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.
Edith Oellers
Year/s of residence : 1995, 2015, 2020, Düsseldorf Artists' Association, Germany
Visual arts
Jeannette Oellers
Year/s of residence : 1987, 1991, Cité internationale des arts, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Dietrich Oertel
Year/s of residence : 1973, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Visual arts
Willi Oertig
Year/s of residence : 1985, Canton of Zurich ) Internal Department of Justice and Cultural Affairs, Switzerland
Visual arts
Christoph Oertli
Year/s of residence : 2002, 2003, Atelier Mondial of Bale, Switzerland, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Kristoffer Oerum
Year/s of residence : 2018, Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
Visual arts
Christoph Oeschger
Year/s of residence : 2018, Departement of Culture of the Canton of Zurich
Visual arts
Gerardo Oettinger Searle
Year/s of residence : 2018, 2025, 2–12, Cité internationale des arts
Theater
Gerardo Oettinger has been developing his career as a playwright and director for seventeen years. Twenty of his plays have been performed in Chile, his native country, as well as abroad, and six have been published. He trained with the Chilean playwright Juan Radrigán, at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and with Alejandro Tantanian in Argentina.
He explores political theatre by drawing on historical facts, testimonies, and field research. His approach, which he calls “archéologie théâtrale“, unearths memories forgotten by official history and brings marginalised voices to light.
In residence at the Cité internationale des arts, he is writing La Fracture, a play that addresses violence as a political tool. Inspired by the disagreement between Camus and Sartre regarding its use, it sets these reflections against the backdrop of the 2019 Chilean social revolt, in which Gerardo actively participated, and the 2023 riots in France following the police killing of Nahel Merzouk.
For this project, he collaborates with filmmaker Carmen Castillo and performer Marcela Santander.
© Dimitri Martin Genaudeau
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
Lola Ayisha Ogbara
Year/s of residence : 2026, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
Visual arts
Lola Ayisha Ogbara (b.1991) is a Nigerian-American artist and curator from Chicago, Illinois. Ogbara explores haptic (sub)conscious frameworks, utilizing the body form, as well as its absence, to contemplate the complexities of emotion, belonging, looking/seeing, labor, time, and space. Working across sculpture, sound, time-based media, and image-making through installations, Ogbara explores collective memory and ecologies of embodied knowledges. She earned a BA from Columbia College Chicago and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Lola Ayisha Ogbara, Aqua, 2025 © Robert Chase Heishman
Chukwuemeka Ogboh
Year/s of residence : 2018, Institute for Ideas & Imagination | Columbia University
Music
