Ad Minoliti

Best known for her bright, colourful geometric abstractions and installations, Ad Minoliti incorporates feminist and queer theory to propose alternative interpretations of art history, design, architecture and politics. The artist combines the visual language of abstract and futuristic forms, shapes and colours with the language of liberation and queerness. The unexpected results are vibrant and playful while critical of the mainstream’s limitations on a queer body. Cofounder of the feminist art collective PintorAs, Minoliti turns exhibition spaces into bold classrooms, forming collaborations with other art practitioners to run workshops and symposiums. Her artistic practice takes real-life action in Minoliti’s quest to deconstruct canons, normativity and the established discourses. While ultimately abstract, her works create environments of inclusion that challenge the social hierarchies in art and politics in a non-abstract way. ...

Crèvecœur, founded in 2009 by Axel Dibie (born 1981) and Alix Dionot-Morani (born 1979), located in the Belleville area (eastern Paris) has, since its creation, presented artists from France and the rest of the world whose different practices question current conditions for producing images and objects. The gallery sees itself as a body that supports its artists in the various stages of production, demonstration and dissemination of their practice. Through its work inside 3 gallery spaces — a 160 sq.m. space in Eastern Paris (20e) with natural light that can host ambitious exhibitions; and two spaces in the historic centre of Paris (7e) through the co-creation, since 2015, of a new alternative fair called Paris Internationale; through a publishing house called oe publishing books by represented and invited artists; and through support for production of the institutional shows of the represented artists, Crèvecœur is an entity which aims to adapt, in an organic way, to the challenging systems that contemporary artists experience today. ...