A creative direction agency founded by Marie Lusa with a strong focus on visual identity, editorial & consulting
Paris Internationale is a collegial initiative established in 2015 as an innovative alternative to traditional art fairs to support a new generation of galleries. Over its nine editions, it has developed into a pivotal platform to promote the work of emerging artists and rediscover more established figures. Paris Internationale keeps its participation costs reasonable to encourage risk taking and to present its audience with a selection of artworks at the forefront of contemporary practices.
Founders: Axel Dibie & Alix Dionot-Morani - Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris
Marie Lusa & Gregor Staiger - Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Nerina Ciaccia & Antoine Levi - Ciaccia Levi, Paris
For more info visit: parisinternationale.com
Since 2104, Marie Lusa is professor at ECAL, école cantonale d'art de Lausanne, currently in the department Master of Type Design.
For more info visit: ecal.ch
Since 2020, Marie Lusa is a guest lecturer in the Bachelor Fine Arts Departement of ZHDK, Zurich University of the Arts.
Visual Identity for CHESA MARCHETTA, Sils Maria, 2025
Website programming by Computed By
Visual Identity & communication by Studio Marie Lusa since in 2015.
Paris Internationale 10 years publication has been made during a workshop session of at ECAL Master Type Design, tutored by Marie Lusa. Participants: Chae Ahn, Saliù Baldé, Claudio Bolzonello, Elena Calò, Meryem Fekhari, Julian Jaffé, Phil Kim, Dohee Lee, Jiyeon Park, Diego Steiner, Sean Tien, Yousef Saba and Friederike Wagner. The letterings in different scripts have been designed by Mim Tejapaibul (Thai), Saba Yousef (Arabic), Sean Tien (Japanese), Jiyeon Park (Korean and Chinese), and Matthieu Cortat Roller (Aramaic, Armenian, Mongolian Bitchig, Greek). All the display typefaces used in this publication have been designed by the students. The font used for smaller texts is Parabole, designed by Dávid Molnár and updated by Chandra Sperle.
Visual Communication & Identity
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, 2024–ongoing
Website programming: Computed By
Paris Internationale 8: October 18—23
35, boulevard des Capucines, 75002 Paris
For its 8th edition, Paris Internationale was lucky to be accompanied by renowned Swiss architecture studio Christ & Gantenbein, coordination and strategy by Marie Lusa.
Participants at the fair are selected both for their work in local and international contexts as well as the specific projects that they will bring to Paris. Aside from these leading galleries and their artists that together drive the discourse in contemporary art, Paris Internationale also regularly hosts non-profit spaces, which aren’t charged a participation fee to make their contributions to contemporary art available to an international audience.
Love Letter, Deborah–Joyce Holman
June 10–July 22, 2023
Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Don’t Worry, This Will All Be Over Soon,
Tita Cicognani, Guillaume Dénervaud,
Gabriele Garavaglia, Jim C. Nedd, Jan Vorisek
April 13—July 1, 2023
Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan
Lune rousse reflet, Caroline Bachmann
February 4—March 18, 2023
Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
MONET MITCHELL for the Fondation Louis Vuitton Direction de l’ouvrage: Suzanne Pagé, Angéline Scherf, Marianne Mathieu.
Catalogues d’exposition
Date de parution : 05/10/2022
Format : 270 x 300 mm, 240 pages
Code EAN : 9782754112833
MONET MITCHELL explores the artistic parallels between Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) and Claude Monet (1840–1926), who lived and worked in the same area outside of Paris at different moments in time, responding to a shared landscape. Mitchell achieved recognition in the New York scene in the 1950s before gradually settling in Paris at the end of the decade and establishing her studio in 1968 in Vétheuil—where Monet lived for several years. The book establishes a dialogue between Monet’s late works and Mitchell’s paintings following her move to France and the 24 years she spent living and working around Monet’s former residence. The publication includes numerous works by both artists and brings together two exceptional ensembles—Monet’s Agapanthus triptych and Joan Mitchell’s Grande Vallée, a unique and major cycle of 21 paintings. Essays explore the significance of Mitchell’s work from this key moment in her career and the significance of the later paintings of Monet.
Visual Identity and website for Christ & Gantenbein. This corporate identity is based on the use of sans-serif typography, with the typefaces Univers & Rand. The logotype composed in Univers 55, expresses a factual and subtle elegance. The symmetry as a graphic system, brings clarity and a rational equilibrium to the ensemble. All tools of communication follow the logotype guidelines. In addition to the main font Univers, the second font, Rand Black, is used throughout as a small title to proved contrast, as well as work in smaller spaces.The connection between the digital materials (website, icons, social media etc) and the printed materials (stationary, printed presentations, posters etc) can be seen not only in the logotype, but in the general use of symmetry and balance. Every application of the logotype and accompanying text reflects these principals.
Programming: Computed By
Visual Identity and website for International Galleries Alliance (IGA).
International Galleries Alliance (IGA) is a non-profit professional alliance between art galleries. Through monthly meetings, research and an annual Summit, IGA creates new possibilities for support, offering a space for its members to access and share information, enabling collegiate dialogue and providing opportunities for mutual learning. The alliance looks to empower its members to respond to evolving virtual and physical contexts, working together to nurture creative environments that challenge dominant models and cultivate a positively plural and diverse gallery world.
Programming: ArtShell
Rise Project was a year long program curated by Silka Rittson Thomas for the Silvie Fleming Collection in 2015 at a derelict house on Lansdowne Rise in West London. Snails in Notting Hill was an intervention by the artists Nicolas Party and Jesse Wine.
Publisher: Silvie Fleming Collection, London
With texts from Anne Vieth, Stefan Zweifel, Paul Tanner
18 x 26.3 cm, 224 Seiten / Pages
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König / English Edition
The publication Set and Setting: Kerim Seiler 1997–2022 documents the work and activities of the artist Kerim Seiler from the beginnings of his career to the multifaceted large-scale projects that he has realized in public spaces and thus achieved notoriety beyond Zürich and Switzerland. In addition to its work-documentary character, the focus of the book is on imparting art-historical knowledge, because Seiler's oeuvre can be used to explain discourses and theorems that have had a decisive influence on the development of the visual arts over the past 60 years. From installation and performative work concepts to the situational understanding of art and site-specific art - Seiler's oeuvre deals with these and other art theoretical methods and approaches,
Pastel, Nicolas Party 2014
Yesterday, Vittorio Brodmann 2014
Feminax, Lucy Stein 2014
Polaroids 1972–2021, Walter Pfeiffer 2021
Published in editions of 1000 copies each by Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich
Lithography by Georg Sidler
Print Musumeci S.p.A, 30 pages
Marie Lusa currently teaches at ÉCAL cantonal art school of Lausanne in the department Master of Type Design.
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