The artists residencies Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts
The Art Explora foundation, in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts, welcomes every year about twenty residents, artists and researchers from all over the world. This programme offers the possibility for artists and artist collectives to carry out research and creation work in the heart of Paris, in connection with the French artistic and professional scene.

Two programmes are offered
The programme invites residents to develop a project that addresses contemporary issues, including new technologies, the links between art and science, environmental, political and social issues.
The residency programmes are designed to accompany a project in its entirety or only one stage of it: no rendering is required at the end of the residency.
SOLO
programme
(2 sessions per year)
Artists COLLECTIVE programme
Eligibility
The programmes are open to artists and researchers of all nationalities, with no age limit. Eligible artists are those who can justify a minimum of five years of professional activity.
In addition to the evaluation of the candidate's professional background, the committee members pay particular attention to the quality of the project, its link with the theme of the residency (art & science, as well as exploration) and the importance of its location in France for the advancement of its research.
- Eligible artistic disciplines: visual arts, performing arts, digital arts, art criticism & curating.
- Eligible areas of research: humanities, social sciences, sciences, technological innovation, ecology.
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The studio-apartments in Montmartre
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Each resident will benefit from:
- A 3 or 6-month residencyresidency at the Cité internationale des arts – site of Montmartre
- A studio-apartment of about 50m2 (only one double bed), fully equipped and furnished
- A grant of 1,000 euros per month
- A production grant of up to 3,000 euros
- A round trip to the residence
NB: For the Artists Collective program, only one studio-apartment (a bedroom with a double bed, a workspace, a kitchen and a bathroom) can be made available for one artist from a collective. The workspace may be shared with the other members of the collective. The living grant will be paid only to the resident housed at the Cité internationale des arts de Montmartre and a common production grant will be allocated to the project.
Calendar
Applications close: November 7th, 2023 (11:59 PM Paris time)
Announcement of results: January 2024 for residencies from March to August 2024; May 2024 for residencies from September 2024 to February 2025
2023 selection committee

Art critic and Director of the Museo Tamayo of Contemporary Art
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Magali Arriola is Director of Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. She was KADIST Lead Curator for Latin America from 2016 to 2019, and curated the Mexican Pavilion for the 58 Venice Biennial (Pablo Vargas Lugo, Acts of God, 2019). She was Chief Curator at Museo Jumex between 2011 and 2014, and Chief Curator of Museo Tamayo between 2009 and 2011. Arriola has extensively written for books, and catalogues and has contributed to publications such as Art Forum, Curare, Frieze, Mousse, Manifesta Journal, and The Exhibitionist, among others.
Photo credit: Pedro Luján. Courtesy Revista Capitel.

Artistic Director of the Samdani Art Foundation and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit
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Diana Campbell Betancourt is an American curator who has been working in South and Southeast Asia since 2010, primarily in India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. She is committed to fostering a transnational art world, and her plural and long-range vision addresses the concerns of underrepresented regions and artists alongside the more established in manifold forums.
Since 2013, she has served as the Founding Artistic Director of Dhaka-based Samdani Art Foundation, Bangladesh and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit, leading the critically acclaimed 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 editions. She has developed the Dhaka Art Summit into a leading research and exhibitions platform for art from South Asia, bringing together artists, architects, curators, and writers from across South Asia through a largely commission based model. Concurrent to her work in Bangladesh from 2016-2018, Campbell Betancourt was also the Founding Artistic Director of Bellas Artes Projects in the Philippines, a non-profit international residency and exhibition programme with sites in Manila and Bataan.

Philosopher and Associate Professor at EHESS
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Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at the EHESS in Paris. He is the author of Sensible Life (2010), The Life of Plants (2018), Metamorphosis (2021) and Philosophy of the Home (2023). He has directed animation videos such as Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot). He is participating as advisor to several exhibitions. He is writing a four-handed work on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele.
Photo credit: Frank Perrin.

Deputy Artistic Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
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Artistic director, curator and producer, Isabelle Gaudrefroy is the current deputy general artistic director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. She started her career at the Theatre des Amandiers in 1995. She then directed the Soirées Nomades at the Foundation Cartier from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, she joined the direction team of the foundation and has since curated landmark exhibitions such as Junya Ishigami, Freeing Architecture in 2018 and Trees in 2019.
Photo credit: Valentin Le Cron

Director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin
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Since January 2023, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikun has been director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures) in Berlin. Previously, he was artistic director of the 13th Rencontres de Bamako in 2022, curator of the Finnish pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, guest curator at the Dakar Biennale in 2018, and a member of the curatorial team at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel in 2017. In 2009 he founded SAVVY Contemporary, an independent art centre based in Berlin.
Photo credit: Alexander Steffens.

Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries
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Hans Ulrich Obrist b. 1968, Zürich, Switzerland) is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show ‘World Soup (The Kitchen Show)’ in 1991, he has curated more than 300 exhibitions. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is a contributing editor to Artforum, AnOther Magazine, Cahiers D'Art, and 032C; he is a regular contributor to Mousse and Kaleidoscope and he writes columns for Das Magazin and Weltkunst. In 2011 he received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence, and in 2015 he was awarded the International Folkwang Prize for his commitment to the arts. His recent publications include Ways of Curating (2015), The Age of Earthquakes (2015), Lives of the Artists, Lives of Architects (2015), Mondialité (2017), Somewhere Totally Else (2018) and The Athens Dialogues (2018).
Photo credit: Tyler Mitchell
The programme encourages creation in all its forms while facilitating its distribution to the general public, in line with Art Explora’s global mission. Meetings with artists, studio visits, workshops, performances, film screenings, etc. are thus organized. In this respect, the residency open its doors to the general public in July for the Open Studios: les rencontres de Montmartre. The previous editions welcomed each time more than 2500 visitors to meet and discover the work of the artists around a collective exhibition, performances, workshops, concerts and conferences.