Daniel Schlier is a graduate of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (Sarkis workshop).

Professor of painting at HEAR Strasbourg and HEAD Geneva, he was then appointed to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Both a painter, draftsman and engraver, Daniel Schlier attempts to contain the complexity of the world in his painting. Multiplying supports – canvas, marble, glass, wood – his works are all possibilities for generating a new world.

Through the technique of drawing, painting, installations and land art, Jack McNiven explores forms in movement. He uses morphology to dissect his subjects – Man, animals, nature – reducing them to their lines, their folds, their wrinkles. Made with chalk on a blackboard, his drawings appear, disappear and rediscover the ephemeral nature of all movement. In the form of installations, his drawings temporarily inhabit marine, urban and rural landscapes and bear witness to the interactions between artistic creation and nature.

Frédérique Loutz manipulates, blurs and abruptly shapes forms.

Dictated by his drawing, they are most often hybrid. The artist mixes techniques not to associate them or confuse them but so that the contrast distinguishes them. She constantly tries to renew what she traces and succeeds precisely without succeeding. The vocabulary that she constantly uses, repeats and interprets again takes us into an often fantastic and phantasmagorical universe where friendly monsters and distorted familiar characters coexist.

Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure with an agrégation and a doctorate in aesthetics, Clélia Zernik is a professor of philosophy of art at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Martin François-René Martin studied political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg and art history and archaeology at the Université Marc-Bloch in Strasbourg. His doctorate in political science and art history focused on Grünewald and his critics (16th - 21st centuries), under the supervision of Roland Recht.

Contemporary art historian and critic Guitemie Maldonado devoted her thesis to biomorphism in the interwar period (Le Cercle et l'amibe, 2006), extending it with more occasional monographic studies (devoted to Jean Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore...) and a constant interest in in-between situations (art-nature, art-science, abstraction-figuration).

Rémy Pommeret graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy in 2019. He grew up in the Paris region where he developed an interest in several artistic disciplines: music, theater, cinema, drawing. Interested in natural sciences and creatures from myths and cinema since childhood, he creates his predominantly animal universe around sculpture and engraving. He seizes codes historically linked to decorative arts, hieratic art, statuary or even natural sciences to create hybrids aimed at delivering a dark poetry about our time.

Carole Leroy obtained a BTS visual artist in the architectural environment at the École Supérieure des Arts Appliqués before graduating from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1994. In 2000, she created the Forge studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In her approach, Carole Leroy wishes to highlight the work of molten metal which stretches, marks and transforms while keeping the indelible and primordial imprint of its shaping. Interested in the process of writing, his works are series of assemblages of forms and counter-forms that attempt to exhaust the rule of their appearance.

Director of documentary films and researcher in documentary and anthropological cinema in Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso), Julie Courel teaches the practice of video. In her research, she is particularly interested in the daily experience of Ouagadougou communities undergoing rapid change.

Jérémy Berton graduated from Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2010. His sculptural work questions reality and its representations. The everyday forms that he seizes, transposed and synthesized using various materials, take on a poetic and offbeat dimension. Tinted with humor, his works – a subtle blend of compositions, balances, plays of scale and illusions – succeed in compelling attention and reversing perspectives.