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 2026-2027: Chadine Amghar

Born in 1997, Chadine Amghar grew up in the Paris suburbs in a Moroccan family. A 2021 graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she works in sculpture and installation. She draws inspiration from everyday life: sponges, baguettes, pigeon spikes, and objects she has collected or bought at flea markets, which she reimagines, repurposes, and elevates. Her assemblages seek to give solid form to the precarious. They weave narratives of cultural identities, the movement of people and objects, and colonial legacies. Her work engages in a constant dialogue between French and Moroccan references, blending humor, dissonance, and social critique. For the past three years, she has co-managed the Tour 111 art space. Her works were shown at the MAC VAL in 2025, as part of the group exhibition Forever Young and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2026. She is the recipient of the 2025 Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Artists-in-residence since 2005