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.
Elena Nasanen
Year/s of residence : 2008, Institut français
Visual arts
Aurelia Nascu
Year/s of residence : 2003, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Vladimir Nasedkine
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2011, 2012, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Mahasen Naser
Year/s of residence : 2016, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Mohsen Naserian
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2009, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Kerim Nasirding
Year/s of residence : 1988, China Artists Association
Visual arts
Nasim Nasr
Year/s of residence : 2025, Creative Australia
Visual arts
Karim Nasr
Year/s of residence : 2025, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Cinema
Samir Nasr
Year/s of residence : 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Saleh Mohamed Nass
Year/s of residence : 2024, Institut français
Cinema
Ahmad Rafiq Nassar
Year/s of residence : 2009, Welfare Association, Palestine
Visual arts
Muhanned Nassar
Year/s of residence : 2019, Institut français
Music
Hussein Nassereddine
Year/s of residence : 2026, Institut français
Visual arts
Dragan Nastasic
Year/s of residence : 1990, 1992, Cité internationale des arts, Union of the Association of Artists (SULUJ), Serbia
Visual arts
Natalia Lopez & Abraham Poincheval
Year/s of residence : 2021, Capsule
Visual arts
Natalia Lopez is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris. Her work is situated in the furrow that separates the image (photo as well as animated) from the text. She digs this space by looking for correspondences, by creating links that connect one to others, by building bridges that introduce other possible points of view into this interstitial space.
Her work is nourished by urban spaces and traces of life that bear witness to transversal uses, how one reinvents in daily life what seems to be forever. It is also a tribute to the resistance of materials against time.
Abraham Poincheval is an insatiable explorer. Whether it’s crossing the Alps by pushing a capsule that serves as a shelter or locking himself in a rock for a week, his expeditions – itinerant or static – require total commitment of the body. The habitable sculptures that the artist designs are laboratories through which he experiences time, confinement or immobility. They are the envelope that welcomes the performer, the object that disrupts the landscape and exists through the narratives of witnesses.
After a life of wandering along the streets in the abandoned districts of Heraklion, Natalia Lopez and Abraham Poincheval decided to reincarnate in human form to join the Cité internationale des arts.
Freshly become human, they chose to work with four hands between the bifurcations of photography, installation, writing but also to test a lot of new experiences animated by the dialogue between the visible and the invisible.
NL.AP: “… During our residency in Crete we found the metal plates or ex-votos, as well as the Oklades (metal protections placed on parts of the icons). At the same time receptacles, symbols of desires and objects of worship, they embody the expression of faith as close as possible to the image… “.
According to the oracle, this residence will bring them back to Greece for an unforgettable Sleepless Night and will give birth to fabulous projects.
Natalia Lopez-Abraham Poincheval. 2019
Deborah Nathan
Year/s of residence : 1974, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Meir Natif
Year/s of residence : 1987, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Raphaël Natorp
Year/s of residence : 2013, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Khalifa Natour
Year/s of residence : 2018, HUANG YI STUDIO+
Theater
Sergiu Natra
Year/s of residence : 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Music
