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.
Alain Pietka
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2015, City of Nice, France
Music
Marie Pietrafesa
Year/s of residence : 1974, Institut français
Music
Jorge Pietrapertosa
Year/s of residence : 1982, Institut français
Visual arts
MARGOT Pietri
Year/s of residence : 2020, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
On a day of eclipse, Margot Pietri fantasized a world marked by the disappearance of the landmark star of humanity for millennia, the sun. The artist drew several conclusions, including the extinction of terrestrial species and forms of life, the obsolescence of beliefs and methods of measurement centred on the sun (clocks, the cycle of the day, etc.) and the need to renegotiate work rhythms. This scenario with its post-apocalyptic overtones then inspired a series of texts and sculptural landscapes. They are populated with signs and tools “at rest” like compasses and dials, all of which have completely lost their sense of direction, i.e. no longer showing, transforming or indexing anything.
A laboratory of resilience, this post-sun fiction has a science-fiction feel to it, but above all it allows the artist to map and articulate a generalized contemporary disorientation in the face of the need to update our ways of thinking. In Logiques des mondes, the philosopher Alain Badiou forged a concept: that of a “sluggish world” to describe a reality where “we communicate infinitely”, where “there is no point” and where everything is so branched and nuanced that no higher authority can make a decision. From climate change to the end of the great unifying narratives, and including deconstruction through critical thinking: “sluggishness” awaits us in spite of all these GPS devices at our fingertips.
How can we position ourselves? Where to land? In relation to what? Millennia-old landmarks collapse when they do not crumble. And then what? Margot Pietri saves some of them from sinking and gives consistency to the emotional states that arise from that moment when a world dissolves and a new, fledgling one emerges. From the remains, fragments, ruins and signs that she erases or allows to appear in her sculptures, Margot Pietri builds a fertile ground for disorientation, laying the foundations for a new experimental science capable of outlining one or more common directions once again.
Julie Ackerman
Giuseppe Pietroniro
Year/s of residence : 2005, International Artistic Association Incontri, Italy
Visual arts
Stefan Pietryga
Year/s of residence : 1994, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Visual arts
Giorgia Piffaretti
Year/s of residence : 2025, Visarte Ticino
Visual arts
Marjolaine Pigeon
Year/s of residence : 2003, Alumni Association of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France
Visual arts
Michel Pigeon
Year/s of residence : 1965, City of Paris, France
Visual arts
Rosslynd Piggott
Year/s of residence : 1994, 1995, 2007, Cité internationale des arts, University of Sydney - Power Institute Foundation for Arts and Culture, Australia
Visual arts
Claude Piguet
Year/s of residence : 2007, 2015, Cité internationale des arts, Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Visual arts
Delphine Piguet
Year/s of residence : 2007, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Tamara Julia Piilola
Year/s of residence : 2017, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, Finnish Cité internationale des arts Foundation, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Ossi Piipponen
Year/s of residence : 1981, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Esa Piironen
Year/s of residence : 1989, 1999, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Visual arts
Nikola Pijanmanov
Year/s of residence : 2022, Ministry of Culture of Republic of North Macedonia
Visual arts
Pablo Pijnappel
Year/s of residence : 2008, Mondriaan Foundation, Netherlands
Visual arts
Jeffrey Pike
Year/s of residence : 1989, 2001, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
Lucile Piketty
Year/s of residence : 2018, Arts Déco Alumni Paris
Visual arts
Maciej Pikulski
Year/s of residence : 1989, Cité internationale des arts
Music
