Cité internationale des arts

Cité internationale des arts (cultural venue, 4th arrondissement): €1M paid by the City in 2019 and 29 Paris Council deliberations about it. The source of each item is given.

Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.

€1M

paid by the City for this place in 2019

The Cité internationale des arts, a foundation recognized as being of public utility, is an artists' residence located in Paris (France), whose mission is to support the research and creative work of international contemporary artists in all disciplines: visual arts, music, performing arts, architecture and writing. Wikipedia ↗

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One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City

What the City funds here

Running the place

€15M

paid · 2010–2025

Annual subsidy to the operator, Fond Cité Internationale Arts → La Fondation de la Cité internationale des arts gère aussi un site dans le 18e arrondissement (rue Norvins) : les subventions rattachées ici financent l'ensemble de la fondation, pas seulement le bâtiment du 4e.

€699k in 2010 · €1.5M in 2020 (the highest) · €1.1M in 2025

Click a year for its amount and the Conseil de Paris decision.

Works and renovation

€365k

paid · 2010–2015

€8k in 2010 · €207k in 2013 (the highest) · €44k in 2015

2025

The 3 projects

CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS2013 · City accounts€192k CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS2009–2013 · City accounts€134k CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS2014–2015 · City accounts€112k

Outside the figure: €73 k of works and renovation, in 2009. The City publishes investment from 2009, subsidies from 2010.

At the Conseil de Paris

5 moments chosen from the 29 deliberations about this place.

JULY 2017€820,173 in grants; 1,200 artists hosted in 2016

During the examination of grants of 820,173 euros and of a motion on hosting refugee artists, Mme Atallah states that 1,200 artists were hosted in 2016 in 326 studio-residences, in the Marais and in Montmartre.Read the decision ↗

FEBRUARY 2008Amendment removes garden and RER tunnels from the 1950 lease

The Council authorizes the Mayor to sign an amendment to the 1950 lease removing volumes 101 to 105 from it; the draft deliberation referred to the footprint of the Albert Schweitzer public garden, the unbuilt subsoil and the tunnels of RER A and D.Read the decision ↗

MARCH 2002Lease end date (1962-2060) corrected, no vote

Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre considers the lease date given in the explanatory statement inaccurate: according to her, it runs from March 1962 to March 2060; the chair indicates that the date will be amended in the deliberation, without a vote.Read the decision ↗

SEPTEMBER 1999Sale approved of 58, rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, removed from the Foundation's lease

The Council authorizes the Mayor to sign an amendment removing 58, rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville from the Fondation's lease and approves in principle the sale of this building by lots.Read the decision ↗

OCTOBER 1998800,000 F voted to bring 132 studio-flats up to code

The Council awards an investment grant of 800,000 francs to help carry out works to bring 132 studio-residences in building A up to hygiene and safety standards.Read the decision ↗

3 more moments, 2003–2021

JULY 2021€797,173 operating grant and €250,000 equipment grant voted

The title of the deliberation combines an operating grant of 797,173 euros and an equipment grant of 250,000 euros for the Fondation (Paris Centre, 18th).Read the decision ↗

JULY 2018Grants for foreign artists approved; management of 10 studios questioned

On the payment of City bursaries to foreign artists residing at the Cité, Mme Atallah, who is also speaking as a board member of the Cité, asks what the plan would be for managing 10 of the City's 20 studios, the draft deliberation covering, according to her, only the other 10.Read the decision ↗

NOVEMBER 2003€680,000 grant tied to a rent left unchanged, rue Norvins

Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre deems the wording of the 680,000-euro grant proposal imprecise; according to M. Girard, this amount takes into account the fact that the rent for rue Norvins was not actually increased.Read the decision ↗

All deliberations ↗

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Cité internationale des arts

What the City funds here

At the Conseil de Paris

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