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.
Zhor Mekouar
Year/s of residence : 2009, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Mélanie Pavy & Sophie Houdart
Year/s of residence : 2021, Art Explora
Cinema
Artist, filmmaker and researcher Mélanie Pavy was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2012. Her first feature film, Cendres (co-directed with Idrissa Guiro), was released in France in 2015. In 2020, she is defending a thesis in cinema as part of the SACRe (PSL) doctorate, at the Fémis and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. Her installations and videos have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the BAL, the Galerie des filles du Calvaire, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Gaîté Lyrique and the Fémis. Through her work, she questions our capacity to think and narrate disappearance, including its ultimate corollary, that of the loss of a world.
Sophie Houdart is an anthropologist and director of research at the CNRS. She has conducted several surveys, mainly in Japan, on the theme of creation and innovation, in the fields of science, art and architecture. Since 2012, she has been investigating life after the triple disaster of March 2011 in the Fukushima region.
Mélanie Pavy and Sophie Houdart will lead the Fukushima: reprises project during their residency at the Cité internationale des arts.
In March 2011, a magnitude nine earthquake off the coast of Tôhoku, northeast Japan, triggered a tsunami that left 18,000 people dead or missing and provoked a level seven nuclear accident. Several years later, Mélanie Pavy, an artist, and Sophie Houdart, an anthropologist, conducted an investigation in Tôwa, a small town located about 50 kilometres from the power station. Today, they propose to use the mass of data gathered during these field trips to re-examine the nature of what happened via a collective exploration.
Mélanie Pavy
Gaspare Melcher
Year/s of residence : 2001, Visarte - Graubünden Professional Association of Visual Artists, Switzerland
Visual arts
Mak Melcher
Year/s of residence : 2019, Croatian Association of Visual Artists
Visual arts
Christine Melchiors
Year/s of residence : 1992, Cité internationale des arts, Danish Agency for Culture
Visual arts
Monica Melcova
Year/s of residence : 2000, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Inga Meldere
Year/s of residence : 2022, 2011, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Visual arts
Juan Mele
Year/s of residence : 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, Ministère de la Culture - Direction générale de la création artistique, France, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Visual arts
Myra Melford
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Music
The pianist, composer, bandleader and University of California, Berkeley, professor Myra Melford — whom the New Yorker called “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement” — has spent the last three decades making original music that is equally challenging and engaging. She’s explored an array of formats, among them ruminative solo-piano recitals, deeply interactive combos and ambitious multidisciplinary programs, probing the space shared between dynamic small-group jazz and contemporary chamber music.
Since debuting on record as a bandleader in 1990, she’s built a discography of more than 25 albums as a leader or co-leader, and has been awarded numerous DownBeat poll placings, a 2000 Fulbright Scholarship, a 2012 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music and, between 2013 – 2016, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and the Doris Duke Residency to Build Demand for the Arts.
The Other Side of Air, the most recent release by her quintet Snowy Egret, was named one of the best jazz recordings of 2018 by the New York Times and one of NPR Music’s 50 Best Albums of 2018. “This is music with an endless capacity for elasticity and surprise,” NPR wrote, “along with an affirming spirit of coherence.”
Artist's website
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Annick Meli
Year/s of residence : 1995, Republic and Canton of Jura, Switzerland
Visual arts
Abderrahman Meliani
Year/s of residence : 1991, Institut français
Visual arts
Lilit Melikyan
Year/s of residence : 2014, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Nerses Melikyan
Year/s of residence : 2005, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Satenik Melikyan
Year/s of residence : 2015, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Fatiha Mellal
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2012, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Pamela Melliar
Year/s of residence : 1984, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Fanette Mellier
Year/s of residence : 2013, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Arne Mellnas
Year/s of residence : 1989, Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Sweden
Music
Chico Luiz Mello
Year/s of residence : 1993, City of Berlin, Germany
Music
Aida Melman
Year/s of residence : 1979, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
