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.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Year/s of residence : 2025, Art Explora
Visual arts
Natascha Sadr Haghighian was born in 1987 or 1968 or 1976 in Germany or Iran or Australia. She lives and works in Berlin, Kassel, Gütersloh, Santa Monica or the Cotswolds.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian develops installations, video and audio works, as well as performative interventions to evoke and resound diasporic infrastructures and conditions of collectivity. Her practice is deeply invested in collaboration, sensual play and listening as modes of unraveling liberal individuality and the sociogenic accords of cognition. Recently she has been interested in epistemic disobedience as a mode of unlearning coloniality. She co-founded various collectives and coalitions, among them the institute for incongruous translation together with Ashkan Sepahvand, and kaf together with Shahab Fotouhi and Tirdad Zolghadr. She was part of the Society of Friends of Halit and the Tribunal “Unraveling the NSU Complex”.
Natascha Sadr Haghighian’s work has been presented in numerous institutions including Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (2023), Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2022), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany (2021) or the Venice Biennale, Italy (2019).
©Natascha Sadr Haghighian, pssst LEOPARD 2A7+, 2013–ongoing. Ausstellungsansicht ACCENTISMS, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, 2017
Mehrdad Sadri Shahrezaei
Year/s of residence : 2011, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Nazeeha Saeed
Year/s of residence : 2017, Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Paris
Cinema
Usman Saeed
Year/s of residence : 2005, Royal College of Arts of London, united Kingdom
Visual arts
Mehdi Saeedi
Year/s of residence : 2004, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Shoko Saeki
Year/s of residence : 1998, 2002, 2004, Cité internationale des arts
Visual arts
Pedro Saenz
Year/s of residence : 1967, 1974, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Music
Maria Saenz Quesada
Year/s of residence : 2000, Mozarteum Argentino Foundation, Argentina
Literature
Martin Saether
Year/s of residence : 2022, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation
Visual arts
Staffan Saether
Year/s of residence : 1993, KRO / KIF Artists, Sweden
Visual arts
Boerre Saethre
Year/s of residence : 2008, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Bente Saetrang
Year/s of residence : 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2025, Cité internationale des arts, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway, Norwegian Association of the Arts (Kunstnerforeningen)
Visual arts
Inger Bergitte Saeverud
Year/s of residence : 1979, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Lars Saeverud
Year/s of residence : 1967, Ingrid Lindbäck Langaards Foundation, Norway
Visual arts
Salama Safadi
Year/s of residence : 2013, Welfare Association, Palestine
Visual arts
Shatha Safadi
Year/s of residence : 2014, Welfare Association, Palestine
Visual arts
Narges Safaei
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Architecture and design
Nastaran Safaei
Year/s of residence : 2018, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
Arash Safaian
Year/s of residence : 2014, Bavarian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and the Arts, Germany
Music
Keivan Safar Beiranvand
Year/s of residence : 2019, Visual Arts Administration of Iran
Visual arts
