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.
Paul Lepetit
Year/s of residence : 2022, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso
Visual arts
Paul Lepetit is a young artist who graduated from the Ecole Supérieur d’Arts et Médias de Caen/Cherbourg in 2019. After his studies, he leaves for Paris to join the ARCA programme at DOC! where he will benefit from a workshop and an accompanying grant from September 2019 to December 2020. This research and artistic creation workshop will end with a group exhibition: Stone in focus. At the same time, the artist continues, with the OK collective (of which he is a founding member), to organise residencies and exhibitions for young graduate artists. It was also at this time that Paul Lepetit created, with Lina Hentgen, La Pâte, a weekly music programme on radio DUUU*, where the creative process is highlighted and how the artist (visual artist) develops his universe through the medium of sound.
In 2021, he obtained a production residency with Societies (a not-for-profit structure for new relations between art and society). This allowed him to benefit, for one year, from a workshop in a low-cost housing estate in Montreuil, from permanent supervision by two exhibition curators, and to carry out two commissions for the social landlord Action Logement. Within the framework of this residence, he initiates collective events where several disciplines interact (buffet-perfomance, exhibitions, etc.).
“It is because the works cover several realities, that they cover statuses yet to be defined or refuse to do so, willingly casting doubt on the imaginary and the initial representations of the object, to become autonomous and distance themselves from an already established utility, alluding to it surreptitiously by a gesture that sends them towards the abstraction of their sign.
As in Paul Lepetit’s sculptures, which are tinged with absurdity; figures, furniture, abstract sculptures, this time the drawing has wandered, guided by the gesture. The artist’s “hesitating figures”, with their seductive and manufactured appearance, seem to state a function that has failed. Their poetic bodies and constrained postures leave them suspended in a narrative whose history is unknown. By maintaining doubt as to whether they are objects or sculptures, they cultivate an imbalance that pushes back the explicit to become entangled in our own reveries. Gently incoherent, they exist almost by aberration as potentialities in the imaginary space of our behaviours.”
– Fiona Villmer for the magazine Insert n°0
Artist's website
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Sami Leponiemi
Year/s of residence : 2026, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Music
Anni Leppala
Year/s of residence : 2010, 2016, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Harri Leppanen
Year/s of residence : 2013, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Joonas Leppanen
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2015, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Pirjo Leppanen
Year/s of residence : 1999, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Tiina Mariita Leppanen
Year/s of residence : 1996, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Gereon Lepper
Year/s of residence : 2005, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France
Visual arts
Patrick Leppert
Year/s of residence : 2001, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland
Visual arts
Rita Leppiniemi
Year/s of residence : 2024, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation
Visual arts
Jia Yi Ler
Year/s of residence : 2014, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Visual arts
Alexandre Leray
Year/s of residence : 2024, City of Asnières-sur-Seine
Visual arts
Horst Lerche
Year/s of residence : 1997, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Patrick Lerchmuller
Year/s of residence : 2009, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Stijn Lernout
Year/s of residence : 2018, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Visual arts
Olivier Leroi
Year/s of residence : 1997, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Ayden Leroux
Year/s of residence : 2025, 2–12
Literature
Anthony Leroy
Year/s of residence : 2000, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Dimitri Leroy
Year/s of residence : 2019, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Sandrine Leroy
Year/s of residence : 2003, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
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