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.
Kalina Mavrodieva-Takova
Year/s of residence : 2023, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Maria Mavropoulou
Year/s of residence : 2026, EMΣΤ | The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens
Visual arts
Maria Mavropoulou (b. 1989) is a visual artist living and working in Athens, Greece. her research centers on how systems of image-making shape memory and cultural production. Working across photography, archives and AI-generated imagery, she examines moments when technologies designed to preserve reality begin instead to obscure it. She is especially concerned with artificial intelligence as a dominant mechanism of accumulation and redistribution of cultural data, and with phenomena such as model collapse, where the performance of systems trained on their own outputs gradually degrades. Through this lens, she investigates how growing dependence on algorithmic systems affects the ways knowledge is preserved and accessed, and how AI mediation may contribute to a cultural monoculture.
Maria Mavropoulou © Maria Siorba
Tsvetelina Maximova
Year/s of residence : 2009, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Lloyd May
Year/s of residence : 2023, Stanford University
Music
Ragnhild May
Year/s of residence : 2017, Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
Visual arts
Will May
Year/s of residence : 2012, University of Central Virginia, USA
Visual arts
Christian Mayer
Year/s of residence : 2008, Federal Ministry for arts, culture, the civil service and sport
Visual arts
Hannes Mayer
Year/s of residence : 2023, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Architecture and design
Julian Mayer
Year/s of residence : 2006, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Visual arts
Linda Mayer
Year/s of residence : 2020, South Tyrolean Artists Association
Visual arts
Rivka Mayer
Year/s of residence : 1994, 1995, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Sybille Mayer
Year/s of residence : 1985, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
Céleste Fabiola Mayorga Urbina
Year/s of residence : 2024, Institut français
Visual arts
Céleste Mayorga was born in Iximulew, Guatemala, an ancestral territory but also a country that carries the history of a genocide perpetrated from 1960 to 1996, which sought to eradicate their roots and ancestral identity. Yet today, 70% of the population is indigenous, as were their great-grandmother and grandmother. Despite the genocide, they continue to heal their history as their grandmothers taught them, with herbs, fire, ceremony and love.
In the midst of this web of ancestral wisdom, Céleste Mayorga, is a visual artist-photojournalist (performance, installation, video performance), decolonial researcher (sociologist), transpersonal therapist who walks with Mayan cosmovision with the threads that weave her heart; mestiza-q’eqchi, lesbian and community feminist.
Artist's website
© Céleste Mayorga, courtesy of the artist
Harald Mayr-Hund
Year/s of residence : 2003, Federal Ministry for arts, culture, the civil service and sport
Visual arts
Ealy Mays
Year/s of residence : 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Ana Carla Maza
Year/s of residence : 2015, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Kaveh Mazaheri
Year/s of residence : 2023, French National Centre of Cinema
Cinema
Lea Mazal
Year/s of residence : 1985, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Robert Mazas
Year/s of residence : 1974, Alumni Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France
Visual arts
Petar Mazev
Year/s of residence : 1985, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
