A residency, a shared library & a Garden

Research and collaboration: MAR encourages research and collaboration with local and international communities around new forms of artistic and  intellectual production.

Open creative process: Residents are invited to explore unknown paths, and without aiming for a result : the results might emerge well after the end of the residency.

 Deadline for contacting us : December 15th, 2026

Magnolia Art Residency (MAR) is launching a new open call MAPP, a paid residency for artists, cultura workers, queer and feminist activists. MAPP is designed to contribute to the sustainability of MAR collective ecosystem of solidarity, and mutual support. By joining MAR through MAPP, participants become part of a shared care residency, actively contributing to the continuity and sustainability of the residency space. 

Through MAPP, we aim to welcome 4 to 6 artists and/or activists. 

Houle in French means an underlying swell. It suggests a movement that is already happening underneath the surface, not as a huge change at a time of genocide and deep crises, but as a slow, collective action, almost invisible shift that gradually changes the surface. 

This residency program is designed for queer and feminist activists, artists, and cultural workers from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Lybia, Iran, Sudan and Yemen living in the EU or in their countries of origin.

Our first committee members are: 

Nermine El Ansari (Egypt, Iceland, France) 

Nermine El Ansari is a visual artist working across various mediums, including installation, video, drawing, photography, and performance. She is interested in dualities, inversions, and environmental and societal transformation, exploring social geography and the tensions between urban and rural spaces. Triggered by collective memory, her most recent projects examine how personal and incidental images can evoke acts of remembrance and challenge established narratives.

Rachele Borghi (Italie, France) 

Rachele is a performer, professor and researcher in social and cultural geography. She studies the relationship between space, gender and sexuality from an intersectional perspective using feminist epistemology. She is currently working on the relationship between research and activism.

Anna Lopez Luna (Spain /France)

Anna was born and raised in the city of Barcelona. She has worked between Paris and Barcelona since 2001. Her work has always challenged the body and acts of repression that play out. Currently, her video-films concentrate on the spoken word, memory, and how politics penetrate individuals. Her sketch work is composed of dreams and nightmares, family histories, genealogies of shapes, distortions of myths, and shifting accounts.

Geneviève Houssay (France)

Geneviève is a member of CEU since 2019. She lived in several places in France. She managed several movie theaters and accompanied a number of collectives, organizations and artists.