Artists in residence

Mahmoud Mostafa is an Arabic calligrapher and visual artist based in Alexandria, Egypt. Born in 1993, he started practicing Arabic calligraphy at a very young age. After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering and getting a diploma in Arabic calligraphy, he decided to fully devote his life and career to his art.

Today, in addition to his creative work, M. Mostafa is working as a calligraphy instructor. He has won several international prizes in calligraphy and has exhibited in numerous local and international exhibitions, like the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennal in the UAE, in America, Russia, and Germany. 

Through his work, Mahmoud Mostafa aims to open the multi-secular art of calligraphy to modernity and confront tradition and contemporary art. Persuaded that aesthetic emotion can be universally shared, he tries to overcome cultural boundaries to reveal the transcendental beauty of calligraphy.  

Lou defines themselves as an urban gleaner, reusing and transforming construction debris and industrial waste to fuel visual narratives that are revealed to the public in the form of sculptures and installations.

Sensitive to the challenges of creation in a context of ecological urgency, Lou Motin questions the impact of our production on the environment. By presenting pieces that appear to have been extracted from a distant future, they invite the public to step into the shoes of a biologist, botanist or archaeologist exploring the traces and drifts of the Capitalocene.

Marwan Moujaes is a Lebanese artist, writer and researcher. He holds a teaching position in visual arts at the University of Strasbourg in France. Marwan has taught art practice and theory at various institutions, including Sorbonne University and the Lebanese Film Academy. He holds a PhD in Art and Art Sciences from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a MA in painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, and a DNSEP from the ESAD in Valenciennes.

Marwan Moujaes participated in artist residencies at institutions such as the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands), La Villa Empain in Brussels (Belgium), Tingshus in Gamleby (Sweden), Prendendo Tempo in Collemachia (Italy) Le Shed in Maromme (France) and Galerie Duchamp in Yvetot (France). His work has been exhibited at various art institutions, including Salts Centre for Contemporary Art in Basel (Switzerland), La-Halle à Pont-en Royans (France), Maison du Peuple Madeleine Lambert à Venissieux (France), Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht (Netherlands), Villa Empain in Brussels (Belgium), Nicolas Sursock Museum in Beirut (Lebanon), Fondazione Baruchello in Rome (Italy), Noisy Le Sec Centre for Contemporary Art in Noisy-le-Sec (France), Le Shed in Maromme (France). He received the public prize at the Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art in Paris in 2018, and the residency prize of the Fondation Boghossian-Villa Empain in Brussels in 2020, and has been awarded grants such as the DRAC Normandie grant in 2021 and the RN13Bis stipend in 2020. His research and narratives are regularly published in collective works, online magazines, and presented at conferences, seminars, and public lectures.