French artist residency

Each year, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec welcomes an artist-in-residence for a period of six or seven months. The artist is supported artistically, logistically and financially by La Galerie. The residency’s goal is to support the production of works, while taking the centre’s wider geographical context into consideration.

 

Conditions

 

Artist fee: €6,600
Artwork production: €7,000
With the dedicated support of the Seine Saint-Denis Department.

 

The artist will be provided with a furnished, 90-m2 studio-flat free of charge, in the centre of Noisy-le-Sec, close to La Galerie. Utilities, communication and transport costs are covered by La Galerie.

 

Selection process

 

The residency is open to French artists or artists who have been working in France for more than 5 years, whose main activity is artistic work, without age limit, and who have completed their studies. 


The jury is composed of a preselection committee (La Galerie director Marc Bembekoff, head of exhibitions and residencies Nathanaëlle Puaud and an invited professional) and the centre’s partners, represented by the Cultural Affairs department of Noisy-le-Sec, Île-de-France Region Cultural Affairs Office (DRAC) — Ministry of Culture, the cultural departments of the Seine-Saint-Denis Department and the Île-de-France Region.

Residency 2025-2026: Camille Benarab-Lopez

In her practice, Camille Benarab-Lopez explores the forms through which silent inheritances, the scars of lived experience, and lives diverted from their ideal path manifest. Through image, sculpture and installation, she initiates a dialogue between visual archives from various sources, textual archives —  whether literary or testimonies of other lives — as well as signs and symbols. She is interested in what we pour into images, what we fill them with: wishes, secrets, illusions, gaps, expectations. She examined the effects of a lack of family archives in the project “Fin de la pudeur” (2022), and spaces that offer care and rest to the relatives of patients in the installation “Plateforme de répit, vol. 1” (2023). After traveling to the United States in the Niagara Falls region in the footsteps of the novel We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates, she is currently working on the concept of wills, in collaboration with various writers.

Artists-in-residence since 2005