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Al-Mansouria Foundation x Cité internationale des arts

Residency programme for visual artists from Saudi Arabia and the Arab world

The programme

The Al-Mansouria Foundation x Cité internationale des arts programme has enabled some fifty artists to take up residencies in Paris at the Cité internationale des arts since 2001. It aims to encourage intercultural exchanges between visual artists from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries and the Cité’s community of 300 artists. It offers residencies of between 6 months and 1 year.

Le programme en chiffres

6 to 12-month residency
Programme created in 2001

Eligibility criteria

  • Be a Saudi artist or from a country in the Arab world that does not already have a partnership with the Cité internationale des arts
  • Have a practice in the field of visual arts

The partner of this programme :

Al-Mansouria Foundation

The Al-Mansouria Foundation is a non-profit cultural organisation whose goal is to support the visual arts and artists of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world. Driven by the belief that the creative expression and vision of artists cannot fulfilled without the support of those who believe in them, the Al-Mansouria Foundation is committed to celebrating their unique viewpoints and sharing common grounds with other cultures.