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.
Abdesselem Lekouaghet
Year/s of residence : 1984, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Yordan Lekov
Year/s of residence : 2026, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Pierre Yves Lelay
Year/s of residence : 2008, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Marine Leleu
Year/s of residence : 2020, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Marine Leleu (1993, Boulogne-Sur-Mer) is a graphic designer and photographer. She studied photography during her professional baccalaureate, then graphic design at ESAD Amiens, before finishing her master’s degree at the Beaux-Arts de Lyon in graphic design. With Clément Faydit, she designed n°11 of the review Initiales, an art review published by the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. This edition was dedicated to the artist Isa Genzken.
Marine Leleu is particularly involved in collaboration with artists, notably with Flora Bouteille, also in residence at the Cité internationale des arts. Influenced by the history of architecture and modernism, Marine Leleu was awarded the 2018 Madrid Prize. Then, she benefited from a two-month residency at Casa de Velázquez, which resulted in an exhibition, Madrid : zone de dérive expérimentale, presented from October, 15th to December, 15th, 2018.
Her work is based on a database consisting of a set of monochrome (B/W) photographic images, the construction and structural organization of which is homogeneous. Marine Leleu has been collecting this database since 2011, in which the territory has become one and anonymous, as it eliminates signs and indicators. The images chosen are non-places, by flat areas, walls, ruins, buildings, ephemeral forms, textures, debris. The physical elements of human manufacturing (materials, architecture, panels, concrete slabs, etc.) are revealed. These “spaces of non-places” where one does not stop and which one does not generally see are as invisible. Her work is to show them, to “reveal” them, and by immortalizing them through photography to extract them from reality where they disappear to give them a new existence.
François Leleux
Year/s of residence : 1989, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Philippe Lelievre
Year/s of residence : 1965, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Kitso Lynn Lelliott
Year/s of residence : 2019, Institut français
Visual arts
Ofer Lellouche
Year/s of residence : 1995, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Thomas Lelu
Year/s of residence : 2002, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Nolan Vincent Lem
Year/s of residence : 2018, Stanford University
Music
Rosine Jeanne Lemagny
Year/s of residence : 1969, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Lawrence Lemaoana
Year/s of residence : 2006, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Diana Edmond Lemberg
Year/s of residence : 2014, Sofia National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria
Visual arts
Julian Lembke
Year/s of residence : 2013, 2014, 2020, Cité internationale des arts, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Christine Lemelin
Year/s of residence : 1987, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Janice Lemen
Year/s of residence : 1967, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Pedro Henrique Lemes Da Silva
Year/s of residence : 2024, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado
Visual arts
Igor Lemeshev
Year/s of residence : 2007, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Marc David Lemire
Year/s of residence : 1969, 1970, 1971, 1981, Cité internationale des arts
Music
André-Philip Lemke
Year/s of residence : 1996, 2002, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
