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.
Filiz Oezcelik
Year/s of residence : 2021, Düsseldorf Artists' Association (VdDK1844)
Visual arts
Abraham Ofek
Year/s of residence : 1968, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Visual arts
Rebeca Ofek
Year/s of residence : 2025, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Cinema
Harold Offeh
Year/s of residence : 2000, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Nina-Maria Oforsagd
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2016, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Gideon Ofrat
Year/s of residence : 1996, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Israel
Literature
Bahar Oganer
Year/s of residence : 2010, Foundation for Culture and Art in Istanbul (IKSV), Turkey
Visual arts
Gayane Oganessian
Year/s of residence : 1989, 1992, 1993, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Music
Iyo Ogasawara
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2010, Nagoya Music School, Japan
Music
Kana Ogawa
Year/s of residence : 2023, Nagoya School of Music
Music
Chukwuemeka Ogboh
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institute for Ideas & Imagination | Columbia University
Music
Christoph Ogiermann
Year/s of residence : 2005, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Olimpia Ogilvie
Year/s of residence : 1967, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Rae Ogilvie
Year/s of residence : 1977, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Brian Oglesbee
Year/s of residence : 2010, 2014, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Gro Siri Ognøy
Year/s of residence : 2026, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Music
Petrov Ognyan
Year/s of residence : 2012, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Alexei Ogrintchouk
Year/s of residence : 1996, 1997, Cité internationale des arts, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Institut français
Music
Wura-Natasha Ogunji
Year/s of residence : 2022, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer. Her works include drawings hand-stitched into tracing paper, videos and public performances. Her work is deeply inspired by the daily interactions and frequencies that occur in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, from the epic to the intimate. Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s performances explore the presence of women in public space; these often include investigations of labor, leisure, freedom and frivolity.
For her residency, she will create a memoir of Lagos in the form of large-scale drawings and hand-stitched texts. Parallel to these investigations, she will develop a series of workshops which explore and expand the genre of memoir through collective performances which focus on language and mark-making; family histories and body memory; utopias and their opposites.
Mobolaji Ogunrosoye
Year/s of residence : 2025, Resonance
Visual arts
Mobolaji Ogunrosoye is a self-taught visual artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye works at the intersection of photography and collage, using these mediums to explore multidimensionality and perception in images of Black and Nigerian women.
Over the past three years, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye’s artistic journey has been devoted to developing two essential bodies of work in her practice: Portraits and Contrasts in Loveliness. These projects explore the manipulation of selected materials as well as captured and found images to construct abstract collages.
Between 2021 and 2023, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye worked on Portraits, which examines what a portrait can look like outside of its traditional form. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye explores this through the manipulation of paper and smoke, observing how these materials slowly degrade over time while appearing unchanged on the surface. The results of these experiments were presented in the group exhibition Making Face at the Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria, in 2021. Mobolaji Ogunrosoye then further developed this work by replacing paper with Perspex for the group exhibition The Becoming at Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany, in 2023. The aim was to examine how transparency could be used as a tool for distortion: Mobolaji Ogunrosoye explores how different types of transparent materials — varying in weight, thickness, colour and other qualities — can distort, magnify and create illusions in photographed and collaged images.
Continuing this approach, Mobolaji Ogunrosoye further explored distortion and fragmentation by incorporating Perspex into installations presented at the Grow It, Show It exhibitions at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, and the Jaou Tunis Biennale, Tunis, Tunisia, both in 2024.
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