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.

Within the framework of the artist residency program, this space hosts residents and supports their research and creative work.
Photo: © Victor & Simon