Atelier 11 - February 2026
21 February, 2026
3 pm - 7 pm / 15h - 19h
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts is pleased to invite you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio, a unique opportunity to experience the research and works-in-progress of artists Jana Visser and Michal-Sophia Tobiass, in collaboration with curator Sabrina Scher.
Located in the historic heart of Cité Falguière, Atelier 11 has served as a sanctuary for artistic research and intercultural exchange for over 150 years. This event continues the heritage of the "École de Paris" by fostering a dialogue between diverse origins and disciplines.
For this residency, the studio serves as a site for two distinct explorations of weaving—a bridge between internal thought and external form. Together, these artists breathe new life into the historic walls of Atelier 11, creating a space of reciprocity and becoming. We invite you to witness these living threads of thought and contribute to a process where art-making becomes a collective ritual of presence.
3 pm - 7 pm / 15h - 19h
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
L'AiR Arts is pleased to invite you to the Atelier 11 Open Studio, a unique opportunity to experience the research and works-in-progress of artists Jana Visser and Michal-Sophia Tobiass, in collaboration with curator Sabrina Scher.
Located in the historic heart of Cité Falguière, Atelier 11 has served as a sanctuary for artistic research and intercultural exchange for over 150 years. This event continues the heritage of the "École de Paris" by fostering a dialogue between diverse origins and disciplines.
For this residency, the studio serves as a site for two distinct explorations of weaving—a bridge between internal thought and external form. Together, these artists breathe new life into the historic walls of Atelier 11, creating a space of reciprocity and becoming. We invite you to witness these living threads of thought and contribute to a process where art-making becomes a collective ritual of presence.
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Jana Visser
Jana Visser is a South African textile artist and handweaver based in the Netherlands. Weaving as both an art-making method and its conceptual capabilities captivates her. Mediating between dualities of presence/absence, fullness/emptiness, active/passive, beginning/ending, as well as internal and external realities, Visser has no intention to juxtapose these notions against each other. Rather, she seeks a logic of reciprocity and becoming through the framework of her weaving practice.
During her residency at Atelier 11, Jana Visser continues her research into the mental space of weaving as a transcription of thought and inspiration – inspiration as the original breath or impulse for creation. Visser is especially intrigued by the phrasing: “conception of an idea”; as if ideas are “birthed” into the world as living threads of thought. Moreover, when ideating, contemplating or considering; one speaks of an “embryonic” phase, which strengthens the reference to the beginnings of a new lifeform; a breath of life. 
What would be the fastest way to make a mark? What would be the slowest way to make a surface?
Exploring the malleability of paper yarn and the ephemerality of charcoal dust, Visser contemplates the immediacy of a thought and the slowness of formulating it through the process of weaving. Perhaps these ruminations will materialise in the shape of seemingly silent yet receptive and textured surfaces that allow viewers to slowly perceive, and not rush towards finite conclusions. |
Michal-Sophia Tobiass
Michal-Sophia Tobiass is a visual artist and choreographer based in Paris. Her artistic work almost always stems from a personal need for healing and reparation. Her work explores, among other things, the rituals of various civilizations with different modes of visual and symbolic expression, including prehistoric art, ancient Egyptian art, and proto-prehistoric periods.
As part of her artist & curator residency with Sabrina Scher, Michal-Sophia will create an installation composed of sculptures woven from vetiver roots, as well as salt paintings. Throughout the residency, Michal-Sophia will continue to braid vetiver roots, exploring new techniques and weaving methods, to create a sculptural form evoking a feminine solar system that is both imaginary and archaic. 
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