Les Artistes 2025
Michele Ansermet Papadopoulos
Painter
Michèle Ansermet Papadopoulos is a French-Swiss artist who lives between Paris and Cyprus. Trained at ENSAD and the Académie Charpentier, winner of the 1st prize at the Salon d'Automne (2016) and the Christiane Peugeot Prize, she is now section president at the Salon d'Automne, a section she founded, and an independent exhibition curator.
Her universe blends visual narrative, chromatic energy, powerful femininity, and poetic tension. We encounter Calliope, Terpsichore, Melpomene... and Lacan, in a theater of images where the figures dance, affirm, question, and protest. She also works with digital animation and narrative design (Procreate / Procreate Dreams).
She has also collaborated with Haviland and Oscar Collection on projects combining art, design and contemporary storytelling.
https://www.ansermet-papadopoulos-mj.com/bio
https://www.instagram.com/ansermet_papadopoulos/?hl=en
Christelle Balbinot
French visual artist
Between materials, gestures and looks...
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By weaving metal wires from industrial waste, this visual artist creates works that oscillate between raw materiality and airy lightness. The untamed appearance of the metal wire interacts with the delicacy of the shadows and creates curious graphic tensions.
His artistic universe is located at the crossroads of sculpture, drawing and embroidery.
His biomorphic works invest space by redesigning it, they allow glimpses of pareidolia as well as anamorphoses.
Christelle Balbinot created an immersive installation at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva (Switzerland), at the Création 57 space in resonance with the Lyon Biennale 2019. In May 2025, solo exhibition at the Micki Chomicki gallery in Antwerp (Belgium).
Stéphane Beiu
Moldavian painter
Gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Français and Taylor Prize at the Salon d'Automne Paris Grand Palais.
Assistant Professor at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts and then Professor at the Chisinau School of Fine Arts
All of Stefan BEIU's paintings tell a story with an accumulation of images. He offers in his canvases real pictorial puzzles where the challenge is to rediscover the masterpieces represented, but also and above all to modernize them by presenting them in a new light, borrowing from contemporary themes.
Inspired by Jérôme BOSCH and BRUEGEL, the artist uses in his paintings their narrative ways of painting different scenes from daily life mixed with his overflowing and phantasmagorical imagination.
He explains the "sfumato" technique. "Sfumato," often used by Leonardo da Vinci, is an oil painting technique that allows the subject to be given vaporous contours using glazes (a smooth, transparent texture).
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David Daoud
Invité d'Honneur
Peintre franco-libanais
A la recherche d’une connexion émotionnelle...
Peintre franco-libanais dont l’œuvre est profondément marquée par son expérience personnelle de l’exil. Il est le peintre de l’exode et cherche à capturer les émotions universelles liées au départ, à la quête de lumière et à la nostalgie. Il met en scène des figures anonymes et souligne son désir de créer une connexion émotionnelle, dans laquelle chacun projette sa propre histoire. Expressionniste contemporain, il privilégie une approche onirique et évocatrice avec des contours flous et des compositions ouvertes.
Artiste international, David Daoud a exposé au musée des beaux-arts de Vilnius. Il a collaboré à la pochette d’un album d’Ibrahim Maalouf et ses œuvres font partie de la collection permanente de l’Institut du Monde Arabe à Paris.
En 2024, une importante monographie consacrée à l’artiste est parue, préfacée par Ibrahim Maalouf, aux éditions Lord Byron.
Karine Debouzie
Artiste Plasticienne
"Mon travail s’intéresse à des paradoxes relationnels et perceptifs. En général abstrait, il prend corps en interrogeant notre lien aux vivants, aux désirs, aux relations entre micro et macro, visible et invisible, aux flux et mouvements, aux limites, que j’évoque notamment par le biais d’anomalies visuelles.
Les installations prennent la forme de dessins démesurés dans l’espace et semblent traverser les dimensions".
https://karinedebouzie.fr/project_category/shows/
https://www.instagram.com/karinedebouzie/
Tchalé Figueira
Artiste Capverdien
Le peintre et dessinateur capverdien Tchalé Figueira, est une icône de la création contemporaine de son pays. Le Capverdien est aussi connu au quatre coins de la planète pour ses écrits : recueils de poèmes et romans, Todos os Naufrágios do Mundo, O Azul e a Luz et Solitário.. Cet admirateur de Senghor et de Rimbaud a édité en 2007 une anthologie de contes capverdiens.
Le dessinateur est tombé sous le charme de la peinture en suivant les pas de son grand frère plasticien. De ses œuvres émergent une écriture surréaliste, poétique et rythmée comme une musique alerte et « décoiffante »
Né à Mindelo, sur l’île de São Vicente au Cap-Vert, Carlos Alberto Figueira — plus connu sous le nom de Tchalé Figueira — est un artiste pluridisciplinaire dont la pratique mêle peinture, écriture et engagement social.
Il débute sa carrière artistique en Suisse, où il vit et travaille de 1974 à 1985, étudiant à la Kunstschule de Bâle. De retour au Cap-Vert en 1985, il fonde son atelier Ponta d’Praia à Mindelo, qu’il dirige depuis 2014.
Le travail de Tchalé a été exposé dans de nombreux pays, parmi lesquels l’Angola, l’Autriche, le Brésil, Cuba, la France, l’Allemagne, l’Italie, le Mozambique, le Portugal, le Sénégal, l’Espagne, la Suisse, les Pays-Bas et les États-Unis. En 2008, il reçoit le Prix Fondation Blachère à la Biennale de Dakar, consacrant son rôle majeur dans l’art contemporain africain.
Également écrivain prolifique, il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages, Ses œuvres figurent dans de nombreuses collections privées et publiques à travers l’Afrique, l’Europe et les Amériques, témoignant d’une démarche artistique sans frontières ni barrières disciplinaires
https://www.instagram.com/tchalefigueira/
https://www.fondationblachere.org/
Christiane Filliatreau
Plastic Sculptor
The land has always been a given.
There needs to be a trigger, a moss, a fault, traces, reflections, leaves, water, where a desire to take the earth in hand will be born.
The beginning of the vocabulary is in Buoux, with its grey and ochre cliffs, which emerge from the vegetation.
A cliff is steep, brutal, calm, violent, imposing...there is always something to say...
You have to spend a lot of time observing, watching, being in it all the time.
There is a breath that comes from within, a kind of beat that comes from nature itself. Capturing these moments and transcribing them.
There is always something we are missing, which is why it is a constant quest.
Spoken and unspoken forms, on the edge of abstraction.
I choose my alphabet, I choose my signs. I also like the idea of repeating to open up and to force the point, to make people understand that things repeat themselves and in repetition a rhythm is established, a movement and a space is opened up.
Working with the earth is mysterious, it eludes me. It is the meeting of energy and emotion.
To express the power of this nature, its musicality, its strength, its swarming, its vibrations.
Solitude is good when we reach our inner self, and that's when we have things to say, and that's when we can possibly "get them out."
Odile de Frayssinet
Plastic Sculptor
Odile de Frayssinet uses her expertise with threads and her knowledge of weaving techniques to explore different territories: Sculptures, Wall Tablets, Jewelry. For her large sculptures, the "STELES", she will invent a material, a real "skin", the result of a series of real metamorphoses. Starting from a reinvented weaving of polypropylene agricultural ropes rising on a metal structure that she will have previously welded for this purpose, she will carry out a first transformation by fire: the threads fuse, the material compacts. These threads become for her a magical material, which can be worked wonderfully, which allows all forms, very resistant even outdoors and which remains very light. Then comes a series of molts: earth, sand, clay, marble powder, pigments, will enter the scene and give this skin a subtle and enigmatic aspect between vegetal and mineral. The colors of the oxides that she likes to mix will then differentiate and animate each sculpture.
The Brun de Vian Tiran factory, a partner of the festival, provided it with top-quality textile material for the
creation of a specific work installed in the Hôtel de Brancas.
https://www.instagram.com/odiledefrayssinet7/
Sybille FRIEDEL
Sculpture and painting
Born in Paris, Sybille Friedel studied drawing and sculpture with Del Debio. She also began practicing watercolor on vellum at the Natural History Museum in Paris, before meeting the master Ung No Lee. She then began an apprenticeship in Chinese calligraphy that would continue over the years. Following in-depth studies and extensive travel, the artist succeeded in proposing her own language, both following and subverting the aesthetic codes of this oriental art. She practices painting, sculpture, and drawing in her studio in Pernes Les Fontaines (Vaucluse), where she constantly questions the relationship between man and nature.
Corado Gardone
Sculptor Artist
Temporality
“I am interested in what is ephemeral and vulnerable in everything that man produces, as well as in his own existence, confronted with human vanity in the face of nature, of which we are an integral part. This quest provokes a profound reflection on our place within the ecosystem, highlighting the beauty and immutability of nature, and bringing out a dialogue between the artificial and the living.”
In my artistic approach I explore the temporality of matter. I use industrial materials in my creations, which I most often recreate in order to find the form that fits the idea. I can also sometimes work with industrial recovery if I find that the form can be exploited... The second phase of my work consists of dematerializing these industrial materials, manufactured or recovered, by accelerating the natural process of transformation. Through these processes I give myself complete freedom. My pieces are the result of this metamorphosis, thought in an unreal temporality, a different space-time. They participate in my principle of creation, which I want to be both disturbing and overwhelming, exuberant and joyful... Hymns to nature.
Gilles Grimond
Painter
Portraiture as an exclusive field of artistic research
There is, of course, the emotion aroused by the appearance of a face. But the plastic treatment gives another dimension thanks to the superimposition of figurative volumes and geometric patterns. An optical vibration then appears, accentuating the sensuality of the portrait. Vegetation motifs were gradually added to the dynamic created by the painting. Thus, an osmosis between humanity and nature is created.
This is a very classic work (charcoal, oil painting) without photo or digital, showing a very contemporary treatment of the portrait.
Laïna Hadengue
A mixture of figuration, hyperrealism and surrealism...
An international painter with a vibrant style whose large-format canvases express raw energy and a bold color palette.
In her artistic approach, Laïna Hadengue questions the human condition in the face of technological advances and the frenetic pace of contemporary society.
His works, imbued with a touch of surrealism, depict introspective figures, reflecting universal themes such as time, melancholy, and contemplation. They invite the viewer to reflect on the place of man in a society obsessed with technological progress, while celebrating a return to self and an ode to humanity.
Laïna Hadengue is a painter committed to defending art without constraints. She opposes the censorship of works and values the autonomy of the artist.
A favorite at the Southampton Art Fair (USA) in 2015, Laïna Hadengue participated in the Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Mora, Italy in 2017.
She represented France in Prague (Czech Republic) as part of the “Women in Art” exhibition in 2024-2025.
Ernst Günter Herrmann
Sculptor Artist
Conceived as transparent spatial sculptures and constructed according to minimalist construction principles, my sculptures embody elementary human activity in space. They play with various paradoxes and represent principles of contemporary art and ecology. The main paradox lies in the reduction to a minimum of materials and at the same time a maximum of volume. Their fragility echoes the vulnerability of man as a part of creation. My central concern is abstraction as a progressive path towards the origin and thus towards emptiness.
Serge Hiol
Sculptor
Serge Hiol is a sculptor from Vaucluse, with an expressionist style, moving with emotion, highlighting the grandeur and despair of bodies. He is a libertarian who doesn't know it. In the studio, he is a mason-builder, a tellurian modeler... without compromise, he builds. No embellishment, no second thoughts...
Morteza Khosravi
Iranian painter
Torn between abstraction and figurative...
Khosravi's artistic approach is characterized by a fusion of cultural heritage, historical reflection and an aesthetic approach that is both realistic and contemporary.
His work explores profound themes such as memory, cultural identity and socio-political upheaval, particularly in post-revolutionary Iran.
Khosravi's artistic approach is distinguished by its ability to link past and present, to provoke introspection on social and historical realities, while offering a powerful and universal visual experience.
Morteza Khosravi has exhibited in prestigious galleries: Tehran in Iran, Lebanon, Palazzo Bastogi in Florence and Toronto.
Mostafa Khosravi
Iranian painter
Mostafa Khosravi has many luminous paintings depicting tree roots. His work now gives way to images of volcanoes, evoking explosions, smoke, and chaos. To represent this theme, the painter sometimes favored expressive and free brushstrokes, sometimes diverted his gaze from the explicit representation of the subject, and only free and active coloring allowed him to depict the consciousness that inhabited it. These paintings, whether directly representative of the theme of volcanoes in a centralized composition or an abstract surface resulting from the interlacing of colors over a width without a center, their power and their brilliant strokes, are the juxtaposition and amalgamation of varied colors, sometimes bright, sometimes cold and dark.
The same goes for creating compositions and beautiful abstract textures, a coherent whole, both expressive and meaningful.
Olivier Rotté - Caroline Le Gall
Caroline Le Gall and Olivier Rotté form an artistic duo in which they create immersive multi-vector works.
In the exhibition on the Beatitudes, they combine several of their interests: the quest for happiness through spirituality, the human figure through pictorial portraiture and the use of speech as a witness and tool for connecting with others.
The four large portraits that welcome you and share their whispers with you here represent four of the eight age-old propositions and promises of the Sermon on the Mount: humility, gentleness, justice and resilience.
Emmelene Landon
Painter and writer
Born in Australia in November 1963, a former student of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Emmelene Landon has lived and worked in Paris since 1981. A writer, painter, translator, and videographer, she has made films and radio programs for France Culture, exhibited in galleries and museums in numerous countries, and published eight books, including Le tour du monde en porte-conteneurs, La baie de la Rencontre, Marie-Galante, and Debout (Standing Up) at Gallimard. In 2018, she was elected Écrivaine de marine, a literary status, thanks to her experiences at sea and her fascination with the maritime world. Sensitive to the lives of all seafarers and their loved ones, to those forced to go to sea, to the balance of ecosystems, to biophilia, geological time, and synesthesia, Emmelene Landon weaves together these different approaches in her paintings and writings. She is a knight of the Order of Maritime Merit.
Jean-Christophe Lévêque
Painter - President of the Paris Autumn Salon
All art is sharing sensations and emotions.
Expressing the invisible
Painting is a vital need, I use painting as a means of expression with its own limits but also with all that it offers.
I paint my vision of the world, what I perceive, what I feel, detached from any figurative subject, but very inspired by what surrounds me. Each painting is a unique experience, a forgetting of oneself, the act of painting is a meditation, an act of the sacred order, a transcendence, with this vain attempt to retain the moments lived.
Color is the basis of my work. I develop series based on different themes.
The painting is constructed from session to session, and I don't know in advance what it will become. The format is a determining element in its construction. My painting is very gestural. I gradually immerse myself in the painting, I explore it from the inside, combining various plastic elements to create my own language (relationship of colors, material, light). I seek a unity in the whole composition combining the relationships of colors, the relationships of forms and the dynamics of the lines.
The viewer walks through the painting, scanning it with his eyes according to the variations and his own sensitivity, each viewer has his own reading of the painting carried by his imagination.
Htein Lin
A leading artist on the Burmese contemporary scene, Htein Lin has been exploring the connections between resilience, political engagement, and artistic practices for over 35 years. A painter, performer, and former political prisoner, he transforms constraints into powerful works marked by meditation, memory, and testimony.
The monumental work On the Road, painted on a blanket during a trip to India, is fully in line with this approach. Begun in 2007 and recently completed, it recounts in three registers the life of the Buddha, the wheel of life, and meditation – weaving a personal and spiritual fresco, inhabited by powerful symbols and meaningful details.
Chosen for its exceptional size and universal scope, this work embodies both the intimate and the grand narrative, and strongly fits into the festival's theme of art on a grand scale.
Paul Alden M’Voutoukoulou
Peintre Congolais
Né en 1987 à Brazzaville (Congo), où il vit et travaille.
Il pratique le dessin depuis l’enfance. Après s’être formé à l’École nationale des Beaux-Arts et à l’École de peinture de Poto-Poto de 2006 à 2010, il découvre le graphisme au collectif « Graphik’Noir » et travaille dès lors à l’harmoniser avec la peinture. Il collabore à de nombreux projets artistiques.
Paul Alden Mvout présentera ses toiles sur le thème de l’exposé, « Nature-santé ». Pour ce jeune peintre et vidéaste, la nature souffre, elle est malade à cause du comportement de l’homme qui la pollue. Il présente douze tableaux, plus une installation accompagnée d’une vidéo réalisée pendant la première édition des ateliers Sahm. Il a par exemple dessiné des tableaux qui expriment la violence faite à la nature par des polluants.
En 2002, il fait partie des pionniers de la 1ère édition de la Rencontre Internationale d’Art Contemporain (RIAC) des Ateliers Sahm (Brazzaville, Congo), à laquelle prennent part une vingtaine d’artistes, et où le français Sean Hart et l’algérien Abdelkader Damani ont supervisé les ateliers « vidéo d’art » et « critique d’art ». En septembre 2014, il participe à la 3ème RIAC des Ateliers Sahm : il est lauréat du 2ème prix vidéo et lauréat du prix de la Fondation Blachère.
Il fait partie en 2014 des artistes sélectionnés pour le projet « Congo(s) : esthétiques en partage, au-delà des géographies » des Ateliers Sahm, présenté à la Biennale de Dakar (Sénégal).
https://www.instagram.com/alden.mvoutoukoulou/
https://www.fondationblachere.org/
Celia Maulian
Wire and paper artist
Graduated with honors from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising 1985-1987 / Los Angeles
Winner to complete a term at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts & Techniques de La Mode 1987 / Paris
Winner of the Gold Medal by the guest jury “Salon des beaux arts” 2024 at the Réfectoire des Cordeliers 75006 Paris.
“Paper and rattan pith are at the heart of my practice.
I fold, I crumple, I soak, I embroider and from this creative process dreamlike works are born.
The making of a sheet is intrinsically linked to time. More than a transformation, it is the metamorphosis from a liquid state to a solid state; the praise of a gesture. The paper becomes skin, underlines its
transparency and its grain.
The rattan core provides an architecture that highlights the diaphanousness and delicacy of the washi.
The whiteness of the paper sets the tone for my pieces, the threads suggest a graphic writing through the material.
My artistic approach is close to an imaginary surface, a fable of light and water.
Time and works are suspended, mobile and connected."
Yosra Mojtahedi
Yosra Mojtahedi was born in Tehran in 1986. A graduate of Le Fresnoy – National Studio of Contemporary Arts, she explores the boundaries between the living and the non-living through sculptures she designs as hybrid, sometimes interactive “human-machines,” combining soft robotics, emerging technologies, and organic materials. Coming from a country where the body is a taboo subject and its representation forbidden, her works are in response to sensual and sensory: tactile, olfactory, sometimes touching on eroticism. By creating mutating, sensitive, and breathing body-forms, she breathes life into inert entities, blurring the boundaries between machine and flesh, human and non-human, real and unreal. Her works, often imbued with a political sensuality, reinvent narratives around the feminine, technology, and spirituality. Winner of the ADAGP Digital Art – Video Art Revelation Prize in 2020 and the François Schneider Foundation Contemporary Talents Prize in 2024, she exhibits regularly in France and internationally.
Ousmane Niang
Peintre sénégalais
Né en 1989 à Tamba, Sénégal, Ousmane Niang vit et travaille entre Paris et Dakar. Diplômé de l’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Dakar, il s’est imposé dès ses débuts par une maîtrise singulière de la technique du pointillisme, ainsi que par la présence récurrente de figures anthropomorphes dans son œuvre.
Ses premières toiles mettaient en scène une nette séparation entre animaux humanisés et animaux sauvages ou domestiqués, traduisant une réflexion sur les rapports de domination et les hiérarchies sociales. Dans sa production la plus récente, cette frontière s’est estompée : l’homme se fond désormais dans la nature, suggérant une vision d’harmonie et de cohésion entre les êtres vivants.
Mélangeant forme et matière, ses peintures s’inspirent de la technique du pointillisme et incarnent les discours de la société à travers les formes et la figure de l’homme-animal. Les plumes représentent le mauvais côté de l’homme et les points une solution. Ousmane Niang compose ainsi les scènes étranges d’un théâtre contemporain dont animaux hybrides et figures mystérieuses sont les protagonistes d’un duel entre dominant et dominé. Débute alors le récit de fables urbaines tant fantaisistes que dramatiques plongeant au coeur des maux qui agitent la société contemporaine. Ses oeuvres exposent les facettes les plus sombres de notre société. Transformant l’absurde en une arme redoutable, il nous confronte à cette vision décalée de la société obsédée par la communication et les apparences.
https://www.instagram.com/ousmane.niang.art/
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Isa Papasian
An artist of paper and scalpel, Isabelle Papasian brings used materials back to life to create fine, powerful and poetic works.
Between ex-votos, amulets and large cutouts, his gesture is inspired by popular and sacred arts, to weave a sensitive link between memory, resilience and transmission."
Dominique PUISAIS
Painter
Theatrical career in France.
Creation of sets and costumes: National Scenes: Opera, Odéon, Théâtre d'Ivry Vitez, TNP, young Companies and Television. Then departure abroad.
Catalonia
First solo exhibitions with Galleria Cadaquès and Amistad
Latin America: Uruguay
Personal exhibitions: French Embassy, Alliance Française, Ministry of Culture in Montevideo, training missions for sets and costumes throughout the country
Return to France: resumption of exhibitions with Galleria Cadaquès, the Tour des Cardinaux in Isle sur la Sorgue, then in 2000 creation of the Cie des Lectures Peintes, reading shows with professional actors
https://www.instagram.com/dominiquepuisais/
Eva Ramfel
Eva Ramfel's work questions our relationship with nature and questions our responsibility in the face of tomorrow's challenges. A self-taught artist, fascinated by bioluminescence and the abyss, her artistic commitment is intended as a response to the violent precipitation of a disintegrating world. Through paper, metal, polymers, or natural materials, Eva Ramfel works these structures by hand like drawing in space, with the desire to free herself from traditional sculpture, which suggests a direct carving of the block. Her forms, built on a balance of forces, free themselves from mass through a cutting process. A sensitive approach to contemporary mutations and upheavals, an invitation to travel between gravity and lightness.
Alongside her artistic work, she and her partner, photographer Valentin Desjardins, are developing a garden by collecting species from different regions and countries around the world. An acclimatization garden where more than 600 species flourish, amidst analysis and observation. An invitation to contemplation.
Senz
Painting / Graffiti
Senz spent his teenage years between Paris and New York City. He began painting in the streets as a graffiti artist at a young age. Inspired by the urban landscape, he honed an aesthetic that caught the attention of fashion, art, and commerce visionaries such as Agnes B, Coach, and Alice & Olivia.
In the late 1990s, he moved to Paris to work as a creative director at Virgin, Sony, and Universal Music Group. He then transformed La Funk Mob (producers of MC Solaar and Cassius) into a creative cooperative focused on a multidisciplinary approach to art and music.
Senz creates artwork using typography, photography, and digital printing. He blends media with original designs, creating a cultural collage. The pieces are both complex and deeply symbolic, full of clues that invite the viewer to engage in their own inner dialogue with each work.
www.senzart.com
Instagram: @senz
Catherine Severac
Painter
The composition, essential, and then some colors, restrained, earths, natural or burnt, values more than colors, some accents all the same – it is necessary to wake up – materials, a little, not too much, a palpable, vibrant flesh, until the moment when the heart beats differently, faster, stronger…
Scraps of paper that dream of the future canvas, little sketches felt more than drawn and started again, never good enough, never beautiful enough, reworked, again and again, little notebooks filled with dreams of canvases, always the same one, the one that will be the most beautiful...
Outside of fashion, outside of trends, outside of trends.
Search for the absolute, search for greatness, search for what moves me, what moves...
Erika Tomas
Painter
After studying art with a specialization in photography in Toronto, Canada, she returned to France in the 1990s and worked in Paris as a professional photographer (Editions Artlys, RMN, Galerie Denise René, Berthier Architectes for Christian Dior, CNIT la défense).
From 1995, she abandoned photography for painting and it was the Hastie and Collins gallery in London that gave the starting signal for the exhibition of her first abstract paintings.
His work questions the notion of memory: what we receive, what we keep and choose to transmit.
Hamid Torkashvand
Iranian sculptor
Member of the Iranian Painters Association and the Institute for the Promotion of Contemporary Visual Art. His artistic activity is multifaceted: selected for the Tehran Sculpture Biennial and several national festivals, he produces numerous performances and immersive installations, including visual and multimedia ones.
Students of the Beaux Arts Paris
Vortex Capsule
Loïc Bousquet-Rouillé
A 5th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and selected by the "Vortex Capsule", Loïc creates unique works from insect molts, recycled plastic and Mediterranean crustaceans. His eccentric and innovative compositions address contemporary ecological issues. Inspired by Giorgio Agamben, Loïc embodies contemporaneity by evoking joy despite the ecological disaster, inviting reflection without guilt. His baroque and convivial art is an essential gap in the artistic world.
Bastien Clar Kellens
A 5th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, selected by the "Capsule Vortex," he actively participates in the creation and curation of "Jardin aux 12 mains." A painter of nuances, exploring the boundaries between the physical and the metaphysical. His work, inspired by Hinduism and Baudelaire, captures the fading of the soul and hope in the darkness. Bastien seeks a pictorial simplicity where wildflowers and city birds coexist.
Arthur Coquille Hopfner
A 5th-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and selected by the "Capsule Vortex", he is a poet whose art is not read, but listened to and seen. Through subtle automatons made from reclaimed materials, he creates a mechanical lyricism where each piece tells a syllable of a poem. His sculptures, assembled with virtuoso ingenuity, invite you on a dreamlike stroll through a cabinet of motorized curiosities.
In his workshop, an enchanted bric-a-brac, Arthur handles plans, tools, and creations with natural ease. His works, cyclical and delicate, only stop when the switch is flipped or the fragility of the mechanisms forces them to.
Laura Esparch
A fifth-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and selected for the "Capsule Vortex," she is an artist who collects objects, shapes, and sensations like secret treasures. When she opens her toy box, she assembles the unassociatable with passion and whimsy, giving free rein to her sensitivity and instinct. Her creations, like chimeras of feelings, come to life in a chaos of plaster and varnished wood.
Inspired by Nietzsche, Laura draws on this chaos to bring forth dancing stars, revealing a whole constellation of emotions and pure imagination.
Mathilda Munsch
Mathilda, a fifth-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and selected for the "Vortex Capsule," explores origins through her drawings of almost abstract forms. Her works, where soft colors are diluted on rocky-looking paper, evoke the silhouettes of fossils or the reflections of precious stones. By accumulating materials and colors, she recreates geological phenomena, such as the emergence of mountains or the formation of oceanic trenches.
Her work, fueled by hope, confronts reality with a personal mythology, exploring freedom and the hope of a new beginning. Mathilda transcends human life to approach her existence with gentleness.
Wonder Kélékélé-Kélékélé
Merveille, a fifth-year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and selected for the Vortex capsule, is a silent artist who listens and transforms confidences into art. He expresses the "noise of the world" through his canvases, which blend colors, emotions, and deformed creatures. His works capture the noise of day and night, everything and nothing, the noise of life.
When he tells his story, Marvel becomes a theatrical character, creating detailed plots without ever fully revealing himself. He presents himself in various guises, leaving a persistent mystery that fascinates.