Les artistes

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Diane Chéry

Diane Chéry (born in 1993 in Suresnes) is a visual artist, painter and choreographer.
She graduated from the Ecole Estienne, the Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and the Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the Congratulations of the jury in 2020. She trained in Emmanuelle Huynh's performance workshop and with dancers from Alwin Nikolais' company. An exchange at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago allowed her to develop the practice of weaving and the creation of costumes. Her work opens up a plural space and offers a visual experience of colour in movement.

Jerôme Cortie

Jérôme Cortie (b. 1992, Aubervilliers). His research unfolds along a continuum in which past, present and future intermingle, and in which the virtual and the physical hybridise into installations, videos or video games. Questions of interactivity and shared experience lie at the heart of his practice, with the aim of granting viewers genuine agency.

Anne Corté

Anne Corté creates shows as if she were preparing surprises.
She starts the performance with baroque and sportive sociological collages. This is followed by a score of passers-by, a vertical chain reaction of rope workers, a duet with a live turkey, a hundred versions of a jackass poetess, a ghost ball.
She has been performing "Autokèn - autotune tragedy" since 2019 and is preparing a new chemistry piece, scheduled to premiere in 2023.

Julie Coulon

Julie Coulon is a French artist born in 1997. Through performance and monumental installations, she explores the ways in which cinema shapes the contemporary condition. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the School of Visual Arts in New York, her installations oscillate between documentary and fiction. Both figurative and conceptual, her practice spans photography, film, performance, and curating.

Max Coulon

Max Coulon was born in 1994 in Strasbourg and lives in Paris. He works in the workshops of Poush in Aubervilliers. He is represented by the Romero Paprocki Gallery in France and by the Nosbaum Reding Gallery in Luxembourg and Belgium. He graduated from the Beaux Arts de Paris in 2021, after spending three years in Stephan Balkenhol's studio at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe.

Paul Créange

Paul Créange (born in 1987) graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2015. He developed a multifaceted artistic practice, blending photography and sculpture, the former being the essential and structuring element of his tridimensional works. His works subtly explore the questions of space, light, and frame, while defying the distinctions between abstraction and figuration, or inside and outside. Rigorously and poetically, he manages to represent, through the still image, time and its ineffable multiplicity.

Nicolas Crichton

Nicolas Crichton (born in 1989) studied at Les Gobelins and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. A resident at POUSH since March 2025, he paints a world where the everyday becomes strange. His work explores the in-between, both in its subjects and in his practice, moving from scrawled drawings to large-format paintings. He blends real objects with personal inventions. His familiar forms are slightly distorted, his laughs a little unsettling. Crichton reveals what disturbs us in what reassures us, exploring the troubled poetry of our daily habits.

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Clara Darrason

Clara Darrason (b. 1988, Paris) is a Franco-American curator and entrepreneur. Since 2024, she has been running her own company specializing in curation, studio and estate management, as well as advisory services. Previously, she founded and co-directed THE CHIMNEY (2015-2020), a gallery in Brooklyn NY where she developed a program focusing on commissioned installations, revitalizing non- traditional, historical, and industrial buildings. She collaborated with over 70 artists to create 31 exhibitions and 3 festivals. Her exhibitions were reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, New York Magazine among others and artists she worked with went on to exhibit in renowned institutions such as Le Centre Pompidou, le Palais de Tokyo, The Hammer Museum to name a few. She worked for seven years (2016-2024) for Almine Rech gallery, her last position as global manager of operations. Clara currently works with James Brown Estate and recently curated exhibition at POUSH, Selebe Yoon, (Dakar, Senegal), Jousse Entreprise Gallery (Paris).

Petr Davydtchenko

Petr Davydtchenko was born in Arzamas-16, a closed military town in Russia, in 1986. After completing his BA at Konstfack in Sweden, he moved to London to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art. He subsequently developed his artistic practice across Europe. In the post-industrial village of Maubourguet in southwest France, he survived exclusively on roadkill for three years. His work explores systems of power, survival and value through long-durational projects that frequently position the body as material.

Marlon de Azambuja

Marlon de Azambuja (born in 1978 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work often focuses on questions related to the city, architecture and our bodies’ perception of our environments, whether they are physical, political or cultural.

Cyril Debon

Artist, sentimentalist painter and animal ceramist, founder of the modeling agency Mannequin Madelaine, the work of Cyril Debon (born in 1987 in Bruges) is an exercise in eclecticism, in search of the best ways to evoke universal emotions such as love, or melancholy. He elaborates his own imagery of Epinal where art history, children's books and B-movie archetypes are reconciled. His production crosses the register of artistic genres like a pawn on a goose game board.

Anna de Castro Barbosa

Anna de Castro Barbosa (b. 1995, Montpellier) graduated from the Sorbonne in 2018, the Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2021 and the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024. In the same year, she won the Bredin-Prat scholarship and the Diptyque scholarship, and exhibited at Crush and the Prix Dauphine. Her work is about telling stories, seeking out and provoking relationships through disquiet and strangeness, involving relationships of seduction, attraction and repulsion, turning sculptures, montages and systems into spaces of gesture. The result is an uneasy coexistence, a series of attempts at strategies and tinkering to understand where the encounter lies, how to make contact possible, and what the reaction should be: allergy, disgust, eroticism, affection.

Bryce Delplanque

Bryce Delplanque's (b. 1993) work does not come with a set of instructions. There are no rules for viewing his paintings, they come from intuition. These images have a strong connection to nostalgia as an incessant surge that becomes the driving force behind painting. His paintings of postcards, newspaper clippings and found photo memories are linked to a form of nostalgia, standing for privation, not regret. In substance, Bryce Delplanque's work questions the physicality of the media and motifs used, the relationship between text and image, and the potential of technical images in the apprehension of representation.

Lucas de Montalembert

Lucas de Montalembert holds degrees from ESAD de Reims and the Sandberg Instituut (Gerrit Rietveld Academie) in Amsterdam. Through painting, installation, and video, his practice explores how forms of restraint, as well as the conditions and variables embedded within built environments, shape perception, relationships, and collective memory. His artist residencies notably include: Ca’Buccari (Venice, 2024); Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, 2024); and SOMA Summer (Mexico City, 2026).

Antonin Detemple

For Antonin Detemple (born in 1990 in Strasbourg), the choice is made not to modify the state of things too much, but simply to reproduce them, to transport them from their native context into another. In the multiple forms that his work takes - sculptures, installations, still or animated images, editions - the logic is that moving a subject is already making it evolve. A tinkerer of fantasy, he sees in every form the evidence of a historical movement and perceives in it correlations to be dismantled.

Aliou Diack

Aliou Diack, born in 1987 in Senegal, is an artist living and working in Dakar. Trained at the École Nationale des Arts in Dakar, he develops a painting practice deeply rooted in nature and the animal world, inspired by the landscapes of his childhood. Through layered compositions combining plant-based pigments, fields of color, and assertive lines, he creates universes in which animal and vegetal forms emerge, camouflage themselves, or dissolve.
His practice explores notions of transformation, exchange, and circulation “to give and to receive” conceiving painting as a space for sharing and transmission. Since 2014, he has participated in numerous international exhibitions and residencies across Europe and Africa.

Emmanuelle Ducrocq

Emmanuelle Ducrocq (born in Morocco in 1969) arrived in Paris at the age of 17. She successively studied drawing, theater at Paris VIII and then landscape at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles. A common denominator imposes itself and becomes the main subject of her research as a visual artist: space and by extension what links us to places. Her career oscillates between the realization of in situ creations in residence in France and abroad and a research in the studio where introspection questions her obsessions: the vertical and the horizontal, the opening and the closing, the repetition and the piling up, through symbolic elements such as the wall, the door, the circle and the chair as well as the objects she stages. In 2019, she graduated from the École Nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

Rudy Dumas

Rudy Dumas (born in 1993) is a visual artist and circus performer from the Traveller community. His childhood, spent on the road following his family’s circus, deeply shaped his relationship to space and material. His artistic territory draws from marginal landscapes and abandoned objects, parking lots, embankments, car wrecks, cracked walls, which become the materials for a reflection on memory, persecution, and marginality. Through sculptures in concrete, asphalt, and bronze, he questions the weight of remnants and their symbolic potential. His works take the form of concrete columns inlaid with bronze nuggets, telephone booths embedded in cinderblock walls, or asphalt blocks pierced with nails recalling those of the Crucifixion. In a performative video, he tattoos the word Zigeuner, a derogatory term used for Sinti and Roma people persecuted during the Second World War, across his knuckles, inscribing his body within a collective and political memory. His work is conceived as a way of “pushing the center toward the periphery.” His research has been presented in recognized institutions and contexts, including the Art Press Biennial at MAMC Saint-Étienne in 2021 and the exhibition Les Rois Morts at Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève in 2025. His work has been featured in Libération, Le Monde, and ArtPress, which have highlighted the significance of his practice in current debates surrounding the reparation of Romani memory and identity.

François Durel

François Durel’s work examines how architectural fragments and everyday mechanisms retain traces of secrecy, desire, and discipline. By reorienting the spatial logic of objects, he reveals the subtle pressures and prohibitions embedded in the ordinary. Moving along the edges of the symbolic and the institutional, Durel constructs a distilled lexicon of withheld access, muted authority, and destabilized intimacy.

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Pieter Eliëns

Pieter Eliëns, born 1989 The Netherlands, creates sculptural installations in which material such as metal, fabric, and plaster are combined with found objects and photographic images. The artist describes his works as “temporary monuments” to universal notions of fragility, care, support, and loss. He is interested in how monuments and human action can commemorate and how emotion is stored into matter. His works pay attention to objects and places that are usually overlooked or neglected, and explore the emotional charge carried by certain materials. The aspect of gesture, of ‘hand-made’ quality is important in his work. Many of his sculptural works deal with the notion of order and chaos and tension and suspens. He is interested in these as for him they hold powerfull metaphors that are closely linked to human behaviour.

Morgane Ely

Morgane Ely was born in 1995 in Hayange, Lorraine. She graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, where she was introduced to silkscreen printing. During her studies, she spent 6 months at Tokyo's Musashino Art University, where she was trained in printmaking and woodcutting by masters Akira Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Hirai. She is the winner of the Prix du Prestige Takifuji (2021), the Prix Rose Taupin - Dora Bianka (2022) and the Prix Villa Noailles aux Révélations Emerige (2023).

EMERGENCY

Emergency is a curatorial group and an independent exhibition space that opened in Paris in 2025. It was founded by artists and curators Ivan Volkov, Misha Gudwin, and Iuliia Skromnaya. We organize group and solo exhibitions and support emerging artists. Our focus is on experimental and contemporary art within an international context. Our first space was located in a historic building near Hôtel de Ville. In 1849, the first emergency medical service in Paris, Assistance Publique, was established there to respond to urgent calls
from citizens. The name Emergency reflects our sense of urgency and energy, the same spirit we bring to presenting new and experimental art. In January 2026, the gallery relocated to its new home at POUSH, an art center situated in the Parc des Portes de Paris in Aubervilliers."

Andrew Erdos

Andrew Erdos (b. 1985) is an artist based in Paris. His practice often combines traditional glass-blowing and glass-sculpting techniques with digital media and mixed media sculpture. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at Mobilier national Paris, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City MO; Orlando Art Museum, Orlando, FL), Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; National Center for Contemporary, Art Moscou; and Palais-Royal, Paris.
Andrew Erdos is the founder of POUSH Hot Glass, Île-de-France's first public-access glass studio, that opened in April 2025.

Clément Etienne

"Cinema is deeply ingrained in Clément Étienne’s practice. More than the narratives he creates, the artist is interested in cinema’s materiality: light, sets, space and the processes that give rise to the image.

His work draws on science fiction narratives, not to illustrate their fictional worlds, but to explore the transformations taking place in our environment. Deserted hotels, abandoned theatres, stark architectural structures and landscapes ravaged by the elements form spaces where nature seems to be reclaiming these places."

Excerpt from the introductory text by Steven Vandeporta.