Dany Albiach

Dany Albiach was born in 1999. He lives and works in Lyon and graduated from the Villa Arson in 2024. His artistic practice is pluralistic: he explores the notions of traces, memory and resuscitation of the past via drawing, photography, sculpture and screen printing, pondering the materiality of images and their potential to build narratives. […]

Lukas Meir

Lukas Meir began his art studies at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany, and graduated from Villa Arson, Nice, in 2023. His artistic practice includes painting and sculpture. Meir’s work shows scenes of everyday life, using a visual language that evokes Renaissance religious painting. Through this confrontation, he seeks a level of meaning where the social and […]

Mathis Pettenati

Born in Toulouse in 1997, Mathis Pettenati lives and works in Brussels. Studying at the Villa Arson from 2016, he received his master’s degree in Fine Arts (DNSEP) with distinction for ‘excellence in visual art’ in 2021. Influenced by graffiti, by the artists of the New York School and by a drawing practice that has […]

Mouna Bakouli

Mouna Bakouli is a Moroccan artist (born in 1992 in Casablanca) who graduated in 2018 from the Villa Arson and was awarded the City of Nice’s Prix de la Jeune Création in 2018. She produces drawings, paintings and sculptures that she thinks of as fragments and then organises as a kind of super-organism or an […]

Eglé Vismanté

The first scholarship for a young artist resulting from the partnership entered into by the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation and the Villa Arson in 2017, was awarded to Eglé Vismanté on 14 October 2017, during the opening of the Villa Arson’s autumn exhibition. Eglé Vismanté was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. She lives and works […]