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.
Anastasiia Marakulina
Year/s of residence : 2019, Institut français
Visual arts
Maral Bolouri
Year/s of residence : 2019
Visual arts
VISUAL ARTS
INSTALLATION
Maral’s Practice is informed by their experience as a gender non conforming person in post-Revolution Iran, their life in Kenya and a new layer to their identity which is being a refugee in France.
With the main focus of their practice being on gender and identity, previously they explored, gender equality, female body, and representation of women in oral traditions through projects such as Destiny, Boxes and Mothers and Others.
Moving to Paris, has inspired them to look into the relationship between bodies and spaces with a focus on safe spaces, and the possibilities of safe existence for non-normative bodies.
Maral’s works can be found in several collections including World Bank, Washington, and Absa’s permanent collection. They are the overall winner of Absa L’atelier competition 2017.
Nassim Marashi
Year/s of residence : 2021, French Embassy in Iran
Literature
Nasim Mara’shi is an Iranian novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Published in 2015, her first novel Fall is the Last Season of the Year won the Jalal Al Ahmad Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Iran. It has become a bestseller of Cheshmeh Publishing and in a few years has reached its fiftieth edition. The novel was published in Italian by Ponte33 and in English by Austrahause. Published in 2018, her second novel, Harrow, has now reached more than 20 editions and has been translated into Turkish and Kurdish.
The writing of her third novel is the focus of her residency at the Cité internationale des arts. The project began five years ago and involved many interviews with Afghan refugees in Berlin, Paris, Rome and Toronto. This novel, which will follow an Afghan refugee family, will focus on the confrontation of said family with the new society in which they live.
“I think the second-generation immigrants bears the brunt of immigration,” says Nasim Mara’shi. That is why this novel will focus on the daughter as a representative of the second generation of immigrants as she inevitably becomes the link between her family and the new culture she discovers.
Artist's website
Maurine Tric
Dolorès Marat
Year/s of residence : 2005, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Krystof Maratka
Year/s of residence : 1994, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Vincent Marbacher
Year/s of residence : 1991, City of Fribourg, Switzerland
Visual arts
Caroline Marc
Year/s of residence : 2000, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Spectacle vivant
Sandrine Marc
Year/s of residence : 2024, Picto Foundation
Visual arts
Marta Marce
Year/s of residence : 1999, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Timothée Marcel
Year/s of residence : 2004, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Luca Marcelli Pitzalis
Year/s of residence : 2025, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris
Visual arts
Delfina Marcello
Year/s of residence : 2011, City of Paris, France
Spectacle vivant
Anne Marchand
Year/s of residence : 2000, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Spectacle vivant
Charles-Etienne Marchand
Year/s of residence : 2011, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Robert Marchand
Year/s of residence : 1975, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Graham Marchant
Year/s of residence : 1986, 1996, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
Visual arts
Henrik Marchel
Year/s of residence : 1986, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Jean Paul Marcheschi
Year/s of residence : 1986, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Alessandro Marchi
Year/s of residence : 2025, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation
Visual arts
Margherita Marchioni
Year/s of residence : 2010, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
