Richard Sears is an American pianist, composer, and producer currently based in Paris. His music is influenced by his experience playing alongside jazz musicians such as Tootie Heath, Billy Hart, Mark Turner, and Muhal Richard Abrahms. In a review of his previous recording, Disquiet, Le Figaro stated, "his young work is already the act of a singular musician." In summer of 2023, Richard will release "Appear to Fade," (Figureight Records, Brooklyn), a collection of short solo piano compositions and improvisations produced with magnetic tape-loops. Richard has presented

Hamid Shams is an Iranian artist based in Paris and a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Working across performance, film, painting, and installation, his practice explores ritual, ideology, and the politics of the body, revisiting ancient Iranian ceremonies through contemporary and queer perspectives while addressing the violences of present life and systems of power.

Mahsan Shams (b. 1995, Tehran) is an independent curator, writer, and translator with a diverse background in linguistics and contemporary art. A researcher in philosophy and psychology, her explorations in these fields have profoundly influenced her curatorial practice, leading her to adopt a sociological approach to art. In her work, where theory meets practice, she creates exhibitions that examine the deep connections between society, psychology, and the individual, transforming these perspectives into thought-provoking exhibition narratives. She is the founder of The Lync, a platform featuring in-depth interviews with artists and industry experts, furthering her commitment to fostering dialogue within the art community.

Elene Shatberashvili is a Georgian artist based in Paris, who graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2019. Living between Paris and Tbilisi, she develops an experimental figurative painting that blends self-portraits, references to Georgia, and passages into geometric abstraction.
Her work, shown notably at Perrotin and at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, explores questions of identity, displacement, and transformation. Informed by a reflection on the unpredictability of the pictorial gesture and the need to escape clichés, her practice invites a sensitive experience of change and belonging.

Photographer and video artist, Assaf Shoshan (born in 1973 in Jerusalem) questions a world where boundaries appear and disappear endlessly. His portraits and landscapes reveal an enigmatic atmosphere, shrouded in mystery. Between reality and fiction, Shoshan’s work has a poetic impact, it explores a fundamental human dimension: the quest for identity, the feeling of exile and belonging.

Iuliia Skromnaya is a multidisciplinary artist. In her practice, she often works with handmade processes and explores visual art and craft through the lens of contemporary internet folklore. In her works, she explores themes such as everyday life, internet culture, nostalgia, and femininity.

Mathilde Soares-Pereira is a Franco-Portuguese artist and director.
She is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Conservatoire d'art dramatique des Halles.
Mathilde creates bridges between art and life. Through her work, she takes controversial subjects and makes them funny and offbeat, bringing a lightness through a pop, dreamlike aesthetic. Her work is rooted in sociological reflection, questioning the relationship between men and women and the power dynamics that ensue. She plays with gender clichés in a bid to deconstruct the norms of our patriarchal society.
She won several awards, including the Prix Thaddaeus Ropac and the Prix Canson. Mathilde has presented her work internationally, from Agnès b.'s Galerie du Jour, to New York's Independent Film Festival, to Tokyo's Spiral Gallery.

Isadora Soares Belletti (b. 1995, Belo Horizonte) lives and works in Paris. She studied cinema and social communication at FAAP in São Paulo before moving to Paris, where she attended the Beaux-Arts de Paris, graduating with honors (DNSAP) in 2024.
Isadora’s practice spans film, installation, and text, weaving connections between the personal and the political, particularly through the lens of displacement in its migratory and emotional forms. Conceiving film as a sculptural medium, she thinks beyond the screen to create a dialogue with the surrounding space. This research extends into an exploration of materiality itself utilizing elements sensitive to light and time that serve not only as tools for projection but as poetic carriers of memory, loss, and transformation.

Tobias Spichtig (b. 1982, Luzern) is a Swiss painter, sculptor and accasional musician. He currently lives and works in Zürich and Berlin. His paintings, sculptures and performances evolve around mystical aspects of the everyday, through personal and fictional narratives. Spichtig’s work spans figuration to abstraction where iconic, the decadence of subculture and nature play central roles. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Kunsthalle Basel, "Everything No one ever wanted", Tao Art Space, Tai Pei, "Its beautiful when the spirits arrive", the Swiss Institute, New York, "Good OK Great Fantastic Perfect Grand Thank You" and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, "Die Matratzen", Berlin; and Centre d'Art Contemporain– La Synagogue, Delme; "Love and Die", among others.

Siméon Starck (born in Strasbourg in 1990) is a self-taught designer. He was trained on international building sites alongside architects and heritage-focused companies, where he developed his appreciation for form, material, and craftsmanship. In 2022, he founded the design studio elmire. He designs and creates modular pieces with minimal lines and unique assemblies. Questioning materials, repurposing their uses, and provoking the unexpected, he enjoys starting with constraints to better play with the rules.

After studying architecture in Lima, Pier Stockholm obtained a Master's degree in Plastic Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he lived for five years before moving to Paris to follow the “La Seine” post-graduate program on a scholarship from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA). His solo and group shows include Paço das Artes in São Paulo, Vleeshal in Middleburg, Casino Luxembourg, Espace Paul Ricard and La Galerie des Galeries in Paris. He has benefited from several artist residencies, including SOART in Carinthia, Austria, the Cité des Arts in Paris, KNUA in Seoul and NID in Ahmedabad, India. His book “The Weight of References” was published by ONESTAR PRESS in 2014. Next April, he will take part in the group exhibition Vertigo at Villa Carmignac on the island of Porquerolles.

Studio K gathers 12 artists around protean practices involving the body.
 In parallel to their practices as visual artists, choreographers, dancers, singers, craftsmen, painters, these artists work together on performance and live shows.
Artists : Crème Soleil (Tilhenn Klapper), Alexandre Fandard, Anne Corté, Compagnie So Far (Cassandre Munoz), Diane Chery, Felix Touzalin, Lucas Bouan, Myriam Jarmache, Saija Alexandra Kangasniemi, Bianca Millan, Nina Traub, Anaïs Barras

Loïs Szymczak was born in Paris in 1993. A high-level athlete in acrobatic diving, he entered the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, embracing a dual identity as both artist and diver. He competed in the finals of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the ten-meter synchronized platform diving event. His artistic practice exists at the intersection of art and sport. His work draws from this singular experience, questioning the boundaries between these two worlds that he seeks to unite.

Loïs views the act of diving with a fresh eye, highlighting its symbolic, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions. Through the prism of his discipline, he examines our relationship with competition, questioning the notions of ranking and scoring that shaped his upbringing and identity.

Emptiness, the fall, and water are found both in the diver’s performances and in his visual works, where he seeks to move beyond sporting function to sublime the gesture and return to its essence.

Lou-Justin Tailhades is an independent curator, art critic, and poet. His research focuses on the literary dimension of contemporary art, from the titling of artworks to fiction within the exhibition space. Taking poetry as a starting point, his work explores the theoretical and practical possibilities of "poetic curating." He has organized exhibitions at the National Institute for Art History (INHA), the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Monnaie de Paris. He has collaborated with the curatorial cooperative Radicants, was a curator-in-residence at Villa Dufraine in 2023, and was the 2024 recipient of the Perspectives curatoriales award from Carré sur Seine. He is also a member of the collective Futile.

Independent curator Anna Tardivel develops exhibition projects and supports artists in their practice. She explores the connections between contemporary creation and societal issues, new forms of writing, and collaborative practices.
In 2023, she co-wrote the program for the Ball Theater, the project representing France at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Until 2025, she served as Head of Programming at La Gaîté Lyrique. In June 2026, she is preparing the exhibition Le chant des mondes there as part of the Anticipation festival.

Sacha Teboul was born in 1995 in Paris. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2020, Burki studio) and from La Fémis (2023, directing). His films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals (IndieLisboa, Busan, and Brive, among others), and his visual work has been presented in solo exhibitions (Galerie du Crous, Bateau-Lavoir) and group exhibitions (FRAC Normandie, Serpentine Gallery).
He is currently developing his first feature film, Parmi les Ruines, which received writing support from the CNC. He is among the artists selected for the upcoming Salon de Montrouge.

Maxime Testu (born in 1990 in Rouen) studied at the ENSBA in Lyon, at HEAD in Geneva and at the ESAD in Reims. He is originally an illustrator, but he also works with sculpture, often in metal or cast aluminum. He favors ancient engraving techniques, such as etching, which he updates, and has dedicated himself to coloring his graphic works.

Coming from the rural countryside of Austria, Philipp Timischl (b. 1989, Graz) is a Paris-based artist whose work examines hierarchies of class, taste, and power—particularly within the art world—through humor, irony, and self-awareness. Using LED video panels, mixed-media canvases, text, and found material, he creates works that often culminate in site-specific installations, reflecting on social mobility, exclusion, and the unspoken rules that govern access to culture.

Painter-sculptor, painter-photographer, Pablo Tomek is also a painter. This is what he reminds us by extending his series of paintings made with sponges, which borrow their subjects and their techniques from working-class practices, from the white of Meudon spread on the windows of construction sites, to the practice of erasing graffiti in the public space, with a karcher. Presented "elbow to elbow, like a frieze", Tomek reminds us of his attachment to these accidental writings. So many random and anonymous signs of the street, of which Brassaï said: "To engrave one's name, one's love, a date, on the wall of a building, this "vandalism" would not be explained by the only need of destruction. I see it rather as the survival instinct of all those who cannot erect pyramids and cathedrals to leave their name to posterity".

Rebecca Topakian (born in 1989 in Saint-Mandé) graduated from the Ecole de la photographie d’Arles. With a background in philosophy and geography, she questions notions of identity in her work. By exploring the in-betweens, the mythologies and fictions of identity, she consistently attempts to shed light on the crucial role it plays in our time. For her, identity is articulated in the relation between poetry, intimacy and politics.

Maya Inès Touam (born in 1988 in Paris), franco-algerian artist, has always extended her gaze and her curiosity to both sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Her first concerns involved the ambivalence of female power in the Arab world, rigorously seeking to escape any form of neo-Orientalism or post-colonialism. This cathartic period led to her current work, more rooted in universality and focused on the geographical, political and environmental crossroad of Africa.

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 (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.

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.