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.
Arttu Merimaa
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2011, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Mikko Merjanen
Year/s of residence : 2002, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Nissim Merkado
Year/s of residence : 1966, 1982, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Veronika Merklein
Year/s of residence : 2025, Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
Visual arts
Rutene Merkliopaite
Year/s of residence : 2014, Cité internationale des arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA), Lithuania
Visual arts
Durdica Merle
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2012, Association of Croatan Artists, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Michel Merlet
Year/s of residence : 1966, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Valérie Merlo
Year/s of residence : 2000, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Florian Mermin
Year/s of residence : 2025, 2–12
Visual arts
Born in 1991 and graduating with honours from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2015, his immersive installations explore the plastic and poetic possibilities of living things.
His works have been shown in numerous institutions, including the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, the Lyon Biennale, the Musée International de la Parfumerie in Grasse, the Château de Fontainebleau, the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval in Hauterives, and the Museo Palazzo di Mocenigo in Venice, Italy.
Florian Mermin has received numerous awards, including the ENSBA Sculpture/Installation Foundation Prize, the Kristal Prize from the Salon de Montrouge, and the Georges Coulon Sculpture Prize awarded by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Institut de France.
Michael Merrill
Year/s of residence : 1996, 1998, Cité internationale des arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Nabil Merrouch
Year/s of residence : 2023, Institut français
Cinema
Cordula Mersch
Year/s of residence : 2001, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Visual arts
André Mertens
Year/s of residence : 1999, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Belgium
Spectacle vivant
Olga Mertsalova
Year/s of residence : 2011, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Isabel Mertz
Year/s of residence : 2012, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Vanja Mervic
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2015, 2016, Association of Visual Artists of Slovenia, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Visual arts
Jon Merz
Year/s of residence : 2026, Office for Culture of the Canton of Neuchâtel
Visual arts
Willy Merz
Year/s of residence : 2006, Institut français
Music
Ahmed Merzagui
Year/s of residence : 2022, French Ministy of Culture
Visual arts
Born in 1993 in Tlemcen, Ahmed Merzagui is an Algerian visual artist who develops a multidisciplinary, aesthetically fragmented and heterogeneous practice based on photography, videography and mixed media, often carried by a philosophical, psychological and introspective reflective approach.
Through a hybrid background (physician, artist and development project administrator) and various expressive practices, the artist questions a reality that is prima facie considered multiple, diverse and dissonant. The reality of a world that is akin to an ever-changing scene, which we as human beings must document, report, describe or tell to our fellow human beings for existential purposes, thus giving our vision, undoubtedly subjective, but always unique and interesting, of this infinitely multifaceted painting that is Reality.
Ahmed Merzagui is currently working on various projects around personal, social, historical and identity-related reflections. During his residency at the Cité internationale des arts, he will attempt to question the vision, the perception and the relationship between Algeria and France through the multiple human realities that it implies.
Baraka Merzaia
Year/s of residence : 2024, French Ministy of Culture
Music
