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.
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
Jon Merz (born in 1981 in Neuchâtel) lives and works in Berlin. Having trained at the Bern University of the Arts and then at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, the painter has been exhibiting his work in Switzerland and abroad for over ten years. The artist was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards 2024 and has taken part in several artist residencies.
Jon Merz © Isabelle Bertrand
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
Marina Mesar
Year/s of residence : 2014, Association of Croatan Artists
Visual arts
Kristina Mesaros
Year/s of residence : 2026, Society of Slovak Artists
Visual arts
Ljubica Meshkova Solak
Year/s of residence : 2016, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Visual arts
Liron Meshulam
Year/s of residence : 2016, Institut français
Music
Angelica Mesiti
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2012, Cité internationale des arts, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Catherine Meslier
Year/s of residence : 2001, Private Action in favour of the Cultural World, France
Visual arts
Meriem Mesraoua
Year/s of residence : 2019, Fire Station
Cinema
Ivan Messac
Year/s of residence : 1971, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Guido Messer
Year/s of residence : 1982, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Visual arts
Falk Messerschmidt
Year/s of residence : 2016, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Visual arts
Bruno Messina
Year/s of residence : 1988, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Patrick Messina
Year/s of residence : 1988, Cité internationale des arts
Music
