Art Explora x Cité internationale des Arts Residency 2024

To encourage cultural exchanges with as many people as possible, Art Explora’s mission is to renew the dialogue between the Arts and the public on a local, national and international scale. Together with artists, cultural organizations and local actors, the foundation explores contemporary creation in all its forms and creates unique cultural experiences. To carry out this public-interest mission, Art Explora is coordinating several projects: Art Explora – Cité internationale des Arts residency program, which opened in 2021; Art Explora Academy, launched in 2022, the first entirely free digital platform dedicated to learning about the history of art; a cultural programme for the Hangar Y, a new cultural venue dedicated to Contemporary Art and science; the MuMo, mobile museum created in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and the Art Explora Festival and its museum-boat ARTEXPLORER, which will set sail in 2024 and travel across the Mediterranean for 2 years.

Cité internationale des Arts: Since its creation in 1965, the Cité internationale des arts has welcomed artists in residence from all over the world. It is a living space open to dialogue between cultures, where artists meet their audiences and professionals. The Cité internationale des arts extends over two complementary sites, one in the Marais and the other in Montmartre. In partnership with 135 French and international organizations, it welcomes more than 300 artists from all disciplines, all generations and all nationalities every month for two months to one-year residencies. The partnership with the Art Explora Foundation is located on the site of Montmartre, a stone's throw from the Sacré-Cœur. Since 1971, la Cité internationale des arts has been developing residency programmes with a capacity of 40 studios in 8 different buildings located in a park.

The residency programme is open to artists and collectives of artists, researchers and curators of all nationalities, with no age limit, with at least five years of professional experience and who presented their work and research on an international scale. Candidates can apply to two types of residency programme:

• SOLO programme: open to artists only, for a residency of 3 or 6 months, during 2 sessions : March-August 2024 / September 2024-February 2025.
• COLLECTIVE programme: open to a collective or duo of artists, researchers and curators, for a 3-month residency during 4 sessions : March-May 2024 / June-August 2024 / September-November 2024 / December 2024-February 2025.

Each resident benefits from:

● A 3 or 6-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts - Montmartre site
● A studio-apartment of about 50sqm (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

For the COLLECTIVE programme, one studio-apartment (a bedroom with a double bed, a workspace, a kitchen and a bathroom) can be made available for only one member from the 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 - Montmartre site and a common production grant will be allocated to the project. Residents agree to respect the general rules and to accept the dates of residency that will have been granted to them by the selection committee.
During the residency, the artist and/or collectives will be asked to participate in the life of the site from time to time: his/her/their will take part in meetings with the public (schools, associations), studio visits by professionals from the art world, workshops, the Open studios: Montmartre Meetings, conferences or any other activity that enhances his/her/their practice and allows it to be known by as many people as possible. 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.

Applications should be submitted via the Art Explora application platform with a deadline 7 November 2023.