Team
Berlin
French · English · Arabic
Paris
French · English
Marseille
French · English · Spanish
Paris
French · English
Oslo & Paris
Swedish · Norwegian · Danish · English
Rome
Italian · English
Lyon
French · English
Paris
Spanish · English · French
Paris
French · English
Marseille & Paris
French · English · Bresilian Portuguese
Marrakech & 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 (Paris, France), a curatorial project and art gallery. For over ten years, the duo has been supporting the work of emerging artists and expanding artistic projects in France and abroad Galerie Hussenot and Consulat Voltaire (Paris, France), Independent Art Fair (Brussels, Belgium), Material (Mexico City, Mexico), Liste Art Fair (Basel, Switzerland).
Since 2012, Elisa Rigoulet has been collaborating with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France) on writing catalogs and contributing to several French and international magazines, including Zérodeux, L'Art Même, and Conceptual Fine Art. She works with various cultural institutions and galleries, including Confort Moderne (Poitiers, France) and Galerie Kamel Mennour (Paris, France), on the publication of 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 (born in 1991, France and 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 (Paris, France) from 2021 to 2023. She has produced exhibitions and published texts for cultural institutions and galleries in France and abroad Le Centquatre (Paris, France), Le 19M (Aubervilliers, France), Le Manège (Dakar, Senegal), Galerie Jousse Entreprise (Paris, France), Centre d'art Espace Croisé (Roubaix, France), Three Shadows Photography Art Center (Xiamen, China), Voiture 14 (Marseille, France).
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 wrote a book about this experience, entitled “Les Refusées,” published by Éditions du Seuil. She has completed research residencies at Selebe Yoon (Dakar, Senegal), at The Polygon and Griffin Art Projects in (Vancouver, Canada) and at the Vila31 in (Tirana, Albania).
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 arts, aesthetics and social sciences at EHESS (Paris, France) and has been part of curatorial teams in French and international organizations Cnap (Paris, France), Monnaie de Paris (Paris, France), Manifesta Biennial (Europe), AWARE (Paris, France), Triangle - Astérides (Marseille, France), KADIST (Paris, France). While at the same time carrying out various curatorial projects both on her own and within collectives Jeunes Critiques d’Art, Diamètrea.
She is vice-president from 2019 to 2023 and board member of Contemporaines, a non-profit organization that fights gender discrimination in the visual arts and promotes 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, galleries and artists. Since 2025, she has been Guest Curator for Tide Magazine and collaborates with Assia Ugobor and Lamia Zanna as Artistic Director for several multidisciplinary festivals like Art Emergence, Maison des Métallos / Artagon; Parallèle.
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 Marseille) 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, Germany); Unbound. Performance as Rupture at the JSF (Berlin, Germany); mine is a warm hole at afterhours, (Paris, France); and The Location of Lines at the MCA (Chicago, USA). Her writing has appeared in Mousse Magazine, Metropolis M, Art Asia Pacific and Texte Zur Kunst, as well as collective publications such as Basma al-Sharif. Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins in 2025, Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde in 2023 and A World History of Women Photographers in 2022.
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 (Paris, France) 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, USA) and in 2022 and 2023, she was a Curatorial Fellow at Mudam (Luxembourg). She was previously Assistant Curator at the Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin / Düsseldorf, Germany).
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 between Montreuil and La Trinité) is a curator and independent researcher.
Her curatorial projects focus on issues of memory and contemporary survival strategies. She is particularly interested in the experiences of marginalized and diasporic bodies, from which she seeks to highlight mechanisms of domination, colonial legacies, and the spaces of resistance that they produce and perpetuate. Through exhibitions, educational workshops, and conferences, she has recently worked with Tropiques Atrium (Fort-de-France, France), Villa Arson (Nice, France), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), CAC Brétigny (Brétigny-sur-Orge, France), Dublin Fringe Festival (Dublin, Ireland), La Station Culturelle (Fort-de-France, France), Paris 4 & Paris 8 Universities (Paris/Saint-Denis, France), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, Germany), and ENSBA (Paris, France).
Since 2017, she has been conducting research and publishing texts on the challenges of exhibiting the work of Afro-Caribbean artists, decolonial curatorial practices, and mental health.
In 2023, she co-founded SMAC (Mental Health in Contemporary Art).
In 2024, she received the Cnap Research Grant in Art Theory and Criticism for her project “Garde-corps et autres protègements” on strategies for reappropriating Caribbean quimbois.
Noelia Portela
Based in Paris
Spoken & written languages : Spanish · English · French
edition · Latin America · decolonial · collective practices · pedagogy
Noelia Portela (born in 1982, Uruguay and based in Paris) is an independent curator, art worker, and educator.
She has held various positions in galleries, art institutions, and contemporary art fairs internationally, including Enjoy Public Art Gallery and Peter McLeavey Gallery (Wellington, New Zealand), AFA Chile for the Ch.Aco fair (Santiago, Chile), VENICE DESIGN (Venice, Italy), 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (London, United Kingdom), and more recently Mira Art Fair (Paris, France).
In 2017, she founded Persona Curada (Paris, France), a nomadic and experimental curatorial project dedicated to promoting Latin American contemporary art in dialogue with the French art scene. Through this platform, she develops a curatorial practice and research rooted in decolonial and diasporic perspectives, using a situated approach.
In 2024, she served as commissioner for the AWARE Prize. In 2025, she was awarded the Fluxus Art Projects grant for a curatorial research project conducted in collaboration with The Showroom (London, United Kingdom). That same year, she was a mentor in the Atelier des Savoir-Portages program, directed by Tropical Papers.
Her writings have been published in specialized journals, including Artishock Magazine (Chile), Relieve Contemporáneo (Argentina), and Obra (Switzerland).
Assia Ugobor
Based in Marseille & Paris
Spoken and written languages : French · English · Bresilian Portuguese
performance · gender studies · emergence · dance · diasporic narratives · live performance
Assia Ugobor (born in 1994, Paris and based between Marseille and Paris) is an independent producer and programmer.
Rooted in the field of dance and performance, her research and creative work has developed through collaborations at the Lia Rodrigues Art Center (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), MC93 (Bobigny, France), and T2G (Gennevilliers, France). She is committed to bringing marginalized narratives back to the forefront, notably through the Moteur de recherche program (Ballet National de Marseille, France), a curated space exploring the notions of repair and archiving of bodies.
In 2024, she co-founded OYA, a production and programming platform dedicated to creating privileged spaces for supporting emerging artists.
Since 2025, she has been part of the program dedicated to future directors of cultural institutions run by the Parallèle platform and the Fondation de France, and is co-programming the 16th edition of the festival dedicated to emerging international practices. These various projects reflect an attempt to engage with institutions in order to collectively rethink them with a view to reparation.
Eleonora Milani
Based in Rome
Spoken and written languages : Italian · English
performance studies · choreographic thinking · time‑based practices · editorial research · art writing
Eleonora Milani (born in 1987, Italy and based in Rome) is an art historian, independent curator, author, and editor.
Her research focuses on time-based media in institutional and non-institutional contexts, with a particular focus on the intersections between dance and performative practices. Drawing on her background in museology and visual studies, she explores the body and choreographic methodologies as critical tools for exhibition design, publishing, and discursive formats. She has developed exhibition projects and public programs in Italy and internationally. She has also worked extensively in international art publishing, as editor and managing editor at Flash Art, and collaborating with magazines such as Spike and 032c.
Her engagement in writing, pedagogy, and collaborative research has informed her teaching of critical writing in master's programs, in visual studies, and in curatorial practices at NABA (Milan/Rome, Italy), and continues to guide her curatorial and editorial approach. She is currently developing her research on choreographic methodologies and temporal practices in contemporary institutional settings, and is working on the creation of her first independent editorial and curatorial platform.
Émilie d’Ornano
Based in Lyon
Spoken and written languages : French · English
installation · site-specific practices · production · relational curating · art centers
Émilie d’Ornano (born in 1991, France and based in Lyon) is an independent curator, art critic, and teacher.
She is the director of the contemporary art center KOMMET (Lyon, France), which she founded in March 2019. Since 2016, she has been developing a curatorial program at KOMMET while also carrying out projects as an independent curator in France and internationally. Her work mainly takes the form of site-specific projects developed from specific territories and social contexts, in both urban and rural areas. She has been a guest curator for several programs and events, including the international event at the Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR) (Strasbourg, France), the Föhn curatorial platform and the Châtellerault art center (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France). At the same time, she writes regularly for artists and various cultural institutions.
Since 2019, she has been teaching art history, communication strategy, and exhibition curation at several French schools, notably at ICART (Paris, France) and Jean Monnet University (Saint-Étienne, France). She also runs a professional development program for graduates of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (Lyon, France).
She is a board member of C-E-A c-e-a / association française des commissaires d’exposition [the French association of curators] and a member of the executive board of the centre d’art contemporain de Nîmes (CACN) (Nimes, France).
Inès Yahiaoui Houviez
Based in Marrakech and Paris
Spoken and written languages : French · English
Morocco · MENA region · research-creation · digital colonialism · counter-archives · critical futures
Inès Yahiaoui Houviez (born in 1997, France and based between Paris and Marrakech) is a curator, researcher, and project manager.
Her practice operates at the junction of curatorial research, writing, and international collaborative projects, with a strong interest in archives, technocritical narratives, and alternative modes of knowledge production. Trained in history and research-creation, she is interested in the links between coloniality and technology, approaching technological systems as infrastructures shaped by histories of power.
Her work builds an epistemological bridge between history, its discontinuities, and its recompositions, mobilizing speculation not as fiction but as a method of actualization. She has contributed to the Moroccan editions of the Art Explora Festival (Tangier/Rabat, Morocco), is a co-member of the multidisciplinary festival Connected Matters (Denmark/United States/France), and is currently involved in the Goethe-Institut's transnational research program Museum as Imaginations (Paris, France).
At LE 18 (Marrakech, Morocco), a multidisciplinary cultural space, she is working on the publication of the venue's ten-year anniversary, developing a post-graduate residency, and co-curating the long-term group exhibition Archéologies at Dar Bellarj (Marrakech, Morocco) from 2025–2027.
Una Mathiesen Gjerde
Based in Oslo & Paris
Langues parlées : Swedish · Norwegian · Danish · English · French
Written languages : Swedish · Norwegian · Danish · English