Residency program
Launched in 2016, the LUMA Arles residency program invites artists, thinkers, researchers, dancers, filmmakers, writers, and curators from around the world to live and work in Arles throughout the year. Residents are immersed in the city’s historic fabric and singular territory—from the Camargue and the Crau to the Alpilles—while engaging with its vibrant cultural ecosystem.
The program offers the time and conditions for research, experimentation, and artistic production, in dialogue with LUMA Arles’ core focuses: contemporary artistic productions, environment, hospitality, and education.Within this context, the portrait series highlights artists temporarily rooted in the territory as their projects take shape.
Captured in fleeting, informal moments, these videos offer an intimate entry into their practices, revealing work in progress and ideas in motion.
Through a quiet and attentive lens, they reflect each artist’s evolving relationship with Arles and invite viewers to encounter cultural practices as a living, ongoing process.
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Federico Campagna during his residency in Arles
"What can you do when nothing can be done, when you're not in the position of changing your present?" -
Dozie Kanu during his residency in Arles
"I’m definitely dealing with a lot of issues surrounding the diasporic condition of black masculinity. " -
Alice Dos Reis during her residency in Arles
"I do think in some ways it has to do with trying to reconcile a sense of God and of wholeness." -
Habibitch during her residency in Arles
"Politics is everywhere. There is no such thing as neutrality." -
Isadora Neves Marques during her residency in Arles
"I've been thinking a lot about love, but also passion in its wonderful aspects and its very terrifying ones." -
Eleni Bagaki during her residency in Arles
"I need to really like what I'm painting"