Catégorie : Artistes

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Trained as a geographer, Julien Discrit explores the representation of space, real or imagined, through various media—sculpture, installation, video, photography, and painting. Inspired by geomorphology and neuroscience, his work seeks to describe physical and biological processes, as well as to examine their visual representation. Often relative or fragmentary, his representations explore the relationships between human beings and the world around them, grasp the connections between the visible and the hidden, and evoke a memory that is both collective and personal.

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« Through my work, I seek to defamiliarize the world. Through manipulation, reproduction, and extensive molding, I question familiar things, pushing them towards the absurd, the poetic, or the whimsical. My sources come from everyday life, science, the arts, or simply from collected familiar objects to which I apply processes of my own invention: transformation, inversion, changes in materials, scale, and substance, to question their status, value, function, and very existence. I seek paradox, the emergence of unexpected meanings. » After studying biology, Christian Gonzenbach (born in 1975) graduated from the Geneva University of Art and Design (now HEAD), spent a year studying ceramics in Japan, earned a Master of Fine Arts in London (Chelsea College), had two children, completed a residency at CERN, and currently teaches sculpture at HEAD, in addition to his artistic practice, which includes about ten exhibitions a year in Switzerland and elsewhere. Constantly questioning our material culture, our relationship to objects and their manufacturing techniques, Christian Gonzenbach has developed a space for experimentation closer to a laboratory than a workshop. He resembles an alchemist searching for that point where everything suddenly reverses, where values ​​are inverted and we finally see clearly, or nothing at all.
For over twenty years, Christian Gonzenbach has pursued a plastic and poetic quest, manipulating and transforming objects and materials, gestures and concepts. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in institutions in Switzerland and abroad. His work is part of important public and private collections, such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Essl Collection in Vienna, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, the MUDAC in Lausanne, and the FMAC in Geneva.

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Élie Bolard (Pontarlier, 1999) develops a practice centered on contemporary technologies, questioning their operation and the monopoly of technical knowledge. His installations and sculptures blend artisanal and industrial styles. All of these installations are motorized and inherently sonic: the electronics are visible and the mechanisms audible. These machines echo a standardized world where gesture is omnipresent. Automation plays an essential role in his work, from a theoretical, critical, and visual perspective. Endowed with their own intelligence and reactions, these machines invite the viewer to consider them as beings in their own right. Everything is in motion, everything is alive, but the human being is no longer invited, or is reduced to the role of producer.

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Denis Roueche works through reverie and fantasy. He looks at things for what they are not and what they could be… and puts his inventiveness to work. He quickly understands how to take advantage of the smallest object and its form, while subverting its function or abandoning it entirely. There is a genuine adult pleasure in this, seeking to maintain a playful and stimulating relationship with the world around him. The artist does not operate with naive spontaneity, but with full awareness. The imagination he deploys in his artistic work stems from « memories and visions of adventures that nourished his childhood and are consciously used. » While he plays with the public’s perception, prompting them to identify familiar motifs in objects that imitate them by lending them their characteristics, these are indeed intentional images and not visual pareidolia. These shifts, reuses, and plays on scale never fail to spark a twinkle of amusement in the eye of the observer.

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Marina Zindy explores the relationship between humanity and the living world through a variety of artistic mediums. In her ceramic sculptures, she evokes the human footprint on the planet. She offers a refuge for coral fragments, fragile yet bearers of hope. After working on this project, entitled « A Message in a Bottle, » she continues her research and collaborates with various museums and scientific research centers.
She uses plastic waste to create installations and a photographic series called « Island of Uncertainty. » She highlights contemporary environmental challenges. In 2025, she was invited to work with the team of geologists from the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, notably during the NODSSUM oceanographic mission, which mapped the drums containing radioactive waste dumped in the Atlantic. The artist placed these sculptures at depths of over 4,000 meters. Her work invites profound reflection on our relationship with nature and our impact upon it.

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Born in 1989 in Nancy, France. Currently lives and works in France. After a Master’s degree at ENSAD Nancy, she graduated with a Master’s degree in Critical Theory (CCC) from HEAD Geneva; she was awarded the Gianni Motti Prize (2014) and the Edward Steichen Prize (2024). In the shared space, her approach seeks tipping points in order to: reverse power dynamics; make margins/biodiversity perceptible. This leads her to create compositions of contextual and ephemeral situations. Discreet yet engaging, her interventions offer a double-edged interpretation. At first glance, the gesture seems playful, light, even superficial, only to then confront us.

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Born in 1997 in Agen. Lives and works between Moncrabeau and Marseille.
«…Following the artist’s journey, his travels and digressions, sometimes detours; clinging on like the rapae and letting himself be carried away to germinate elsewhere, or following the song of a nightingale to change course, leaving room for the unexpected but also for the encounters one might have along the way. Moreover, it is often thanks to the fleeting experiences made in these unexpected contexts that Théophile Peris encounters new techniques and know-how. So many techniques, so many ways of being in the world. Earth, bones, thistles, pebbles, fleeces, iron, wood, horns, ready-mades… Between sculpture and functional object, his tools are also often made – or adapted – on site, with the means and resources offered by the immediate environment. Everything in Théophile Peris’s work is material to be sculpted, assembled, transformed. Carding, dyeing, carding again, treading the wet wool for hours, assembling, gathering, leaving and returning, rolling, starting all over again. These are the actions that follow one another and repeat like a dance, in a kind of ritual. His practice stems from his observations transcribed into drawings in his notebooks, echoing the objects he collects and accumulates in his bag or meticulously arranges on tables in his studio. These are like bestiaries where ideas, motifs, and strange creatures take shape. »

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François Génot lives and works in a rural area of ​​eastern France. Active on the international scene since 2005, he has undertaken numerous residencies and exhibitions in France and abroad. In 2020 and 2021, his work entered the collections of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg and the FRAC Alsace. A founding member and active participant in numerous community-based projects, he contributes significantly to the development of culture in rural areas. He has taught drawing at the École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine in Metz since 2016.
François Génot draws his attitude and the driving force of his approach from the resilience and proliferation of life. Travel, collecting, and a particular attention to materials, forms, and natural phenomena nourish his practice. The processes he develops according to the seasons and the different environments he frequents allow him to maintain an active collaboration with the living world. In 2023 he collaborated with the LMNO gallery in Brussels, developed a large-scale project with the FRAC Alsace around ferality (dedomestication of nature) as an artist and curator, carried out a residency at the Ferme Asile in Sion in the Valais Switzerland and exhibited in Quebec and at the HBK in Saarbrücken, Germany, participated in the Luxembourg Art Week with the Octave Cowbell gallery and in the Fertile à Par exhibition project.

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A graduate of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), Pauline Cordier has for several years focused her research on the specificity of places, considering sculpture and installation as mediums for expressing their own context. In her practice, she challenges notions of perception and temporality, exploring the interdependence between a form and its location by placing matter at the heart of this relationship.
Pauline Cordier has presented her work in solo exhibitions at Standard/Deluxe (Lausanne, Switzerland), Andata Ritorno Gallery (Geneva, Switzerland), Espace Contact (Neuchâtel, Switzerland), Galerie A.ROMY (Geneva, Switzerland), Salle Crosnier at the Palais de l’Athénée (Geneva, Switzerland), and Kunstkasten (Winterthur, Switzerland). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Switzerland and internationally, including at the Circuit Contemporary Art Centre (Lausanne, Switzerland), Art Genève (Geneva, Switzerland), Art au Centre (Geneva, Switzerland), the Walgreens Windows project space (Miami, USA), REA Art Fair (Milan, Italy), Espace d’art contemporain Les Halles (Porrentruy, Switzerland), the 64th Salon de Montrouge (Paris, France), Jungkunst (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Inchon Art Platform (South Korea).

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Claire Hannicq is a visual artist and coordinator of the Faires Workshop in the Vosges region of France. She is a graduate of HEAR Strasbourg and ESAL-Épinal.

Her practice oscillates between sculpture and image. She works with wood, glass, and metal to evoke notions inherent to the immaterial: the flow of thoughts, relationships, and feelings. Hannicq’s work has been exhibited in Canada at the Optica art center in Montreal and the Galerie Engramme in Quebec City; in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle, Salon Mondial, and Projektraum M54 in Basel; in Germany at the Saarländisches Künstlerhaus and the Moderne Galerie in Saarbrücken, as well as the Kunsthaus L6 in Freiburg; in Estonia at the EKA Gallery in Tallinn and the Tartu Art House; and in Sweden at the Galerie Grafik i Väst in Gothenburg. In France, she has exhibited at the MAC VAL, the FRAC Alsace and the FRAC Franche-Comté, the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, the Synagogue of Delme, the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology of Besançon, the Museum of Images in Épinal, as well as the Printing Museums of Nantes and Lyon. Claire Hannicq has participated in residencies at the Darling Foundry in Montreal, the Grafikwerkstatt in Dresden, in Spain, Sweden, and France.

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Céline Notheaux is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Besançon and the Universitat de Bellas Artes in Valencia. Drawing initiated her practice, which has unfolded into bodies of work of diverse natures. Painting, printmaking, ceramics, video, and performance are employed in installations conceived as intellectual games, symbolic journeys to be deciphered. The imagery associated with the agricultural world, fields of knowledge, and class society informs her research. Furthermore, a textual output subtly permeates her practice, making the mediation and reception of her works a carefully considered aspect of her studio work. Through formal and aesthetic experimentation, she seeks to negotiate a space for thought at the intersection of the poetic, documentary, and existential realms; in this sense, her practice is embodied. Since 2014, with the W collective, between 2022 and 2025 at the Vauban Workshops and then since 2026 with Gynettes, she has been leading curatorial, co-creation and educational projects.

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Born in 1965 in Valladolid (Spain). Lives and works in Brussels.
Working from texts, archival documents, sound elements, Dora García tells real or fictitious stories to question and shake society. Through a protean work (videos, writing, performances and installations), she enjoys shaking up the traditional relationships between the work and its viewer, within the exhibition space. His stagings, combining fiction and reality to the point of confusing them, create original situations, both intellectual and playful, where active participation of the public is required, sometimes obligatory, in the creation, activation or destruction of her works.

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A french artist, Jeanne Tara studied visual art at the Haute École d’Art et Design de Genève (HEAD) then art practice at the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels. Originally, she focused on painting and drawing but she also practices sculpture and spatial installation.
Before devoting herself to the visual arts, Jeanne Tara trained in classical and contemporary dance. These years of dancing marked her relationship with the body and gestures. In her artistic practice, she questions spectators through immersive installations in which visitors can wander, all in a research on the body and the territory. How does the nature of a place influence bodies? How do we interact with objects in our environment?
In 2015, Jeanne Tara was awarded the Caran-d’Ache Prize. She continues to evolve and highlight her work thanks to numerous residencies, notably at RITA residenzia in Turbigo in Italy, at La Chaux de Fonds in Switzerland or even in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea with the sailboat Bise Noire.

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A Franco-Iranian multidisciplinary artist, Golnaz Payani was born in Tehran in 1986. She obtained a degree in Painting at the Faculty of Art and Architecture. In 2009, she left her native country for France, where she continued her education. She then graduated from the National Supérieure d’Expression Plastique (DNSEP) at the Clermont-Ferrand School of Art in 2013.
“My departure for France had a considerable influence on my plastic work. I developed my interest in what was now out of sight, disappeared and invisible and reconnected with my love of fabric.” Her works explore various mediums such as video, installation, performance, poetry as well as work on fabrics. The latter, omnipresent in his works, fascinate with their capacity to hide as well as to reveal, to bring together the visible and the invisible. According to her, textiles “act as both a border and a link”.

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Nicolas Muller was born in Strasbourg in 1983, he lives and works in Geneva. In 2006, he graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art de Metz (DNSEP) then completed a postgraduate in media art in 2007 at the Haute École d’Art et de Design de Genève. He has benefited from residencies in Berlin, at the Villa du Parc in Annemasse, at the Frac de Champagne-Ardenne…
His artistic approach mainly focuses on painting, drawing, engraving, sculpture, installation and mixed media.
In 2021, he was the winner of the Halle Nord competition, and in 2022, he was a finalist in the 1% artistic competition for the island of Yeu. Some of his works were acquired by the Jenisch Museum in Vevey and the FCAC in Geneva.

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An artist based in Paris, Silvana Mc Nulty began her studies in 2013 in the field of jewelry at AFEDAP in Paris and the Holts Academy of Jewelery in London. She continued her education in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from which she graduated in art and design.
She continued her apprenticeship at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg (HEAR) in 2019.
His artistic work lies at the crossroads of sculpture, installation and jewelry. Her practice of weaving allows her to assemble organic and artificial materials: pearls, seeds, metals, plastics… She thus creates hybrid objects that arouse confusion in the viewer. This personal assembly technique comes from an approach guided by the desire to design his works on the scale of the hand. His work revolves around matter, matter in movement which adapts to the space with which it comes into contact.

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Born in 1962, Frédéric Lormeau lives and works in Dijon. He completed a master’s degree in Visual Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne in 1985, where he graduated with high honors. Since then, he has continued to accumulate personal and collective exhibitions.
The artist and his plastic works cannot easily be cataloged. Lormeau’s work is halfway between sculpture and painting. His works are a kind of “composite” which does not exist solely through their aesthetics. The artist questions the object, its form, its material future, its purpose.
In 1995, during the Cinq/Funf exhibition at the Villa Streccius in Laudau, a house that belonged to a Jewish family, Lormeau imagined the steps of the young girl of the house, steps stumbling against walls, windows, doors. The artist requested a dancer who moved around the space of the villa carrying one of these objects, a sculpture of a beer fountain in which a compass was inlaid. The dancer’s movements transcribe a journey as marked as it is fatal. Lormeau’s artistic works are tools of intercession which lead to an encounter, a questioning, a dialogue.

Karim Kal, born in 1977, lives in Lyon and works between France and Algeria. Graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble (DNSEP) in 2003, he continued his studies in Switzerland, more particularly in Vevey, at the School of Photography.
The artist is interested in the living conditions of disadvantaged on both sides of the Mediterranean. His work takes the form of documentary approaches which draw the social and political contours of these environments through the photography of public spaces. The human presence is at the center of his work, questioning the traces left by culture and History.
As part of his residency in Meyzieu, a commune in Lyon, the artist asked the residents of the local minors’ penitentiary to offer their point of view on their exit to the outside from the inside.
His works have been included in several permanent collections of museum institutions; for example, four of his photographs are now in the MAMC+ collection in Saint-Etienne. In 2023, he recently won the HCB Prize awarded by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.

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Artist from Franche-Comté, Thierry Géhin graduated with a cum laude distinction from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (DNSEP). Working in photography and video, he is also takes part in practices of installation and sculpture from the 2000s. His artistic practice questions inhabited space and its representations. Places and memory work in duality in his works, mixing reality and imagination. His installations are mainly in situ, testifying to his acute ability to perceive the potential of a site. His exhibitions can be viewed both in France and abroad (MNBA of Santiago de Chile, Villa Kujoyama…). In 1997 he received the MAC fiction prize in Lyon.
Exhibiting in a church is not unknown to him. In 2006, he produced a series of five photographs highlighting the motif of a painted stone wall inside the church of Fouvent-Le-Haut and the motif of the roof of the bell tower of the church of Roche-Raucourt. All the photographs were presented in the nave of the latter by the contemporary art association AAC.

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Gilles Furtwängler was born in Lausanne in 1982, he lives and works between Johannesburg and Lausanne. He graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2006. During his studies, he developed artistic work based around text, using words as a trigger for his visual production. It is in this way that he devotes himself to the use of mediums such as drawing, painting and printing as plastic supports for his texts. The artist attempts, through his artistic productions, to question the ways of thinking and representations of our time.
Gilles Furtwängler regularly presents his work in personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland and internationally (France, Russia, Greece, Germany, Spain, South Africa, etc.). In 2014 he won the Quark Prize in Geneva and in 2015 the Federal Art Awards (Swiss Art Awards). He is also a member of the CIRCUIT Center d’Art Contemporain association and founder of the show “Revenir et dire ça” on the Paris-based internet radio. It is supported by ProHelvetia.

Anne Fischer is an artist designer, graduated in 2016 from the Design Academy Eindhoven. According to her, design has a major impact on the future of our planet. The artist is fascinated by nature and plants. Her artistic works explore topics related to science, botany, ethnobotany, health, crafts and material properties.
Anne Fischer experiments with material, dealing with themes such as human well-being but also the well-being of our planet.

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Born in 1988, Gaëlle Cognée graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de Paris-Cergy. Recognized for favoring her practice in collaborative projects, in 2009 she initiated the exhibition “Plafond”, which focused on in situ creation. A contextual approach to place which is reflected in his personal work, mainly focused on video, photography, writing and performance. To create, the artist draws inspiration from places where he is not expected. She is inspired by the stories of these places and History, through different forms of storytelling.
Gaëlle Cognée was in residence at the FRAC in 2021. There, she worked on a video project there which highlighted the myth of Joan of Arc. The project is based on collaborative work through existing or fantasized stories of the history of Joan of Arc with the aim of offering a non-linear and non-chronological version of her story.
In parallel with the Art en Chapelle biennial, in 2024 she will hold the second personal exhibition of her career, at 19 CRAC in Montbéliard.