Artists

Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896-1971) is one of the most important and original artists of the German avant-garde of the 20th century. Fascinated by music and art, she decided as early as 1915 to study art at the “Grand Ducal Saxon University of Fine Arts”. With her husband Robert Michel, she maintained a very close friendship with Kurt Schwitters and was also enrolled for a semester at the Bauhaus in Weimar. As early as the 1920s, she took part in numerous exhibitions in Germany and the USA with her artworks.

Heir to the feminist art history of the 1970s, his brightly coloured crochet-knitted figures explore the notion of Queer and the canons of art history. He received his BFA from Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) in 2007 and his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize.

Christine Crozat (born in 1952 in Lyon, lives and works between Paris and Lyon) practices drawing, printmaking, wall-paper, installations, sculpture-object and video.   Interested in what arises in movement and in displacement, she lives in two cities since the 1990s. She travels by train is…

“The individual, their identity and their place in society are at the core of Jérémie Danon’s work. Using photography, video and painting, the artist chronicles time spent and moments shared with singular individuals. Together they wonder how to state themselves to the world.   At…

Pierre Gaignard (born in 1986, lives and works in Clichy) is an artist, sculptor and director, co-founder of Wonder (artist-run-space). For ten years, he has produced a documentary work composed of sculptures, performances and experimental films, both documentary and fictional.

Kendell Geers develops a polymorphic work where objects, installations, recent video works reusing existing films, appear inseparable from his critical texts or his performances. One of the first ones consisted in changing his date of birth into « May 68 ».

Romeo Gómez López (born in 1991, lives and works in Mexico City MX) uses various elements of mass culture, such as religion, political figures and science fiction, to critique the conservative nature of the contemporary art.

Eikoh Hosoe was born in 1933 in Yonezawa, Yamagata. He is a Japanese photographer and filmmaker who emerged in the experimental arts movement of post-World War II Japan. He is known for his psychologically charged images, often exploring subjects such as death, erotic obsession, and…

Hudinilson Jr (1957-2013) was one of the most important Brazilian artists of his generation, influencing the entire Brazilian artistic scene, not only through his personal work – produced between the 70s and 2000s – but also because of his active role as a catalyzing personality of artist groups and experimental exhibitions.

Kubra Khademi is an Afghan artist and performer born in 1989. Through her practice, she explores her life as a refugee and a woman. She studied fine arts at Kabul University, before joining Beaconhouse University in Lahore, Pakistan. In Lahore she began creating public performances, a practice she continued on her return to Kabul, in response to a male-dominated society with extreme patriarchal politics.

Le Corbusier was a French-Swiss architect, designer, and painter who, along with Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe, is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Credited with pioneering the Modernist architecture, Le Corbusier popularized open-floor style…

Ken Matsubara is a Japanese artist who primarily works with video art. Using photos, movies, objects and collages, Matsubara’s work addresses memories and histories to which we can all relate, regardless of our backgrounds, statuses or age.

Robert Michel was born in 1897. In 1917 Robert Michel moved to Weimar, Germany, where he established a practice as an independent artist. In 1919 he produced collages and drawings which were influenced by the Bauhaus. He exhibited with El Lissitsky and Kurt Schwitters in…

Born in 1980, he lives and works in Paris, France. Samir Mougas’ work explores a field of aesthetic experimentation that oscillates between the use of invented forms and the use of borrowed forms. By appropriating a broad formal vocabulary that refers as much to biodiversity as to contemporary sculpture or design.

Isabelle Plat is an artist who addresses the most serious societal topics, but she does it with humour, distance and a fresh stance. Loyal to her historical lines of research, she always intervenes where you don’t expect her to. Do not stop at the lighthearted…

After starting out as a painter, curator, and publisher in the sixties, Ulrike Ottinger (born in 1942 in Konstanz) found her artistic home in the medium of film. In her numerous projects she has developed an inimitable, unconventional imagery that seldom permits a clear separation…

Tony Regazzoni was born in 1982 in the Jura Mountains. He graduated from the ENSA of Dijon (2005) and the ECA o Lausanne (2006). From this rural culture, which is both preserved and overlooked, he developed links with the Queer milieu that welcomed him when he arrived in Paris.

Louis-Cyprien Rials (born 1981 in Paris) studied theatre in France before discovering photography in Japan, where he lived for several years. In 2007, he undertook a journey in the footsteps of the painter Hiroshige to deliver a comparative analysis of the Japanese landscape over time. Since his return from Japan in 2008, he has lived between Paris, Brussels and Berlin, while continuing his travels in countries that are not internationally recognised or in areas that are off-limits to the public, which he sees as “involuntary nature parks”.

Miron Schmückle was born in 1966 in Sibiu, Romania, and currently lives and works in Berlin. His preoccupation with the study of nature, flora and fauna form the starting point for his work in painting and photography.

Capucine Vever (born in 1986 in Paris, lives and works in Bobigny) develops a contextual work interested in the notion of the invisible, the unattainable and the imperceptible. Whether it is geographical, social and/or cultural, the territory is central to her artistic approach. Her practice…

Vincent Voillat explores the links between a territory (real or virtual), its inhabitants and their memories. He studies more particularly the relation between the landscape and its perception.

Born in Marseille in 1986. Lives and works in Paris. Cyril Zarcone is co-founder of ChezKit, an artist-run-space located in Pantin, in the suburb of Paris. He teaches at the Fine Arts School of TALM Tours.   This self-proclaimed “bricoleur superieur” (superior handyman), is inspired…