

Olivier Amsellem
Artist and entrepreneur
Olivier Amsellem is a photographer who has been working in the fashion world since the 1990s. He worked as an assistant to Jean Baptiste Mondino and also assisted some of the greatest photographers before launching his own business and being recognised in 1998 by the Festival International de la Mode. His work revolves around architecture and its impact on our society. In 2014 he decided to found JoggingJogging. In the world of retail, Jogging has developed a modern vision by relying on emerging brands and designers including Jacquemus, Anthony Vaccarelo, and Charlotte Chesnais. JoggingJogging was built around a unique concept linked to the Marseille lifestyle over the past 10 years, around a patio that hosts the best chefs, and a guest house in Samena, and more recently an outpost in the housing unit dear to the Marseillais born across the street in the social housing blocks. JoggingJogging tries to constantly reinvent its business based on a strong Mediterranean identity and image.

Emmanuelle Luciani
Art historian, curator, teacher, and artist
Emmanuelle Luciani has been an independent artistic director and curator since 2013. In her exhibitions and performances, she constructs immersive and hybrid worlds such as New World (2023) and Bella’s Inferno (2024) for Porsche SCOPES, focusing her methodology on formal revivals in art history. In 2018 she founded Southway Studio, an ecosystem for artistic creation, which she extended with the Pavillon Southway which opened in 2020 in Marseille. Here, she develops a complete domestic project combining a living space, an exhibition space, and an artists’ residency for visual artists, musicians, and writers. She also teaches the social history of art at Sciences Po Aix and works with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Arts Décoratifs, and Nicolas Bourriaud’s MOCO.

Charlotte Pelouse and Karine Terlizzi
Co-directors of Le Couvent
Launched in 2017 by the Juxtapoz association, Le Couvent is a hybrid cultural venue located in the Belle de Mai district of Marseille open to the public all year round. A multidisciplinary space, it brings together close to 80 residents, collectives, artists, craftspeople, and cultural organisations each day, working in the fields of visual arts, crafts, images, illustration, and music. Karine Terlizzi set up Juxtapoz in Marseille fourteen years ago to transform empty spaces into places for creation, production, and distribution. The common objective in all the projects she has undertaken since is to support and promote artists, and to make all forms of creation accessible. In 2014 she met Charlotte Pelouse, who, after studying law and media production, went on to organise artistic and cultural projects. Together with Alexandre D’Alessio, they set up the Aux Tableaux! project, a site-specific exhibition residency for some forty artists in a 4,500-m2 former school in the centre of town. Building on this experience, their joint adventure now continues with Le Couvent, where they co-direct an artists’ estate, a living space, and an events programme.