Artists

Majd Mastoura

Majd Mastoura is a Tunisian actor and stage director. His career kickstarted with the creation of Street Poetry, a street art movement that emerged during the Tunisian revolution. From 2014 onward, he dedicated himself fully to his acting career. In 2016, he was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival for his role in Hedi, directed by Mohamed Ben Attia. After studying theatre at Sorbonne Nouvelle University and at the Jacques Lecoq School, he began teaching theatre in Paris. He is currently developing his first theatrical production, which originated from an end-of-year project with his students. In 2026, together with Aicha Khenissi, he co-founded Kiouff, a multidisciplinary creative company based in Paris.

Majd Mastoura

Artists in Residency: 2nd Cohort of 2026

From February 16th to March 9th 2026, Tilal AiR welcomes nine artists from diverse backgrounds, brought together for its February cohort. Selected through the open call launched in November 2025, their projects were reviewed by an international jury composed of Abdramane Kamate, Divya Bhatia, and Rasha Salah. 

Over three weeks, the residency becomes a living laboratory. The artists develop their research in a setting conducive to experimentation and dialogue, alternating between individual work periods, collective gatherings, and exchanges with the local context. This rhythm fosters the deepening of personal approaches while opening spaces for shared reflection. 

Through the diversity of practices — visual arts, writing, performance, and transdisciplinary research — this new cohort embodies the spirit of Tilal AiR: to create rigorous yet caring working conditions where situated narratives, contemporary imaginaries, and relationships with the living intersect and mutually enrich one another. 

Through this program, Tilal AiR reaffirms its commitment to emerging artistic processes and to the international circulation of knowledge, by supporting modes of transmission, collaboration, and local anchoring that extend beyond the timeframe of the residency. 

Artists in Residency: 2nd Cohort of 2026