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.
Masoumeh Mirhosseini
Year/s of residence : 2009, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Mirian Mirianov
Year/s of residence : 2003, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Gordana Mirkov
Year/s of residence : 2004, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Petar Mirkovic
Year/s of residence : 2004, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Seyedalireza Mirmohammadi
Year/s of residence : 2023
Dance
Tahmineh Mirmotahari
Year/s of residence : 2026, Düsseldorf Artists' Association (VdDK1844)
Visual arts
Annee Miron
Year/s of residence : 2010, Australian Arts Council
Visual arts
-Zhenya Mironov
Year/s of residence : 2017, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Visual arts
Alexander Mironov
Year/s of residence : 2007, Union of Russian Artists
Visual arts
Hajar Mirshekari
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2016, Institut français, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Marijan Mirt
Year/s of residence : 2023, Association of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Visual arts
Ivaylo Mirtchev
Year/s of residence : 1987, 2010, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Saadia Mirza
Year/s of residence : 2019, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
VISUAL ARTS
MULTIMEDIA
Saadia Mirza is based between Chicago and Islamabad. Her interests and research range from landscape studies to the history of cartography, science and technology. Her current and past research projects focus on methods using filmmaking, animation, virtual reality and cartography. An architect by training, she has taught design and architecture in Islamabad, Pakistan.
She works in collaboration with scientists and researchers, using new media to “unlock” data sets that tell stories about war, conflict and climate change. She likes to pay attention to sensory impressions of data, sound, image and texture – experienced in immersion with a narrative that shows how knowledge is created in a world of incomplete information.
She has worked in Germany, Switzerland and France as a researcher and resident artist. Her most recent project, conducted in conversation with archaeologists, focuses on visualizing conflict and militarization in Kandahar, Afghanistan. She is currently in conversation with glaciologists and is working on a project on the sounds of Antarctic ice.
Maryam Mirzaee Koujoori
Year/s of residence : 2016, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Gunel Mirzayeva
Year/s of residence : 2019, Cité internationale des arts
Music
As a pianist, Gunel Mirzayeva have been performing a wide range of Bach’s keyboard repertoire and Azerbaijani piano music for a long period of time and have been motivated by passion in exploring new avenues of interpretation.
The balance between fusion of contrasting musical traditions, musical methods of ornamentation and embellishment practices are at the centre of her current practice-based doctoral research at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. The development of Gunel Mirzayeva’s music consciousness was mirrored in the continuous experimentation with the text, the tendency is widely represented with jazz or folk music but was not passed onto classical musicians to such an extent.
During Gunel Mirzayeva’s residency at the Cité internationale des arts, her intention is to explore the fundamental aesthetics of improvisation and re-composition of J.S. Bach’s keyboard works with Azerbaijani national music genre mugham and investigate the fundamental aesthetics of improvisation in her interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, formulating western embellishment methods in the composition.
The proposed project aims to reveal a historical and cultural relationship between mugham and the Baroque musical style of improvisation. Gunel Mirzayeva plans to apply the resulting interpretational findings to her performance practice.
Pharaon Mirzoyan
Year/s of residence : 2001, Association for the Promotion of Armenian Contemporary Art
Visual arts
Chika Misawa
Year/s of residence : 1997, Nagoya Music School, Japan
Music
Naoya Misawa
Year/s of residence : 2012, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, Musashino Art University, Japan
Visual arts
Lisi Misera
Year/s of residence : 1985, 1986, Cité internationale des arts, Federal Ministry for arts, culture, the civil service and sport
Visual arts
Tome Misev
Year/s of residence : 2005, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
Visual arts
