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.
Victor Alan Barker
Year/s of residence : 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, Australian Arts Council, Cité internationale des arts
Literature
Wayne Barker
Year/s of residence : 2013, 2023, Cité internationale des arts, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Mary Anne Barkhouse
Year/s of residence : 2015, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Gerhard Barkhuizen
Year/s of residence : 2019, 2025, South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Yohann Barlafante
Year/s of residence : 2026, High Commission of the French Republic in French Polynesia
Visual arts
Originally from Île-de-France, Yohann Barlafanté, also known as Thodé, is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, draughtsman and sculptor who has been based in Fenua for some twenty years. Having graduated with a degree in architecture in 2001, his artistic career really took off during a formative internship at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, where he assisted a chief sculptor. This formative experience shaped his profound understanding of form, volume and sacred space. Continuing his training at the Fine Arts Academy in Costa Rica, he enriched his artistic language before settling in Paris, where he practised as an architect whilst developing a parallel artistic practice. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Paris. During his time in Costa Rica, he met Virginia Pérez-Ratton, founder and director of the TEOR/ética project. He inaugurated the first exhibition space run by the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in San José. It was in French Polynesia that Yohann Barlafnaté found a particularly fertile source of inspiration. The ancestral Polynesian techniques he discovered during his travels nourish and transform his artistic practice. Despite a solid academic background, Thodé now favours “immediate perception”, an intuitive approach that allows emotion and instinct to guide the creative process. His work, situated at the crossroads of cultures and disciplines, bears witness to a constant dialogue between tradition and modernity, structure and spontaneity.
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Guillaume Barli
Year/s of residence : 2005, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Bianca Maria Barmen
Year/s of residence : 1998, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Visual arts
Mi-Ryung Barn
Year/s of residence : 2009, Gana Art Gallery, South Korea
Visual arts
Nicolas Gabriel Barna
Year/s of residence : 2010, 2013, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Visual arts
Asad Barnaev
Year/s of residence : 2002, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Brian Barnes
Year/s of residence : 1968, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Clementine Barnes
Year/s of residence : 2015, 2016, 2023, Cité internationale des arts, New South Wales Art Gallery, Australia
Visual arts
Delia Mary Barnes
Year/s of residence : 1970, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
William Barnes
Year/s of residence : 1979, 2008, Cité internationale des arts, University of Central Virginia, USA
Visual arts
Nina Barnett
Year/s of residence : 2008, South African Artistic Association for Visual Arts (SANAVA)
Visual arts
Jens Barnieck
Year/s of residence : 2003, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
James Frederick Barnor
Year/s of residence : 2018, Gallery Clémentine de la Féronnière
Visual arts
Karol Baron
Year/s of residence : 2000, 2003, Union of Visual Artists of Slovakia
Visual arts
Racha Baroud
Year/s of residence : 2024, Institut français
Dance
Racha Baroud is a Lebanese performer and director. In 2015, she staged Today was my birthday, a musical tribute to the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor.
In 2020 she co-directed the documentary Ali, Hachem et Khaled in collaboration with Roy Arida. In May 2022, she presented her latest piece What if those tears were not only mine?, a performance about unconscious heritage.
In 2023, she began a performative research into the questions of resistance and erasure in collaboration with the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital of Malévoz in Switzerland. She is currently working on her next solo performances My life is a painting of Bosch.
Artist's website
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Daniel Barraco
Year/s of residence : 2008, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
