1995, Harold Lechien graduated from the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre (2021) and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (2025). Through modular installations combining video, sculpture, images and manufactured objects, he explores contemporary forms of staging and visual narratives that shape our perception of reality. By manipulating signs from industry and communication, he questions commercial fetishism and the spectacularisation of everyday life. His work has been presented at ISELP (Brussels), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (Paris), DMW Gallery (Antwerp) and Transmediale (Berlin), among others.

Morgan Lecornu, also known as Brebixx, is a young island artist who has spent most of his life on various islands, particularly Mayotte, New Caledonia, and Réunion Island.

A graduate of the ESA of Réunion in 2020, he has since embarked on his career as an artist. His practice is multidisciplinary, blending drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and artificial intelligence. His universe is colorful, and sprinkled with humor, but his works are satirical, provocative, and critique numerous social and societal phenomena.