About POUSH-Manifesto Artist Incubator >>

Manifesto is an agency organising the temporary occupation of unused industrial spaces and public buildings to be transformed into affordable studios for artists, with dedicated public programming. Drawing on its experience at the Orfèvrerie (Saint-Denis), where the agency orchestrated a temporary occupation for 80 artists from the fall of 2018 to the summer of 2019, in 2020 Manifesto moved to POUSCH in Clichy, opening an innovative space dedicated to contemporary creation: an artist incubator. POUSH offers artists affordable studios, helping them stay in Greater Paris, and assists artists in their professional development through administrative, curatorial, communication, and art production services.

POUSCH is located in a 1970s high-rise building in the Clichy district of Paris, offering artists and visitors a panoramic view of the city. Sogelym Dixence, an independent family-owned company and the owner of the building, invited Manifesto to present an ambitious project for a temporary occupation. In 2020-2022 this boxy architecture overlooking the Boulevard Périphérique is experiencing a new chapter of its history by welcoming over 220 artists on 9 floors. Under the artistic direction of Yvannoé Kruger, Manifesto is leading a singular artistic programming, contributing to the renewal of Porte Pouchet and to the visibility of Clichy. The site, managed by Christine Camio, is intended to open up to local, national and international partners looking to organize events in close collaboration with the artists. POUSH will host its resident artists until March 2022.

Boryana Petkova (b. 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lives and works in Paris, France.) www.boryanapetkova.com >>

Boryana Petkova graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria (2011), and from ESAD, the Academy of Art and Design in Valenciennes, France (2015). Since 2020 she is Artist-in-Residence at Poush.Manifesto. The human body is the central point in Petkova’s work. She uses it both as a tool and a measure, and through different media (drawing, sculpture, performance, installation, video and sound) she explores constraint – physical but also psychological, limits and desires.

Boryana Petkova‘s work has been presented in solo exhibitions in: Brigitte March Gallery (Stuttgart, Germany 2021); Studio 10 (Paris, France, 2021); Structura Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020); Museum of Fines Arts (Mulhouse, France, 2019); Plus359 Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2018); Contemporary Space (Varna, Bulgaria, 2018). Recent group exhibitions include: Aresenal Museum of Contemporary Art (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021); National Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021); Gallery Christian Berst Art Brut (Paris, France, 2021); Pal Project (Paris, France, 2021); Goethe Institute (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021); One Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2021); Sofia City Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2020); National Museum Adrien Debouché (France, 2019); Structura Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2019); FRAC Limousin (Limoges, France, 2018); European Biennial of Young Art (Mulhouse, France, 2017); BAZA Award for Contemporary Art, Sofia City Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2016); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France, 2016); Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cachan (Paris, France, 2016); Centre d’art Juvenal (Belgium, 2015); Gallery Martine et Thibault de la Châtre (Paris, France, 2015). Honors and awards include: the drawing prize Pierre David-Weill of the French Academy (2015); nominated for the BAZA award for contemporary art (2016 and 2020); she is a laureate of European Biennial of Young Art (Mulhouse, France, 2017); and the Gaudenz Ruf Award for Bulgarian Art (2019).

Will they be friends one day (2011), metal nails, hand written text installation

Mariana Vassileva (b. 1964 in Bulgaria. Lives and works in Berlin and Paris.) www.mariana-vassileva.com >>

Mariana Vassileva graduated from the Universität der Künste, Berlin, in 2000, and has remained in Berlin since that time. Working across varied mediums such as video, sculpture, installation, and drawing, Vassileva’s practice is concerned with the poetry that lies beneath the quotidian and the routine. Based upon observation of daily life, her works respond to an element of playfulness inherent in artist and viewer alike. With the curious gaze of a voyeur or of an urban anthropologist, the artist observes people and their surroundings in order to capture a moment of poetic imagery. Watching, and the distance it implies, are both method and subject of a body of work reflecting on human concerns familiar to us all: communication, cultural displacement, relations with self and other, loneliness and the humor hidden within the rhythms of the day-to-day.

Mariana Vassileva is an internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist, having shown in major institutions including: Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (Canada); Tate Britain (UK); Centre Pompidou (Paris, France); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain); Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA); The Israel Museum (Jerusalem); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany); Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst (Germany); Kunsthalle zu Kiel (Germany); Edition Block (Berlin, Germany); The Stenersen Museum (Oslo,Norway); Total Museum (Seoul, Korea); Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hong Kong).

Vassileva has participated in numerous international Biennials, including: the 1st Biennal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (2007); the 17th Biennale of Sydney, The Beauty and the Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (Australia, 2010); the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Rewriting Worlds (Russia, 2011); Biennale Vento Sul in Curitiba, (Brasil, 2012); the 56th October Salon, Belgrade Biennale, The Pleasure of Love, (Serbia, 2016). Vassileva’s works are held in public collections in: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany); Rene Block Collection (Berlin, Germany); Koc Museum (Istanbul, Turkey); The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel); La Caixa, Caja de Ahorros de El Monte y Fundacion el Monte (Spain); Lemaitre Collection (London-Paris); Kunsthalle Emden (Germany); Lidice Memorial; the MOMENTUM Collection (Berlin, Germany).

Mariana Hahn (b. in Schwaebisch Hall, Germany. Lives and works in Paris and Berlin.)www.marianahahn.com >>

Mariana Hahn lives and works between Paris and Berlin. After studying theater studies at the ETI, Berlin, she received a diploma in art at Central St. Martins, London. Her practice is motivated by the exploration of the relationship between the body and the transmission of memory and knowledge. Silk, hair and salt are part of her research on memory as its different supports and means of transmission. She investigates the role and definition of these media and their transformation through time and different civilizations.

Mariana Hahn has participated in international biennales including: Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France (2021); the Venice Biennal, collateral event My Ocean Guide (2017); the 56th October Salon – Belgrade Biennial, Serbia (2016); the Biennial for Young Art, Moscow, Russia (2014). She has exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries and festivals, such as: MOMENTUM, die Raeume, PS120, and Diskurs (Berlin, Germany; The Moutain View (Shenzen, China); Ding Shung Museum (Fujian, China); Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (Guangzhou, China); Mill6 Foundation (Hong Kong); Gelleria Mario Iannelli (Rome, Italy); Trafo Museum of Contemporary Art (Stettin, Poland); Corpo Festival of Performing Arts (Venice, Italy); amongst others. She has participated in Artist Residency programs, including: the Mill6 Foundation, Hong Kong (2016); Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China (2017); Treeline Residency, Capalbio, Italy (2017); and others.