Les artistes
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Felix Touzalin
Félix Touzalin is graduated from the Ecole Boulle in bronze turning and the Beaux-Arts of Paris in the dance/performance workshop of Emmanuelle Huynh. He associates his skills as a sculptor and metal craftsman with dance and body practices to create installations and performances. Holder of an Aggregation in Design and Art crafts, he also teaching in the metal workshop of the ENSAAMA.
His last performance Gallium, presented at POUSH, revolves around a metal lace that questions the vulnerability of matter and bodies. Soon, he will presented his last creation Horse Pill at the MUDAM (Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg), co-written with Tilhenn Klapper within their company crème soleil. The piece questions the legacy of our capitalist logics of land and body conquest.
Félix Touzalin has participated in numerous choreographic projects as a performer during his studies or independently with several artists. His individual and collective work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, theaters and festivals.
Nina Traub
Nina Traub (born 1991) is a choreographer, dancer and multidisciplinary artist from Tel Aviv, currently living in Paris.
Trained from an early age in various dance establishments, Nina Traub graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. She works with different materials, colours and textures to create the visual environment of her works. Nina Traub is interested in investigating movement through temperature, music, perspective and landscape, and examines the body from a sculptural and plastic point of view. Her stage works are accompanied by drawings, through which she attempts to understand and deepen her research.
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u2p050
u2p050 is an immersive creation studio at the crossroads of philosophy, art and technology. Through its digital creations, u2p050 attempts to build thought experiments that open up ways to question our contemporary world, and in particular its increasing digitalization. To do so, u2p050 mobilizes in its works experimental technologies such as AI, 3D modeling, hydrophonic sound or interactive video production software.
Loïc Untereiner
Loïc Untereiner is a graphic designer/art director born in 1989 in Strasbourg. He graduated with a DNSEP from the Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse, with honors in 2014. He left to live in Montreal for 5 years, where he co-founded "Litige" with Qynn Schwaab, a handmade non-gendered clothing brand. He then decided to move to Hamburg, where he worked for a graphic design studio. He recently moved to Paris where he is now a freelance designer and creates various communication materials ranging from visual identity to editorial design, posters and websites for local and international clients. His cross-disciplinary approach to graphic design simultaneously responds to cultural and commercial commissions while leaving room for more personal projects.
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Julie Vacher
Julie Vacher (born in 1989 in France) graduated from Le Fresnoy- Studio National des Arts Contemporains and from Beaux-Arts de Lyon. She stages the processes of transformation at play in human and non-human relationships, between the living and their environments in an era where the physical and the virtual rub shoulders. The field of her experiments touches on the ecological imaginary, the sanitary fantasy or the mythology of the world of work.
Albina Vakhitova
Albina Vakhitova (born in 1995 in Khabarovsk, Russia) is an artist, performer, choreographer, and movement director based in Paris. She graduated in Art History from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute V.I. Surikova and founded her dance company “SAAD” in 2020. Albina has participated in prestigious events like the 6th Moscow Biennale and the 2nd Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, collaborating with renowned institutions such as MMOMA, Garage Museum, GES-2, and Institut Français. She has worked with notable artists and choreographers, including Claudia Castellucci and Kirill Serebrennikov. Albina’s artistic approach is characterized by a unique blend of choreography, intuitive improvisation, and live art. She explores themes of performative transformation and cultural bricolage, drawing inspiration from elements such as dynamic sculpture, psychological reflection, and childlike innocence. Her company “SAAD” brings together over 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, focusing on artistic innovation and collaboration.
Pablo Valbuena
Pablo Valbuena develops art projects and research focused on space, time and perception. Born in
Spain and based in Toulouse, in the south of France.
His practice explores the overlap of the actual and the virtual, the generation of mental spaces by the
observer, the dissolution of boundaries between real and perceived, the bonds connecting space and
time, the primacy of subjective experience as a phenomenological tool to stimulate reflection and the
use of light and sound as prime matter.
These ideas are developed contextually and materialised in projects that are a direct response to the
perceptual qualities, physical conditions and surrounding influences of a certain location or space.
The resulting works have taken place in museums and private institutions, biennials and galleries in
the form of exhibitions, site-specific commissions, large-scale public interventions and more recently
live performances throughout Europe, Asia and America. Pablo has also addressed these topics in
academic contexts through artist talks and invited professorships in universities and cultural
institutions.
Sarah Valente
Sarah Valente (born in 1988 in Paris) is a French visual artist. Her quest: to show the invisible, the hidden sides of the world, the unknown aspects of nature as well as the infinite richness of forests and their inhabitants. Her favorite subject: the forest and the plant world, where biological intelligence and spiritual life are intertwined. Immersive installation, pictorialist photography, and sculpture are the main engines of her work.
Guillaume Valenti
After studying history and art history at the Sorbonne (Paris IV), Guillaume Valenti (born in 1987 in Évry) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors, after spending five years in the studio of painter Philippe Cognée. In his paintings, the frequent mises en abyme are expressed in the form of spaces elaborated from personal documents or images gleaned from the Internet. Each work becomes, in itself, a fiction, the representation of a mental space that says as much about purely pictorial issues as about the new condition of images.
Nils Vandevenne
Nils Vandevenne is a painter, graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, he obtained his DNA at the Villa Arson. In his work, rather than painting, Nils Vandevenne seeks to de-paint, he chooses to remove it through a process that acts as a revelation. When he alters the surface, all the stratifications of the object's former life emerge. In 2020, he won a call for projects launched by the Ministry of Culture, and with Rayan Yasmineh, he created a series of murals for the same ministry. In 2022 he was named winner of the Maurice Colin-Lefranc prize as part of the Fondation de France's awards at the Beaux Arts de Paris. In October he was resident at Hangar Y in Meudon in collaboration with Artagon and Art Explora. He lives in Paris and works at POUSH in Aubervilliers.
Charlotte Van Kemmel
Trained at the Caen School of Fine Arts, Charlotte van Kemmel is best known for her drawings, although she also creates sculptures and films.
Whilst her delicate art is deliberately figurative, the subjects are not always immediately recognisable. She enjoys capturing reality as she perceives it on social media, on the radio and whilst cycling around Paris, as well as the reality she experiences through her intensive practice of Hatha Yoga. Gouache, which is quicker, more direct, delicate and inexpensive, allows her to maintain an accessible and modest practice and to work with speed and freedom. As a colourist, she works with vivid, contrasting and intense palettes. Her use of colour, watercolour, ink and gouache in particular, allows her to move quite naturally towards painting, which, for several years now, has been a field of experimentation for her. She is always exploring; there is no predefined plan. Her drawing is imbued with the spirit of abstraction: she works with form, mass, empty and full spaces, whilst at the same time seeking to construct a narrative. Both occur simultaneously, in a state of constant tension. She believes she is seeking the enigma and allowing her unconscious to emerge. Just like Hatha Yoga, her painting is a tool for emancipation.
Adrien Van Melle
Adrien Van Melle works with fiction as a material in its own right by intertwining writing, photography, painting, installation and video. Since 2017, he creates and evolves characters thought as an extension of himself, such a tree of plastic possibilities that the artist does not wish to abandon, or exclude. He then seizes them entirely to transform them into work and maintain their nature in becoming.
Françoise Vanneraud
Francoise Vanneraud (born in 1984, in Nantes) is a multidisciplinary artist, working between Paris and Madrid. Her work explores the territory as a scene of life, the landscape is a fundamental part of it, a strong argument to help the viewer reflect on his place in the world, the meaning of life and the relationships we establish in this existential journey with the rest of mortals, men and women made of the same material, although marked by borders that separate and unite.
Thomas Van Reghem
Thomas Van Reghem (born in 1992 in Seine-Saint-Denis) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. He works on the loss, the limits. His creations are conducive to reflection on decompositions, recompositions and movements of rebirth. He excavates the rubble by the choice of his materials and gets involved in his role of fragmentary collection of earth, ashes, carcasses, glass, debris, remains, hair, fleeting finds.
Dune Varela
After studying law in Paris and cinema in New York, Dune Varela (born in 1976) dedicated herself to dedicated herself to silver photography as the starting point for a field of investigation and questioning of investigations and questionings on the iconography of the ruin and the collapse. Interweaving different temporalities, from the ancient to the contemporary, she elaborates a speculative archaeology where the image, printed on fragments of marble, ceramic or concrete, changes in its turn into a vestige. She then extends the field of her research to video and cinema.
Evita Vasiljeva
Evita Vasiļjeva (b. 1985, Riga) is an artist and educator based between Riga and Paris. Working across outdoor sculpture, site-specific installations, and sensory environments, she transforms disregarded materials and architectural fragments into new forms with reimagined functions. Her practice explores tensions between history and future, decay and renewal, weaving together memory, dreaming and space. Recent highlights include the Baltic Triennial (2021), the Lyon Biennial (2022), and Manifesta (2026).
Felipe Vasquez
Felipe Vasquez (born in Cali, Colombia) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Paris. His practice focuses on performance, photography, installation, sound/vocal works, poetry, dance, and gastronomy. He studies the relationship between humanity and the natural world, spirituality, interspecies dynamics, the alarming conditions of our environment, and the social parameters of marginalization. He obtained a BFA from SVA in New York in 2016. In 2020, he graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris where he worked in the studios of Emmanuelle Huynh, Alvaro Urbano, Petrit Halilaj, and Angelica Mesiti.
Victor Vaysse
Victor Vaysse (born in 1989 in Paris) graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris. The questioning that runs through his practice is related to the recording, materiality and reception of the image. Gradually, a transdisciplinary practice has emerged, which has unfolded from his questioning as a photographer and which crystallizes in sculptures, in images, in digital installations.
Sergio Verastegui
Sergio Verastegui (born in 1981 in Lima, Peru) studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, and at Villa Arson, Nice. His work is based on fragmentary writing, starting with sculptural forms, in a superposition of strata, meanings, and materials. Affirming a strong material presence, but also seeking conceptual rigor, his works must be considered as pieces of reality extracted from a world torn apart.
Louis Verret
Louis Verret (born 1988 in Paris) studied at Central Saint Martins in London. He graduated in 2012. His practice is multidisciplinary and variable: from the writing of a book presented as a happening (Le goût de l'aspirine), he moves on to an installation work composed of the remnants of a child's bedroom (La naissance de A.), to the literary criticism of the work of a pornographic actress (Adriana), to the study of the poetic charge of the book object via poetry and watercolor painting (Aussi:). He is currently engaged in the writing of a new body of work centered around passion and soccer.
Florian Viel
After completing an exchange student program at CalArts (Los Angeles), Florian Viel (born in 1990 in Bayeux) graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris. In his work, he seeks out and compares images of the world of the tropics. Aware of their stereotypes, he assembles them, dissociates them, and makes them abstract in order to draw out their essence. He works on the identification of the tribe that Westerners have created from their fantasies about these distant places in their daily lives.
Allan Villavicencio
Allan Villavicencio’s (Mexico, 1987) practice develops the notion of a “metabolic painting” where temporalities and formal layers overlap. Working with fragmented and recycled canvases, he cultivates a visual language shaped by anthropomorphism and sensory correspondences. The surface becomes a pictorial skin connecting corporeality, landscape, and architecture. Allan Villavicencio has exhibited in institutions and galleries including Museo Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo El Eco, Galería Karen Huber (Mexico) ; Friedman Benda (New York) ; Cité des Arts de Montmartre, Galerie Mitterrand (Paris) ; and Dirimart (Istanbul).
Marie De Villepin
Born in 1986 in Washington DC, Marie de Villepin grew up in the United States and India. In 2005 she settled in New York and later in Los Angeles, where she developed various music projects before devoting herself entirely to painting. After participating in several group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Beijing, she had her first solo exhibition "New Creatures" in 2019, marking her return to Paris. After an exhibition at Galerie Charraudeau entitled "The Lost Weekend" in 2022, she was sponsored by Anselm Kiefer to participate in the Prix Marin. Her last solo exhibition "Murmurations" can be viewed till March 2023 at Villepin Gallery in Hong Kong. Her work, which focuses on oil painting, deeply resonating with her time, oscillates between figuration and abstraction.
Leïla Vilmouth
Leila Vilmouth, a visual artist born in 1999 in Paris. She graduated with highest honors from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 2024, from the Janssens, Berrada & Echard studio. In 2019, she participated in Espaces de réflexions at the Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo; in 2020 in 100% L’EXPO – sortie d’école at the Grande Halle de la Villette; in 2022 at Musashino Art University in Tokyo and at Galerie Jousse in Paris; in 2023 at Galerie Air de Paris; in 2025 at Verksmidjan Art Center in Iceland; and in the ASA residency at HFBK.