Atelier 11 Open Studio
15h - 19h, 24 January, 2026
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
Building on the 150-year legacy of Atelier 11 Cité Falguière as a sanctuary for international creative exchange, L'AiR Arts is delighted to invite you to our first Open Studio of 2026. Join us to experience the "living heritage" of the École de Paris through the work of contemporary artists: Evangelia Ntouni from Greece, now based in Germany, and Paris-based Chankalun (Karen Chan), originally from Hong Kong.
Having spent their residency working side-by-side at Atelier 11, these artists will present their latest projects, sharing their individual research and collaborative dialogues that have shaped their work.
Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, 75015 Paris
Building on the 150-year legacy of Atelier 11 Cité Falguière as a sanctuary for international creative exchange, L'AiR Arts is delighted to invite you to our first Open Studio of 2026. Join us to experience the "living heritage" of the École de Paris through the work of contemporary artists: Evangelia Ntouni from Greece, now based in Germany, and Paris-based Chankalun (Karen Chan), originally from Hong Kong.
Having spent their residency working side-by-side at Atelier 11, these artists will present their latest projects, sharing their individual research and collaborative dialogues that have shaped their work.
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Evangelia Ntouni
Evangelia Ntouni is a visual artist from Athens, Greece, based in Germany. Her works consist of installations, mainly in plaster, ceramics and collage. Thresholds, both real and metaphorical, and the way one interacts with them, play an important role in her practice. Her works refer to human actions; they often seek to be touched. They are embodiments of memories, personal experiences and contain ambivalent aspects.
During her residency with L'AiR Arts at Atelier 11, Evangelia Ntouni seeks to explore the idea of the body as a vessel where states of being converge, evolve, transform. She is interested in small, intimate gestures that while appearing transient or insignificant hold deep emotional and symbolic weight in moments of change. The gesturing hand, the fragmented body will be explored as key themes within her artistic practice during this residency.
Through an on-site process she aims to reflect on historical representations of the female body in art, especially the act of fragmentation. An aspect of this project will be research around L'Inconnue de la Seine, the anonymous drowning victim, whose death mask became an iconic representation of beauty and ended up being the inspiration for the modern CPR masks. In the open studio event, Evangelia Ntouni will present a work in progress of her site-specific project in the Atelier 11. |
Chankalun (Karen Chan)
Chankalun (Karen Chan) is an artist, educator, and researcher. Born in Hong Kong, she lives and works between Paris and Hong Kong.
Through hand-bent neon and installation, she reimagines this twentieth-century medium beyond its commercial origins, situating it within conversations on ecology, memory, and material intelligence. Her sculptures often translate natural phenomena — the flow of wind, the pulse of water, or the vibration of the earth — into light compositions that appear to breathe. She describes these works as “living scripts”, forms of writing that cannot be read but can be felt. 
During her residency with L’AiR Arts at Atelier 11, Chankalun's research continues to explore how language shapes our perception of the world. She is particularly drawn to the invention of Chinese characters - a writing system built on universal symbols rooted in nature, gesture, abstraction and sound. This inquiry extends into the neuroscience of language learning: how the words we use influence how we see - and how categories like female, male, animal, and nature are cognitively framed across cultures. Chinese, with its radical-based structure, offers a unique lens into this perceptual encoding.
She also hopes to investigate how text-to-image AI models (like Chat GPT 1) render Chinese characters visually. What happens when a machine attempts to reimagine ideograms that already collapse image and meaning into one? |
