Aguera Isabel

Graduated from l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris, Isabel Aguera lives and works in Paris.

It is painting that allows the painter to reveal the great spaces of life and value of experience so much greater than any that can be brought within the other arts. It is without doubt that to see an abundance and multitude of life we have to find it by seeing an hour into a memory, a past, a consciousness, than by watching directly the present events of an hour of real life. But it needs a mind to create that vision of life, however crowded it may be. She is able to achieve minimum story.

BAGOT Yann

Yann Bagot was born in 1983. He lives and works in Paris but above all he loves working in the middle of the natural elements.

Graduated from L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) in 2008, he works drawing, ink, engraving and the artist’s book. His process is based on working sessions in the middle of the natural elements, and the conception of pictures in his workshop, inspired by scientific adventure and the force of nature. He displays his work regularly during personal or collective exhibitions in France, in Europe and in Asia, notably at the We Gallery in Shenzhen, the Gallery Less is More in Paris, at the Institut de France - Académie des Beaux Arts Paris, at the Vasarely Foundation ...

Besides, Yann Bagot draws and participates in performances with a group of artists « Ensaders », sometimes during jazz concerts.

Ben Hassine Wissem

Born in Menzel Temine (Tunisia) in 1976, Wissem Ben Hassine has had a passion for painting and drawing since childhood. He was graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Tunis in 2001 and theaches the art of drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Kairouan (Tunisia). He was a former resident at the Center of the Living Arts in Rades (Tunisia) between 2005 and 2006, then at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris between 2007 and 2008. He now lives in Boulogne Billancourt (France).

Wissem Ben Hassine has also exhibited his works in Germany, Spain and in the United Arab Emirates.

Bordeau Anastassia

Anastassia Bordeau was born in Moscow in 1979. She lives and works in Paris where she graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 2003 (Ateliers Vincent Bioulès and Pat Andrea).
Anastassia Bordeau has produced a style that refuses the triviality born of routine, the myopia that triggers the habitual or a context that simply adheres to sterotype. This is why her scenes are so often nocturnal, or represent spaces that, by their uniqueness, seem enclosed. For night is the time when logic is forgotten or absent, where imagination chases dreams, where the impossible no longer applies, where opposites meet in improbable circumstances, and where the depth of meaning is revealed. The enclosed space, as if a night cut off from the world, thus forms its own universe.
These works are centered on actions in progress—benevolent actions, or anecdotal, but in which the enjoyment and anxiety of living are fully mixed—in indefinite expectation, evidently actions suspended as to the question of why, or to where, we are heading.
The influence of the teachings of modern painting, of that of Hopper in particular, or even of surrealist views in that they solicit the imaginary and suggest emotions beyond images—or even of Duchamp—is willingly represented, and which, allied often to a discreet humorous dimension, allows the artist to affirm her engagement to continuity.
For over a decade Anastassia Bordeau has in her painting alternated and intertwined urban night spaces—spaces almost closed, mostly underground, and mainly places of circulation—as well as nudes or undressed bodies, such scenes quite often composed of advertising imagery. By Jean-Paul Blanchet.

Calandre Philippe

Virtuoso of photomontage, Philippe Calandre, transforms industrial sites into labyrinthine cities. At the Espace Vallès, he offers a revisiting of the megalomaniac architecture of modern times, a reconsideration of the great myths of ancient architecture.
Tower of Babel, Babylonian astronomical observatory, cyclopean stone walls, Piranesian bridges, the megalithic monument of Stonehenge…The most unreasonable references come to mind in describing the imaginary landscapes of Philippe CALANDRE. Imaginary? Not altogether, because his work utilizes and adds upon photomontage. From views of industrial sites taken by camera the artist creates digital collages on his computer, matching fragments of images and thus recomposing reality at will. He not only makes all human presence disappear, but he multiplies the confusion of hangars, of silos, of chimneys, of beams, of piping, and of flights of stairs, transforming an already complex real into Daedalusian vision and a waking dream. Grandiloquent architectures of vast perspectives, planted in desert spaces, halfway from the prodigious forge of Vulcan and Mount Othrys of the Titans…

“Industrial architecture has no aesthetic constraint, but just the constraints of of productivity, explains Philippe CALANDRE. It has more free forms, but more violent ones, because they are designed with only productivity in mind.” Departing from this postulate, the photographer allows us to discover worlds as grandiose as they are rickety, megalopolises menaced by collapse. The fate dealt to architecture struck with the delirium of power (whether they be Stalinesque, Mussolinian, or achieved by the madness of capitalist grandeur) is that of cathedrals, of pyramids, and of mausoleums: that of ruin. There exists a powerful poetic from the uncultivated world of industry. Philippe CALANDRE engulfs himself in this imaginary world: dusty buildings, corroded walls, tarnished windows, etc. A veritable magic results, but a cold magic. The truly monumental formats of these impressions (tied to the extreme care brought to the construction of the photographic montages) leads the visitor to the exhibition to enter through the ground floor and into the image. One experiences, before the photomontages of Philippe CALANDRE, a true feeling of being crushed. And a vertigo that takes hold.

Jean-Louis Roux

Chauvel Claire

Claire Chauvel was born in 1986. She lives and works inthe east of France.

« […] The difficulty in seizing the image for good and the mistery of nature nourish Claire Chauvel's pictorial quest. The search for a rythm enables to eventually establish a connexion with nature, at the point where thoughts vanish. The artist is searching for something like a fundamental beat, approached with a touch that is rarely serene and a relentless effort to strip the landscape from whatever hides it. But the quest is infinite: a blind spot always remains, which requires the territorialization to go on, on the inside as well as on the outside. » Anne Malherbe

Class Marine

Graduated from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, Marine Class lives in  Nantes and works in La Chapelle-Basse-Mer.

DEVAUD Xavier

Fajfrowska Sylvie

Sylvie Fajfrowska is graduated from L'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris. She lives and works in  Paris, and teaches at the ESADMM (Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille-Méditérranée, France). Her work is part of many private and public collections.

GEOFFRAY Catherine

Catherine Geoffray was born in 1960 in Téhéran. She lives and works in Paris.

Graduated from L'Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris, her work has been exposed in France and abroad, several times at ArtParis and Art Brussels, and is part of many private and public collections.

GIN Christophe

Christophe Gin was born in 1965. Il lives and works between France and Amazonia. 

Guéranger Michel

Since the middle of the 1960s, the painter, graphic artist and photographer Michel Guéranger has been adding to a rich and diverse body of work that has been exhibited in numerous galleries across Europe, the United States and South America. His work is represented in major public and private collections. Constantly questioning spatial notions, Michel Guéranger first explored the dynamic play of the laws of space and our perception of it, in particular as part of ‘Space’, a group that is listed in the Encyclopedia Universalis.
A few years later tackling the question of speed, he integrated temporal notions into his work and collaborated with the automobile industry and Aérospatiale. The ephemeral nature of natural supports was another subject of interest, for example when, in extreme climatic conditions, he coloured the snows of Mont Blanc in his monumental piece Sur les neiges du Mont-Blanc.
His experiments have led him to delve deeper into this partial approach to the universe, underlining correspondences between the different cosmic scales, from the infinitely big with Altitudes fractales and Peintures d’altitudes, to the infinitely small using macro photography for Métamorphoses de l’eau.
Michel Guéranger is a consummate dreamer. He dreams of clearly defined matter, space without vertigo, colours, shapes, deep shadows, relief and silence. When you dream as he does, across the breadth of the canvas, you realise that a zero contains infinity, that an atom is larger than the entire universe and that a second can last an eternity.
Michel Guéranger is free. He has escaped from constraints to tirelessly create new continents at the heart of matter. As a microcosmic magician, he plays the details game, seizing a speck of dust, attaching a drop of water, grabbing hold of a light wave and deforming a shape until it is as large as the universe itself.

Guermont Milène

Milène Guermont, born in 1981 in Normandy, has diplomas in both engineering and art. She associates hi-technology with the power of poetic imagination.

Milene's work as an artist has led her to create a new generation of concrete, that bring elegance, technical innovation and a human touch to the familiar grey divider of urban space. Her Polysensual Concrete reacts to each individual's unique magnetic field by emitting dashes of bright light and soft echoes from the voices of nature, from falling rain to the electric whispers of passing clouds. This video will tell you more.

Her work has been exposed at Art Basel Miami, Art Paris, New Art Center New York, Salt Lake Art Center, National Archives of France, Cartier Foundation with the architect Claude Parent, Nuit Blanche Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, ...

Additionally, Milene creates both publicly and privately commissioned works. In June 2014, her sculpture INSTANTS was installed in front of the sea in Utah Beach to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the landings in the breach n°00 "Atlantic Wall", Utah Beach during World War II. Futhermore, in honor of this event, her FREE-PLANETs are ordered to be gifts to top figures throughout the world.

In 2015, she is the "coup de cœur" of DDESSIN (Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair), has a a solo video show in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museum of Caen, and is selected by the international jury of "2015: international year of light" launched by UNESCO, MINI AGUA is shown at Villa Datris - Foundation for sculpture and INSTANTS is on Utah Beach.

In 2016, she is exhibited at the parisian Mineralogy Museum (solo show), at the fair ART PARIS by the Ermitage Foundation, at Passager Museum, she creates the artwork A BEAT on the Eiffel Tower, the Montparnasse Tower and PHARES, and one of her sculptures is installed permanently on a parisian classified site.

Her last monumental sculpture PHARES (5 km of aluminium, light and lime) on Place de la Concorde, has 3 labels (COP 21, PARIS POUR LE CLIMAT, UNESCO) thanks to hundreds of people to make it in just 3 months.

IVANOVA Natacha

Natacha Ivanova was born in 1975 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at the National School of Fine Arts V.l. Loganzon in St. Petersburg and was graduated from L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2000, under the mentorship of Prof. J.M. Alberola. Her works have been shown in many group and individual exhibitions in Paris, London, New York, and Brussels.

She got the 1st Price of painting Antoine Marin in 2007 in Paris, and the 1st Price of painting Dumas-Miller, at the Academie des Beaux Arts de Paris in 2006.

In addition to oil painting, Natacha Ivanova’s artistic endeavors have been focusing on objects. Her art is influenced by the writings of C.G. Jung, the philosophy of the collective mind, and the meaning of the subconscious. She combines historical, mythological tales with personal memories, creating a new consciousness of reality in contemporary life.

Jérôme Sarah

Sarah Jérôme was born in 1979 in Rennes (France). She lives and works in Montreuil (France).

Between the age of seven and twenty, Sarah Jérôme practises dance every day. She was graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Paris in 1998, and danced at the National Opera of Lyon (France). Over the course of stretching exercises, sequences and efforts, she manages to sculpt and model her own body. Classical dance requires a training of the body, a discipline that the artist slowly refused and abandoned. In 2008, she decides to immerse herself into drawing, painting and sculpture. She studied at L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux arts de Paris. Her work is exhibited in France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Belgium as well as in galleries as in art fairs or Museums.

JOLITON Laurent

Laurent Joliton was born in Paris in 1969.

Kirch Michel

Michel Kirch was born in Metz (France) in 1952 within an artists family. He alternates for several years between major travel projects – a year in the Sahara, four months with the Bedouin in Sinai, a summer on a trawler out of Santander, 3 years in Lower Galilee, a year in Tel Aviv, a winter in the High Atlas – and   practising medicine. He writes accounts of his travels and discovers photography
• Organ Prize at the Metz (France) Conservatory
• Trains as a doctor in Strasbourg (France)
 • A year's training as a mountain guide at the French army's Ecole de Haute Montagne in Chamonix
• After his year in the Sahara comes his first exhibition – Jeux de Sable – at Espace Canon in Paris
• Shows in galleries in Europe, the United States and Asia
• Is invited to represent France in the Shapes of Time exhibition at the Alexandria Biennale in Egypt in 2008
• Works acquired by public and private collection
• The Province of Milan chooses works from his series Climats (Climates) to accompany a lecture by Edgar Morin and      establish a link between Morin's thinking and the world of art
• Becomes the first artist to be chosen by the foundation L’Art pour la Conscience et le Partage des Biens Communs,  sponsored by Edgar Morin, and donates a work to the foundation
• Is chosen two years running (2009, 2010) by the Esther Woerdehoff gallery for Paris Photo, and for MIART and MIA in Milan (2010, 2011)
• Is selected three years running by Mac Paris (2009–2011)
• In May 2010 his exhibition TransPhotographies is spotlighted by the City of Marseille's cultural programme
• Invited by the John McDermott Gallery to the Angkor Foto Festival in 2010
• His exhibition at Espace Cardin in Paris in December 2011 is sponsored by Edgar Morin, with the backing of the European Space Agency and Astrium (with painter Dominique Paulin)
• In June 2012 he is named Intercultural Ambassador by the UNESCO Sorbonne Club
• Invited to show at the Tel Aviv Autumn Salon in November 2012
• Invited by the French Embassy in India to exhibit in New Delhi in February 2013
• Invited by UNESCO to exhibit during the Global Conference in June 2013
• Retrospective on various sites in the city of Metz, including the Musée de la Cour d’Or, September 2013 – January 2014
• Show with the Baudoin Lebon gallery at the Art O’Clock fair, Paris, September 2013
• Black and White magazine: Award Winner, Portfolio Contest, November 2013
• Grand Prix Eurazéo for Photography, 2013
• Publication of the tryptic “le Jardin” in “Consumption”, editions teNeues, september 2014
• Publication of the monography “ les éveillés ” November 2014 
• BENAKI MUSEUM, GREECE - Athens Photobook Show , 3 June - 26 July 2015
• Invited by the Mairie de Paris and the European Day of Jewish Culture in the theme “Bridges and Cultures” with personal exhibition and conference. september 2015
• Winner of the International Competition « Spirit of the Mediterranean », organized by PHOTOMED and LENSCULTURE. May 26 - June 19,  2016

Lacroix Yann

Lahusen Aliska

Alliska Lahusen was born in Poland. Graduated from l'École Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Warsaw in 1972, she lives and works in Paris and Bourgogne (France).

I develop my artistic thinking first in three dimensions works and my paintings are like an echo, a response to my sculptures. I work mainly on lead sheets, pasted on wood, on which I perform as drawer, engraver and painter, using acids, crude pigments, pastels and oil painting. In a general way, I search after an economy of the color in favour of a development of the matter.
Much of my work can be read as an approach to the fundamental archetypes. Thus the works of the serie Beds evokes birth as well as death, rest as love. They are an evocation of the life stages. Those of the serie Barques evokes the travel, the crossing, the departure. And of course the last trip and the passage to another world. The works of the serie Bowls, typical instrument of the beggar, are also a symbol of the offering, the generosity and the gift, that means the basis of the relationship to the others.
Since several years, I have developed my work by the use of the traditional oriental lacquer. The long process of the superposition of the diferent states of colours permits a meditation about the time and the themes of reflection and depth. The lacquer is also an opening to the colors and their symbolic and sensual language.

Levêque Marie

MENDRAS François

François Mendras was born in 1962, he lives and works in Paris. Graduated from L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, his work has been showcased at the Fondation Cartier, the Palais des Congrès de Paris, at the artfair La FIAC, and is part of many private and public collections.

Peltier Stéphane

Born in 1967 in Rouen, Stéphane Peltier lives and works in Toulouse and in the Gers (south-west of France). He graduated from the Art School of Aix en Provence University and undertook a PHD on the beginnings of Art Criticism.

He trained during the period of the “return to painting”at the end of the 1980s and remained faithful to that medium. He had been marked since his beginnings by American abstract expressionism and in the years 2000 he came back to fragmented figuration with works inhabited by acephalic or phantomatic / ghostly bodies, animals and references to Antiquity. Then he stopped painting.  He left metropolitan France to travel. When he went back to painting the ghosts / phantoms had disappeared.
His interests are very diverse and range from Italian Mannerism to Oscar Wilde’s writings and portolan charts. His work nowadays takes a number of forms that can hardly be traced back to a common identity. Still, the common denominator is his conception of painting: convinced as he is that art is totally separate from life, he considers art as pure artifice. To him, a painting is an enclosed world in which outlook, meaning and sensation are carefully built.
He is distrustful of the widespread use of photography in painting and only rarely resorts to it because it conceals the real as well as the painting underneath the surface of an image. Conversely, his work feeds on memory, observation, drawing and the remains of sensations which underlie his relationship to the world.

Renaud Brann

Brann Renaud was born in 1977 in Paris where he is presently living and working. He got his dnsap degree from Paris School of Fine Arts in 2004. He attended Montrouge and ‘November in Vitry’ exhibitions and then worked with the Trafic Gallery of Paris. He was awarded the Antoine Marin prize in 2007.
Since then he has attended, in France and in Europe, many exhibitions and fairs ( Slick, Art-Paris…), notably ‘A cent Mètres du Centre du Monde’ Contemporary Art Center in Perpignan, in 2015, around Pat Andrea.
‘I am currently working, as I have been doing so for ten years, working on reality filtered through the prism of poetry, of some mismatch specific to subjectivity, occasionally childlike, as far as it does not fit any dogma nor prejudice. First and foremost what matters is felt experience, which can be cruel and scathing, an experience meant to deliver what reality can genuinely offer us. I build on the images that come to me, I build again and again on them to bring my feeling to light. I create a painting which tells a story as much as it shows something.’

Rochard Arnaud

Arnaud Rochard was born in Saint Nazaire (France) in 1986. He lives and works in Brussels (Belgium).
Graduated from the EESAB Quimper (France) in 2010, his work is exhibited in Germany, Belgium and France.

“Already in my first year at the École supérieure d’art de Quimper, I became fascinated by the art of engraving,” says the Breton-born artist, who first spent one year in Brussels as an Erasmus exchange student, before he got lost permanently in the multi-layered cultural playground where, among other things, he helped the enticing art platform Le Kabinet to surface from the underground. “Partly because of the artisanal, tactile work with wood and metal. But also because of the fact that you work in different stages : drawing, making a matrix, inking, printing, etc. Even once you have mastered all of these techniques, there are still moments when unexpected variations occur. Trying to think through and elicit these accidental sparks is one of the most exciting things about this work.”

Sigg Ivan

Ivan Sigg is a painter, illustrator and novelist, born in 1960 in Casablanca (Morocco).

Former Student of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratif of Paris
Former student of the art historian Daniel Arasse
Consultant in innovation and creativity

Numerous exhibitions in France and abroad since 1985. Set of ballets and giant frescoes in France, Japan and Italy with the Streetartist Group Banlieue Banlieue. Creation of the Sydney Olympic Games’s poster. Draftsman for Libération and the Le Monde for 12 years. Engraved glass frescoes for the swimming pool of Gonfreville l'Orcher, and for the national headquarters of the Caisse d'Épargne group in Paris. Publication of 3 novels (Julliard and Publibook) and 10 children's books (Gauthier Languereau and Marabout). Co-founder of the experimental art magazine KUU. Author of the play « Tout UBU du monde » and «  Animalamlet » played at the Small Theater of the Porte St Martin. Performer in animated digital paintings at the Georges Pompidou Center and on tour with the singer Petrek. Residence-exhibition in Kobe (Japan) for three months in 2017.

Velk Marko

Marko Velk was born in Yugoslavia in 1969. Graduated from  ​L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, he lives and works in New York since 2011.

The drawing as a system of representation has the power to set adrift the viewer’s mind. The efficiency of its technique puts us on a level footing with the intentions of the author and, in consequence, enacts a partition  in which the projections of the artist’s subconsciousness flow as pure evidences. And so we start to believe , because it is the image that fascinates us, that those phantasmagoria have a foundation, just like the rational has one, and that the human species, perhaps, is not only defined  by the genetic grid. But,not any drawing is capable of producing such effect ; what it requires is an undefinable part that transcends representation and makes of it an enigma. Marko Velk’s drawing belongs to that level of exactitude, not only because of the virtuosity of his technique (since to retain only that side of it would mean to misinterpret and devalue it), but because of his ability which belongs to a different register, the register of thought and its power of evoking and questioning. Text by J.P.Plundr

Vyskoc Tristan