Iris is an artificial intelligence specializing in contemporary art, putting its knowledge at the service of the artistic projects of the YourArt platform.
It's a creative and clever tool. Its aim is to provide you with cross-views of the platform's content, to facilitate and enrich your exploration within it.
Tell it about your tastes, your desires or your research, and it will accompany you in your artistic discoveries!
Florence Briat-Soulié is the co-founder with Caroline d'Esneval of the online journal TheGazeofaParisienne in 2014, dedicated to art news and contemporary creation. Exhibitions, meetings with artists, selections at contemporary art fairs, a play, readings, etc... are reported in articles twice a week.
To support artists and decompartmentalize disciplines, Florence created the Balzac Prize for contemporary creation, endowed with €20,000 and an exhibition at the Maison de Balzac. The 2023 edition rewarded an artist/cook duo for a work related to La Comédie humaine. She also teaches a master's degree in cultural policy at Sciences Po on public/private sponsorship.
Frédéric Lorin, a financial lawyer, is a collector and patron of artistic associations and foundations in France and abroad. In June 2020, he founded CulturFoundry, a philanthropic association that brings together collectors wishing to promote and support the contemporary creation of resident artists.
Over the past four years, more than 85 artists have been exhibited. Giving more visibility to artists who are not necessarily represented by a gallery, showcasing them differently through the collector’s perspective, enabling them to continue creating and producing so that they remain witnesses of our time, strengthening their careers at a pivotal moment—these are some of CulturFoundry’s objectives.
To achieve this, CulturFoundry designs and fully produces contemporary art exhibitions in various venues in the Île-de-France region, while also organizing artistic meetings and cultural events in studios, art centers, residencies, and contemporary art fairs.
Famous for the memes she posts on her Instagram account @ohpet.art, opened in 2019, Solène Potier de Courcy hijacks the works of art she associates with everyday life, creating humorous montages. A devotee of art and culture, she shares her passion with a clever blend of humor and pedagogy.
It's an approach that fits perfectly with YourArt's mission: to democratize art.
Jennifer Flay, born in New Zealand, is the Chair of the Advisory Board of Art Basel Paris and an advisor to the President of the Fiminco Foundation. Director of FIAC from 2003 to 2021, she is credited with playing a key role in the fair’s international recognition.
With a degree in Art History, she worked from 1982 to 1991 for prestigious galleries and in 1991 founded the Jennifer Flay Gallery, which notably represented artists such as Claude Closky, John Currin, Michel François, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Karen Kilimnik, Zoe Leonard, Christian Marclay, and Xavier Veilhan. Jennifer Flay sits on the Board of Directors of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the FRAC Île-de-France.
She has been awarded the Legion of Honor and is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Eve Farache is a graduate of Penninghen and works in art direction and curation through a variety of projects, ranging from cultural press to organizing art events.
Léontine Behaeghel is a journalist and autofiction author. She published her debut novel, Cinq Petites Tristesses, in January 2024.
Together, they founded Radar, a contemporary art and literature magazine aimed at showcasing the work of those under 30. They also curated the exhibition Mémoires du futur at Poush in June 2024.
For nearly two decades, as part of the FIAC week, Chambres à Part has remained an unusual and exclusive exhibition concept.
It was conceived in 2006 by art advisor Laurence Dreyfus, who presents her artistic discoveries as a headhunter" for rare artists at the forefront of contemporary creation, in some of the most prestigious locations in the French capital: Hôtel Sezz, Hôtel Shangri-La, La Réserve - Paris, Galerie Kramer. Traveling the world throughout the year in search of contemporary art gems, Laurence Dreyfus designed the event as an ideal collection, a unique opportunity to discover and acquire artworks."
CMS Collection was born of the desire of three friends and passionate collectors - Joanna Chevalier, Hervé Mikaeloff and François Sarkozy - to build a joint collection and develop a platform to support contemporary artistic creation.
The development and production of artistic projects are at the heart of CMS Collection's commitment to promoting and recognizing the work of its artists. To this end, CMS unveils the work of the artists with whom it collaborates at art fairs, initiates exhibitions in museums and public and private institutions, and collaborates with international galleries.
The artists currently supported by CMS Collection are: Anas Albraehe, Marcella Barceló, Huong Dodinh, Nabil Nahas and Yunyao Zhang.
Content creator on social networks in the art sector. On Instagram and TikTok, he has 900,000 followers. Democratizing art and making it accessible to as many people as possible is an integral part of his work.
Working with cultural institutions such as the Fondation LV, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris Musées and Monaco's Grimaldi Forum, he aims to awaken a vocation and interest in culture among people on social networks.
Founded by Aurélie Dablanc and Anne-Marine Guiberteau, stArter is an artistic agency specialized in assisting companies and communities that wish to initiate a cultural project.
Their services range from art acquisition consulting to bespoke artwork production, as well as the organization of public relations events and team building activities.
With a combined 25 years of institutional career experience, Aurélie Dablanc and Anne-Marine Guiberteau are passionate about art and advocate for accessible art outside of museums. They collaborate with artists to create interactive and often participatory projects that are always inclusive, bringing wonder to both young and old alike.
Barbara Lagié is curator and exhibition director for Radicants, the curatorial cooperative founded by Nicolas Bourriaud. She has directed and supervised numerous projects and exhibitions for galleries, as well as events such as the Nuit Blanche and the Venice Biennale (2022).
She is currently curating the 15th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, opening in September 2024.
Anaël Pigeat is an art critic, journalist and curator. She was editor-in-chief of art press magazine before joining the French edition of the monthly The Art Newspaper as editor-at-large. She is also a regular contributor to Paris Match's culture section on exhibition news.
On France Culture, she has been a columnist on the program La Dispute, and producer of Master Classes, as well as series on the program A Voix Nue. She produces and hosts her own podcast, Phonomaton. Recent books include Alice Neel, les émotions (Flammarion). Recent exhibitions include Dana Schutz, le monde visible (Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris).
Marc Donnadieu (born in 1960 in Jerada, Morocco) is an independent exhibition curator. He previously served as the chief curator of the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne from 2017 to 2023, curator at LaM (Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary, and Outsider Art) from 2010 to 2017, and director of FRAC Haute-Normandie from 1999 to 2010.
He has curated significant monographic and thematic exhibitions focused on contemporary photography, the field of painting, drawing practices, current representations of the body, identity processes within today's social spaces, as well as the relationships between photography and outsider art.
Elora Weill-Engerer is an art historian with degrees from the École du Louvre and the universities of Paris 4 and Paris 1.
She is a curator member of C-E-A and an author member of AICA. In 2023, she was awarded the Prix AICA-France de la critique d'art and the Traverses grant.
In her research, she is interested in the intersections between art forms and linguistics, and the ways in which artists enable us to think about the social, political, environmental and feminist issues symptomatic of today's society.
Her work focuses on Roma and traveller identities in contemporary art, the question of stereotypes and the political portrait of the artist. She is currently preparing a doctoral thesis (Paris 1) and teaches at the Ecole du Louvre.
Passionate about contemporary art and photography, a compulsive collector and a graduate of Sciences Po and HEC Paris, Fabien Vallérian has worked for Cristallerie de Baccarat, Manufacture nationale de Sèvres and now Maison Ruinart.
Dedicated to supporting artists and designers, he works to build bridges between historic houses and contemporary creation, making them ever more contemporary. He is a jury member for numerous art awards (Paul Smith Foundation Prize, PAD Paris and London Awards, Maison/0 This Earth Awards at Central Saint Martins School, Art Eco-Conception Prize with Art of Change 21 and Palais de Tokyo, Prix Flaubert...).
Founded by Florence Marmiesse and Camilla D'Alfonso, IDA is a creative strategy and art curation consultancy, creating a link between talent, collectors and companies. IDA discovers artists from around the world and develops their visibilitý, through collaboration and art buying. The IDA residency, will host 6 artists at the Ebbio estate in Tuscany this summer, offering them a research-friendly environment.
Thanks to their background, from Central Saint Martins, to their experiences at Sotheby's, Artcurial, Fabergé and Almine Rech, as well as their collaborations with P.Demarchelier, H.Peccinotti and G.P.Barbieri, in NYC, London, Paris and Shanghai, Florence and Camilla are convinced that art refocuses every approach on essential values.
Born in Tokyo in 1993, Hannah O'Neill is a Étoile dancer with the Ballet national de l'Opéra de Paris. She joined the company in 2013, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2015. She was named Étoile in March 2023 following the performance of Balanchine's Ballet Impérial.
Hannah O'Neill dances works by Balanchine, Lifar, Robbins, Roland Petit, Carolyn Carlson, Preljocaj, Millepied, Martinez and Mats Ek. She took part in the repertory entries for ballets by William Forsythe and Hofesh Shechter, as well as creations by Justin Peck, Crystal Pite and Pierre Lacotte, among others.
She performs leading roles in the classical repertoire, including Odette/Odile (Swan Lake) and Kitri (Don Quixote) by Nureyev. 2024 marks her debut as Gisèle in the ballet of the same name @operadeparis
Art critic and curator Grazia Quaroni is an Italian art historian based in Paris. She is Director of Collections at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. She has worked for Fondation Cartier on over 40 exhibition projects.
She is curator in charge of all the collection's exhibition projects worldwide, including the most recent in Seoul, Buenos Aires, Shanghai and Milan. Since 2019, she has also been Executive Director of the Triennale Milano/Fondation Cartier cultural partnership.
She has participated in the artistic programming of institutions such as the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Miro Foundation in Barcelona. Grazia Quaroni has been an associate professor at Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.
A cultural entrepreneur, Sonia Perrin founded the One Step Beyond agency, specializing in cultural project management and artistic direction. Over thirty years' experience in the exhibition, development and communications professions, at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and then the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, have given her a solid background in contemporary art.
Trained in communications at CELSA, art history at New York University and social psychology at Paris Descartes, her reflexes are always the same: learn, undertake. She took the Trans-Siberian Railway, traveled through Mongolia and India... and published a travelogue. Sponsoring children in Madagascar, she discovered the country and created the Azé association for access to education (aze-asso.org).
Art critic, curator and writer, Anaïd Demir has contributed to numerous media (Le Journal des Arts, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Technikart, Le Monde 2, Jalouse, Radio Nova, Direct 8...). Her exhibitions are like narratives in which playfulness and philosophical reflection rub shoulders, in venues as varied as hotels, galleries and art centers.
A novelist, she has published stories rooted in the field of art: Le Dernier jour de Jean-Michel Basquiat (Ed. Anabet, 2010), Joconde Intime (Ed. Léo Scheer-Laureli, 2011), Maison-mère (Ed. Plon, 2022). Her latest book, Les Suffragettes de l'art ou L'entrée des femmes à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Ed. Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2024), recounts the struggle of women artists to gain access to art education.
A-Topos' was born a few years ago, a collective operating in pairs and based on a duality of backgrounds, generations, itineraries and sensibilities. Sharing observations and issues, taking up challenges and aiming for common goals, the members of a-topos', Gaya Goldcymer and John Taieb, decided to create their curatorial structure as a tool that would enable them to make their targets visible.
As a result, they have collaborated with both emerging and established artists, and have exhibited in galleries, museums, industrial wastelands, clubs and contemporary spaces. But also as part of the Galerie Épisodique they run in parallel in Paris.
Carole Chrétiennot is Image and Communications Director for Café de Flore and La Closerie des Lilas in Paris, iconic venues in literary and cultural history. In 1994, she co-founded the Prix de Flore literary prize with novelist Frédéric Beigbeder, followed in 2007 by the all-female Prix de la Closerie des Lilas. Carole Chrétiennot is also co-founder of the Prix Castel, and a member of the jury for the Prix Hemingway and Prix du Meurice.
In 2019, she is helping to create the Cinéroman Festival, the first festival devoted to French and foreign films adapted from literary works. A contemporary art enthusiast and collector, she has been a patron of the Parcours Saint Germain since its creation in 2000.
Clara Darrason is a French-American curator. In 2015, she founded and co-directed The Chimney (2015-2020), a gallery in Brooklyn NY where she developed a program focused primarily on in-situ installation commissions working to revitalize former industrial sites. She has held the position of gallery manager at Almine Rech NY and global operations manager for the Almine Rech France, Belgium, UK, USA, China, Monaco galleries (2016-2023).
She recently curated the exhibition "Vertigineuses" at Galerie Selebe Yoon in Dakar, Senegal; "Règnes" by Anne-Charlotte Finel at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris. In 2024, she founded a company specializing in exhibition curating and management, production & programming, strategic & operational planning for individuals, companies and institutions in France and abroad.
Mathé Perrin Dehaeze is a committed collector renowned for her contribution to the promotion of arts and culture. Passionate about photography, in 1991 she created "Le Printemps de Cahors", which welcomed numerous international artists and discovered many new talents. In 2001, the festival moved to Toulouse and became "Le Printemps de septembre".
It then opened up to the visual arts, always driven by the desire to support artists, encourage the most audacious creations, and promote access to art for as many people as possible, notably through free admission. Today, she is Honorary President of the renowned "Le Nouveau Printemps" festival. Mathé Perrin Dehaeze is delighted to be associated with YourArt, which offers its pages to artists from all horizons.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sandra Hegedüs studied philosophy and cinema. A militant artist, she took part in several performances before settling in France, where she developed a career as a documentary film producer. In 2005, her love of art led her to build up a collection of contemporary art.
Her desire to make a stronger commitment to supporting creative work naturally led her to become a patron of the arts. In 2009, she set up SAM Art Projects, to promote the work of foreign artists in France and French artists abroad, through residencies and the awarding of a prize, linking the Paris art scene with countries outside the usual art world circuits, and building bridges between Europe and non-Western countries.
Creator of the Mois de la Photo in Paris (1980), Jean-Luc Monterosso is the founder of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, which he directed from 1996 to 2018.
Author of numerous publications and curator of over a hundred exhibitions, he is currently correspondent for photography at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Institut de France).
Editorial and curatorial platform founded by Sophie Toulouse and Barbara Soyer,
Since 2011, The Drawer has been publishing a journal of the same name, which brings together a selection of artists around a common theme every semester. To date, 22 volumes have been published, forming a unique editorial collection focused on contemporary drawing.
Since 2017, The Drawer has also been publishing monographs and artist books, including works by Caroline Rennequin (2021) and Fiat Lux by Pierre Seinturier (2021). Additionally, The Drawer curates monographic or group exhibitions in partner venues such as galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, galerie du jour Agnès b, Librairie galerie 0fr, and more.
