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.
Souad Bahechar
Year/s of residence : 2008, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Literature
Norma Bahia Pontes
Year/s of residence : 1966, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Mehdi Bahmad
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2–12
Music
Born in Morocco, then having lived in France and Canada; born of a Muslim culture, while desacralising it; child of a hetero-normed background, eventually to question the paradigms of sexual identity and gender; straight, fine points, on the edge emerges Mehdi Bahmad.
With a background in the visual arts, and incorporating dance and movement into his work, Mehdi Bahmad reappropriates elements and symbols from his North African Amazigh and Arabic culture, integrating them into a visual and musical aesthetic marked by sentiments that are both gentle and uplifting. The artist unfolds an idyllic universe where the disconcerting becomes harmonious. A multi-sensory world where genres flout boundaries, where elements clash and intertwine. Musically, the story unfolds on an art-pop canvas with tonic and sensitive electro accents. The synthetic textures of the consoles weave an environment over which strings and woodwinds are woven into an amalgam as unlikely as it is seductive.
Her debut EP ‘Khôl’, released in 2019, quickly attracted media attention (Vogue, CBC/Radio-Canada, Flaunt, MILLE, NATAAL…) and led her to perform in front of over 15,000 people at various festivals in Canada, despite a global pandemic. The series of audiovisual works that accompanies the project has won him several international awards and distinctions, including the Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York (UK) and special screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Amsterdam Dance Event, as well as leading to his first public solo exhibition in collaboration with the City of Montreal in 2021. Committed to the defence of human rights, the multidisciplinary singer-songwriter is spokesperson for Amnesty International Canada in 2022.
Mehdi Bahmad is working on his latest musical project, which he has had the opportunity to develop during various residencies, including PHI Nord and currently at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.
Artist's website
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Reni Bahneva
Year/s of residence : 2023, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Ellen Bahr
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2014, School of Art and Design, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Sarah Bahr
Year/s of residence : 2012, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
Visual arts
Ismaïl Bahri
Year/s of residence : 2010, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Chun Bai
Year/s of residence : 2015, Shanghai Normal University - Arts, China
Visual arts
Ming Bai
Year/s of residence : 2010, Tsinghua University Academy - Arts & Design, China
Visual arts
Rongguo Bai
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2007, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan Institute of Arts, China
Architecture and design
Yun Bai
Year/s of residence : 1998, Tsinghua University Academy - Arts & Design, China
Visual arts
Zhanwang Bai
Year/s of residence : 2011, China Artists Association
Visual arts
Jörg Baier
Year/s of residence : 2013, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Wiltrud Baier
Year/s of residence : 2011, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Spectacle vivant
Béatrice Bailet
Year/s of residence : 2008, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Catherine Bailey
Year/s of residence : 2008, FONAS (Friends of the National Art School of Sydney), Australia
Visual arts
Giles Bailey
Year/s of residence : 2009, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Mia Bailey
Year/s of residence : 2010, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Tatiana Baillache
Year/s of residence : 1995, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Annie Baillargeon
Year/s of residence : 2007, Institut français
Visual arts
