Les artistes

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Matisse Mesnil

Matisse Mesnil (born 1989 in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy) lives and works in Paris. He uses metal to replay figurative art in its most familiar genres, such as landscape and still life. To the noisy world of industry, he adds the ethics and aesthetics of silent contemplation that run through the history of landscape. A muted violence underlies his pieces, which nonetheless appeal to a form of religiosity that can also be read in the demanding scenography and architecture of his work.

Léa Mestres

In the work of Léa Mestres (born in 1992 in Paris), line drawing gives the imagination a field of unlimited possibilities: it is an incomplete sketch, without real information: no scale, color, material, or even perspective. It’s a liberating moment: the object evolves throughout the manufacturing process. An abstract line gives a general image, its interpretation is specific to each. This two-dimensional form has to be materialized and become an instinctive and personal object. During this modeling process, texture, finish, or color appear. At this moment, drawing and volume split to give life to functional sculptures.

Margaux Meyer

Margaux Meyer (born 1998 in Suresnes) graduated from the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2022, from Tim Eitel's studio. Her practice discusses the very nature of pictorial language through a materialist and fluctuating impression. Her thinking is shaped by psychological reactions and sensations that place the body at the center of her representational work. Her practice is articulated around gestural and sensitive elements, resulting in a strong organic tension.

Esther Michaud

Esther Michaud explores the principles of mutation and metamorphosis, she is interested in the formative process of organic entities and reinvents the language of plants. Her manipulations give birth to hybrid beings that question the limits of nature's biological emancipation and its future in the face of the impact of human intervention. She graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2018.

Juliette Minchin

Born in 1992, Juliette Minchin is a visual artist living in Paris where she works in sculpture, installation, video and drawing. A graduate in scenography from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Juliette Minchin has had numerous exhibitions in France and abroad such as the BIS Biennial (Saint-Paul de Vence), Sans Relâche (Monnaie de Paris), the HOOP Biennial (Oosterhout in the Netherlands), Melting Chamber (Selfridges in London).

Sabine Mirlesse

Sabine Mirlesse (born in 1986 in the USA) holds a Master of Fine Arts from the New School in New York and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from McGill University in Montréal. Her research focuses on the visibility of thresholds and the interiority of landscape, with a particular interest in how geological sites are divined, interpreted and narrated. Her multidisciplinary approach links photography and geology as guardians of time, and manifests itself in an accumulation of layers and strata.

Saeideh Mirshekar

Saeideh Mirshekar, born in 1984 and graduated in carpet design, has developed her artistic practice between painting and carpet design. After more than a decade of work in Tehran and participating in several group exhibitions, she has been based in Paris since 2023. Her works reflect the fragile beauty of the world and a balance between emotion and aesthetics. Today, she explores new perspectives at the POUSH studio.

Adrien Missika

Adrien Missika (b.1981, Paris) humorously investigates the paradoxes of the natural and the cultural. Using epistemology as a base for research, his conceptual approach drifts into poetic and hypothetical narratives.
Through a variety of media, from video, photography, sculpture to installation and action, the work digs into the wide range of natural and environmental sciences. Overcoming the logic of capitalism, Missika's artistic practice nurtures a space for possible worlds. Adrien Missika (b.1981, Paris) is an artist and an amateur curator. He studied art at Ecole Cantonale d’art de Lausanne (Ecal) following a law degree from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. He was a co-founder of Galerie 1M3, Lausanne, (2006-2014), founder and art director of Belo Campo Lisbon, (2017- present) and founder of MOTUS gallery (2022-present).

Juliette Mock

Juliette Mock (born 1992) produces works that draw on a personal and often flat material life, while evacuating the subjectivity of its author. She belongs to a generation that has integrated the mechanisms of artistic production based on the everyday and the narrative, whether fictional or autofictional. She allows form and motif to create the possibility of a narrative, and is not afraid to produce works that evoke a slightly obsolete emotion. The objects and images she produces display a tension between the graceful and the ordinary, the beautiful and the slouchy.

Desire Moheb Zandi

Desire Moheb-Zandi (born in 1990 in Berlin) integrates her cultural identity into large sculptural tapestries. Drawing from her childhood memories in Turkey, where she spent hours watching her mother weave on her loom. She blends traditional techniques with modern motifs and mediums. In addition to including different materials in her work, she turns the loom into a kind of analog computer, where the code is her pattern, and its manipulation creates optical resonances.

Yosra Mojtahedi

Yosra Mojtahedi, born in Tehran, is a graduate of Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. She explores the boundaries between the living and the non-living through sculptures she conceives as hybrid “human-machines,” sometimes interactive, combining soft robotics, emerging technologies, and organic materials.
Coming from a context where the body is a taboo subject, her work develops a sensual and sensory language — tactile, olfactory, sometimes erotic — blurring the limits between machine and flesh, human and non-human, real and unreal. Her works, infused with a political sensuality, reinvent narratives around femininity, technology, and spirituality.

Sybil Montet

Sybil Montet is a french artist and CGI director. Her works explore occult potentials of emerging technologies, and their instrumentalization by systems of power. She also investigates synchronicities between computing and organic growth. The artist develops a fictional and critical ecosystem via CGI, sculpture and object, and approaches experimental uses of AI. Her work was presented in various publications such as Cura Magazine, Flash Art Italia, Studio Magazine or Numéro Berlin.

Gabriel Moraes Aquino

Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro (1994), Gabriel Moraes Aquino has been living in France since 2017. His practice is shaped by displacement, encounter, and a close attention to the formation of imaginaries—particularly those linked to the exotic, their legacies, and their contemporary shifts. Through sculpture, installation, photography, textile, film, and performance, he composes sensitive narratives between bodies, landscapes, and collective memories.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020) and recipient of the FoRTE grant (2022), he has collaborated with the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles, the A4 Art Museum (Chengdu), the Ateliers Médicis, the Fondation Fiminco, the Fondation MRO (Arles), and the Musée Paul Éluard, among others.

Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves

Raphaël Moreira Gonçalves (born in 1988, Lyon), hailing from Cape Verde and Italy, is graduated of Le Fresnoy and the Fine Arts of Lyon His works are driven by a quest for communication with other universes. Through sculptures, films, and various images related to contemporary technologies, his work explores the connections between the physical and the mental, while incorporating narrative nuances drawn from his personal experiences, dreams, and virtual worlds. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at the Christophe Gaillard gallery, the ClearView gallery in London, and most recently at the Refraction Festival during the Miami Art Week 2022.

Winnie Mo Rielly

Winnie Mo Rielly (born in London, UK) is based in Paris, France.
The intimacy suggested in Winnie Mo Rielly's practice is at the heart of her multidisciplinary work. Her works intertwine a mapping of documented bodily movements with diverse perceptions of space.
Winnie will present her first institutional solo exhibition at the MEP in Paris June 2026. She recently was awarded the Île-de-France Region - FoRTE Contemporary Art Prize and the Adagp Connexion France grant. Her work will be presented soon Hussenot, Alkinois (Athens), and sissi Club (Marseille). Recent group exhibitions include Frac - Les Réserves, Essais, Chateau La Coste, Magasins Généraux, Théatre Nationale de Chaillot, Galerie Sans-Titre, Galerie Balice Hertling, Les Rencontres d’Arles, La Fondation Fiminco, Camden Art Center (UK). Her works are held in the collections of FRAC Ile-de-France, Dior, Société Générale, and Chaumet.

Lauren Moullet

Fascinated by the physical properties of her favorite materials such as fabric and clay, Lauren Moulle (Born in Paris in 1991) experiments with matter. It is through a series of experiments that the objects reveal themselves, generating textures that are seductive to the touch, inviting manipulation and disturbing our perception of the state of the material. Lauren creates immersive objects that immerse the user in a sensitive experience.

Lucien Murat

Lucien Murat (born in 1986 in Ploemeur) studied at Central Saint Martins in London. Through these unstructured collages, mixing cut-out tarpaulins and embossed patches, he invites us to follow the adventures of a character, Megathesis, hero of the mythology he has written and imagined. This epic tale, sometimes violent, allows us to explore and decode the post-internet world in which we live.

Cassandre Muñoz

Cassandre Muñoz is a movement artist. Her practice explores the vibratory space opened by the polysemy of a state, a gesture, an intention. D.A. and choreographer of the company So Far, her research crosses multiple acts: dancing, sailing, blowing, staring, exhausting, losing. She currently collaborates with the artists Emmanuel Eggermont (All over Nymphéas), Volmir Cordeiro (Abri), Youness Aboulakoul (Ayta), Lisa Boostani (Passages), Annabelle Playe (Magna) and NSDOS (PP).

Julian Myron

Julian Myron (born in 1990 in Paris) graduated from the École supérieure d’art et de design in Reims. His work revolves around the use of the image as both a plastic and graphic tool. Through a process of selection, appropriation, and reappropriation of mass images collected on the Internet and various media, his work seeks to relate different themes such as effort, lack, obsession, and success through painting, drawing, sculpture, and publishing.

Benoit Ménard

Benoit Ménard graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. His practice mainly consists of installations that blend sculpture, 3D imaging, painting, video, electronic programming, and sound. Mostly in situ, they question various temporalities inherent to the dematerialization of the object, inside exhibition spaces that are invested in an immersive, total manner. These are organic territories where science fiction, marketing strategies, and New Age rituals live side by side.

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Marie-Luce Nadal

Marie-Luce Nadal (born in 1984 in France) is a transdisciplinary eco feminist and queer visual artist and researcher. Her work is at the intersection of art, science, and climate. Nourished by a reflection and a desire to raise awareness about social and climate justice, she creates sculptures, performances, and movies. Her work invites the audience to reflect on their role and actions on Earth, and the way they modify and influence their surrounding environment.

NanoVille

Nano Ville is an audiovisual production and direction company, founded by two brothers, Thomas Causse (producer) and Elliott Causse (artist-video maker). Nano Ville provides an experimental approach of video, combining various universes and trades, from music videos to videogames, from the digital world to urban art. Nano Ville works as a small team to reintegrate its creation processes and build the adequate teams for each project.

Sarah Nasla

Sarah Nasla is an independent curator. After her experience as the cofounder of the curatorial collective 1:61, she formed a curator duo with Margot Rouas. Her curatorial projects focus on the photographic medium, but they are also open to other fields of experimentation, linked to other artistic mediums. She sees her practice as a hybrid exchange with the artists and the cultural sites, with a special attention for the audiences.

Aapo Nikkanen

Aapo Nikkanen (born in 1982 in Kirkkonummi, Finland) studied Fine Arts at Tampere University of Applied Sciences, at the Haute École d’Art et de Design in Geneva, and at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. Artist, filmmaker, and curator, his work focuses on the ecological crisis, psychology, and intimacy. He is one of the cofounders of the Paris-based multidisciplinary collective called The Community, where he worked as art and installation director from 2016 to 2020.