Violoniste de profession, Sébastien Grébille s’est approché de la photographie par le biais de la musique. Retranscrire au public l’émotion, le geste technique ou la puissance des maîtres du classique est devenu incontournable. Peu à peu, il se mit à chercher ces ambiances intenses, lyriques et dramatiques en d’autres
lieux. La recherche de sites intemporels et surréalistes parfois, où l’on retrouve une nature puissante, féérique, sauvage, mais aussi des traces de civilisation devint une priorité. Pour mettre en scène ces vues hors du commun, il utilise une technique de longue exposition : les ciels chargés de nuages denses s’expriment alors librement, la mer devient comme laiteuse… ce qui suggère la vision d’un autre monde.

Ces photos font partie de la série « Another World », réalisée sur dix ans de temps.
Pour obtenir ce rendu, la technique de longue pose est utilisée. La prise de vue dure plusieurs minutes. L’appareil photographique utilisé est un moyen format Phase one, qui restitue un degré de détails naturels et précis sur toute l’image.
Les tirages sont réalisés sur Photorag Hannemhüle, taille image 90x90cm dans un cadre en aluminium noir de 1x1m. Les tirages sont limités dans cette taille à 3 exemplaires.

Philippe Lamesch was born and raised in Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg. He did his undergraduate degree in Namur, Belgium and moved to the United States in 2001 to pursue his graduate work in molecular biology. During his years in Boston Philippe got acquainted with the medium of printmaking and under the guidance of his teacher and mentor Catherine Kernan he developed a particular interest in copper etching and monoprinting.

After moving to California, Philippe joined the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley where he worked as a part-time artist in residence from 2008-2012. In 2012, he moved back to Luxembourg where he recently became a member of the printstudio EMPREINTE in Luxembourg city.

Most of his current work consists of multi-plate etchings made from different etching techniques including photoetching, aquatint, spitbite and drypoint.

Born in 1964, in France in Boulogne-Billancourt, Frank Jons lives and works in Luxembourg since 2001. A diploma in accounting and financial studies in his pocket, but a passion for painting since his childhood, he decided to devote fully to art in 1996. The first trigger was the Estève exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1986. Matisse, Van Gogh, Debré, Alechinsky, Rothko or Soulages, Frank Jons devoured art but it was above all color that fascinated him. In 2000, he undertook an 8-month trip in a motorhome with his wife and child through from United States through Canada, to the Arctic Circle, which changed the way he worked as for practical matters, he evolved from oil to acrylic.

In 2008, the Pierre Werner prize positioned him on the Luxembourg artistic scene. Personal exhibitions follow one another, the public discovers his instinctive painting from which color springs. Marathon runner, trail runner, Frank Jons is endurant. His painting is physical, his art a chromatic explosion.

“There is a kind of frenzy, a kind of trance when I paint, a kind of exaltation. It’s only
energy and I want it to be freed from all constraints.”

Oriane Bruyat is a 27 year-old Luxembourg artist who began drawing at the age of 6, alongside her professional painter and designer father.
Painting comes to Oriane when she is 19 years old. She first studied ethnology and anthropology of the performing arts at the Faculty of Letters in Nice. After this course, she joined her first passion, painting.
Her first influences were Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Her work consists of a desire to deform imagined bodies and faces. Open mouths, deaf cries of suffering.
Oriane created her characters through marble, clouds, tiles and scribbles. Everything that comes under her field of vision forms faces.
Today, she presents new series of paintings around existing people. A new exercise, which came to emerge in its creativity and in a new technique.
It is a new relationship with the body that is being created. It is a humanisation of the canvas. Man in the concrete and real sense can now be subject to the formation of a source of inspiration.

“The sex that nature gave me, my femininity is proving to be a source of anxiety for me. I express a relationship of little conflict with the vagina, the breasts. Feminine curves. The body is a separate part of the human mind. He can correspond, get along or, on the contrary, go to war. We interpret it in our own way just with thought. We think the body with several tools. It is with the brush that I tried to listen to him and understand him.
The expression brings it to life. The joyful, happy expression does not inspire me so much. I seek to take pleasure in displeasure. Because if we love all the things that culturally, we should despise then maybe happiness awaits us. One day, my body will transform, if it is not already transforming today. That my shadow will remain intact by these deformations. Deforming the body, that’s my ambition so as not to get too attached to it.”

Sarah Mandres is a self taught artist who was born and raised in Luxemburg. She’s been very enthusiastic about painting and handicraft since her early childhood.

One of her first times she came in contact with creative working was throught her grand-mother. She was the one who planted the creativity into her head and heart and influenced her evolution from a very young age.

In 2019, Sarah started creating more full time as a way of showing her own very unique point of view.

In 2021, as a well established new-comer, she had her first solo exhibition that focused on the harmony between control and the exact opposite of it.

David Soner est né à Metz en 1974, et évolue aujourd’hui au Luxembourg. Adolescent, il découvre la culture Hip-Hop, qui en est alors à ses débuts. Il s’essaye aux différentes disciplines de cette culture underground, break-dance ou encore rap, mais c’est finalement à travers le graff qu’il découvre sa véritable vocation.

Il commence ainsi à déposer son “blase” dans les rues de Metz et se fait appeler Soner, en souvenir d’un ami disparu qui lui avait suggéré ce nom d’artiste. Plus que l’esprit vandale, c’est à l’esthétique que Soner s’intéresse. Cette préférence le conduit à rejoindre une école de graphisme, à changer de support et à exposer.

Pour l’artiste, le blase cache plus de travail qu’on ne le soupçonne généralement. Son obsession de la signature le conduit à la calligraphie. Son style est ainsi influencé par la calligraphie arabe. Son métier de graphiste l’ouvre ensuite à d’autres sources d’inspiration plus contemporaines, car Soner peint avec son temps, ce qui donne toute sa modernité à son oeuvre. Celles-ci sont singulières par la délicatesse et la précision du trait, qui témoignent de l’expérience de l’artiste, ainsi que par la subtilité de son choix de couleur. Et pour cause, Soner est expert en identité visuelle.

En effet, débordant de créativité mais aussi de professionnalisme, Soner met également son talent au service d’entreprises en quête d’une identité visuelle forte et originale, via sa société Caligrafizm. Dans ce secteur, Soner a la particularité de réaliser des logos à la main, gardant volontairement un fort lien avec l’artisanat.

Alain Welter, born and raised in Luxembourg, is a mural artist and illustrator. After his degree in Illustration Design at BTK in Berlin, he returned to Luxembourg to take root as an artist. Be it a wall, a barn, a bridge, facades, cooling towers or commercial spaces, Alain imparts this small country a touch of colour wherever he can.

Nonetheless, he illustrates certain magazines and had solo exhibitions in art galleries. The greatest achievements so far were Alain’s project ‘Make Koler Kooler’, where he transformed his home village ‘Koler’ (‘Kahler’) into an urban art museum; and painting five cooling towers on the premises of a steel manufacturer, which both brought him great visibility in Luxembourg and abroad.

I am an engineer and have always used photography to develop a personal language and a passion which allows me to balance the Cartesian and codified aspects of my profession.
In the course of my self-taught approach, I have studied the various photographic trends across times, cultures and technologies then available. This led me to develop a glance, a vision of my own. Even
though I am inspired by realistic photographers such as André Kertesz
and Saul Leiter, my artistic approach is currently abstract and allows me to transform the real world around us into an imaginary world which the viewer can escape into.
My photography is a long pause on urban environments around us, essential in our ever accelerating lives. It is close to that floating moment one reaches in meditation, between inhaling and exhaling. It is not the
result of a post production process but the willingness to paint, directly through the lens of my camera, a pictorial vision of my urban wanderings.

Dudelangeois d’origine, et passionné de photographie depuis son plus jeune âge, Mike Zenari s’est amusé à expérimenter divers appareils, objectifs, films et manipulations numériques.
Il aime en particulier saisir des moments sur le vif, capturer des instants et raconter des histoires avec ses images.
Ses reportages l’amènent à rencontrer constamment de nouvelles personnes, à se retrouver dans des situations aussi inexplorées qu’insolites. Il apprécie d’en réaliser des portraits ou attraper l’air du temps de ces sujets.
Au cours de ce développement, il a eu l’occasion d’exposer certaines de ses œuvres.

A part son travail artistique Mike réalise des commandes pour différents medias, maisons d’édition, associations et particuliers.

“AQUA VITA EST”
Sur la planète bleu, où tant de personnes n’ont pas accès à l’eau , l’humanité se trouve face à un désir de rationaliser sa répartition. Ce combat est représenté par la feuille morte entourée d’eau, source vitale.

Après avoir fait des études à l’école des beaux-arts d’Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire, il est reçu à l’École supérieure d’art de Grenoble, où il continue son apprentissage artistique, qu’il terminera à l’Académie des beaux-arts de Düsseldorf.

Il travaille aussi bien la vidéo, la gravure, la photo, la peinture, le dessin et la sculpture, que l’installation et la performance.

Barthélémy Toguo est représenté par la galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg et la galerie Lelong & Co, Paris et New-York.

Dieudonné Fokou is born in 1971 in Bamendjou, Cameroon. He lives and works in Yaoundé. His workshop is located on the rock of Messassi.

Sculptor, painter, serigrapher, he was trained by two Cameroonian visual arts masters: Jean Kouam Tawadje and Joseph Francis Sumégné, winners of several visual arts competitions in Cameroon (2006: 2nd prize in the ICCPPC international competition; 2005: 1st prize in sculpture at the 18th CPS art competition in Mbalmayo).
He works on themes as diverse as peace, justice or human identity.
His works are periodically exposed in exhibitions in Africa, the United States and in Europe.

Dans le cadre de certaines formations, il donne des cours dans des écoles camerounaises et allemandes avec une méthodologie d’enseignement hybride qui s’appuie aussi bien sur son expérience professionnelle que sur des démarches des créations observées chez d’autres artistes.

Tagne William Njepe was born in 1983 in Douala (Cameroon). Growing up in a single-parent household with a sick mother, he was forced to work at an early age and eventually had to leave school to help provide for his family for several years before studying fine arts and print making at the Atelier Viking in Douala.

The loss of childhood plays a key role in Tagne William Njepe’s art, particularly his current series Enfance volée (“Stolen Childhood”), which denounces child labor and champions the right to education. Exorcising his own experiences of forced labor, Njepe portrays children doing odd jobs, their everyday reality juxtaposed with the bright colors of the background that visualizes a world of dreams filled with cartoon characters and cheerful peers.

Born in 1968 in Bafang, Cameroon, Hako Hankson now lives and works in Douala.

Self-taught artist, Hako, whose real name is Gaston Hako, was however promised to a very different future. However, he chooses the paint and the elements that forged his youth. Holder of a technician’s patent in automobile mechanics, from the primary classes, he can not help but decorate his classrooms.

Hako indeed grew up under the influence of the art and cultures of the sources of his country. His father, first notable of his village, was one of the greatest notables of Cameroon in addition to being a sculptor and musician at the Royal Palace. Hako was therefore brought up surrounded by objects from the initiation rites: masks, statuettes, totems, etc. used by his father. So many elements that we find today in his works. These sources of inspiration, inserted meticulously into his work, plunge us into the magical universe of the characters of the tales and praises of his ancestors, thus brushing the limit which separates profane and sacred.

Hako also takes a look at the duality between tradition and contemporaneity and thus invites us to question “the ashes” of our past in order to draw from it, and above all to redefine, our Africanity. He is looking for a future, according to him certain. Whether it is drawings, paintings, sculptures or any other artistic form, his approach and his style are recognisable by the unity that emerges in his works.

Kristine TSALA is born in Yaoundé. She is a girl from the forest. Until she was 18, she lived in her village in the middle of tall trees. with already a heated desire to represent things according to her sensitivity. and her vision.

The characters she paints are her many trees. Her mother played an important role in her vocation by enrolling her in the Mbalmayo Art Institute.

She will continue later at the Fine Arts of Kinshasa. The street, her inexhaustible source of inspiration…these are men and women whom the artist meets every day, during her wanderings…the streets are Douala with their colours, horns, spices, and smells.

Painting in rich and dazzling colours, her giraffe characters are slender, elegant with tapered necks…a scene where mystical signs and an infinite cultural heritage of masks intertwine. This artist offers a split vision, that of the difficult time of social integration with modern “traditional” duality.

In love with the loincloth fabric, she incorporates it into her compositions in a subtle and aesthetic way. Its supports vary from wood, cardboard, fabric, canvas. The semi-abstraction of her giraffe characters, the animal realism she associates with her compositions and the abstract-shadows she now feels attracted to.

Born in 1984 in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Rostand Pokam is a painter who lives and works in Douala.

Holder of a master’s degree in History of African Arts obtained at the University of Yaoundé 1, His passion for the plastic arts materialized at the end of his first secondary cycle, although having a well-defined career in Mathematics, he chooses to continue his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts of Mbalmayo / Cameroon (IFA). Rostand Pokam is a free painter. Having been rocked by the particular brushstrokes of his father (Kouam Tawadje) he managed to define a signature of his own.

“Learning every day” is a creed that he materializes through a range of workshops and residences, in this case: “At-Work Douala 2017″organized by the Moleskine foundation with Simon Njami, Digital Photography Workshop as monitor organized by the Spanish Embassy in Cameroon (2010), “art for art’s sake-art why? led by Prof. Vera Bourgeois, organized by the Goethe Institute (2006).

His work whose style is between impressionism and fauvism. He paints and depicts the realities “from his point of view” of the environment around him. His descriptive and sociological approach, his sketches, his whimsical colors testify to the experience of his plastic fantasies thus questioning the notions of representation and presentation of contrast and balance, to always renew his pictorial attempts.

Winner of several competitions including 2nd prize for painting Universities of Yaoundé 1 in 2006, 2nd prize for painting Embassy of the United States of America in 2014. Rostand Pokam has several collective and individual exhibitions to his credit.

Arnold FOKAM is a young visual artist born in 1996 in Cameroon where he lives and works in the city of Douala.

His work revolves around water in relation to the body and opens up to a multidisciplinary practice that explores painting, assembly, sound creation and installation.

Graduated in Plastic Arts and History of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts of the University of Douala in Nkongsamba, he followed a training course which led him more towards painting on canvas before experimenting later on. other mediums.
Artist of dreams and utopia, his work will have a spiritual, cultural and ecological dimension. He is interested in the notion of symbiosis, and offers an intimate dialogue between Humanity and the aquatic universe. He recalls that the critical state of the Anthropocene highlights the need for humans to take care of water, the source of all life on Earth.

It is the protection and the celebration of life that is at issue in his work, but also a tribute to the woman, bearer of life and generator of worlds, who becomes in the space of her stagings and her blue portraits, the face of the human race.

He is the winner of the Goethe Découverte 2020/Visual Arts Prize and his work is part of several collections such as that of the Goethe Institut and the contemporary art center Doual’art.

Born in 1993 in West Cameroon, Aurélie Djiena lives and works in Douala. Having trained at the Institute of Fine Arts (IBA) of the University of Douala in Nkongsamba, she assiduously attended the workshops of Jean Jacques Kanté, Hervé Youmbi and Kristine Tsala. She graduated in 2017 with a Master II in plastic arts.

Since her academic studies, she has taken a particular interest in painting, installation, also photography and sometimes video art. She is enthusiastic and passionate about building bridges between painting, artistic creation techniques and human behavior. Djiena says she is very fascinated by complementary colors which allow her to approach the complexity of human beings and their environment.

Anchored in the technique of weaving, her style is a heritage approaching basketry (a profession practiced by her grandparents). His painting is centered on the evocative power of color. By repeating colors with reflections of kinetic art, Aurélie pays homage to Vasarelly and Yaacov Agam.

Jean Vincent Kamgang Fokou, peintre naît à Bafoussam au Cameroun le 16 octobre 1990.
Arrière petit fils du sculpteur Takam Massagouong, il devient orphelin à 18 ans.

Contraint d’abandonner ses études il gagne sa vie en étant vendeur et en réalisant des travaux de graphisme publicitaire. Il profite de ses heures de liberté pour dessiner, peindre et assouvir sa soif inextinguible de connaissances dans l’histoire de l’art. Avec une grande résistance, il s’applique à surmonter les obstacles de son existence. L’art est sa seule intégrité, sa révolte, son unique moyen de survivre à la douleur d’un corps meurtri, à ses interrogations existentielles.

Le besoin de s’exprimer par le biais des pinceaux remonte à son enfance. Croquer les visages, transmettre au papier ou à la toile ses émotions.
Curieux d’explorer de multiples horizons, ses tableaux évoluent au fil du temps et sont inspirés par l’Humain.
Son style se nourrit de l’observation de notre contemporanéité. Le réalisme de son travail se teinte de touches abstraites en filigrane. Elle lui permet l’étude des êtres et des choses en témoignant de notre époque et de ses questionnements. Elle raconte un moment précis, un ressenti ou une pensée observée sur un visage ou sur un
objet. L’ambiance, la pose, le geste mais aussi les couleurs ou la texture donnent au tableau sa vision personnelle des sujets. L’universalité des émotions et des attitudes est le centre d’intérêt du travail de l’artiste peintre.

Vincent Kamgang Fokou témoigne par ses œuvres et souhaite que le spectateur y trouve un temps de réflexion et d’introspection dans l’intimité de son âme.

Il nous invite dans un monde où notre propre imagination trouvera une réponse.