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Pooya Abbasian
Pooya Abbasian is an Iranian artist based in Paris since 2011. His practice unfolds through photography, video, drawing and installation. He aspires to make these processes visible but also to construct his own visual fictions through images he finds online on news sites and his own shots or recordings. Ambiguities and transitional states interest Pooya Abbasian more than assertions.
Arnaud Adami
Arnaud Adami was born in 1995 in Lannion. He lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Art of Bourges (ENSA) in 2019 and is currently studying at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris (ENSBA), in Nina Childress’ workshop.
Arnaud has participated in several group exhibitions across France, including Manifesta in Lyon or the H Gallery in Paris. He was one of the finalists of the Prix Carré sur Seine and was part of the exhibition of the Prix Novembre à Vitry in 2020. He was also selected by Hervé Mikaeloff to participate in the focus on the Art Paris Fair 2021.
Carla Adra
Carla Adra (born in 1993 in Toronto) studied arts and anthropology in France, Canada and Mexico and is graduated from École d'Art et de Design de Reims in 2017. Through the performative form, Carla Adra reinvents ways of being together
and modes of transmission. Interested in psychoanalysis and alternative pedagogies, she proposes spaces-time for meeting and sharing: conversations, duels and collaborative workshops are organized according to precise protocols. In parallel, she develops an intimate sculptural practice that connects inner discourse and subterranean forms.
Caroline Ailleret
Caroline Ailleret (born in 1994 in Équemauville, Calvados) lives in Pantin and works in Aubervilliers. A performance and visual artist trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (DNSAP, 2024), she develops a research-based practice focused on trace and the scope of gesture, through forms combining performance, video, photography, and installation.
Through minimal dispositifs, her work questions the sensitive and ambiguous relationships between body, space, and time. Often elusive in their entirety, her pieces challenge exhibition frameworks and open attention toward elsewhere.
Mathilde Albouy
Mathilde Albouy is a French artist born in 1997. With references to feminist science fiction and the hybridization of various narratives, Mathilde Albouy's work combines sculpture and installation. A ritual dimension animates all her works: religious ritual, playfulness or care, giving them a "disquieting strangeness". She hijacks objects and materials, testing them with simple gestures to create assemblages of organic and manufactured materials. Graduating from HEAR (Strasbourg) in 2020, then from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris) in 2022, she has presented her work at Villa Empain (Brussels, 2023), FORMA (Paris, 2023) and Galerie Derouillon (Paris, 2023). In 2023, Mathilde was nominated for the 10th edition of the Bourse Révélations Emerige.
Nils Alix-Tabeling
Nils Alix-Tabeling (b. 1991, Paris, France) lives and works in Paris, France. Recent solo exhibitions include after Judea Sill, 4 songs for 1 catabasis, Olivier Debré Contemporary Creation Center, Tours (2025); But Who Is Ulrike Mandrake?, curated by Rebekka Seubert, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2023); FLEUR DE PEAU, TERRE À VIF, Centre d’art contemporain du Parvis, Parvis (2023); Split #2, Piktogram, Warsaw (2022); and Maison Catabase, Public Gallery, London (2022). He has participated group exhibitions at FRAC Corsica, Corte; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Mecenes du Sud, Montpellier; MOCO la Panacée, Montpellier; La Maison Populaire, Montreuil; Centre for contemporary art (CAC), Brétigny; and Kraupa Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. He was awarded the PÉBÉO prize at Art-o-rama (2023) and the Friends of Liste award (2021). Permanent collections include FRAC Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France; FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France; Servais Family Collection, Brussels, Belgium; PÉBÉO Collection, Marseille, France; Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium; and The Fonds d'art contemporain, Paris, France.
Estèla Alliaud
Estèla Alliaud was born in 1986. Her work is based on subtraction and has a sculptural dimension that deals with the intrinsic value of materials and their physicality. The processes she operates are essentially articulated around the intuitive observation of a place and its experience. The forms she places in space, mainly sculptures and installations, are created through simple but fundamental actions. Her works structure an architecture of thought that leads the individual to the seizure of a mental space.
Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Kenia Almaraz Murillo (born in 1994 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2020 with the jury’s congratulations. Through weaving, sculpture, and frescoes, Kenia relays her fascination for the geometric shapes and the symbols of Andean textiles. In rhythmic compositions, she pays tribute to the colored vibrations that she observes in nature. The use of light and of automobile headlamps allows her to give a symbolic and innovative dimension to traditional weaving.
Clémence Althabegoïty
Clémence Althabegoïty is a Paris-based designer and visual artist. Her practice occupies a hybrid space between design, art and science. Working in collaboration with scientific institutions, she explores silence, water and air, and the ways in which they interact with matter. Drawing on contextual analysis and material research, she conceives objects, installations and scenographies. In 2024, she was awarded the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main®. In 2027, she will be in residence at Villa Albertine in Los Angeles.
Sarah Ancelle Schoenfeld
Sarah Ancelle Schoenfeld investigates forms of knowledge production that shape, control, and reproduce reality. Convinced that the Western liberal worldview is not sufficient to address the growing global mess, she creates mysterious laboratories where solutions, healing, and meaning are jestingly reimagined. Her labs materialize through installations, experimental photography, sculptures, and instruments. Her works have been shown at Kunsthalle Mainz, Casino Luxembourg and Fotomuseum Winterthur among others.
Alice Anderson
Alice Anderson (born in 1972, France) has been performing individually and collectively, dancing with objects and spaces for about fifteen years. From these intuitive "Technological Dances," immense paintings and sculptures emerge: memorials of objects and places from our Anthropocene era.
The performer poetically reactivates the strong connection between the human and the non-human by initiating her performances with observation sessions of technological objects. Anderson doesn't paint with a brush but directly with an object coated in paint. These computers, drones, batteries, virtual reality masks (etc.) will then take hold of the artist, leading her into a dance rhythmized by hyperventilated breaths that guide her into a trance, into another dimension of the environment and matter.
Marion Artense Gely
Born in 1995, Marion Artense Gély lives and works in Paris. She graduated from ENSAPC in 2020, and has been in residence at POUSH since 2021. Her work explores the tensions between the infinitely small and the immensely cosmic, blending painting and sculpture in a quest for buried memory. Using glazing and sfumato techniques, she reveals narratives in which the elements embody a sensitive presence, both luminous and spectral. Force, Energy and Emergence structure her work, particularly in ceramics. The recipient of residencies in Greece (Naxos, 2022) and China (Jingdezhen), she has exhibited in Paris (Galeries Myriam Chair, May, Dumonteil, Dauphine), Rome (Orient-Express La Minerva) and was a finalist in the Darmo Art Prize 2024. In 2025, she will present a duo exhibition with Denis Macrez at the Chapelle XIV gallery.
Gilad Ashery
Gilad Ashery (b. Jerusalem 1993) is an emerging artist living and working between Paris, and Jerusalem. Ashery studied Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem), graduating in 2022 and completed postgraduate studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. He received the Ilana Elovic prize 2025, AICF scholarship 2024, Institute Francais scholarship 2023. His works are part of the European Investment Bank’s collection.
Tina Atami
Tina Atami (born in 1989 in Tbilisi) is a multidisciplinary artist who specializes in various mediums, including painting, sculpting, video, and performative art. Her recent works explore themes of rebirth and transformation, using recycled materials. Emotions like shame and fear are central, showcasing their strength within the female body as she seeks the divine in humanity.
Atelier Baptiste & Jaïna
Since 2017, Jaïna Ennequin and Baptiste Sévin form Atelier Baptiste & Jaïna. The duo imagine projects driven by natural and theatrical references. These references are activators of stories involving reality and imagination. The different possibilities offered by the material and especially by ceramics, allow the duo to explore the dialogue between form, texture and light. The objects and spaces become a support to the evocation of stories tinted of magic realism.
Aleksandr Avagyan
The work of Aleksandr Avagyan (born in 1990, in Yerevan, ex-USSR of Armenia), if it feeds of course on all the formalist inheritance of the painting called abstract, it refuses the sublime, ideal and deterritorialized character of it, by a questioning of the political nature and thus fragile, fragile because political, of the given perimeter inside which the art is possible.
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Ece Bal
Ece Bal (born in 1992 in Turkey), after completing the first year of her Master’s at Central Saint Martins, graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022 with honors.Her work focuses on creating multisensory experiences that explore relationships of scale and engage with cycles of materials and their transformations. Her practice is rooted in process-based explorations of natural materials. She recontextualizes traditional techniques such as ebru, glass, and plant-based dyeing through a contemporary and experimental lens, often incorporating elements such as olfaction and video.
Thomas Ballouhey
Starting from a designer's position, Thomas Ballouhey (born in 1990) experiments in his work with materials and techniques that go against the grain of what we expect from traditional craftsmanship or industry by appropriating hobbyist and vernacular techniques. These materials and techniques are found in objects that seem to have come out of sets or that could be relics of another civilization sharing strange common points with ours.
Sosthène Baran
Sosthène Baran is a French artist born in 1990, living and working in Paris. His work combines painting, found objects, and sculpture on reclaimed or constructed supports. Through landscapes, figures, and assemblages, he develops a luminous and uncanny universe nourished by science fiction, the sacred, and apparitions, exploring memory, belief, and human traces.
Anaïs Barras
Anaïs Barras is a French artist living and working in Paris, and a resident artist at POUSH. A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and holder of a Research & Creation Master’s degree from Université Paris 8, she co-founded the company CREME SOLEIL in 2020. Her transdisciplinary practice combines dance, performance, video, and publishing, exploring the connections between ecology, the body, and new technologies. Her work is exhibited both in France and internationally.
Fanny Béguély
Fanny Béguély (born in 1990) is a visual artist and filmmaker, a graduate of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. In her work, she deconstructs the Western dualistic heritage, which has drawn a sterile line between the visible and the invisible, the flesh and the spirit, the human and the other than human. Navigating in the register of fiction as in that of documentary, his films make mythical times and contemporaneity collide.
His photographic approach is done without a camera, working with the photosensitive material as a living medium in an attempt to capture the elemental and metamorphic forces of life.
Sami Benhadj Djilali
Sami Benhadj Djilali (born in 1977 in Algiers) graduated from the ECAL in 2003 with a master's degree in Visual Arts. His work revolves around a reflection on the framework of the painting. Used for sculptural purposes, the materials of choice of the painter interact in his works with heterogeneous elements. By subjecting them to various tensions, he seeks a point of limit, on the edge of the rupture. He thus develops an ambivalent practice, carried by the contradictory desire to orchestrate the accident.
Amélie Bernard
Amélie Bernard (born in 1990 in Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist. She lived in Beirut for two years, during which she was able to define her artistic practice, exploring abandoned contemporary space as a timeless vehicle for memory and heritage. Her artistic techniques vary according to the subject matter. The materials that she uses and the way she assembles them are inspired by the dispositives of construction and destruction of urban space, which allows her to play on the timelessness of what she represents.
Zoé Bernardi
Born in 2000 in Paris, Zoé Bernardi is a visual artist and filmmaker. From 2019 to 2024, she studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the studios of Clément Cogitore and Agnès Geoffroy, graduating with highest honors in June 2024. Alternating between still and moving images, Zoé Bernardi seeks to reveal the power of singularity and questions the construction of normality and marginality, using intimacy as a site of experimentation.
She has exhibited her works and screened her films at the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée du Louvre, the Centre Culturel Jean Cocteau, Photo Saint-Germain, the Fondation Ricard, Hôtel La Louisine, Galerie des Filles du Calvaire, and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, among others. She received the Sisley Grant 2025 and was the jury’s special mention for emerging creation at the BAL/ADAGP Prize. She will have her first solo exhibition at Galerie Kamel Mennour in June 2026 and will publish her work.