Nelson Makamo is a Johannesburg based artist. Born in 1982, in a town called Modimolle, in South Africa’s Limpopo province. Gifted with an astounding artistic aptitude in drawing and painting. He honed his craft at Artist Proof Studios in Johannesburg where he studied print making.

After his study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, his work has been exhibited since 1985 in Europe, the United States, India and China. Fred Kleinberg lives and works in France.

Jean-Christophe Ballot is an architect D.P.L.G. graduated from the National School of Arts Decoratifs and from FEMIS. All his work is about space, from urban and industrial landscapes to natural settings filled with spiritualities. The artist settles in places of memories.

Born in 1959 in Brazzaville, Congo. Lives and works in Saint-Nazaire. Biologist of formation, Olivier de Sagazan is interested in life and seeks to establish through his work, a sort of genea-logy of the sensitive to understand how at a given moment, the inert matter structured in cells has generated life and sensitivity.

Tony Soulié was born in Paris in 1955, of Albigensian origin. Multifaceted artist he experienced paintings, performance and photography, Tony Soulié is one of the most important artists of his generation.

Many years ago, Catherine Wilkening felt the need to put her hands in the soil, in this organic matter. This feeling imposed itself on her and became vital. She works it sniffing, kneading, crumpling, smashing, clawing the matter until the form comes out.

The Loo & Lou Gallery opens a new part of its programming: the « Carte Blanche » is offered to independent curators that come to emphasize the inclination of the gallery to be open on the dialogue and to be ready to discover new approaches and new artists.

Flo Arnold creates for the Atelier an installation called « Vertige du Monde ». This germination of organic flows in backlit paper, with sound system, comes to devour the space like a luxuriant vegetation.

Christophe Miralles propose a series of oil paintings, papers and lacquers that he groups under the title of « Territoire Unique ». He speaks to us about humanity, travels and tolerance.

Born in 1956, Didier Genty lives and works near Paris. He trained as artist in the school of Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux.
« The beings portrayed by Didier Genty seem to consist of incandescent neons, interlaced tunnels, networks of all kinds, all in action ».

Lydie Arickx is a painter and a sculptor born in France in 1954. Lydie Arickx’s artwork figures in the major international public collections ( Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Fonds National d’Art Contemporain) and in public space.

Paul de Pignol was born in Toulouse at the beginning of November 1965.
In 1984, he entered the National School of Fine Arts of Paris, in the studio painting of Pierre Carron.

François Borie is a French artist, specialized in paintings and drawings. He was born in 1964 in Paris and grew up in France after a short stay in the United States.

Trained as an architect, Johan Van Mullem is a painter, illustrator and sculptor. His interest in art dates from his childhood, during which he tirelessly drew pictures of faces, a major theme in his work, going beyond portraiture.

They’re called “urban lies” as Pierre Delavie’s work questions reality and challenges our visual perception. Naturally connected to his presence at the Loo&Lou Gallery, he said: “I found a new momentum of outdoor to indoor there, in relation with my research on contextual art. »

Arghaël, a director of commercials and other lms, is fascinated by the human body, which he long studied through the lens of the camera and in the editing room. Gradually, he turned to another mode of expression, initiating an intimate dialogue with the body through his raw, sensuous drawings in charcoal.

Jean Claude Wouters was born in 1956 in Belgium. I lived and worked in Italy, in Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, Dubai and Los Angeles.
Since he was very young, he has been immersed in Early Netherlandish painting, which impress him and will determinate his relation with art and spiritualism.

At an age when most young people are reciting the poems of Paul Éluard, Tanc sought to drown his boredom in high school by filling the pages of his school notebook with automatic writing, as beautiful as it was illegible.

A self-taught artist with a curious nature, Grandval is a “jane of all trades” who has had a variety of professional and artistic experiences.
No matter what the project she throws herself body and soul into each adventure, always eager to learn and discover new techniques.

Olga Ityguilova is a Russian artist who grew up in Siberia near Lake Baikal, the cradle of shamanism, surrounded by a wilderness harbouring a hidden world. “I come from a country where the parallel world of spirits is very familiar” she says. “We live with them – they are part of everyday life!”

Kayip is born and lives in Seoul. After his study in the urban architectural field, he leans towards music. Since 2012 Kayip questions the connections between sound and images through installation.

Ahn Sun Mi was born in 1982 in South Corea. At the age of 21 she moved in Paris to study at the école des Beaux-Arts. From one country to another, photography accompanies her : more than just a medium, it becomes an integration space.

Born in Rome in 1960, Dominique Lacloche lives and works in Paris and London. In 1983 she was accepted to the School of Fine Arts, Paris, which lead in 1985 to her first artistic project in Afghanistan.

Matthias Contzen was born in 1964 in Aschaffenbourg, Germany. In 1987, he was accepted to the European Academy of Fine Arts in Trier, but graduates at the Sculpture Academy of Munich in 1991.