Gaëlle Cognée (France,1988) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, then at Emily Carr University of Arts in Vancouver and finally graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris-Cergy in 2013. During her studies she initiated the collective project Plafond which aimed to exhibit outside of the common white cube in a site-specific approach. Plafond is now composed of six artists and had exhibited in an old factory in Botz-en-Mauges (Plafond I and II), in the artist-run space Der Kanal in Berlin (Muskel) and in different highschools in Paris, Dornes and Decize (Les Méprises and Paysage pour un pickpocket).