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.
Alfredo Luis Montagne Fort
Year/s of residence : 1967, Académie of Architecture, France
Visual arts
Sibyl Montague
Year/s of residence : 2017, Institut français
Visual arts
Vittorio Montalti
Year/s of residence : 2013, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Eugenia Montalto
Year/s of residence : 2001, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Music
Erica Montanheiro
Year/s of residence : 2009, City of Paris, France
Spectacle vivant
Mayerly Montaño Mina
Year/s of residence : 2024, Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge of Colombia
Architecture and design
Mayerly Montaño Mina is an activist, Afro-entrepreneur, and fashion designer with over 15 years of artistic experience. She founded Arte Manía, a cultural collective aimed at transforming social fabric through art and entrepreneurship.
She is also the founder of Minawa, an ethno-educational and transdisciplinary project that promotes the representation of ethnic communities and people with disabilities through handcrafted dolls. This project focuses on aesthetic advocacy, economic equity, and the construction of peace and memory. Passionate about social work, Mayerly Montaño Mina is dedicated to the historical reclamation of the culture, identity, and aesthetics of Afro-diasporic communities.
Mayerly Montaño Mina (Colombia) is in residence through the “Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledges of Colombia x Cité internationale des arts” programme
Christian Montarou
Year/s of residence : 1998, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Alain Montavon
Year/s of residence : 1990, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Visual arts
Catherine Montavon
Year/s of residence : 1982, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Stéphane Montavon
Year/s of residence : 1989, Republic and Canton of Jura, Switzerland
Visual arts
Sephora Monteau
Year/s of residence : 2022, Trame
Cinema
Dora Monteiro
Year/s of residence : 1988, Centre National de la Danse, France
Spectacle vivant
Luar Maria Monteiro Vargas Escobar
Year/s of residence : 2020, Institut français
Dance
Gloria Montenegro Chirouze
Year/s of residence : 1974, 2004, Académie of Architecture, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Sandra Monterroso
Year/s of residence : 2025, Institut français
Visual arts
Pamela Montford
Year/s of residence : 1990, 1991, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Jacques Montgrain
Year/s of residence : 1970, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Music
Giovanni Montiani
Year/s of residence : 2023, Institute for Acoustic/Music Research and Coordination
Music
Robert Antoine Montier
Year/s of residence : 1967, 1969, City of Toulouse - Direction des Affaires culturelles, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Gwenaelle Montigne
Year/s of residence : 2022, On~des
Visual arts
Gwénaëlle Montigné is a visual artist based in La Réunion. She spent her childhood in contact with nature, which nourished her imagination. As a young adult, after living in Mali, Ivory Coast and Tunisia, she felt the need to become an artist.
For the past thirty years, her artistic activity has been protean. Gwénaëlle Montigné intervenes in the spaces she inhabits, by taking images, materials or by augmentations. The relationship with the other, an other of great diversity, is perhaps at the centre of her concerns.
Her numerous moves in France and Vietnam have renewed her view of her work, her relationship with the world, and the relationship between man and nature. The territory of Reunion Island, which she has been living in since 2020, has become a new playground for Gwénaëlle Montigné. The artist inhabits landscapes, soaking them up, walking through them and getting lost in them to better embrace them.
In her plastic operations, she shows us traces of this relationship between humans and space. Traces of a certain nomadism, of a certain wandering. Personal pieces of life become impersonal through creative processes, interventions and, above all, through gestures that establish a sense of place. The little things of everyday life are ‘poetised’ to certainly re-enchant life.
— Colette Pounia, Professor of art history and theory at the École supérieure d’art de La Réunion
