Team

Berlin

French · English · Arabic

Paris

French · English

Marseille

French · English · Spanish

Paris

French · English

Kyoto & Paris

French · English · Japanese · Spanish

Paris

Spanish · French · English

Paris

French · English

Elisa Rigoulet

Based in Paris

Spoken & written languages : French · English

Art market · experimental · fictions · pop culture · mothering

Elisa Rigoulet (born in 1984, France, and based in Paris) is an author and gallery owner. 

In 2013, she partnered with artist Antoine Donzeaud to found Exo Exo, a curatorial project and art gallery in Paris. For over ten years, the duo has been supporting the work of emerging artists and expanding artistic projects in France and abroad (Galerie Hussenot, Consulat Voltaire, Independant Brussels, Material Mexico, Liste Basel). 

Since 2012, Elisa Rigoulet has been collaborating with the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris on writing catalogs and contributing to several French and international magazines (Zérodeux, L’Art Même, or Conceptual Fine Art). She works with various cultural institutions and galleries (Confort Moderne Poitiers, Galerie Kamel Mennour) on publishing texts and interviews. 

In 2019, she published her first book on motherhood and feminism. It was followed in 2020 and 2021 by two other essays on gender issues, inclusive and equal education, and parenting. 

In 2023, she became a member of the Contemporaine association, which fights against gender inequalities in contemporary art. She is currently working on writing her first novel.

Anne Bourrassé

Based in Paris

Spoken & written languages : French · English

humanities · photography · feminisms · self-taught · design

Anne Bourrassé (b. 1991, France, based in Paris) is a curator and art critic at the crossroads of the visual arts and the humanities. 

She co-founded several alternative projects in Paris specializing in art, design and photography before becoming director of exhibitions and artists' studios at the Consulat Voltaire cultural center in Paris (2021-2023). She has produced exhibitions and published texts for cultural institutions and galleries in France and abroad (Le Manège Dakar SN, Galerie Jousse Entreprise FR, Centre d'art Espace Croisé Roubaix FR, Three Shadows Photography Art Center Xiamen Chiana, Voiture 14 Marseille France (2022)

Her feminist curatorial research in contemporary art emerges from her activism within Contemporaines, which she co-founded in 2019, an association based in Paris and Marseille to combat gender inequalities in the visual arts. She has completed research residencies at Selebe Yoon Dakar, Senegal and at The Polygon and Griffin Art Projects in Vancouver, Canada. 

In 2023, she was awarded the Bourse Émergence by ADIAF. 

She is a member of C-E-A Commissaires and AICA International.

Flora Fettah

Based in Marseille

Spoken languages : French · English · Spanish
Written languages : French · English

emergence · collectives · intersectional feminisms · counter-narratives · Marseille 

Flora Fettah (born in 1994, France and based in Marseille) is an independent curator, writer and researcher. 

She understands contemporary creation through the lens of its political, social and cultural contexts and, therefore, her attention is particularly drowned by the alternative narratives and practices at work within a territory, their modality of existence and how they interact with the official discourse. She conducted research on “Borders crisis in Morocco seen by contemporary artists and their place in public debates" (EHESS, Paris) and has been part of curatorial teams in French and international organizations (Cnap, Monnaie de Paris, Manifesta Biennial, Triangle - Astérides, AWARE, Kadist Foundation), while at the same time carrying out various exhibition projects both on her own and within collectives (Jeunes Critiques d’Art, Diamètrea). 

She is vice-president (2019-2023) and board member of Contemporaines, a non-profit organization that fights gender discriminations in the visual arts and promotes an intersectional feminism. A member of C-E-A and AICA France, she is a regular contributor to the podcast Pourvu Qu'iels Soient Douxces and writes for magazines, public and private institutions (Documents d'Artistes, the Van Gogh Foundation, Kadist), galleries and artists.

Line Ajan

Based in Berlin

Spoken & written languages : French · English · Arabic

Video art · SWANA region · translation · diaspora · postcolonial studies

Line Ajan (born in 1993, Syria and based in Berlin) is a curator and translator. 

Her research centers around subversive uses of moving image and language, to enact dissident politics, with a focus on feminist approaches, diasporic perspectives, and transnational histories. These interests are reflected in exhibitions she has organized, such as: Digital Diaries at the JSF, Düsseldorf; Unbound. Performance as Rupture at the JSF, Berlin; mine is a warm hole at afterhours, Paris; and The Location of Lines at the MCA Chicago. Her writing has appeared in Art Asia Pacific and Texte Zur Kunst, as well as collective publications such as Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde and A World History of Women Photographers. 

Her affinity with translation, intersectional feminism and decolonial thinking led her to join the collective Qalqalah in 2019, making collaborative approaches a part of her practice and a research topic. 

She was the director of Imane Farès gallery in Paris between 2020 and 2022 and has co-curated the hybrid project The Collective Laboratory at Mudam Luxembourg in 2022. Between 2019 and 2020, she was the Barjeel Global Fellow at MCA Chicago and in 2022-23, she was a Curatorial Fellow at Mudam, Luxembourg. She is currently Assistant Curator at the Julia Stoschek Foundation.

Daisy Lambert

Based in Paris

Spoken & written languages : French · English

queer · afro-caribbean · mental health · decolonial · quimbois

Daisy Lambert (born in 1994, France and based in Montreuil) is a curator and researcher.

She produces curatorial projects conceived as tools for reflection and agentivity on systemic and dominant knowledge and modes of action. She has recently worked with La Villa Arson (Nice), Le CAC Brétigny, le Frac Ile de France and La Fondation Fiminco (Romainville). 

Closely linked to her curatorial work, she has published texts on the challenges of displaying Black Afro-descendant artworks, decolonial curatorial practices and mental health issues (Faire Monde(s), Studio I Plateform for Inclusivity, Salon de Montrouge, PLS Magazine). She regularly takes part in workshops and conferences on these subjects: Dublin Fringe Festival, Le Consulat Voltaire, Prix Utopi·e, Beaux Arts de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, SAVYY Contemporary (Berlin, Germany). 

In 2023, she co-founded the SMAC collective (Santé Mentale dans l'Art Contemporain) with Audrey Couppé de Kermadec and Priscilia Adam. Her current research focuses on reactivating the political dimension of the West Indian quimbois in contemporary art.

Isabelle Olivier

Based in Kyoto & Paris

Spoken languages : French · English · Spanish · Japanese
Written languages : French · English · Japanese

sound arts · inclusiveness · Asia · residencies · craft

Isabelle Olivier (born in 1978, South Korea and based in Kyoto and Paris) is a curator and producer. 

She lived and worked in Beirut (2002), in Barcelona (2003), in Tokyo (2006-2012), and in Kyoto, where she is based for 12 years. Her practice is informed by her experiences within the fields of international development, copyrights, cultural diplomacy, curating and publishing – to serve, share and protect imagination. 

Between the development of Hors Pistes Tokyo with Centre Pompidou in 2011 and the organization of Q(WE)R International Cultures Festival in 2022, she has been a regional attachee for French Embassy at Kansai French Institute in Kyoto (2012-2016), responsible for French artist in residency program Villa Kujoyama, and a programmer for Nuit Blanche Kyoto (2012-2016, 2019). Other engagements include the founding support and management of Kyotographie International Photography Festival (2016-2018), multiple collaborations with Kyoto Experiment Performing Arts Festival, and the co-curation of the Japanese Platform of Asia Now (2018, 2019). 

She has collaborated with American artist and poet Foster Mickley since 2020. In 2022, they created black cat day dream, an artist-run ecological space in Kyoto, and black cat day dream Press in 2023.

Noelia Portela

Based in Paris

Spoken & written languages : French · English · Spanish

edition · Latin America · decolonial · collective practices · pedagogy

Noelia Portela (born in 1982, Uruguay and based in Paris) is an independent curator, teacher and cultural administrator. 

Her curatorial practice focuses on non-Western narratives, questions of human mobility and identity. She has held various positions in galleries, arts organizations and contemporary art fairs in New Zealand, Europe and the UK (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, PeterMcLeavy Gallery, VENICE DESIGN, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair). Her writings have been published in magazines such as Artishock Magazine (Chile), Relieve Contemporaneo (Argentina) and Obra Latinoamericana (Switzerland). 

In 2017, she founded Persona Curada, a non-profit, itinerant, and experimental curatorial project that promotes contemporary Latin American art in dialogue with the French art scene. 

In 2024, she served as commissioner for the AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions prize, and is a guest curator in the atelier Julien Creuzet at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She is currently working on a pedagogical project on the Caribbean in collaboration with AWARE and MAC (Puerto Rico).