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.
Aya Bennacer
Year/s of residence : 2023, Institut français d'Algérie
Visual arts
Mouna-Sara Bennamani
Year/s of residence : 2022, French Ministy of Culture
Visual arts
Born in 1989 in Algiers, Mouna Bennamani is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Initially graduated from the National School of Tourism and Heritage Preservation in Algiers, she continued her studies in visual arts at the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers des Arts et de la Culture in Aix en Provence. In 2017, she was selected by SciencesPo Paris for the program “Femmes d’Avenir en Méditerranée” where she developed her knowledge on the issues of the relationship of the arts to politics and society as well as the place of women in the latter. In February 2022, she was a finalist in the third edition of the international art competition “Emerging painting invitational prize (EPI)” in Cape Town, South Africa.
Her artistic career is reflected in several exhibitions in Algeria and around the world, such as the Encuentra Internacional del Arte Mediterraneo in Alicante, New York, for the exhibition Waiting for Omar Gattlato at the Wallash Art Gallery, or in South Africa, France and Japan. Her artistic concerns revolve around the study of the body through the prism of gender, its representation, and its interaction with its physical and social space.
During her residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Mouna Bennamani will present the project Retour à l’anormal (Return to the Abnormal) which is a visual reportage of her own medical and social experience, questioning the norm, but also trying to reappropriate her new body, a normality that is still unknown to her.
During this residency, she will develop, in her creation, a new narrative space through the field of immersion, a transversal approach crossing the image, the object and the space. Borderline works, hybrids.
Through this project, the artist seeks to explore the strange connection between her previous works and her malformation. By transforming this ordeal into an artistic experience in a cathartic gesture.
Abdelkrim Bennani
Year/s of residence : 1996, Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Mohamed Bennani
Year/s of residence : 1968, 1989, City of Paris, France, Cité internationale des arts, Institut français
Visual arts
Ronald Benner
Year/s of residence : 2000, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
Visual arts
Amy Bennett
Year/s of residence : 2015, Alfred University, USA
Visual arts
Craig Anthony Bennett
Year/s of residence : 2000, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Dudley Bennett
Year/s of residence : 1971, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Jane Bennett
Year/s of residence : 1997, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
William Bennett
Year/s of residence : 2004, University of Central Virginia, USA
Visual arts
Francis Peter Bennie
Year/s of residence : 1972, University of New South Wales - Art and Design (UNSW), Australia
Visual arts
Jürg Benninger
Year/s of residence : 2000, Visarte - Professional association of Swiss visual artists
Visual arts
Abdelghani Bennis
Year/s of residence : 1979, 1980, Académie of Architecture, France, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Soad Bennis Benkigane
Year/s of residence : 1985, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Michèle Bennis
Year/s of residence : 1976, 1977, 1978, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Hicham Benohoud
Year/s of residence : 2004, 2006, Institut français , Ministry of Culture and State Secretariat for Culture of the Kingdom of Morocco
Visual arts
Marie Hélène Benoit
Year/s of residence : 1986, Académie of Architecture, France
Visual arts
M.L.Raouf Benreghida
Year/s of residence : 1993, Institut français
Music
Bojan Bensa
Year/s of residence : 1994, Union of Visual Artists of Slovenia
Visual arts
Léa Bensaid
Year/s of residence : 2020, City of Nice
Music
