The Art Explora Foundation is committed to working with public and private actors to support creative initiatives and the dissemination of culture in society at large. To this end, Art Explora has joined forces with the Cité internationale des arts to create in 2021 a biannual residency programme for artists, artist collectives and researchers in Montmartre, just a stone’s throw from Sacré-Coeur in Paris. Artists are invited to develop a project focusing on science, technology or social and environmental contemporary issues. Some 20 residents are selected each year to join the residency.
For the first session of the 2024 edition, 10 artists from 10 different countries were chosen by a selection committee. They will arrive at the Montmartre site of the Cité internationale des arts in March 2024 for a residency of three to six months.
Selected artists
–Korakrit Arunanondchai (Thailand) with the project To Compete with The Chorus of Time
–Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro (Brazil) with the project Kalunga, the Origin of species
–Alejandro Garcia Contreras (Mexico) with the project The House of Isis
–Beatrice Gibson (United Kingdom) with the project La Nuit
–Rajyashri Goody (India) with the project In your voice sings the bird of equality
–Mira Mann (Germany) with the project plur-imag-e-in-air-e-s (exploring the utopias, visions and exoticisms of socialist modernism)
–Gisela McDaniel (US) with the project The Tasks of CHamoru Reclamation & ReMatriation: Drilling Down to the Marrow of Parisian Primitivism
–Brilant Milazimi (Kosovo) with the project Houseless dogs
–Precious Okoyomon (US / Nigeria) with the project Sun of Consciousness
–Grâce Dorothée Tong (Cameroon) with the project Minkañ Liaison des Lointains
2024 selection committee members
–Magalí Arriola, Art critic and Director of the Museo Tamayo of Contemporary Art (Mexico)
–Diana Campbell Betancourt, Artistic Director of the Samdani Art Foundation and Chief Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit (US / Bangladesh)
–Emanuele Coccia, Philosopher and Associate Professor at EHESS (Italy & France)
–Isabelle Gaudefroy, Deputy Artistic Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (France)
–Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of Serpentine (Switzerland & United Kingdom)
–Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Cameroon / Germany), Director of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin
Open studios: les rencontres de Montmartre, February 9 and 10
Twice a year, Art Explora, along with the Académie des beaux-arts and the Cité internationale des arts and all the artists, organizes the Open Studios at the residency. On February 9th and 10th 2024, will take place the 5th edition of the Open studios : les Rencontres de Montmartre. During these two days, the site will be open to visitors, whom will be invited to participate in studio visits with the artists, in workshops with NGOs, and attend performances, concerts, talks, readings and film screenings. The last editions brought together more than 3000 people over three days, welcomed by 30 volunteers from the Art Explora Foundation community.
Find more info about the residency programme on our website.
