Charles Pétillon

Born in 1973, Charles Pétillon is a contemporary artist known for his photographic works and large-scale, site-specific installations. He is frequently commissioned to create works for public spaces and regularly holds exhibitions in galleries and museums.

Program:WA

Olivier Grossetête

Born in Paris in 1973, Grossetête creates works that infuse everyday life with poetry and dreams while questioning social and physical laws. His work ranges from collages incorporating administrative documents and the creation of poetic objects to large-scale architectural projects using cardboard. Having collaborated with local communities to build over 350 structures across five continents, he explores the symbolism of architecture, human connections, our relationship with the world, and the way we live and act together.

Program:Collaborative Monumental Cardboard Construction 2026: Let’s build the gates of the ephemeral together

Yoann Bourgeois Art Company

Yoann Bourgeois continually challenges the boundaries between different artistic approaches. His unique method manifests as a physical passage that highlights singular phenomena, propelling him toward a vast array of spatial concepts and an infinite range of movement variations. His body of work is the culmination of a lifelong, ceaseless creative process—one he describes as the pursuit of an inaccessible suspension point. After collaborating with numerous renowned choreographers, Bourgeois founded his own company in 2010. From 2016 to 2022, he served as Artistic Director of the National Choreographic Center of Grenoble (CCN2), becoming the first circus artist to head one of France's nineteen National Choreographic Centers (CCN).
Bourgeois pursues a thoroughly multidisciplinary—fusing diverse genres—and innovative form of physical expression, engaging in performances, collaborations, and workshops around the world. His work is rooted in site-specific creation unique to each location, harnessing the energy and inherent characteristics of the surrounding environment.

Program:Approach 17. Opening


Approach 19. Passage

Clédat & Petitpierre

Working together since the 1986, partners in both their personal lives and artistic practice, they work as sculptors, performers, and choreographers, creating a unique body of work centered on the human body in a state of constant transformation and motion. Their performances fuse dance with visual art, conjuring dreamlike, poetic worlds in which the performers undergo striking transformations. As both sculptors and performance artists, they blur the boundaries between exhibitions, galleries, museums, public spaces, and theaters. They pioneered the concept of activated sculpture, in which they themselves inhabit the works and breathe life into them through subtle performance.

Program:The Bathers / Les Baigneurs

Leïla Ka

Ka has created choreography for Beyoncé, the César Awards ceremony, Zaho de Sagazan, and the Chilean National Ballet, among others. Drawing inspiration from both urban and contemporary dance, she established her own signature style in just a few years. After entering the world of street and urban dance, she passed an audition for Maguy Marin without having received formal dance training, and began her career as a dancer in Marin’s masterpiece May B before moving on to her own choreography. Her first three works—solos and duets—achieved global success, with performances in over 20 countries. Her first ensemble piece, Maldonne, became a worldwide phenomenon within just a few months; it has toured globally for three years, including a sold-out performance at the Olympia in Paris and shows in locations ranging from Colombia and the United States to Serbia.

Program:Bluff

Hicham Berrada

Born in Casablanca in 1986, he is now based in Paris and Roubaix, France. Incorporating a scientific approach, Berrada’s work fuses intuition with knowledge, and science with poetry. He held a solo exhibition at the Mennour gallery in 2023, and in 2024, his solo exhibition Aléas (Chance) was presented at the Municipal Gallery of Sindelfingen, Germany. Berrada has also been nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2020.

Program:Presage

Clément Cogitore

Born in Colmar in 1983, and now based in Paris and Berlin. After studying at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France, Cogitore developed an artistic practice that lies at the intersection of contemporary art and cinema. Blending film, video, installation, and photography, he explores the forms of symbiosis between human beings and the images or representations they create. His work is driven by a distinctive perspective on ritual, collective memory, the embodiment of the sacred, and the permeability between different worlds. His works have been screened and exhibited at institutions such as the Palais de Tokyo, Museo Madre (Naples), Centre Pompidou (Paris), ICA (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), MACRO (Rome), MoMA (New York), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, SeMA Bunker (Seoul), Red Brick Art Museum (Beijing), and Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel), as well as at international events including the Lyon Biennale, Berlin Biennale, and Yokohama Triennale.

Program:Les Indes Galantes, Morgestraich, Elegies

Lou Le Forban

Born in 1997 in Marseille, Lou Le Forban studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and Le Fresnoy in Tourcoing. Her work centers on video, painting, and textiles, composed like collages that bring together different imaginations, from historical anecdotes to folk tales. Her work has been exhibited at La Villette, FRAC Île-de-France, Institut Français Madrid, Musée National de Cluny, Argos Center Brussels, Transpalette Bourges, and universities in Angers and Rennes.

Program:Tohu va bohu

Yuyan Wang

Yuyan Wang, born in China and based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her work explores recycled materials from image production and their transformation within digital frameworks. Through editing, she deconstructs and recontextualizes materials, disrupting conventional modes of perception and transforming them into immersive sensory experiences. Her work has been presented at Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, and numerous international film and media art festivals.

Program:One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean

Momoko Seto

Born in Tokyo, Momoko Seto studied at Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts in France before working as a director at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
Her highly innovative work deals with ecology and environmental issues, employing striking styles using macro lenses, slow motion, and time-lapse photography to issue a wake-up call for the post–climate change future. In 2021, she received the Cristal du CNRS, the highest distinction for a scientific director. She directed the PLANET series, including PLANET Σ, which won the Audi Short Film Award at the 2015 Berlinale. Her first feature film, Dandelion's Odyssey (2022), won the Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma award and received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes 2025.

Program:Planet A