The Art Explora Foundation is committed to working with public and private actors to support creative initiatives and the circulation 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. The residents’ projects focus on the themes of scientific and technological exploration and confronts the major social and environmental issues of our time. Some 20 residents are selected each year to join the residency.
For the first session of the 2023 edition, 12 artists (50% of women) from 11 different countries were chosen by a selection committee for the SOLO and the DUO programmes. They will arrive at the Montmartre site of the Cité internationale des arts in March 2023 for a residency of three to six months.
The selected artists
SOLO programme for artists only
–Bora Baboçi (Albania) with the project Five Disappeared Kilometers
–Alex Baczyński-Jenkins (Poland and the UK), with the project Absurd Passage
–Flaka Haliti (Kosovo), with the project WHOSE BONES?
–Iman Issa (Egypt), with the project I, the Protagonist
–Lina Laraki (Morocco), with the project Insolent Visions
–Gabriel Massan (Brazil), with the project Ball Of Terror: The Failure Of Continuity
–Ad Minoliti (Argentina), with the project I ▲ R0C0C.0
–Kirill Savchenkov (Russia), with the project The Solar Snow
–Karan Shrestha (India), with the project A flow disrupted
–Diamond Stingily (US), with the project Work
DUO programme for a collaboration between a researcher and an artist or an artist collective
–Pakui Hardware with Ugnius Gelguda et Neringa Cerniauskaite (Lituania) with the project Technologies of Vulnerability
The 2023 selection committe 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 (USA & Bangladesh)
–Emanuele Coccia, Philosopher and Associate Professor at EHESS (Italy)
–Isabelle Gaudefroy, Deputy Artistic Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (France)
–Simon Njami, Curator, Essayist, and Art Critic (Cameroon & Switzerland)
–Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries (Switzerland & United Kingdom)
The festival “Croisements: les Rencontres de Montmartre”
A key element of Art Explora’s overall mission is to share creative work with all types of audiences, including those with the least access to art, and to promote encounters with artists. Art Explora and the Cité internationale des arts organise multiple events with the artists in residency, among them the festival “Croisements: les rencontres de Montmartre.”
On February 4 and 5, will take place the 3rd edition of the festival. During the weekend, the site will be open to visitors, whom will be invited to participate in studio visit and meet the artists, in workshops with NGO’s, and attend performances, readings and film screenings. The last editions brought together 2500 people over three days, welcomed by 20 volunteers from the Art Explora Foundation.
Find more info about the residency programme on our website.
