Artist residencies

Ahmet Öğüt was in residence at LUMA Arles in fall 2016.

Ahmet Öğüt was born in Silvan, Diyarbkır, Turkey, in 1981. He lives and works between Amsterdam and Berlin. Ahmet Öğüt is constantly seeking to create works that address complex social issues (immigration, demographic problems, the impact of economic activity on everyday life and workers’ re-appropriation of working tools), with a sense of humour that highlights rather than masks the seriousness of their subject matters.

Sohrab Mohebbi was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to december 2016.

Sohrab Mohebbi is a writer and curator currently based in Los Angeles. His curatorial projects include Hassan Khan: The Hidden Location (Queens Museum of Art, 2011), Rope-a-Dope (co-curated with Gabi Ngcobo) (Cabinet, 2010), For All the Wrong Reasons (Center for Curatorial Studies graduate thesis exhibition, 2010), and Strike a Pose (co-curated with Özge Ersoy) for Bidoun Projects 2010. Mohebbi is the recipient of a 2010 Montehermoso research grant for the project Visual Parrhesia. His writings have been published in Bidoun, where he is a contributing editor, as well as in Artforum, Art Agenda, e-flux journal, and Modern Painters, among others. Mohebbi was the 2010 curatorial fellow at Queens Museum of Art. He currently teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.

Peio Aguirre was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to december 2016.

Peio Aguirre was born in Elorrio, Spain, in 1972. He lives and works in San Sebastián. Peio Aguirre regularly contributes to frieze magazine. As an independent curator, he was in charge of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019 with artists Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego.

Anna Colin was in residence at LUMA Arles from october to december 2016.

She lives and works in London. Anna Colin is the co-director of the Open School East in Margate, England – a space dedicated to artistic development and the exchange of knowledge and savoir-faire between artistic and local communities. She is also an associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations –Galeries Lafayette Foundation in Paris.

Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou were in residence at LUMA Arles from october 2017 to march 2018.

Respectively born in 1989 and 1988, in Toulouse, France. They live and work in Paris. Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou are a curator duo based in Paris. In May 2018, they curated the ‘Cruising Pavilion’ exhibition at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, interrogating the relationship between minority sexual practices and architecture. A second iteration of their curatorial project was exhibited at Ludlow 38, in New York, in February 2019, and the third and last edition took place at ArkDes in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fall of 2019. In September 2018, they were the curators of a group exhibition on neo-liberal baroque at Converso, Milan. They often contribute to magazines such as Flash Art and L’Officiel Art.

Paul B. Preciado was in residence at LUMA Arles from january to may 2018.

He lives and works between Paris and Barcelona. Writer and curator, Paul B. Preciado is an internationally recognised figure in the field of the philosophy of the body and the study of gender and sexual politics. His first book, Counter-sexual Manifesto, became a key reference for queer and transfeminist European activism. He is the author of Testo Junkie. Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics and Pornotopia. He recently published An Apartment in Uranus, a collection of his articles for the French daily newspaper Libération since 2013. In 2020 he publishes Je suis un monstre qui vous parle, a text from the lecture he gave in front of 3500 psychoanalysts during the international days of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne in Paris in 2019.

Florentina Holzinger was in residence at LUMA Arles from fall 2018 to spring 2019.

Florentina Holzinger was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1986. She lives and works between Vienna and Amsterdam. Florentina Holzinger’s dance pieces are driven by the notion of identity, sexual and physical transgression. Drawing inspiration as much from Viennese Actionism, body art and bodybuilding as from classical ballet, cabaret and even circus, she deconstructs, performance after performance, the very definition of femininity.

Yuri Pattison was in residence at LUMA Arles from fall 2018 to winter 2019.

Yuri Pattison was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1986. He lives and works in London. Frieze Artist Award 2016, Pattison uses digital technologies, video and sculpture to conduct extensive research on the social and political ramifications of accelerated technology development and visual density in the digital age. In 2018-2019, he joins the LUMA Arles artists residencies program.

Mohamed Bourouissa was in residence at LUMA Arles from winter to spring 2019.

Born in 1978 in Blida (Algeria), Mohamed Bourouissa lives and works in Paris (France). Mohamed Bourouissa describes contemporary society implicitly, by its contours. With a critical take on the mass media image, the subjects of his photographs and videos are people left behind at the crossroads of integration and exclusion. Preceded by a long immersion phase, each of Mohamed Bourouissa’s projects builds a new enunciation situation. Unlike false simplistic media constructions, the artist reintroduces complexity into the representation of the margins of hypervisibility. His work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions, at the Rencontres d’Arles; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; basis in Frankfurt am Main; Le Bal, Paris; Haus der Kunst, Munich and the FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon. He participated in the Sydney, Sharjah, Havana, Lyon, Venice, Algiers, Liverpool and Berlin Biennales and the Milan Triennial. In 2018, he was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. In 2017, he was selected for the Pictet prize. His works belong to leading collections, including that of the LACMA, the Stedelijk Museum, the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Istanbul Modern, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Source: Kamel Mennour Gallery

Kiluanji Kia Henda was in residence at LUMA Arles from spring 2019.

Kiluanji Kia Henda was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1979. He lives and works between Luanda and Lisbon. Kiluanji Kia Henda questions, and not without humour, the colonial past of Angola, his native country, as well as the history of the African diasporas in Europe and today’s migration tragedy, while tackling the notions of identity, modernity and political engagement in his artistic practice.

Flora Katz was in residence at LUMA Arles from january to June 2020.

Born in 1984 in Choisy-Le-Roi, France. She lives and works in Paris. Flora Katz is a curator at LUMA Arles and an art critic. She holds a doctorate in philosophy of art from Paris 1 La Sorbonne, and is a specialist in the work of Pierre Huyghe. She has designed curatorial projects in France and abroad, notably at CIAP Vassivière, the Fondation Ricard, Instants Chavirés and Lafayette Anticipations. Previously, she worked at Bétonsalon - Centre d'art et de recherche and the Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. She regularly publishes in the field of research and contemporary art, notably: ‘Des formes à elles-mêmes’ (L'Écho du réel, Mimésis, 2021), ‘Penser l'extinction avec Pierre Huyghe’ (Revue Critique, Les Éditions de Minuit, 2019), ‘An Aesthetic of the Possible’, Cura, 2020), ‘Everything in Me that Feels, Thinks: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’ (Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Skira, 2020). In 2024, Macula will publish the book resulting from his thesis, entitled ‘Les notes de Pierre Huyghe: la fin des miroirs’ (Pierre Huyghe's notes: the end of mirrors).

Jakob Kudsk Steensen was in residence at LUMA Arles from january to june 2020.

Born in 1987 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist who works on environmental narratives through 3D animations and immersive sound installations. He creates poetic interpretations of little-known natural phenomena by collaborating with field biologists, composers and writers. His projects are based on in-depth fieldwork. His collaborators include composer and musical director of the Philip Glass Ensemble Michael Riesman, ornithologist and author Douglas H. Pratt, architect Sir David Adjaye OBERA, BTS, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Natural History Museum in London. Kudsk Steensen's work has recently been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Serpentine Galleries in London, PinchukArtCentre, MATADERO in Madrid, Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Pylon-Hub, SXSW at BRIC in Brooklyn, the 5th Trondheim Biennial of Art and Technology, the Carnegie Museum, MAXXI in Rome, FRIEZE in London, and OK Corral, among other institutions and festivals. Kudsk Steensen was recently artist-in-residence at LUMA Arles, where he documented phenomena linked to algae and crystallisation in the Camargue delta.

Linda Yablonsky was in residence at LUMA Arles in 2017.

The author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, as well as an art critic and journalist. Based in New York, she has been covering the international art world for more than 25 years for many publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Bloomberg News, Artforum and Artforum.com, The Art Newspaper and W Magazine. She has also contributed critical essays to monographs or exhibition catalogues on artists including Anish Kapoor, Keith Sonnier, Marilyn Minter, Francesco Vezzoli, Elmgreen & Dragset, Mark Morrisroe and James Nares. During her 2017 residency at Luma Arles, she worked on Why Jeff Koons?, the first book to take complete account of the artist's life and career, to be published in the United States by Henry Holt & Co.

Precious Okoyomon was in residence at LUMA Arles from october to december 2020.

Precious Okoyomon (b. 1993) is a Nigerian-American poet and artist. Their work considers the natural world, histories of migration and racialization, and the pure pleasures of everyday life.

They have had one-person exhibitions at the LUMA Westbau, Zurich; the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Performance Space New York, New York; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Madrid Foundation, Madrid; The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz. They were included in the Baltic Triennial 13, Tallinn; the 58th Belgrade Biennial, Belgrade; the 59th Venice Biennale, Venice; the 2022 Okayama Art Summit, Okayama; the 11th Sequences Biennial, Reykjavik; the 2023 Thailand Biennial, Chiang Rai, as well as in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; LUMA Westbau, Zurich; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin; LUMA Arles, Arles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Nigerian Pavillion, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz. Okoyomon’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt and LUMA Arles. Okoyomon was the 2021 recipient of the Frieze Art Fair Artist Award, as well as the 2021 Chanel Next Art Prize. In 2024, But Did You Die?, their second book of poetry, was co-published by the Serpentine and Wonder Press.

Sara Sadik was in residence at LUMA Arles from march to june 2021.

Sara Sadik was born in 1994 in Bordeaux. In 2018, she obtained a master’s degree from Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Marseille. She works on French youth from working-class neighborhoods and its culture, documenting its mysteries and deconstructing social mythologies, particularly those related to adolescence and masculinities. Her work is expressed in videos and performances, ranging from documentaries to science fiction and reality TV. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at 221 A (Vancouver, 2017), Karma International (Zürich, 2017), the Open’er Festival (Gdynia, 2017), Roodkapje (Rotterdam, 2018), Wallach Gallery-Columbia University (New York, 2019), Galerie Édouard Manet (Gennevilliers, 2019), Triangle France-Astérides (Marseille, 2021), Munchmuseet (Oslo, 2021) Magasins généraux (Pantin, 2021). She performed at the Do Disturb Festival, as part of the Triangle France-Astérides program (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019), and at the Parallèle Festival (Frac PACA and Friche Belle-de-Mai, Marseille, 2020). Her work is also featured in public collections such as the Cnap, the Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, the Frac PACA, and the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art. She is represented by the Crèvecœur Gallery, in Paris.

Alexandre Khondji was in residence at LUMA Arles from march to june 2021.

Born in Paris (France) in 1993. He lives and works between Paris and London. Alexandre Khondji is an artist. He studied at Bard College, in New York, and more recently at the Royal College of Art, in London. His artistic practice questions the status of the image and the work of art through their power of exhibition and manifestation. His work is also accompanied by theoretical research that he will seek to develop during his residency.

Christodoulos Panayiotou was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to november 2021.

Born in 1978 in Limassol, Cyprus, he lives and works in Limassol. Christodoulos Panayiotou's wide-ranging research focuses on the identification and uncovering of hidden narratives in the visual records of history and time. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held (amongst others) at the 56th Venice Biennial, The Cyprus Pavilion; Camden Art Centre, London; Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Centre de Création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours; Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kunsthalle Zürich; Casino Luxembourg; CCA Kitakyushu; Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig; Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny; and at Point Center of Contemporary Art, Nicosia. In 2019 he collaborated on the conception of the Emma Kunz - Visionary Drawings exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. His work was also shown in a number of group exhibitions including: the 8th Melle Biennale; the 14th Lyon Biennial; the 13th Sharjah Biennial; dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel; 8th Berlin Biennale; 7th Liverpool Biennial; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museion, Bolzano; Migros Museum, Zürich; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Ashkal Alwan Center for Contemporary Arts, Beirut; Artist Space, New York; MoCA Miami.

Julien Creuzet was in residence at LUMA Arles from november - december 2021 to april - june 2022.

Julien Creuzet is an artist, video maker, performer and poet. He spent most of his childhood in Martinique. These first years in the Caribbean, at the crossroads between the African, Indian and European cultures, have impregnated an oeuvre where the mixture of visions and imaginations has a central place. Through environments made up of composite assemblies, he creates footbridges between these constructs and Elsewhere, between the social realities of here and the forgotten stories of minorities. He represented France for the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Maria Hassabi was in residence at LUMA Arles from April to July 2022.

Born in 1973 in Cyprus. Lives and works in Athens. Maria Hassabi is an artist and choreographer, who practices equally in performance, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Her recent solo exhibitions include Secession, Vienna (2021); Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2019); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); and the National Gallery of Canada (2019). Louis (2019); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2017-18); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); The Kitchen, New York (2019, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2012); Performance Space 122, New York (2007, 2009).

Atheel Elmalik was in residence at LUMA Arles in september 2022.

Atheel Elmalik is a thinker, writer and filmmaker committed to the work of rendering black and African diasporic life on screen with specificity. She is interested in exploring liberated relationships of people to land and one another through stories of movement and migration, intergenerational healing, and connection to the sentience of the more than human world. 

Atheel received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Stanford University where she focused her degree on African and Visual Studies. She then held curatorial fellowships at art institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the Media and Performance Art department, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. After spending the last two years assisting and managing artist Arthur Jafa’s studio in Los Angeles, she is currently developing her first narrative film through Jafa’s newly formed film studio, SunHaus, which she will be working on while in Arles. 

Shahryar Nashat was in residence at LUMA Arles in 2022 / 2023.

Shahryar Nashat is a Swiss visual artist based in Paris. Focusing on our physical limits and the possibilities of extension, he treats digital and analogue technologies—from LEDs to stone and cast resin—as prostheses, props, or stand-ins. He has had solo shows at the Art Institute of Chicago (2023), Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020); SMK—Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2019); Swiss Institute, New York (2019); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Portikus, Frankfurt (2016); and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016).

Ahlam Shibli was in residence at LUMA Arles in 2022 / 2023.

Born in Palestine, in 1970 Ahlam Shibli’s photographic work and through a documentary aesthetic, addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home; it deals with the loss of home and the struggle against this loss, as well as the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally, among others, by Museo ICO, PHotoEspaña 2021, Madrid (2021); Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2019); Fotonoviembre, TEA, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2019); IVAM, València (2019, 2017); Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (2018); Darat al Funun, Amman (2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2010); Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon (2017); Documenta 14, Athens & Kassel (2017) & Documenta 12, Kassel (2007); SMAK, Gent (2017), Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena (2017, 2015, 2013, 2010); Carré d’Art, Nîmes (2015); Zachęta, Warsaw (2014); MACBA, Barcelona (2013, 2008); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2013); Museu Serralves, Porto (2103, 2010); Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2013); Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw (2013, 2010); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Tate Modern, London (2011); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008).

Adam Linder was in residence at LUMA Arles from winter to spring 2023.

Born in Sidney, Australia in 1983. Linder’s practice focuses on the specifics of dance and how different forms or genres relate to notions of technology, desire, value and power. At the age of sixteen, Linder was scouted by The Royal Ballet School in London and left Australia to pursue a career as a dancer. Linder’s early training was later consolidated during formative years spent with The Michael Clark Company and Meg Suart's Damaged Goods where he began to develop the critical and experimental strands that inform his choreographic work.

Habibitch was in residence at LUMA Arles from january to february 2023.

At the crossroads of multiple disciplines and identities, Habibitch is an Algerian-born, Paris-based, decolonial feminist queer artist-activist who has built an art practice that is as “woke” as her politics. Using spaces ranging from the ballroom scene to alternative festivals and institutional places, Habibitch’s performances and speeches are always intersectional, decolonizing the dancefloor wherever she goes. “Dance your politics and politicize your dance” is the vital punchline of this Swiss knife artist.

Hannah Black was in residence at LUMA Arles from september to december 2023.

Hannah Black is an artist and writer based between NYC and Marseilles. Recent shows include “Bad Timing” at Den Frie, in Copenhagen, and “2020” at Fitzpatrick Gallery, in Paris. She is the author of two small books, Tuesday or September or the End (2022) and Dark Pool Party (2016). She is represented by Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery in Berlin and Arcadia Missa in London.

Adam Haar Horowitz was in residence at LUMA Arles from october to december 2023.

Adam Haar is a scientist. He received his PhD from MIT, working between the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Medical School Center for Sleep and Cognition. He works to translate brain science into experiences and interventions, with a focus on sleep and dreams. He is a co-inventor of the Dormio device and Targeted Dream Incubation technique, which help people alter their dreams. Currently, he is building tools for nightmare treatment with psychiatrists at the US Dept of Veterans Affairs, co-organizing MIT’s Dream Engineering Symposium focused on scientific ethics, and designing a Dream Hotel with artist Carsten Höller. Adam’s work has been presented in Nature, Science, National Academy of Sciences, Harper’s, Cannes, and the World Economic Forum.

Mati Diop was in residence at LUMA Arles from april to june 2024.

Mati Diop was born in Paris on June 22nd, 1982. Since the early 2000s, she has built an eclectic body of work that has won awards at various international festivals. With her first feature film Atlantics (2019), winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival followed by Dahomey (2024) awarded by The Golden Bear of Berlinale, she has established herself as one of the leading auteurs of international cinema and of a new wave in African and diasporic cinema.  

She grew up in a french-senegalese family, between a musician father, Wasis Diop, and a photographer and art buyer mother. She is the niece of Djibril Diop Mambéty, director of the cult Senegalese film Touki Bouki(1973). Her nomadic, romanesque and political cinema which challenges the boundaries between genres and formats is an extension of her mixed identity.

Her formalist approach is rooted in an early curiosity for the fine arts, particularly video and sound. At the age of 20, she began working in theater, creating sound and video for plays. In 2004, she shot her first self-produced short film, Last Night. In 2006, she joined Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo’s artist-in-residence programme and research lab. After a brief passage at Le Fresnoy (National studio of contemporary art), she’s chosen to play the female lead in Claire Denis’ 35 Shot of Rum (2008). Her encounter with the French director confirmed her desire to become a filmmaker.  

And so begins the composition of a Dakar epic in three chapters that unfolds over a decade. Atlantiques(2009, Rotterdam Festival Tiger Award), A Thousand Suns (2013, FIDMarseille Grand Prix) and Atlanticsform a manifesto that signs a political choice: a cinema committed to Senegal, with its working-class youth as its beating heart. From the phenomenon of clandestine immigration that devastated Senegal's working-class youth to the deposition of the Wade regime in 2012, and the disappearance of Senegalese and, more broadly, African cinema, which golden age was embodied by the subversive and political work of her uncle Djibril Diop Mambéty, each film is an archive of an era and its contemporary issues. For the director, cinema is a tool of reappropriation to restore  missing images, question degrading colonial representations and invent heroes who have deserted the African imagination. 

In parallel, the filmmaker made several short films, including Big in Vietnam (2011, Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival) and Snow Canon (2012, selected at the Venice Film Festival), which explore recurring motifs and themes of her cinema : the solitude of exiled bodies, cities and landscapes imbued with mythology and mystery, and nights from which dances and ghosts emerge. These themes are echoed in Tokyo Trip (2023), produced for Chanel, and In My Room (2020), commissioned by Miu-Miu. She continues her video practice with Liberian Boy (2015) and Naked Blue (2022), co-directed with Manon Lutanie. Between 2020 and 2021, she also shot two music videos in Paris, for Bonnie Banane and Wasis Diop, as well as a commercial film with Solange Knowles.

With the creation of Fanta Sy, a film house based in Dakar, she pursues her artistic commitment on the African continent.

Torbjørn Rødland was in residence at LUMA Arles in April 2024.

Torbjørn Rødland was born in Stavanger, Norway, in 1970. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Curiosity, criticality, artifice and reverence for the natural world appear throughout Torbjørn Rødland’s work and often in the same image, forging links between twentieth-century art photography and twenty-first-century approaches to image-making. His latest project book is titled The Pregnant Virgin.

Federico Campagna was in residence at LUMA Arles from april to june 2024.

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His work revolves around the metaphysical aspects of imagination and the possibility of modifying the present “reality-system”. His latest books, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History (Bloomsbury, 2025), Prophetic Culture (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Technic and Magic (Bloomsbury, 2018) explored how ‘worlds’ can be born, destroyed, and created anew. In The Last Night (2013), he looked at contemporary work as a form of religion. His books have been translated in German, Italian, Norwegian (forthcoming), Spanish, and Turkish. 

Federico Campagna works as Lecturer in Philosophy and World-Building at The Architectural Association (London) and ECAL (Lausanne). He is the co-founder of the Italian philosophy publisher Timeo, the director of rights at the Anglo-American radical publisher Verso Books, and editorial consultant for philosophy, theology and mythology for the Italian publisher Einaudi. He holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, an MA from Goldsmiths University of London, and a MSc and BSc from Bocconi University in Milan.

He frequently collaborates as public speaker, podcaster and writer with some of the main international museums, contemporary art galleries and biennales. His work has been presented in numerous international institutions, including the Beyeler Foundation, Basel; the Venice Biennale; documenta, Kassel, Germany; Tate Modern, London; Transmediale, Berlin; Serpentine Gallery, London; Jameel Art Centre, Dubai; MACBA ­– Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; and MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome. 

Erika Verzutti was in residence at LUMA Arles from May to July 2024.

Erika Verzutti was born in 1971 in São Paulo, where she lives and works. In her work, Erika Verzutti combines different elements and styles. She sometimes works with classical materials such as bronze and clay, or more traditional materials such as papier-mâché and cardboard. Many of her sculptures reveal a particular attention to nature through the use of moulded fruit and vegetables, while other works are inspired by topical subjects such as newspaper headlines and Internet phenomena. Erika Verzutti was in residence at LUMA Arles from 1 May to 15 July 2024. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Hessel Museum - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2023) ; Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico (2023) ; MASP, São Paulo (2021) ; Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom (2021) ; Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2019); Pivô, São Paulo (2016); SculptureCenter, New York (2015); Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs (2014); and Centro Cultural São Paulo (2012). Her institutional exhibitions include the Biennale de Genève - Sculpture Garden, Geneva (2022); the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); the 32nd São Paulo Biennale (2016); the 34th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2015); 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013); the 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (2013); and the 11th Lyon Biennale (2011). Her work can be found in the collections of the Tate Modern in London, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim in New York, the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo and the Pinacoteca de Estado de São Paulo, among others.

Alice dos Reis was in residence at LUMA Arles with the support of the Gulbenkian Foundation-delegation in France from september to december 2024.

Alice dos Reis (b. 1995, Lisbon) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose practice involves film, textiles, installation and publishing. Her films are done mostly alone or with a small crew and use diverse mediums, from 16mm to smartphones. Threading between autobiography and fiction, they are characteristically atmospheric, haunting and sometimes humoristic, confusing historical and generational timelines and perceptions. She sees her meditative work in tapestry and needlepoint as an extension of these narratives, where repetitive “mendings” in wool and cotton allow for a permanence that contrasts with the film medium. Recent works combine images of animals, religious and cultic iconography, gendered artifacts related to class and health, and visions of technology.

She has exhibited, solo and in group, at the Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art (Porto), Canal Projects (NYC), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam) Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), among others. Her films have been shown in various international film festivals such as Sheffield DocFest, London IFF, and Curtas Vila do Conde IFF. Recently Alice was a recipient of Foundation Botin Visual Arts Grants (2022-2023), and previously, the Mondriaan Fonds Stipend for Young Artists (2020-2021). Alongside her work, Alice is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She also co-runs Pântano Books, an independent poetry press.

Chris Kraus was in residence at LUMA Arles in january and march 2025.

Chris Kraus is a writer and critic. Her novels include Aliens and Anorexia, I Love Dick, Torpor, and Summer of Hate, and she has published three cultural criticism books: Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness, Where Art Belongs, and Social Practices. I Love Dick was adapted for television, and her literary biography After Kathy Acker was published by Semiotext(e) and Penguin Press in 2017.

A former Guggenheim Fellow, Kraus held the Mary Routt Chair of Writing at Scripps College in 2019 and was Writer-in-Residence at ArtCenter College between 2020 and 2024. She has written for various magazines and has been a co-editor of the independent press Semiotext(e) since 1990. New York Times critic Dwight Garner has called her “a powerfully original writer,” and Index magazine described her as “one of the most subversive voices in American fiction.” Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability, and dazzling speed and has been translated into seventeen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.

Peng Zuqiang was in residence at LUMA Arles from march to june 2025.

Peng Zuqiang works with film, video, and installations, focusing on the affective resonances within histories, bodies, and language.

Recent solo presentations include Fondazione Sandretto (2023), Kevin Space (2023), Cell Project Space (2022), and E-Flux Screening Room (2022). His work has been featured in group exhibitions and screenings at Videobrasil, UCCA Beijing, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Times Museum, Eye Film Museum, IDFA, 25FPS, and the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.

He is the recipient of the Present Future Prize at Artissima (2022) and the Dialog Award at EMAF (2023, 2024). He has completed residencies and fellowships at Rijksakademie, Art Explora, Skowhegan, and the Core Program.

He lives and works between Amsterdam and Paris.

Julianknxx was in residence at LUMA Arles from mid april to june 2025.

Julianknxx is a poet, artist, and filmmaker. The polyphonic nature of Julianknxx’s work is indicative of his expansive practice, which is rooted in poetry but extends into performance, film, music and sculpture. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Julianknxx draws on his personal experiences to broaden perspectives on the history and culture of Africa and its diasporas. Inspired by oral history traditions and working with a distinctive aesthetic approach, his films invite us to consider how we construct both local and global narratives, while reflecting on how it feels to exist in liminal spaces.

His work has been shown at galleries and museums worldwide, with his acclaimed first institutional solo show Chorus In Rememory of Flight at the Barbican, London (2023), called “transcendent and poignant” by the Evening Standard.

Recent group shows include A World in Common at Tate Modern, London (2023); Rites of Passage at Gagosian, London (2023); and To Be Held at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate (2023). Previous participations include Whitechapel Gallery Open, London (2022); Nocturnal Creatures at Whitechapel Gallery (2021); Lux at 180 The Strand, London (2021); The View from There at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2021); and more.

Performances include Chorus in Flight at St James’s Church (2023), BURO Stedelijk (2024), and The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2024); Art Basel Conversations: Sonic Performance, Basel (2023); and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2023).