ARTISTS
1024 Architecture
1024 Architecture creates works at the intersection of art and architecture, orchestrating sound and light in space through computer code. Founded in Strasbourg in 2007 by Pier Schneider and François Wunschel, joined by Nico Merlin in 2014, the studio unites architecture and visual art through permanent audiovisual installations, temporary structures, scenography and immersive real-time performances. From exhibition pieces to monumental public installations, 1024 explores space through geometry, light, sound and movement.
Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Kenia Almaraz Murillo (b. 1994, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) creates wall sculptures combining woven Andean threads, recycled urban objects and LED light. Bridging family heritage, diasporic identity and Andean cosmology, her works celebrate pre-Columbian creatures and ancestral rituals. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she also explores painting and large-scale murals. Shown at Perrotin, le19M and the Musée des Arts et Métiers, she is based in Paris and represented by Waddington Custot.
Tiffany Bouelle
Tiffany Bouelle is a multidisciplinary French-Japanese artist based in Paris. Her committed practice lies at the intersection of art and craft, grounded in repetition, transmission and mastery of gesture. Trained in traditional calligraphy by her grandfather, a master calligrapher, she has spent the past decade reinterpreting its codes through contemporary tools and media, developing a distinctive technique that visually evokes marquetry.
Elias Crespin
Elias Crespin (b. 1965, Caracas) is a Venezuelan artist based in Paris. At the intersection of kinetic art, programming and geometric abstraction, he creates moving sculptures that explore breath, time and the metamorphoses of living forms. His work has been presented by major international institutions, including the Louvre, the Grand Palais and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and is held in important public and private collections.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019) was a French-Venezuelan artist and a leading figure in optical and kinetic art. He settled in France in 1960, where he developed the greater part of his practice. For more than 70 years, he explored colour as an autonomous reality, capable of changing with the viewer’s gaze and movement. His monumental works and installations can be found in public spaces and in the collections of major museums, including MoMA in New York, Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.
Caroline Denervaud
Caroline Denervaud (b. 1978, Lausanne) is an artist whose practice brings together performance, painting and video. Using precise protocols, she engages an expanded awareness of the body and its environment. These actions give rise to works that examine the relationships between gesture, the body and the systems that shape them. Through this hybrid practice, Denervaud has developed an abstract visual language grounded in the lived experience of the body. Her work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States and Asia.
Guillaume Grando
Guillaume Grando (b. 1978, Bagnolet, France) lives and works in Biarritz. A multidisciplinary artist, he moved to New York in 2008, where his work was shown across the United States and Asia. During this period, his surfing practice, split between California and the Basque coast, began to inform his artistic research. In 2011, he introduced resin into his work. Based in Biarritz since 2016, he has developed the Surface et Profondeur series, through which he explores the interactions between light, matter, space, reflection, perception and movement.
Valentin Guillon
Valentin Guillon (b. 1993, Le Mans) graduated from ENSAD in 2016 and lives and works in Paris. His practice spans studio painting, muralism, exhibition design and site-specific installations. Emerging from research initially rooted in sport, his abstract language draws on recognisable forms - pitch markings and racetrack curves - as well as architecture and nature. Space and composition guide his work, which now also extends to architectural surfaces.
Maya Hayuk
Maya Hayuk is an internationally celebrated first-generation Ukrainian American artist and activist best known for her massive, saturated, iconic murals seen worldwide. Hayuk reclaims ornament and craft - long dismissed as decorative - by foregrounding their hidden systems and feminist lineages. Small studio works serve as laboratories for color and rhythm, while public walls magnify those investigations architecturally.
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas is a visionary designer championing joy, interest and humanity in our cities. Over 30 years he's created soulful, extraordinary districts, landmarks and transport modes worldwide, and now campaigns against the "blandemic" of bland, harmful buildings. His studio, among the world's most inventive, works on 30+ projects in ten countries, including Seoul's Nodeul Island, a Saudi astrotourism centre, and Changi Airport's Terminal 5. Past work includes Tokyo's Azabudai Hills, NYC's Little Island, Google's first campus, Cape Town's Zeitz Museum, and London Olympia's transformation.
Caroline Hélain
Visual artist Caroline Hélain lives and works in Brussels. Botany and landscape are her principal sources of inspiration. A close observer of the world around her, she explores the relationships between landscape, material and visual memory. At the intersection of art and experimentation, her practice is based on cutting and shaping fabrics freehand, then assembling them into sensitive compositions in which materials and colours intertwine.
Patrick Jouin
Patrick Jouin is a French designer whose practice spans industrial design and interior architecture. Since founding his studio in 1998, he has collaborated with leading houses such as Louis Vuitton, Cassina, Alessi and Pedrali. His approach, shaped by craftsmanship and drawing, is expressed in projects ranging from collectible design to urban furniture for the future Grand Paris Express stations. In 2025, he launched Patrick Jouin Édition, a self-published collection celebrating materials, craftsmanship and singularity.
Yunsoo Kim
Yunsoo Kim (born in 1975) collects human footprints and transforms them into sculptures: cut layer by layer from transparent vinyl, they accumulate into forms evoking waves, wind and clouds. The stacking reveals a deep, abyssal blue, a shade also found in her drawings. This “ultramarine,” literally “beyond the sea,” symbolizes the inaccessible and the far shore, a metaphor for lives rooted in nature. A graduate of Chung-Ang University, she received the 22nd WooMin Art Award in 2024.
Soo Kyoung Lee
Soo Kyoung Lee develops a spontaneous form of abstract painting in which forms are never planned in advance but emerge through successive layers of acrylic. For the artist, “thinking and acting are simultaneous”: every gesture becomes a discovery, giving rise to vibrant, fluid and organic masses. Against an often monochrome ground, these autonomous forms unfold freely, while the background creates depth and envelops the colour like a cocoon. Her painting is the outcome of a series of improvised, intuitive gestures.
Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris is a British-American artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her work explores cities, architecture and systems of power through colourful abstract compositions. Renowned for translating urban energy into precise, graphic paintings, she has developed a visual language in which geometry reflects contemporary social and political structures.
Yuko Nishikawa
Yuko Nishikawa, born in 1976, is a Japanese artist based in Brooklyn, known for her dreamlike works with organic forms. Raised in Chigasaki, a seaside city south of Tokyo, she initially pursued interior design and industrial design and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York before discovering ceramics, a medium she adopted to develop a distinctive sculptural language characterized by fluidity and poetic form.
Deborah Ory & Ken Browar
Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, a Brooklyn-based artist couple, founded NYC Dance Project to celebrate the world of dance. A fashion photographer, Ken discovered his passion in Paris through the Paris Opera Ballet; a dancer since childhood, Deborah turned to photography after an injury. Published in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Italia, they have produced three books, including The Art of Movement (2016) and Martha Graham Dance Company, 100 Years (2026). Their work has been exhibited at Holden Luntz Gallery, the Hunter Museum, Lanoue Gallery and, most recently, Galerie Dior in Paris.
Felipe Pantone
Felipe Pantone (b. 1986, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian-Spanish artist based in Valencia, Spain, whose work explores movement, light, color, transformation, and the digital age. Influenced by kinetic art and artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Victor Vasarely, he fuses analog and digital aesthetics into vibrant geometric paintings, murals, sculptures, and installations that create optical movement, reflecting our evolving relationship with technology and perception.
Simone Pheulpin
For over 50 years, Simone Pheulpin has created textile sculptures and panels inspired by nature, without ever copying it. Using strips of ecru cotton, folded and held together by hidden pins, with no preparatory drawing, she has developed a unique technique combining trompe-l’œil and organic matter. Revealed at the Lausanne Biennale in 1987, she received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Honorary Award. Her works are held by the V&A, Art Institute of Chicago, Mobilier National, CNAP and Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, which dedicated a solo exhibition to her in 2021–2022.
Damien Poulain
Damien Poulain works across design, architecture and built or natural environments. Drawing on Shinto, primal and heraldic symbolism as well as contemporary digital culture, he develops a universal visual language: textiles, paintings, sculptures and temporary structures become glyphic systems of geometry and colour that examine our relationship with others and the mystery of existence. He has exhibited at Villa Noailles, Fondation Boghossian and 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. Based in Paris, he works internationally.
Sébastien Preschoux
For more than 20 years, Sébastien Preschoux (b. 1974), who lives and works in Paris, has explored the line and the optical effects produced by its interlacing. His work takes two forms: a two-dimensional practice using paint to develop rich, complex colour, and a three-dimensional practice based on thread installations that immerse viewers in kinetic movement and the pleasure of optical play.
Pierre Renart
Pierre Renart is a French designer and cabinetmaker trained at École Boulle. Known for his sculptural furniture, he combines traditional woodworking techniques with modern technology. His work explores curves and movement, giving wood a light, flexible and almost living quality. His pieces have entered the collections of major institutions, including the Mobilier national, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Palais des Rois de Sardaigne in Nice.
Xavier Veilhan
Xavier Veilhan (b. 1963, Lyon) is a French artist based in Paris. A major figure in contemporary art, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, installation, film and performance since the late 1980s. Through refined forms and innovative technologies, he examines perception, space and movement. Projects including Veilhan Versailles (2009) and Studio Venezia at the 2017 Venice Biennale have earned him international recognition.
Fabienne Verdier
Fabienne Verdier, born in Paris in 1962, maps the visible and invisible energies shaping landscapes. Trained in China throughout the 1980s and for a decade by masters of traditional painting, she developed a unique visual language using pendulum brushes and gravitational tools, exploring gravity, vibration and waves. Her work is held in major public collections, from Centre Pompidou to Kunsthaus Zürich. She collaborates with Jean Nouvel and Alain Berthoz, and exhibited in 2025 at Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine.
Mengzhi Zheng
Mengzhi Zheng (b. 1983, Ruian, China) is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris. Spanning sculpture, installation, drawing and architecture, his practice uses found materials as three-dimensional drawings. His visions of space and architectural dreams - poised between function and utopia - emerge from protocols shaped by context, tools and working conditions. Created both in the studio and in public space, his works explore dwelling, transformation and our relationship with the environment.
1024 Architecture
1024 Architecture creates works at the intersection of art and architecture, orchestrating sound and light in space through computer code. Founded in Strasbourg in 2007 by Pier Schneider and François Wunschel, joined by Nico Merlin in 2014, the studio unites architecture and visual art through permanent audiovisual installations, temporary structures, scenography and immersive real-time performances. From exhibition pieces to monumental public installations, 1024 explores space through geometry, light, sound and movement.
Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Kenia Almaraz Murillo (b. 1994, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia) creates wall sculptures combining woven Andean threads, recycled urban objects and LED light. Bridging family heritage, diasporic identity and Andean cosmology, her works celebrate pre-Columbian creatures and ancestral rituals. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she also explores painting and large-scale murals. Shown at Perrotin, le19M and the Musée des Arts et Métiers, she is based in Paris and represented by Waddington Custot.
Tiffany Bouelle
Tiffany Bouelle is a multidisciplinary French-Japanese artist based in Paris. Her committed practice lies at the intersection of art and craft, grounded in repetition, transmission and mastery of gesture. Trained in traditional calligraphy by her grandfather, a master calligrapher, she has spent the past decade reinterpreting its codes through contemporary tools and media, developing a distinctive technique that visually evokes marquetry.
Elias Crespin
Elias Crespin (b. 1965, Caracas) is a Venezuelan artist based in Paris. At the intersection of kinetic art, programming and geometric abstraction, he creates moving sculptures that explore breath, time and the metamorphoses of living forms. His work has been presented by major international institutions, including the Louvre, the Grand Palais and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and is held in important public and private collections.
Carlos Cruz Diez
Carlos Cruz-Diez (1923–2019) was a French-Venezuelan artist and a leading figure in optical and kinetic art. He settled in France in 1960, where he developed the greater part of his practice. For more than 70 years, he explored colour as an autonomous reality, capable of changing with the viewer’s gaze and movement. His monumental works and installations can be found in public spaces and in the collections of major museums, including MoMA in New York, Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.
Caroline Denervaud
Caroline Denervaud (b. 1978, Lausanne) is an artist whose practice brings together performance, painting and video. Using precise protocols, she engages an expanded awareness of the body and its environment. These actions give rise to works that examine the relationships between gesture, the body and the systems that shape them. Through this hybrid practice, Denervaud has developed an abstract visual language grounded in the lived experience of the body. Her work has been exhibited across Europe, the United States and Asia.
Guillaume Grando
Guillaume Grando (b. 1978, Bagnolet, France) lives and works in Biarritz. A multidisciplinary artist, he moved to New York in 2008, where his work was shown across the United States and Asia. During this period, his surfing practice, split between California and the Basque coast, began to inform his artistic research. In 2011, he introduced resin into his work. Based in Biarritz since 2016, he has developed the Surface et Profondeur series, through which he explores the interactions between light, matter, space, reflection, perception and movement.
Valentin Guillon
Valentin Guillon (b. 1993, Le Mans) graduated from ENSAD in 2016 and lives and works in Paris. His practice spans studio painting, muralism, exhibition design and site-specific installations. Emerging from research initially rooted in sport, his abstract language draws on recognisable forms—pitch markings and racetrack curves—as well as architecture and nature. Space and composition guide his work, which now also extends to architectural surfaces.
Maya Hayuk
Maya Hayuk is an internationally celebrated first-generation Ukrainian American artist and activist best known for her massive, saturated, iconic murals seen worldwide.
Hayuk reclaims ornament and craft - long dismissed as decorative - by foregrounding their hidden systems and feminist lineages.
Small studio works serve as laboratories for color and rhythm, while public walls magnify those investigations architecturally.
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas is a visionary designer championing joy, interest and humanity in our cities. Over 30 years he's created soulful, extraordinary districts, landmarks and transport modes worldwide, and now campaigns against the "blandemic" of bland, harmful buildings. His studio, among the world's most inventive, works on 30+ projects in ten countries, including Seoul's Nodeul Island, a Saudi astrotourism centre, and Changi Airport's Terminal 5. Past work includes Tokyo's Azabudai Hills, NYC's Little Island, Google's first campus, Cape Town's Zeitz Museum, and London Olympia's transformation.
Caroline Hélain
Visual artist Caroline Hélain lives and works in Brussels. Botany and landscape are her principal sources of inspiration. A close observer of the world around her, she explores the relationships between landscape, material and visual memory. At the intersection of art and experimentation, her practice is based on cutting and shaping fabrics freehand, then assembling them into sensitive compositions in which materials and colours intertwine.
Patrick Jouin
Patrick Jouin is a French designer whose practice spans industrial design and interior architecture. Since founding his studio in 1998, he has collaborated with leading houses such as Louis Vuitton, Cassina, Alessi and Pedrali. His approach, shaped by craftsmanship and drawing, is expressed in projects ranging from collectible design to urban furniture for the future Grand Paris Express stations. In 2025, he launched Patrick Jouin Édition, a self-published collection celebrating materials, craftsmanship and singularity.
Yunsoo Kim
Yunsoo Kim (born in 1975) collects human footprints and transforms them into sculptures: cut layer by layer from transparent vinyl, they accumulate into forms evoking waves, wind and clouds. The stacking reveals a deep, abyssal blue, a shade also found in her drawings. This “ultramarine,” literally “beyond the sea,” symbolizes the inaccessible and the far shore, a metaphor for lives rooted in nature. A graduate of Chung-Ang University, she received the 22nd WooMin Art Award in 2024.
Soo Kyoung Lee
Soo Kyoung Lee develops a spontaneous form of abstract painting in which forms are never planned in advance but emerge through successive layers of acrylic. For the artist, “thinking and acting are simultaneous”: every gesture becomes a discovery, giving rise to vibrant, fluid and organic masses. Against an often monochrome ground, these autonomous forms unfold freely, while the background creates depth and envelops the colour like a cocoon. Her painting is the outcome of a series of improvised, intuitive gestures.
Sarah Morris
Sarah Morris is a British-American artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her work explores cities, architecture and systems of power through colourful abstract compositions. Renowned for translating urban energy into precise, graphic paintings, she has developed a visual language in which geometry reflects contemporary social and political structures.
Yuko Nishikawa
Yuko Nishikawa, born in 1976, is a Japanese artist based in Brooklyn, known for her dreamlike works with organic forms. Raised in Chigasaki, a seaside city south of Tokyo, she initially pursued interior design and industrial design and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York before discovering ceramics, a medium she adopted to develop a distinctive sculptural language characterized by fluidity and poetic form.
Deborah Ory & Ken Browar
Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, a Brooklyn-based artist couple, founded NYC Dance Project to celebrate the world of dance. A fashion photographer, Ken discovered his passion in Paris through the Paris Opera Ballet; a dancer since childhood, Deborah turned to photography after an injury. Published in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue Italia, they have produced three books, including The Art of Movement (2016) and Martha Graham Dance Company, 100 Years (2026). Their work has been exhibited at Holden Luntz Gallery, the Hunter Museum, Lanoue Gallery and, most recently, Galerie Dior in Paris.
Felipe Pantone
Felipe Pantone (b. 1986, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian-Spanish artist based in Valencia, Spain, whose work explores movement, light, color, transformation, and the digital age. Influenced by kinetic art and artists such as Carlos Cruz-Diez and Victor Vasarely, he fuses analog and digital aesthetics into vibrant geometric paintings, murals, sculptures, and installations that create optical movement, reflecting our evolving relationship with technology and perception.
Simone Pheulpin
For over 50 years, Simone Pheulpin has created textile sculptures and panels inspired by nature, without ever copying it. Using strips of ecru cotton, folded and held together by hidden pins, with no preparatory drawing, she has developed a unique technique combining trompe-l’œil and organic matter. Revealed at the Lausanne Biennale in 1987, she received the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize Honorary Award. Her works are held by the V&A, Art Institute of Chicago, Mobilier National, CNAP and Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, which dedicated a solo exhibition to her in 2021–2022.
Damien Poulain
Damien Poulain works across design, architecture and built or natural environments. Drawing on Shinto, primal and heraldic symbolism as well as contemporary digital culture, he develops a universal visual language: textiles, paintings, sculptures and temporary structures become glyphic systems of geometry and colour that examine our relationship with others and the mystery of existence. He has exhibited at Villa Noailles, Fondation Boghossian and 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo. Based in Paris, he works internationally.
Sébastien Preschoux
For more than 20 years, Sébastien Preschoux (b. 1974), who lives and works in Paris, has explored the line and the optical effects produced by its interlacing. His work takes two forms: a two-dimensional practice using paint to develop rich, complex colour, and a three-dimensional practice based on thread installations that immerse viewers in kinetic movement and the pleasure of optical play.
Pierre Renart
Pierre Renart is a French designer and cabinetmaker trained at École Boulle. Known for his sculptural furniture, he combines traditional woodworking techniques with modern technology. His work explores curves and movement, giving wood a light, flexible and almost living quality. His pieces have entered the collections of major institutions, including the Mobilier national, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Palais des Rois de Sardaigne in Nice.
Xavier Veilhan
Xavier Veilhan (b. 1963, Lyon) is a French artist based in Paris. A major figure in contemporary art, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice encompassing sculpture, installation, film and performance since the late 1980s. Through refined forms and innovative technologies, he examines perception, space and movement. Projects including Veilhan Versailles (2009) and Studio Venezia at the 2017 Venice Biennale have earned him international recognition.
Fabienne Verdier
Fabienne Verdier, born in Paris in 1962, maps the visible and invisible energies shaping landscapes. Trained in China throughout the 1980s and for a decade by masters of traditional painting, she developed a unique visual language using pendulum brushes and gravitational tools, exploring gravity, vibration and waves. Her work is held in major public collections, from Centre Pompidou to Kunsthaus Zürich. She collaborates with Jean Nouvel and Alain Berthoz, and exhibited in 2025 at Centre Pompidou-Metz and the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine.
Mengzhi Zheng
Mengzhi Zheng (b. 1983, Ruian, China) is a visual artist who lives and works in Paris. Spanning sculpture, installation, drawing and architecture, his practice uses found materials as three-dimensional drawings. His visions of space and architectural dreams—poised between function and utopia—emerge from protocols shaped by context, tools and working conditions. Created both in the studio and in public space, his works explore dwelling, transformation and our relationship with the environment.
