Pino Pinelli (1938, Catania, IT – 2024, Milan, IT) is renowned for his pittura con corpo, or painting with an “invitation to touch”: rhythmic wall cadences of palpable plaster marked by his signature imprint and color. Following his death in 2024, Pinelli’s work has remained at the forefront of contemporary art, with recent solo exhibitions held in his honor, including: Omaggio a un amico at Lattuada Gallery, Milan (2026); Being a poet with a single word at Dep Art Gallery, Milan (2024); and Ceramiche at Dep Art Gallery, Milan (2023). Dedicated monographs continue to document and reflect on his practice, and his work is regularly featured in gallery exhibitions and art fair presentations.

A major moment in his later career was the 2018 multi-venue retrospective Pino Pinelli: Painting Beyond the Limit at Palazzo Reale—Gallerie d’Italia, Milan, which followed exhibitions at Museo delle Arti, Catanzaro (2017), and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2016). The Palazzo Reale catalogue, edited by Francesco Tedeschi, addresses Pinelli’s contribution to contemporary art. A notable presentation of his work was also realized at Art Basel Unlimited (2021). His legacy is further sustained by the Pino Pinelli Foundation, which maintains his studio in Milan’s Brera district. His work is included in major museums and private collections in Italy and worldwide.

Elsa Tomkowiak (1981, FR) is acclaimed for her paintings and large-scale installations grounded in color and spatial experience—the artist’s and the viewer’s, indoors and outdoors. Her recent installations include Echo on the monumental steps of the National Assembly, Paris (2025); Shed-Shade in the courtyard of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France (2024); and Bon Voyage at Château de Seneffe, Belgium (2024). In 2023, she participated in Territoires Extra, led by the Centre d’art contemporain Passerelle in Brest, Quelque chose comme in the botanical garden of Rouen, and the Festival d’Art de l’Estran, France.These followed a range of site-specific projects, including works for an opera house in Nantes, bridges in Quebec, a glasshouse in Pougues-les-Eaux, and interventions at the Château-Musée de Tournon-sur-Rhôneand the Basilique Saint-Vincent in Metz.

Following her participation in Making Things Happen at TMH (2017-18), Tomkowiak was selected for ARTZUID in Amsterdam and the OpenART Biennale, Sweden (2019). Her permanent multi-painting installations include a hospital facility in Angers (2017), a park sculpture commission in Lyon (2019), and a monumental mural along a cycle path in Ille-et-Vilaine, France (2023).

Sylvie Bonnot (1982, FR) is a photographer and transmedia artist known for her radical questioning of documentary narratives. Her work is held in museum collections and is the subject of several monographs, including Contre-courants (Nouvelles Éditions, Paris, 2016), Derrière la retenue (FACIM Foundation and Actes Sud, 2017), and L’arbre machine – un monde en mue (Éditions Loco, 2024). Her institutional exhibitions include: Musée des Archives Nationales, Paris, and Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2019); Derrière la RetenueI, II, III (solo public commissions), FACIM Foundation, Savoie (2019-23); and Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon (2018). She was awarded the hors les murs residency (2021) at the Observatoire de l’Espace of CNES (French National Space Agency), leading to exhibitions based on her trips to the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the Guiana Space Center.

In 2023-24, Bonnot’s work was presented in Échos des canters (L’Arbre machine) in Rémire-Montjoly, French Guiana, and in Épreuves de la matière and La photo à tout prix at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Paris. Winner of the ECPAD × ADAGP photographic residency at Fort d’Ivry (2024) and of the Grande Commande Photo Radioscopie, led by the BnF (2022-23), Bonnot joined the Tendance Floue collective in July 2025. Her series Le Royaume des moustiques [The Kingdom of Mosquitoes] was presented in the Emergence section at Paris Photo 2025 with Hangar Gallery.

Zhu Hong (1975, FR, born CN) moved to France to counterbalance her training in Shanghai. Her work, distinguished by a singular economy of distilled painterly means, has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon (accompanied by the monograph 3m² de lumière, published by Lienart Éditions, Paris, 2017), at Pôle International de la Préhistoire in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, at Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, and at Musée Ziem in Martigues, France. Her practice continues to receive increased attention, including a solo feature at Art on Paper, Brussels (2019/22) with SinArts Gallery (NL) and the two-part solo exhibition Les lignes de l’eau [Water Lines] at Musée d’Arts de Nantes (2021). Zhu Hong was featured in Making Things Happen at TMH (2017–18).

In 2023-24, her work was included in Un bref instant éblouissement at La Maison de l’Erdre, Nantes; Poussière d’ombre at Maison Arakawa, Japan; and Élégance du trait at Galerie 208, Paris, among others. Recent exhibitions include Chaque jour est une naissance at Dôme de Saumur, in collaboration with the FRAC collection of Pays de la Loire (2026); Les murmures du trait at Passage Sainte-Croix, Nantes (2025); and Vaste comme le ciel renversé at Abbaye de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, France (2025).

André Stempfel (1930, FR/CH) is known as an iconoclastic reinterpreter of geometric abstraction. After he lost his works in a fire in 1970, his practice centered on the visual language of the monochrome, primarily in yellow, and he extended his work to urban sculpture. Stempfel was already a determined painter at the age of 10 and chose art as his métier at the age of 17. He has been part of the international art scene from the late 1960s, showing in museums and galleries in Paris and abroad, and becoming an honorary member of the international MADI movement in 1989.

His works are part of important collections such as that of the Pompidou Center and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR), the Mondrian House in Amersfoort (NL), the Mathematics Museum (Arithmeum) in Bonn (DE), Satoru Sato Museum (JP), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Museum Ritter (DE), and Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas (USA), among others. The Merchant House highlighted his work at Art Rotterdam, in the group show The Indispensable Experience of Art in 2021, the solo show An Amsterdam Retrospective in 2023, and in a special group presentation at PAN Amsterdam in 2023. In Paris, he is represented by Galerie Lahumière and has regularly been showcased in their shows of geometric abstraction, including at Art Paris 2022 and as part of their Motionless Mobility survey, 2023. His works were shown at important art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Cologne, FIAC, and Art Paris. Stempfel lives and works in Paris, where he shares his studio with his wife, the poet Evelyne Wilhelm, who collaborates with him on his artist’s books.