Marine Pistien / Màté Dobokay / Sandra Matamoros / Morvarid K / Mihai Grecu / Géraldine Wilcke / Richard Pak / Gabriele Engelhardt / Matthieu Boucherit / Sarkis Torossian and Elise Morin / Pooya Abbasian / Thomas Leon / Sandrine Elberg / Johan Parent / Tami Notsani / Anouk Kruithof / EncorStudio.
– 11/14— 14:00 PM-17:00 PM: Portfolio review with Réseau LUX
- 11/18—18:00 p.m.-19:00 p.m.: Visit to Saloon Paris, a network for women in art based in Paris
– 11/22—15:00 PM-17:00 PM: Signing of Constellations, Sandrine Elberg’s first monograph
Marine Pistien
Born in 1992 and in Cholet.
Marine Pistien is a visual artist, graduated from the BTS Photography course at CE3P (2017) and the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d'Arles (2021). She lives and works in Marseille. Her practice explores the tensions between movement and stillness, focusing on states of vertigo and confusion, those moments when displacement is barely born, when movement remains imperceptible. Through photography, video, and installation, she seeks to reveal this in-between through processes such as mise en abyme, repetition, and sliding scale. Her works invite prolonged attention and offer spaces where time seems suspended.
Her work has been presented at the Immix gallery (2021, 2022) and has developed during residencies (Cultural Summers 2023 and 2024, ENSP Arles 2023, Le Couvent in Marseille 2024-2025). In 2025, she joined the national program Création en Cours led by the Ateliers Médicis and participated in the 4th Biennale de l'Image Tangible in November 2025.
Convinced that creation can be a space for sharing, she regularly leads collaborative projects with diverse audiences (prisoners, adults with mental disabilities, children, artistic collectives). These experiences nourish a practice that articulates sensitive exploration of space and transmission, opening reflection on perception, the body and temporality.
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Màté Dobokay
Born in 1988 in Hungary.
Máté Dobokay (born 1988 in Pécs) studied at the University of Pécs and completed the BA in Photography at Kaposvár University. His work has earned him numerous awards and scholarships: in 2015-2016, he received the Republic Scholarship, was a semi-finalist for the 2015 Leopold Bloom Award, and in 2017, the Esterházy Award. In 2014, he was part of the winning team at the OFF_Festival in Bratislava and was also nominated for the Lucien & Rodolf Hervé Award. In 2018, he was one of two artists to win the first MODEM Prize in Debrecen. Since 2012, he has exhibited regularly at venues such as the Ludwig Museum, the Finnish Museum of Photography, the Vasarely Museum, MODEM, and the New Gallery in Budapest. He has also participated in numerous European exhibitions. He made his debut as the youngest artist at the exhibition IMPACT: Abstraction and Experimentation in Hungarian Photography in New York (2016).
His works are part of public collections such as the National Library of France, the Ferenczy Museum Center and MODEM.
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Sandra Matamoros
Lives and works in Paris.
After obtaining a diploma in plastic arts at the Sorbonne, Paris, she joined the National School of Decorative Arts, from which she graduated graduated in 2000. Winner of the 68th Salon de Montrouge in 2025, Sandra Matamoros devotes herself photography and photographic installations for 7 years. This is part of a long journey that began with a first career in cinema. She directed several award-winning short films, and wrote a feature film. It was by working on the atmosphere of her films that Sandra develops a rich and personal photographic universe. It is therefore the cinema that led her to photography. We find influences in her current work: each exhibition, each series weaves a subtle narrative thread; His work deals with the relationship of man to nature, and of our inner states, of our capacity for collaborative repair with nature. Exhibited in France and internationally, supported by numerous collectors, his works have been included in several collections, including the Emerige Foundation. In 2024, Sandra participates in the UnRepresented show, supported by the collector Jacques Deret, founder of the Art Collector Prize. She also participates, with the support of CulturFoundry and the French Institute, at the Noise Art Fair in Istanbul, the first digital art fair, whose curated by Dominique Moulon. In 2023, with the support of the Photo 4 Foundation Food, she is the winner of the Planches Contact international residency in Deauville which is concluding through a monumental photographic installation on the beach. She is participating for the second time at NUIT Blanche Paris, at the Saint-Ambroise church, and also presents his solo show in Paris “Cosmic Footprint” in June 2023 at the DIX9 gallery, supported by CulturFoundry, and with the exhibition curator Marie Gayet.
https://www.sandramatamoros.com/
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Morvarid K
Born in Tehran, Iran in 1982.
Morvarid K is a visual artist and performer, living and working in Bordeaux and Berlin. She is represented by the Bigaignon gallery in Paris. Through the manipulation of photographic or organic matter, his work questions our relationship to time, to transformative memory and to the interstice. The material anchors his work in reality, while transformation techniques bring complexity and depth, often through performative executions. Morvarid K's works are part of important collections such as those of the MacVal, the BnF, the CNAP, the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the Louis Roederer Foundation. To deepen her work, Morvarid K appropriates the meaning that Laurent Derobert (existentialist mathematician) gives the word "lack": infinite presence of absence.
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Mihai Grecu
Born in Romania in 1981.
Mihai Grecu is originally from southern Transylvania in Romania, born in 1981 in the town of Sebes.
Oscillating between cinema, video art and computer-generated imagery, his singular imagery implements, in a dehumanized atmosphere, dreamlike visions crossed by political allegories, parasitic objects, modified architectures and symbolic characters. His work is shown in numerous film festivals (Rotterdam, Nouveau Cinéma Montréal, etc.) and exhibitions (“Dans la nuit, des images” at the Grand Palais, “Labyrinth of my mind” at the Cube, “Studio” at the Galerie
The daughters of Calvary, etc.).
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Geraldine Wilcke
Born in 1980 in Bremen, Germany.
Géraldine Wilcke lives and works in Strasbourg. A graduate of the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Mulhouse, she has immersed herself in diverse fields such as design, graphic design, painting, installation, engraving, architecture, and photography. Her multidisciplinary training has shaped and lastingly nourished her artistic approach.
In 2020, she created "Les Architectures de l'ombre" and has since worked in collaboration with a gallery in Paris (Wagner), Brussels (Klotzshows) and Strasbourg (Radial) with which she exhibits regularly. Her collaboration with Réalités Nouvelles in Paris also allowed her to exhibit in China (Art Space in Shenyang and G-Lake art Gallery in Fuzhou).
“Geraldine Wilcke’s photographs can be seen as the testimony, the trace or the imprint of a long and meticulous work around architecture, light and shadow. As in a theater of forms, the artist assembles, sculpts or simply places materials such as paper, metal or Plexiglas. She thus dictates the role of each on stage and gives them a voice through the materials, the shadows cast and the reflections. Light, natural or artificial, is at the center of her approach. These light installations are ephemeral and require multiple research, manipulations and lighting to finally obtain the desired composition and fix them for the time of a shot. The whole challenge is to succeed in capturing the elusive and to show a fragment of seconds constructed over several hours.”
Excerpt from a text by Florence Wagner, Galerie Wagner, Paris
"Echoing this precious and minimalist series, she presents a new creation: sculptures born from the folding of photographic prints. Carried by the same play of shadows and lights, they extend her dialogue between the fleetingness of the luminous phenomenon and the indelible photographic memory."
Excerpt from the text “Light Leak” by Claire Luna, Salon Drawing Now 2025.
In this new series, the two-dimensional space of photography enters into a process of shaping an architectural design, transforming the image into a three-dimensional space. The resulting sculpture reveals the architectural volume onto which the shadow is projected, creating a mise en abyme. Our perception of reality, the material and the immaterial, illusion, are all omnipresent themes in his work.
https://geraldinewilcke.myportfolio.com/work
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Richard pak
Born in France in 1972.
Multidisciplinary artist born in France in 1972. Richard Pak has started an anthology on the island space that he has been developing for several years (cycle Les îles du désir, 2016-present). If photography is his main medium, he also sometimes calls upon the video (The Same Brothers, The Firm) and the story (Pursuit, The Same Brothers, The Firm). In his In his most recent works, he experiments with the photographic medium through interventions plastics or chemicals on the support (series The Island Thief, The Shipwrecked Island). He published three monographs published by Filigranes and Atelier EXB. His works are part of collections public and private including the National Library of France (2009 & 2023) and the Foundation Neuflize-OBC (2022) as well as numerous art libraries. It is supported in particular by the Cnap, the Artists’ Foundation, the DRAC, and the 1+2 Residence.
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Gabriele Engelhardt
Born in Germany in 1967.
Gabriele Engelhardt lives in Karlsruhe and works on the sites of her ever-changing artistic projects. A sculptor and photographer, she creates her works by combining both media. Raw materials and recycled materials are at the heart of her work. Modeling and collage of digital data form the basis of her exploration of how space and plasticity can be represented on a two-dimensional surface.
https://www.gabriele-engelhardt.com
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Matthieu Boucherit
Born in Cholet in 1967.
Anamnesis Project (2018 – ongoing). In this work, Matthieu Boucherit examines how affects circulate through images shared on social networks, which have become instruments for measuring and disseminating the sensitive. Printed with silver gelatin on microscope slides, one of the first processes behind the industrialization of the image, fragments of current events are transformed into samples: observable, measurable, almost biological. Having become micro-archives, these images do not only document events; they reveal their emotional charge beneath the cold aesthetic of the laboratory. Through his devices, the artist cultivates confusion and contradictions, allowing multiple and reversible narratives to unfold. He develops a field of experimentation where the image acts less as a representation than as a trigger. Anamnesis reveals a contemporary shift where the sensitive becomes data, where affects are collected, instrumentalized, reinjected into the social and political economy. The work thus depicts the complexity of reality and the fragility of our certainties, questioning the very origin of our emotions - are they experienced, produced, influenced or already captured?
https://www.matthieu-boucherit.com/
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Sarkis Torossian and Elise Morin
A graduate of Gobelins in 2019, Sarkis Torossian is taking up a residency at La Capsule, a place for photographic creation in Le Bourget.
His research leads him towards the capacity for truth in photography. By focusing on the observation of the landscape through its exploration, the collection of elements that he integrates into his practice, as well as the malleability of the image, both on the practical, technical and organic levels. His work is built around movement, the human relationship with nature and the truth of photography. For several years, Sarkis has been able to share his practice through various workshops for a wide audience, ranging from From early childhood to a master's degree in photography at university. From analog photography to development and print creation. experimental.
https://www.sarkistorossian.com/
Elise Morin was born in 1978, lives and works in Paris.
Elise Morin has exhibited in France at the Cent-quatre, the Jeu de Paume, the Grand Palais, and the city's Museum of Contemporary Art.
from Bucharest, Moscow, Beijing and Tokyo.
Trained as a teacher at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and Central Saint Martins College in London,
then from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts in Tokyo.
Coproduction SIANA, artistic laboratory / University of Évry Paris-Saclay.
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Pooya Abbasian
Born in Iran.
Born in 1985, Pooya Abbasian is a French-Iranian artist who has lived and worked in Paris since 2011. Through a multidisciplinary practice that explores photography, drawing, video, and installation, his approach questions our contemporary relationship with images. Having begun his career in the worlds of film and drawing, these two spheres have influenced his practice and thinking.
Through his works, he questions the construction, dissemination, and reception of images. For him, the image is produced by fraction—for an image inscribed in space, a thousand others can be born from it—and by intrusion—by dependence on and emancipation from a visual economy that shapes our modes of perception and our frameworks of interpretation.
A collector of documentary images found on the internet, as well as images captured in films and photos simply taken with his camera during his travels, he uses them as the raw material for his compositions and visual fictions. These recorded, preserved, and transformed visuals allow him to reveal the paradoxical relationship between the image and the idea we have of reality or truth.
The language thus created by the mutation of images is also expressed in the short films he makes. Transitional spaces, whose ambiguity interests him more than their affirmations, become for him anchor points where the relationships between time, memory and places are replayed. It is in this infra-thinness that he seeks bridges between media, thus giving rise to poetic accidents.
His films have been screened at numerous art centers and festivals, including CPH-DOX Film Festival Copenhagen (Denmark), DMZ Docs (South Korea), and Sheffield DocFest (UK). His works have been exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in 2024, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, and the Plateau Frac-Île de France. They are part of the CNAP (National Collection of Contemporary Art) and MEP collections. He has also illustrated and written several children's books published by Gallimard and Actes-Sud.
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Tom Leon
Born in 1981 in Dijon, France.
Thomas Léon develops his practice by merging cinema, graphic arts, and images derived from new technologies. He creates films, immersive video and sound installations, as well as large-format drawings. His work explores the interrelationships between memory, sensuality, intimate experiences, and imagination, drawing on fictions, whether social, urban, climatic, etc. He draws inspiration from science fiction and utopian literature, and most often develops his work through contemporary image creation tools (3D modeling, AI, etc.).
He regularly participates in screenings and exhibitions in France and abroad: "Listening to Transparency" at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai (China, 2017), "Cruces Sonoros: Mundos Posibles" at the MAC in Santiago de Chile (Chile, 2016), "Rendez-vous 11" at the Institut d'art contemporain in Villeurbanne (2011) and at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town (South Africa, 2012). He has notably attended the following residencies: Drawing Factory organized by the CNAP and the Drawing Lab (Paris) in 2021; the residency in Taiwan, organized by Grame, national center for musical creation (Lyon) and the Digital Art Center (Taipei) in 2011.
His works are notably present in the collections of the CNAP and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Thomas Léon lives and works in Montreuil.
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Sandrine Elberg
Lives and works in Paris.
Sandrine Elberg (1978) lives and works between Paris and Burgundy. Daughter of an engineer in aerospace and granddaughter of a grandfather from Odessa, she draws on this heritage scientific and cosmopolitan a unique artistic vision, combining intellectual rigor and
formal exploration. After studying audiovisual cinema and plastic arts, she enriched his journey in Canada (MFA Digital Media Art) at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver. With five years of study and a post-graduate year at the National School A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she obtained a DNSAP (2003), consolidating her roots in film and experimental photographic research. Since 2015, Sandrine Elberg has been is dedicated to the themes of astronomy and science. His work, inspired by photographers surrealists, transcends the limits of the medium by exploiting the techniques of film and magnifying its aesthetic possibilities. His works, noted for their poetry and their mystery, have been presented in more than a hundred prestigious institutions, such as the French Institute in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto and Yokohama), the BNF and the Grand Palais in Paris, the Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Museum in Vernon, the Geneva Photography Center, the Tri Postal in Lille and the LAAC in Dunkirk among others. Winner of numerous photography awards, she distinguished himself at the Dahinden Prize, at the Villa Kujoyama/French Institute in Japan (Kyoto) residence, the Arte Cultural Actions Prize, the Réponses Photo Les Boutographies Prize, as well as the prizes Canon, Fnac and Nikon. She is also a finalist for the Swiss Life 4-Hands Prize, the Photography Prize and Sciences of the 1+2 CNRS residence, at the Contemporary Talents “of the François Foundation Schneider, the HSBC Prize, the Les Treilles Foundation and the Scam Roger Pic Prize.
https://www.sandrine-elberg.com/
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Johan Parent
Johan Parent has participated in events such as Public Pool#3 at the FRAC Grand Large in Dunkirk (2017), at biennials (Carbone 20, Saint Etienne) and group exhibitions in France and abroad. He has also been the subject of monographic exhibitions such as Sfumato Vertigo at the Flaine Art Center (2015), Asphalt at Serre Saint Etienne – IAC Villeurbanne (2012) and Barrer le seuil at the Angle, contemporary art space in La Roche sur Foron (2024). He is a laureate of the Contemporary Talents Prize (2016) from the François Schneider Foundation in Wattviller and also obtained several residencies, notably at the contemporary art center of Pau (2014) and in Tourcoing with the RAU Program (2023). Since 2023, he has also been working with collective structures. He is a curator at RELIEF – artist run space (Cluses), joins Groupe A (Lille) and works as a teacher at the National School of Architecture in Grenoble.
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Tami Notsani
Lives and works in Paris.
"Tami Notsani has the art of squaring the world, as found sculpture or as drawing by default." Christian Bernard, honorary artistic director of Mamco, Geneva Born in Israel In 1972, Tami Notsani lived and worked in France. Leaving scientific studies for the photography at the Jerusalem School of Fine Arts, Bezalel, she continues her journey with a third cycle at Fresnoy, national studio of contemporary art. Through a practice which evolves between photography, video and more recently installation and performances participatory, she leads an in-depth reflection around identity, intimacy, memory, transformation and transmission. She develops an artistic work where the image holds a place essential. “His photographs show a familiar universe, subject to an inescapable evolution over time, landscapes change, people change appearance, similarities of geographical landmarks overlap. The idea of an identity and its relationship to History becomes fundamental there, notably in his recent performative installations at in which spectators are invited to take part." Anna Olszewska, curator of exposure.
His works have been presented in France and abroad in numerous institutions and contemporary art events, including: European Photography Month, MNHA, Luxembourg, “At the Gender Bazaar”, MUCEM, Marseille, MAMCO, Geneva, Nuit Blanche, Paris, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, Ashdod Museum of Art, Israel, as well as Les Rencontres Photographs of Arles. His work is featured in several collections and institutions such as the CNAP, the MAMCS in Strasbourg, the Mamco in Geneva, the departmental collection of Seine-Saint-Denis, the Ashdod Museum of Art and Discount Bank in Israel, as well as in various private collections in France, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Switzerland and the United States.
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Anouk Kruithof
Born in 1981 in Dordrecht, Netherlands.
Anouk Kruithof is a visual artist whose transdisciplinary approach encompasses sculpture, photography, collage, video, books, websites, and artistic interventions in public spaces. Her work explores the fragility and chaos of the contemporary world, subtly addressing urgent social issues and personal experiences to reflect the reality of our society. Kruithof seeks to reveal the tensions of our time by astutely identifying social, psychological, and ethical dilemmas. Her thoughtful yet playful approach relies on observation, analysis, information gathering, action, and reaction, without neglecting her social and political commitment. She has developed a unique vision of the world, where the personal becomes political. By constantly navigating between the digital and physical spheres, Kruithof explores a collective state of mind that is no longer solely anchored in the material world, but rather in a virtual and shifting space. She observes a world saturated with manipulated, edited, and reworked images that have lost all credibility, giving rise to a completely scripted reality subject to constant post-production. Her field of investigation covers environmental pollution, the consequences of climate change, government surveillance, privacy, inequality, and protest movements. From anonymity to signs of stress and fatigue, from shame to social malaise, she addresses the collective consciousness in the face of human failings and the degradation of the planet. Kruithof is fully aware of her dual role as creator and consumer of images. Like contemporary visual culture, her paradoxical and complex approach is at once moving and revealing, personal and universal, optimistic and pessimistic, lighthearted and dystopian.
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EncorStudio
Live and work in Switzerland.
Encor Studio explores memories so fleeting we almost miss them.
Fractions of a second that seem to strike at the heart – or gently caress.
A strip of light glides across the concrete, and suddenly you're reliving a summer gone by.
The scent of that time returns. A scent perceived by the crowd – and the past is suddenly present, closer than ever.
These fleeting moments, however, are powerful enough to awaken buried memories.
Their creations both reveal and conceal.
Everything goes blurry, then everything comes back into focus. That's how memory works: first a fog, then an image as clear as a photograph.
A fleeting moment that disappears as quickly as it appeared.
And yet, this memory doesn't just stay in the mind—it embeds itself in the body. A shiver, a warmth, a question.
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🕒 Schedule
From Tuesday to Sunday
12pm to 19pm
Address
NIEMEYER SPACE,
2 Place Colonel Fabien, 75019 Paris, France
Metro: Colonel Fabien
Tel: +01 40 40 12 10 XNUMX