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.
Jay Pather
Year/s of residence : 2021, 2–12
Literature
Jay Pather is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, curator and academic. He is a professor at the University of Cape Town, where he directs the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA).
He is the designer and curator of the ICA Live Art Festival in Cape Town (initiated in 2012) and Infecting the City, a public art festival (launched in 2007). Both events feature artists from across the African continent. Jay Pather is a performative arts consultant for the Africa 2020 season, as well as for numerous art projects in Venice, Munich and Madrid.
He publishes widely and has notably directed with Catherine Boulle the important book Transgressions, Live Art in South Africa (2019).
Among his most recent productions: The Firebird (2016-2018), Rite (2015), Ether (2014), Qaphela Caesar (2010-2013).
Jay Pather was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017.
Sara Pathirane
Year/s of residence : 2014, 2015, Cité internationale des arts, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Philip Patkowitsch
Year/s of residence : 2009, Land of Salzburg, Austria
Visual arts
Elena Patlazhanova
Year/s of residence : 2005, International Confederation of Artists Unions
Visual arts
Elita Patmalniece
Year/s of residence : 1999, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Visual arts
Carl Patow
Year/s of residence : 2025, Virginia Center for the Arts
Visual arts
Thelma Patricia
Year/s of residence : 1978, 1979, Cité internationale des arts, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Trevor Patrick
Year/s of residence : 1991, Australian Arts Council, Cité internationale des arts
Spectacle vivant
Reginald Patterson
Year/s of residence : 2014, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Mariano Pattin
Year/s of residence : 1999, Institut français
Spectacle vivant
Sid Pattni
Year/s of residence : 2026, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Visual arts
Sybille Pattscheck
Year/s of residence : 2024, Düsseldorf Artists' Association (VdDK1844)
Visual arts
Jean-Philippe Paty
Year/s of residence : 2002, 2003, 2005, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Atanas Patzev
Year/s of residence : 1984, Union of Bulgarian Artists
Visual arts
Viktoras Paukstelis
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2010, 2011, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Alexis Paul
Year/s of residence : 2023, 2–12
Music
Alexis Paul is a French composer, musician and cultural actor born in Sables d’Olonne in 1987. His first teacher was the trumpet player Erik Truffaz. His work is determined by a homogeneous form of poetic intention. Outside of any academic framework, he founded the groups Belle Arché Lou on guitar, Saudaá Group on barrel organ and has collaborated in many countries with artists ranging from songs to sound art, such as Mourad Belouadi (M), Pauline Drand (Fr), Christine Zayed (Pal), Hraïr Hratchian (Ca) or Layale Chaker (Lb). His productions, between popular and contemporary music, lead him to perform in national museums (Palais de la Porte Dorée, Château d’Angers), art foundations (Fon- dation Cartier, Villa Empain) as well as contemporary music venues like the Boule Noire.
In 2016, he spent the year alone for a creation project on the barrel organ, inter- roving in more than 10 countries the material that connects music to its environment. His work focuses on music as a “tool” and his most recent projects revolve around the concept of the Landscape-Organ. This is an impulse which, under the prism of the folk organ, is interested in folk traditions, their revival and their possible detour.
He is interested in writing, in ethnopoetics and composes for the cinema or documentary. In 2020, he was one of the laureates of the French Institute’s program “Résidences sur mesure” for his sound research project on Palestinian embroidery.
Berthold Paul
Year/s of residence : 1973, Federal Ministry of Culture and Media, Germany
Music
Nicolas Paul
Year/s of residence : 1990, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Zoé Paul
Year/s of residence : 2011, 2013, Cité internationale des arts, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Danica Paulickova
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2011, 2015, 2016, Society of Slovak Artists, Cité internationale des arts, Union of Visual Artists of Slovakia
Visual arts
