The Muisca Gallery
13 rue d'Ormesson
Ile-de-France
75004
Paris
France
Mobile Ph: +33 7 69 08 49 53
Email : [email protected]
URL : www.themuisca.com/
Alfredo Escobar (Director)
About
Our mission is to build bridges between the art scenes of Europe, Latin America, and other parts of the world, through a program that combines aesthetic excellence with cultural openness. We present both group and solo exhibitions exploring contemporary themes, while highlighting the unique perspective and depth of each artist’s practice.
More than an exhibition space, The Muisca Gallery is an artistic ecosystem where collaborations, dialogue, and new projects can flourish. We support our artists through personalized guidance, from exhibition development and international exposure to communication strategy and introductions to collectors, institutions, and partners.
Our values are rooted in responsibility, transparency, commitment, joy, trust, and sharing. Our ambition is to make every exhibition an immersive and meaningful experience—one that inspires audiences and creates meaningful connections with art in all its forms.
Cristian Mitrani Fiberglass Humanoids No.3
Alexis Sahr Feminine Flo
Alexis Sahr Mother Earth
Alexis Sahr Fire Heart
Alexis Sahr Wind Resistance
Cristian Mitrani Oculus
Cristian Mitrani Manhattan
Cristian Mitrani Pershing Square
Cristian Mitrani Broadway
Marina Popović Action 2
About the Artist
Photography is not simply a means of representing the world, but a way of perceiving it differently, of revealing the invisible relationships that bind beauty, symmetry, and humanity. He seeks the aesthetic balance that allows beauty to emerge naturally, revealing the quiet harmony that exists between people and the worlds they inhabit.
Through experimentation with light, composition, and photographic processes, he creates images that transcend representation, celebrating beauty, memory, and aesthetics with our shared humanity.
Cristian Mitrani approaches each image as an opportunity to reveal what lies beyond immediate appearance.
Cristian Mitrani (Argentina–Belgium) has been developing for over five decades a singular photographic practice in which the exploration of cities, natural landscapes, sacred sites, museums, and every space open to human experience unfolds as a sensitive cartography of the contemporary world.
He has forged a distinctive visual language rooted in experimental and alternative photographic processes, often layering multiple exposures to generate images that are vibrant, stratified, and poetic. His works transcend mere documentation, opening instead a field of resonance between memory, movement, and perception.
Mitrani’s photographs interrogate the visible and invisible thresholds that shape our urban, natural, spiritual, and cultural environments. Each work embodies a fertile tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between reality and its poetic transfiguration.
His commitment extends beyond the artistic sphere: a significant share of the proceeds from his work is dedicated to NGOs active in the fields of food, education, and health, embedding his practice within an ethics of responsibility and sharing, which is part of why Cristian is happy to collaborate with Parkinson Europe.
Cristian Mitrani has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the United States, in cities such as Madrid, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington and more recently Hong Kong. His work is represented by The Muisca Gallery in Paris, situating his photographic vision within diverse and transnational artistic dialogues.
I often step away from a piece and return with fresh eyes, letting time and light reveal new depth and layers. I find that my work deeply resonates within myself and tends to sway with the seasons and the way they mirror internal change. Each piece becomes a reflection of a specific moment in time.
My work is meant to be felt. Each piece holds a story, a feeling, a moment in time. Every viewer brings their own emotions and experiences to it, creating a unique version of the work. That’s the beauty of art — it remains constant, yet it changes with every life it touches.
Born where the waters speak French, Alexis Sahr is based in Louisiana and shaped by the quiet resilience of her French Acadian ancestors, a gentle undercurrent that resonates in her work. Though her work does not overtly reference these roots, there is a subtle current of connection—an echo of history and endurance that resonates in the deep hues and layered emotions of her paintings.
Inspired from a young age by her mother, Alexis explored art early, taking only a few small classes before embracing a self-taught path. Her process is intuitive and reflective, shaped by feelings that rise and fall like waves, translating vulnerability and depth into stunning sketches and canvases.
She often steps away from a piece and returns with fresh eyes, letting time and light reveal new depth and layers. Her work resonates deeply within herself and shifts with the seasons, mirroring the internal changes she experiences. Each piece becomes a reflection of a specific moment in time.
Her work invites feeling, with a story that is unique to each and every person.
Born where the waters speak French, Alexis Sahr is based in Louisiana and shaped by the quiet resilience of her French Acadian ancestors, a gentle undercurrent that resonates in her work. Though her work does not overtly reference these roots, there is a subtle current of connection—an echo of history and endurance that resonates in the deep hues and layered emotions of her paintings.
Inspired from a young age by her mother, Alexis explored art early, taking only a few small classes before embracing a self-taught path. Her process is intuitive and reflective, shaped by feelings that rise and fall like waves, translating vulnerability and depth into stunning sketches and canvases.
She often steps away from a piece and returns with fresh eyes, letting time and light reveal new depth and layers. Her work resonates deeply within herself and shifts with the seasons, mirroring the internal changes she experiences. Each piece becomes a reflection of a specific moment in time.
Her work invites feeling, with a story that is unique to each and every person.
Born where the waters speak French, Alexis Sahr is based in Louisiana and shaped by the quiet resilience of her French Acadian ancestors, a gentle undercurrent that resonates in her work. Though her work does not overtly reference these roots, there is a subtle current of connection—an echo of history and endurance that resonates in the deep hues and layered emotions of her paintings.
Inspired from a young age by her mother, Alexis explored art early, taking only a few small classes before embracing a self-taught path. Her process is intuitive and reflective, shaped by feelings that rise and fall like waves, translating vulnerability and depth into stunning sketches and canvases.
She often steps away from a piece and returns with fresh eyes, letting time and light reveal new depth and layers. Her work resonates deeply within herself and shifts with the seasons, mirroring the internal changes she experiences. Each piece becomes a reflection of a specific moment in time.
Her work invites feeling, with a story that is unique to each and every person.
Born where the waters speak French, Alexis Sahr is based in Louisiana and shaped by the quiet resilience of her French Acadian ancestors, a gentle undercurrent that resonates in her work. Though her work does not overtly reference these roots, there is a subtle current of connection—an echo of history and endurance that resonates in the deep hues and layered emotions of her paintings.
Inspired from a young age by her mother, Alexis explored art early, taking only a few small classes before embracing a self-taught path. Her process is intuitive and reflective, shaped by feelings that rise and fall like waves, translating vulnerability and depth into stunning sketches and canvases.
She often steps away from a piece and returns with fresh eyes, letting time and light reveal new depth and layers. Her work resonates deeply within herself and shifts with the seasons, mirroring the internal changes she experiences. Each piece becomes a reflection of a specific moment in time.
Her work invites feeling, with a story that is unique to each and every person.
Photography is not simply a means of representing the world, but a way of perceiving it differently, of revealing the invisible relationships that bind beauty, symmetry, and humanity. He seeks the aesthetic balance that allows beauty to emerge naturally, revealing the quiet harmony that exists between people and the worlds they inhabit.
Through experimentation with light, composition, and photographic processes, he creates images that transcend representation, celebrating beauty, memory, and aesthetics with our shared humanity.
Cristian Mitrani approaches each image as an opportunity to reveal what lies beyond immediate appearance.
Cristian Mitrani (Argentina–Belgium) has been developing for over five decades a singular photographic practice in which the exploration of cities, natural landscapes, sacred sites, museums, and every space open to human experience unfolds as a sensitive cartography of the contemporary world.
He has forged a distinctive visual language rooted in experimental and alternative photographic processes, often layering multiple exposures to generate images that are vibrant, stratified, and poetic. His works transcend mere documentation, opening instead a field of resonance between memory, movement, and perception.
Mitrani’s photographs interrogate the visible and invisible thresholds that shape our urban, natural, spiritual, and cultural environments. Each work embodies a fertile tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between reality and its poetic transfiguration.
His commitment extends beyond the artistic sphere: a significant share of the proceeds from his work is dedicated to NGOs active in the fields of food, education, and health, embedding his practice within an ethics of responsibility and sharing, which is part of why Cristian is happy to collaborate with Parkinson Europe.
Cristian Mitrani has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the United States, in cities such as Madrid, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington and more recently Hong Kong. His work is represented by The Muisca Gallery in Paris, situating his photographic vision within diverse and transnational artistic dialogues.
Photography is not simply a means of representing the world, but a way of perceiving it differently, of revealing the invisible relationships that bind beauty, symmetry, and humanity. He seeks the aesthetic balance that allows beauty to emerge naturally, revealing the quiet harmony that exists between people and the worlds they inhabit.
Through experimentation with light, composition, and photographic processes, he creates images that transcend representation, celebrating beauty, memory, and aesthetics with our shared humanity.
Cristian Mitrani approaches each image as an opportunity to reveal what lies beyond immediate appearance.
Cristian Mitrani (Argentina–Belgium) has been developing for over five decades a singular photographic practice in which the exploration of cities, natural landscapes, sacred sites, museums, and every space open to human experience unfolds as a sensitive cartography of the contemporary world.
He has forged a distinctive visual language rooted in experimental and alternative photographic processes, often layering multiple exposures to generate images that are vibrant, stratified, and poetic. His works transcend mere documentation, opening instead a field of resonance between memory, movement, and perception.
Mitrani’s photographs interrogate the visible and invisible thresholds that shape our urban, natural, spiritual, and cultural environments. Each work embodies a fertile tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between reality and its poetic transfiguration.
His commitment extends beyond the artistic sphere: a significant share of the proceeds from his work is dedicated to NGOs active in the fields of food, education, and health, embedding his practice within an ethics of responsibility and sharing, which is part of why Cristian is happy to collaborate with Parkinson Europe.
Cristian Mitrani has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the United States, in cities such as Madrid, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington and more recently Hong Kong. His work is represented by The Muisca Gallery in Paris, situating his photographic vision within diverse and transnational artistic dialogues.
Cristian Mitrani (Argentina–Belgium) has been developing for over five decades a singular photographic practice in which the exploration of cities, natural landscapes, sacred sites, museums, and every space open to human experience unfolds as a sensitive cartography of the contemporary world.
He has forged a distinctive visual language rooted in experimental and alternative photographic processes, often layering multiple exposures to generate images that are vibrant, stratified, and poetic. His works transcend mere documentation, opening instead a field of resonance between memory, movement, and perception.
Mitrani’s photographs interrogate the visible and invisible thresholds that shape our urban, natural, spiritual, and cultural environments. Each work embodies a fertile tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between reality and its poetic transfiguration.
His commitment extends beyond the artistic sphere: a significant share of the proceeds from his work is dedicated to NGOs active in the fields of food, education, and health, embedding his practice within an ethics of responsibility and sharing, which is part of why Cristian is happy to collaborate with Parkinson Europe.
Cristian Mitrani has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the United States, in cities such as Madrid, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington and more recently Hong Kong. His work is represented by The Muisca Gallery in Paris, situating his photographic vision within diverse and transnational artistic dialogues.
Cristian Mitrani (Argentina–Belgium) has been developing for over five decades a singular photographic practice in which the exploration of cities, natural landscapes, sacred sites, museums, and every space open to human experience unfolds as a sensitive cartography of the contemporary world.
He has forged a distinctive visual language rooted in experimental and alternative photographic processes, often layering multiple exposures to generate images that are vibrant, stratified, and poetic. His works transcend mere documentation, opening instead a field of resonance between memory, movement, and perception.
Mitrani’s photographs interrogate the visible and invisible thresholds that shape our urban, natural, spiritual, and cultural environments. Each work embodies a fertile tension between the ephemeral and the permanent, between reality and its poetic transfiguration.
His commitment extends beyond the artistic sphere: a significant share of the proceeds from his work is dedicated to NGOs active in the fields of food, education, and health, embedding his practice within an ethics of responsibility and sharing, which is part of why Cristian is happy to collaborate with Parkinson Europe.
Cristian Mitrani has participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe and the United States, in cities such as Madrid, New York, Miami, Paris, Washington and more recently Hong Kong. His work is represented by The Muisca Gallery in Paris, situating his photographic vision within diverse and transnational artistic dialogues.
The first impulse we experience when confronted with the forms materialized through Marina Popović’s painterly skill triggers an avalanche of feelings and questions in the viewer, whether they concern the strictly artistic and performative or touch upon the essence of human existence. Visually, her painterly gesture is at once suggestive and powerful: it disregards the boundaries of the canvas, “occupies” the surrounding space, and refuses to submit to its limitations.
Marina Popović’s paintings open up space while simultaneously opening themselves to it, asserting their presence and claim upon it with determination. Intensely vivid colours, striking contrasts, bold lines, and geometric forms constitute the elements from which the artist constructs complex visual sentences. The organic origin of the elements that make up these sentences stems from the artist’s inner world, as she fills her pictorial surfaces with visual manifestations of her emotions, thoughts, and inner questioning. The surfaces on which she works and the materials she employs thus become instruments for self-examination and (self-)reflection. At the same time, the paintings are permeated by sedimentary layers of the unconscious, made visible through abstract, (de)constructed scenes of dreams and illusions.
The agitated, vibrant, and dynamic surface of the painting functions like a living organism that transforms, evolves, warns, reacts, and senses the vibrations of its surroundings. In psychological terms, Marina Popović’s paintings can simultaneously be associated with two diametrically opposed states: assertive extraversion and profound introspection.
The momentum and gesture she employs are pushed to the extreme, releasing a raw energy endowed with immense penetrating force; and yet, at the same time, by turning her gaze inward, she succeeds in bringing forth and exposing multiple layers of her most intimate self.
According to art historian Sava Stepanov, at the beginning of her career Marina Popović produced both paintings in which colour “flowed” in great cascades and works in which broad gestural brushstrokes served to establish a visual structure conceived as an organized pictorial organism. In the later stages of her practice and artistic development, she experimented with different themes, ideas, technologies, materials, and techniques. Yet she remained faithful to the path she had set out at the beginning of her Expressionist period, insisting on the unmediated immediacy of the subjective and the gestural, which reaches its culmination in paintings overflowing with coherent pictorial sublimations.
The opening of the image and of the painting, one of the fundamental matrices of Marina Popović’s artistic system, manifests itself in waves of power and energy that unfold towards the viewer, who becomes, consciously or unconsciously, a (co-)participant in the construction of the (open) image. By opening up the painting, she turns the displacement of the boundaries of painting in the classical sense into a method for determining where the new red lines now lie. She moves out into space and attempts to appropriate it, while simultaneously transforming the context of both the image and the space itself. Painting and space thus enter into an interactive relationship of reciprocal interweaving, (re)contextualization, and (re)signification.
Through a continual succession of conflicts and reconciliations between opposing elements and approaches, Marina Popović consistently engages with an eminently modernist theme: that of the surface, and more specifically, the pictorial surface. As Clement Greenberg argued, the surface is precisely what painting does not share with any other system of images—an assertion that immediately points to the elitist status of painting, and of the surface as a phenomenon worthy of consideration. This system, in which only the initiated are able to operate, is subverted by the artist from within through her forceful penetration of it and her singular way of approaching and problematizing painting and its surface. Through an ongoing empirical practice, she continually explores and pushes the boundaries of painting and the fine arts, thereby transforming both their points of departure and their (artistic) outcomes through the deconstruction of conventions and norms.
Unlike modernists, who approached the surface and painting as a two-dimensional art object, closely associated above all with Minimalism, Marina Popović addresses the question of the surface in an expressive and Expressionist manner, through a choice and application of colour that is at once seductive and sensual. The selected colours, which serve as the foundation for the construction of the painting, form its artistic anatomy, revealing without reserve its vascular network and bodily structure. Confidently extending beyond the frame, her works openly embrace the possibility of transforming themselves into suggestive installations charged with lyrical content.
Ultimately, Marina Popović’s paintings emerge as spaces of energy, collision, confrontation, liberation, transparency, and indeterminacy, leaving us free to determine for ourselves where and when their ending lies, for painting, in itself, is a paradigm of meaning. Each work carries within and alongside itself a manifest and sincere aspiration to achieve the highest degree of aestheticization of thought and feeling through the possibilities and mastery of painting.
Marina Popovic was born in Belgrade in 1976. In 1999, she graduated in Painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. In 2001, she obtained an M.A. in Painting from the same institution, with a thesis entitled *The Poetics of the Gestural*.
In 2009, she was awarded a Ph.D. in Arts and Media from the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies programme at the University of Arts in Belgrade. Her dissertation, entitled *The Principles of Reconceptualization of the Theories of the Open Work*, was completed during the period 2015–2018.
Following her doctoral studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, she obtained a second Ph.D. in 2019, with a dissertation entitled *Image Mode – Multiple Worlds of the Image*.
Popovic has presented her work in 39 solo exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions in Serbia, Austria, and internationally. She has received numerous awards for her paintings, as well as for works in the field of expanded media.
Since 2004, she has been teaching at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, in the Department of Painting. In 2023, she was promoted to the rank of Professor. Since 2014, she has served as a board member of the Centre for Art Research at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
In 2019, she participated in the Erasmus programme at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Academy of Fine Arts of Naples).
Exhibiting Artists