The first French intellectual to dare take a closer look at the Bitcoin rupture, Mark Alizart majored in philosophy before working in the field of contemporary art from the year 2000 onwards. He was successively the cultural programs deputy manager of the Pompidou Centre, the deputy director of the Palais de Tokyo, the advisor to the minister … Read more →

Théo Casciani is an author. Retina, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019 and will be out in English and Polish in 2026 on HELA Press. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, His last novel, Insula, was published by P.O.L in … Read more →

A poetic, prospective and prophetic video game at a time when Los Angeles is still burning, Alice Bucknell's The Alluvials was one of Hodler Prize 001 most exciting discoveries. Alice is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Their recent work has focused on creating cinematic universes within game worlds, exploring the affective dimensions of … Read more →

Jean-Max Colard is a Paris-based art critic, curator, and specialist in contemporary French literature. He was head of the arts pages at the magazine Les Inrockuptibles from 1997 to 2017 and has written regularly for various art magazines and exhibition catalogues. Since 2016, he has been in charge of the Talk Program (Service de la parole) … Read more →

A major artist of his generation, Philippe Parreno has been active on the art scene since the 1990s. Working with formats as varied as film, sound, objects, installation, text, and drawing, as well as technologies such as AI and robotics, Parreno radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking it as a medium, placing its construction at the … Read more →

Spearheading a generation that is renewing the codes of contemporary art, Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet who transforms their texts into plastic installations. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life. They have had one-person exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland; the Museum … Read more →

Ecology, art, fashion, design... Emanuele Coccia offers a brilliant analysis of the contemporary world, wherever it is being shaped and transformed. He has been teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 2011. His books, translated into many languages, include La vie sensible (2010), La vie des plantes (2016), Métamorphose (2020) … Read more →

Ottessa Moshfegh is a novelist, screenwriter and essayist from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her next three novels, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona were all New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author … Read more →

The world's most revered and celebrated curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist is one of the few to have dared to place text at the center of the exhibition space. He is Artistic Director of the Serpentine in London, and Senior Advisor at LUMA Arles. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la … Read more →