Atelier 11 - April 2026
Saturday, 25 April, 2026
3 pm - 7 pm / 15h - 19h
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts invites you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio to experience the enduring creative pulse of Cité Falguière. In the very spaces where Soutine and Modigliani once collaborated with a multitude of artists and writers, the Atelier 11 residency continues as a vital platform for creative exchange and mutual inspiration.
Join us to meet contemporary artists Asja Mijović, Lora Zyuzina, and writer Milena Mc Closkey and the new perspectives they bring to this historic site. In the work of these artists, the boundaries between the ephemeral and the eternal are blurred. Through sculpted form and spoken word, they expand conceptions of organic matter and historical memory, playing with the limits of decay and preservation.
3 pm - 7 pm / 15h - 19h
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts invites you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio to experience the enduring creative pulse of Cité Falguière. In the very spaces where Soutine and Modigliani once collaborated with a multitude of artists and writers, the Atelier 11 residency continues as a vital platform for creative exchange and mutual inspiration.
Join us to meet contemporary artists Asja Mijović, Lora Zyuzina, and writer Milena Mc Closkey and the new perspectives they bring to this historic site. In the work of these artists, the boundaries between the ephemeral and the eternal are blurred. Through sculpted form and spoken word, they expand conceptions of organic matter and historical memory, playing with the limits of decay and preservation.
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Asja Mijović
Asja Mijović is a visual artist and curator from Montenegro. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, her practice engages material decay, memory, and rupture as generative conditions. Much of her inspiration comes from chance encounters or moments stumbled upon in transit, when the body is still but the world moves.
During her residency with L'AiR Arts at Atelier 11, Asja Mijovic will present Dead Flowers Rising, an installation of synthetic flowers encased in glass vitrines and gelatin emulsions. Sourced from discarded graveyard materials, these fragments pay homage to the tradition of still life. The work explores the possibilities of invention and reinterpretation of the still life’s classical form, inspired by the legacy of this practice at Cite Falguiere, notably the works of its former resident, Chaim Soutine. Mijovic’s found polyester flowers are deteriorated, faded, and frail, decaying toward their own abstraction. No longer commemorative, the installation contemplates the plastic flowers’ transience toward a new form. |
Lora Zyuzina
Lora Zyuzina is a ceramic sculptor from Russia, now based in Paris. In her practice, Zyuzina explores the themes of freedom of speech and censorship through the lens of street art. To her, the city is an archaeological site where one can "read" the lives of its people through the urban landscape.
Inspired by how, more than a century ago, Cité Falguière witnessed a meeting of poetry and visual art, Lora Zyuzina recalls the encounter between Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani. Here, a poet and a painter conversed through words and line. Text existed alongside the body, and image emerged alongside voice. The artist believes that their connection was less a matter of specific texts and more a temporal zone of intense cultural exchange: poetry, reading, walks, and discussions of art—one of the early formative experiences of a young poet in European art. Lora Zyuzina's project continues this historical dialogue through sculpture. Now, text returns to this space — no longer on paper or in drawing, but in fired clay, where poetic language can exist as the form of an object. This is not merely graphic work, but visual poetics, where text becomes part of image and meaning. |
Centered on the theme of the 2026 Printemps des Poètes : La Liberté / Freedom, we have also invited actress and writer Milena Mc Closkey to create a poetic dialogue, featuring the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. Milena Mc Closkey is an actress and stage director, trained at the Versailles Regional Conservatory (CRR) and at the Auvray-Nauroy School. Through her collaborations, she has developed a strong affinity for contemporary and poetic writing. In 2023, she founded the company Au bras des ombres, which champions texts by women, queer individuals, and poets. She is currently working on a stage production of the play Les perturbés dans les lilas by Alejandra Pizarnik. She is also a writer and translator.
L’AiR Arts takes pride in the diverse origins of our residents and the variety of perspectives they bring to Atelier 11. While we do not take responsibility for the personal opinions expressed by participants, we remain dedicated to an inclusive environment where all hosts, residents, and guests are treated with respect.
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