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.
Denis Pourawa
Year/s of residence : 2009, 2010, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts
Literature
Morteza Pourhosseini
Year/s of residence : 2019, 2025, Visual Arts Administration of Iran, Institut français
Visual arts
Maral Pourmandan
Year/s of residence : 2020, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Mehran Pourmandan
Year/s of residence : 2016, Cité internationale des arts
Music
Navid Pourmohammadreza
Year/s of residence : 2023, French Embassy in Iran
Architecture and design
Mehrdad Pournazarali
Year/s of residence : 2017, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Johan Pousette
Year/s of residence : 1996, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Jean-Philippe Poussard
Year/s of residence : 1981, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris
Music
Gérald Poussin
Year/s of residence : 1975, City of Geneva - Simon I. Foundation Patiño, Switzerland
Visual arts
Marie Françoise Poutays
Year/s of residence : 1987, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Ari Jaarkko Poutiainen
Year/s of residence : 2008, Finnish Foundation of the Cité des Arts de Paris
Music
Anatoly Poutiline
Year/s of residence : 1979, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Mahmoud Pouyan
Year/s of residence : 2007, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Nazanin Pouyandeh
Year/s of residence : 2001, 2002, 2003, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Alexandra Pouzet
Year/s of residence : 2024
Visual arts
Alexandra Pouzet was born in Poitiers in 1975 and grew up in the countryside (north of Vienne, 86), mixing the local dialect with French and rural with urban energies.
She studied modern literature, then worked in radio, talking about ecology and poetry, giving voice to the people of the land. At some point, she took up photography in evening classes at the Beaux-Arts, followed by a tour of France with a polaroid camera and a taste for surrealism (Les veines du temps – 2009-12, with the poet Alain-Pierre Pillet). One series follows another. The question of inhabiting, a body, a house, a floor.
Being inhabited by forces, history and places. She works with people and reflects with them on inhabiting experiences, on the human condition. In 2009, the Frac Poitou-Charentes acquired the whole of Nature humaine, and the B.N.F a folio of her Carte du tendre, which was exhibited in 2017. Her taste for situated gestures, unconventional know-how, raw forms and vernacular ways of doing things has been honed through encounters.
Since 2016, she has been working with anthropologist Bruno Almosnino. With him, she looks at our attachments to objects, the sacred part that binds us to them (Medium – 2018, Presque René Montagne – 2021-23), the end of pastoralism, the reclaiming of the land (Poun naou – 2018-22), what vibrates with spirit in what we usually consider to be inert things (Terrain.s – 2017-21, with Roger Rousseau). They exhibit in art centres and museums, found the Arts Pauvres publishing house, perform and activate images and words in a variety of ways.
For several years now, Alexandra Pouzet has been interested in objects from folk arts and traditions, whose artistic dimension and the images they release or conjure up have led her to work on unconscious rural forms. Her practice is increasingly ‘sculptural’, seeking to express not finite worlds but a continuous present.
Marie Deborne
Ilia Povolotskii
Year/s of residence : 2024, 2025, 2026, 2–12, 2Ð12
Cinema
Candida Powel-Williams
Year/s of residence : 2010, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Douglas Powell
Year/s of residence : 2016, University of Washington at St.Louis - Sam Art Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, USA
Visual arts
Alice Julia Power
Year/s of residence : 2024, Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Music
Nick Power
Year/s of residence : 2012, Australian Arts Council
Spectacle vivant
