The Art Explora Foundation engages with public and private stakeholders to support creation and its circulation in society at large. It consists in reaffirming the central role of artists in addressing the major contemporary issues and mutations.
Art Explora has established a partnership with the Cité internationale des arts to co-construct a biannual residency programme for international artists and researchers in Montmartre, just a stone’s throw from the Sacré-Cœur. This programme offers the possibility for artists and researchers to carry out research and creation work in the heart of Paris, in connection with the French artistic and professional scene.
Some 20 residents are selected every year to participate in two programs: a 6-month solo residency programme for artists and a 3-month duo programme designed for a collaboration between a researcher and an artist.
The Art Explora - Cité internationale des arts residencies are open to artists and researchers of all nationalities, with no age limit, who can justify a minimum of five years of professional activity. The eligible artistic disciplines are visual arts, performing arts, digital art and the areas of research are the humanities, social sciences, sciences, technological innovation and sustainable development, art criticism and exhibition curating. Artists apply with a project that addresses major contemporary questions, including the relation between art and science, new technologies, social and environmental issues.
For the second edition Art Explora received 1259 applications, from 103 countries. The selection committee chose 12 artists (including 50% women) coming from 10 different countries, to join as of March the first session of the 2022 residency programme Art Explora - Cité internationale des arts:
Solo programme
–Brook Andrew (Australia), Guulany
–Evan Ifekoya (Nigeria), A Ripple Reflected Devotion Divined
–Agnieszka Kurant (Poland), Singular Plural
–Adam Linder (Australia), Nureyev in Paris
–Salman Nawati (Palestine), Imaginary Museum of Gaza
–Christelle Oyiri (France), Gentle Battle
–Fátima Rodrigo Gonzales (Peru), Vital infrestructures: rethinking the modern through subaltern technologies
–Emilija Škarnulytė (Lithuania), Fluvial Extents
–Charwei Tsai (Taiwan), Touching the Earth
–Martha Wilson (USA), Generations of Feminism in France
Duo programme
–Raphaël Grisey (France) & Bouba Touré (Mali), Digitalization of the photographic archive of Bouba Touré
The 2022 selection committee is composed of:
Diana Campbell Betancourt, artistic director and curator at Samdani Art Foundation and Dhaka Art Summit (US and Bangladesh)
Vinciane Despret, philosopher of sciences, professor at Liège University and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
Christine Macel, chief curator at Pompidou Centre (France)
Simon Njami, curator (Cameroon and Switzerland)
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London (United Kingdom)
Philippe Vergne, director of Serralves Foundation (France and Portugal)
The very same committee will meet again this year to select the residents of the second session of the 2022 residency programme Art Explora - Cité internationale which will start in August 2022.
Learn more about the artists and the programme here.
