French visual artist and designer based near Basel, Stéphane Koyama-Meyer grew up surrounded by art, with parents who regularly took him to museums when he was young and a father who painted and taught him to draw. He remembers being exposed to the work of major twentieth century artists from an early age, seeing enormous […]
For Yuval Bezalel, painting begins with the hands, before there is a narrative, before there is a finished composition and sometimes before he even understands what he wants to say, there is simply the physical need to make something. He describes always having felt drawn to working with his hands, whether cooking, drawing or painting,
Félix Deschamps Mak is a French painter based in Paris, working in large scale figurative compositions that draw from an unusually wide net of sources: photographic archives, opera, cinema, literature, street observation, found objects. His paintings tend to gather soldiers, boxers, matadors, children, animals, and unnamed figures into the same ambiguous space, staged with the
Katya Quel is an artist and multidisciplinary creator, born and raised in Moscow, who now lives and works in Paris after roughly a decade based in Germany. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, she builds elaborate fictional worlds populated by trolls, elves, witches, castles, and imagined creatures, a body of work she describes, without much
Carlo D’Anselmi is a painter based in New York whose work builds believable colorful worlds on canvas, pictorial spaces with their own internal logic, where objects, figures, and symbols sit in relationships that are meant to surprise the viewer rather than settle into a single, closed meaning. He works primarily in oil painting, though largely
Valeria Vertii is a Ukrainian-born artist based in Paris who works across painting, drawing, metalwork, ceramics, and glass, moving so fluidly between mediums that she has trouble listing them all without leaving something out. She trained first as a painter and has spent the last several years pulling that foundation toward sculpture and installation, driven
Some artists search for inspiration in distant landscapes, history books, or moments of profound personal revelation. Leo Chesneau finds it in an A4 sheet of paper, a toner cartridge, a Post-it note, or the standardized dimensions of a hollow-core door. At first glance, these objects feel almost invisible. They belong to offices, classrooms, construction sites,
From digital worlds to airbrushed paintings, Austin Lee explains why the future of art isn’t about technology, it’s about connection. Sitting in his Brooklyn studio surrounded by luminous canvases, airbrushes, sculptures, and computer screens, Austin Lee doesn’t describe art as a profession or even a practice. Instead, he describes it as a way of existing
For Portuguese painter Mafalda d’Oliveira Martins, painting is a way of understanding people. Working primarily in oil, Mafalda creates figurative paintings that explore memory, vulnerability, relationships, and the quiet moments that often pass unnoticed. While her paintings frequently begin with ordinary scenes or familiar faces, they become much more than records of reality. They are
Dominik Gegaj is a contemporary watercolor artist based in Paris whose work explores themes of identity, memory, love, isolation, belonging, and personal transformation. Born and raised in Austria to immigrant parents from Kosovo and Albania, Gegaj has developed a distinctive visual language built around indigo and ultramarine watercolor paintings that balance emotional vulnerability with technical
