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.
Iryna Liessinska
Year/s of residence : 2005, 2007, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Perrine Lievens
Year/s of residence : 2020, 2008, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
French visual artist, Perrine Lievens was born in 1981 in Aix-en-Provence. This former student of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris currently lives and works in this city where she has completed her studies.
Perrine Lievens’ works propose to explore the poetic resources of our daily environment. The artist studies the sensitive qualities of certain natural elements, then brings them to light through minute plastic and conceptual displacements.
The intrinsic fragility of these elements often exposes the artist to real technical challenges, even utopias that she strives to make tangible, by borrowing for that from the crafts, the gestures of a concrete meticulousness.
Perrine Lievens would like to present here her work Les Mondes vierges (image on the left).
Les Mondes vierges, installation realized in 2017, was born from the fortuitous meeting of the newspaper Le Monde and a field of dandelions. The installation presents an unprinted edition of the newspaper in which dozens of egrets are inserted in such a way that their appearance and arrangement suggest that they could have developed there.
The many plastic affinities between the two materials offer the viewer a subtly surreal experience, whose apparent quietness is however undermined by the fragile balance that composes it. In doing so, the formal sobriety and the reverie that emanates from it question more widely our sensitive relationship to the world.
During her artistic career, she received the International Takifuji Prize and the prestigious LVMH Prize awarded to young artists. Her work has been shown at the Istanbul Off Biennial and at the Mariscal Andràs A Caceres Museum (Peru).
Artist's website
Jarkko Lievonen
Year/s of residence : 1999, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Sari Lievonen
Year/s of residence : 2000, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Sandra Ligabue
Year/s of residence : 2025, Mozarteum Argentino
Visual arts
Fabian Liguori
Year/s of residence : 1989, Institut français
Visual arts
Teodor Lihov
Year/s of residence : 2010, Sofia National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria
Visual arts
Pirjo Liiri Majava
Year/s of residence : 2009, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Gueorgui Likhovid
Year/s of residence : 2002, 2003, 2005, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Anne-Valérie Lila
Year/s of residence : 1999, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Philiswa Lila
Year/s of residence : 2019, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Giedre Liliene
Year/s of residence : 2014, Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA), Lithuania
Visual arts
Annika Liljedahl
Year/s of residence : 1980, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Mats Liljefors
Year/s of residence : 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977, Cité internationale des arts, Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Sweden
Music
Veslemoy Lilleengen
Year/s of residence : 2025, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation
Visual arts
Valentin Zhikov Lilov
Year/s of residence : 2012, Sofia National Academy of Arts, Bulgaria
Visual arts
Ba-Da Lim
Year/s of residence : 2014, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
Charlène Lim
Year/s of residence : 2009, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Spectacle vivant
Choon Jin Lim
Year/s of residence : 2008, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
Visual arts
Dong-Rak Lim
Year/s of residence : 1999, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
