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.
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
Spectacle vivant
Laida Lertxundi
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2–12
Cinema
Laida Lertxundi is a Basque born, artist and filmmaker that lived and worked in Los Angeles, California for 16 years. Combining conceptual rigor and sensuality in a process she calls “Landscape Plus,” her films establish parallels between landscape and the body as centers of pleasure and experience. Her practice is collaborative in nature, aiming to actively deconstruct the hierarchies of a traditional film shoot through the free exchange of roles both behind and in front of the camera, and the staging of improvised gestures and spontaneous, collective activities in various natural environments. Lertxundi’s work is invested landscape as both an artistic tradition and a particular set of regional characteristics, idioms and inhabitants — from the deserts of California to the dramatic mountains of her native Basque Country.
Her work, which also includes printmaking and writing has recently been shown in High Line Art, New York (2023), Artspace Aotearoa New Zealand (2023), ARKO Art Center, Seoul (2022), MoMa, New York (2022), Cibrían, San Sebastián (2021), McEvoy Arts Foundation, San Francisco (2021) and Human Resources Los Angeles (2019).
She has had solo exhibitions at Artium, Vitoria (2023), La Taller, Bilbao (2022), NoguerasBlanchard (2021), Matadero Madrid (2019), LUX London (2018), Tramway Glasgow (2018), FuturDome Milano (2019), fluent Santander (2017), Tabakalera San Sebastián (2017), DA2 Salamanca (2015), Azkuna Zentroa Bilbao, (2014), Vdrome London (2014) and Marta Cervera, (2013). Her films have been screened at numerous festivals such as Locarno, New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, BFI, TIFF Toronto, Gijón, San Sebastián or Edinburgh among others.
Her monographic book, Landscape Plus, was published by Mousse Publishing and fluent in 2019. In 2020 she received the Gure Artea award. Her work is represented by LUX in London and she is currently a Professor at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
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Stéphane Leruste
Year/s of residence : 1985, 1989, 1991, 1998, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Emmanuelle Lesbre
Year/s of residence : 1999, Fondation de France
Visual arts
Alberto Lescay Jr
Year/s of residence : 2014, Institut français
Music
Aquila Lescene
Year/s of residence : 2026, Création sonore - HEAR Haute école des arts du Rhin Mulhouse — Strasbourg
Music
Etienne Lescroart
Year/s of residence : 1994, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Ganna Leshchenko
Year/s of residence : 2011, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Marina Leshkova
Year/s of residence : 2017, Ministry of Culture of Republic of North Macedonia
Visual arts
Ivan Lesiak
Year/s of residence : 1989, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
