Founded in 2022 by curators Lily Cohen and Olivia Zabludowicz, Lux Feminae has quickly emerged as one of the most distinctive nomadic collectives shaping the landscape of contemporary art. Conceived as a nomadic curatorial collective rooted in New York City, Lux Feminae makes its international debut in Paris at Paris Internationale.
Translating from Latin as “The Light of Woman,” the initiative is designed to move fluidly between cities, creating spaces where art, intimacy, and the female gaze intersect. Lux Feminae’s projects merge conceptual rigor with emotional depth, reframing femininity as a lens through which to explore strength, transformation, and the multiplicity of self.
As the collective makes its international art fair debut at the 11th edition of Paris Internationale with Hold On, There, featuring artists Daniele Toneatti and Hedi Stanton, Culturalee spoke with Cohen and Zabludowicz about building a nomadic curatorial identity, balancing intimacy with scale, and reimagining how audiences experience art.
Lux Feminae has evolved through a nomadic model, transforming spaces from industrial sites to private homes into lived environments for art. How does movement–across cities, contexts, and collaborations–shape your curatorial vision, and what do you gain by resisting a fixed institutional identity?
Movement and flexibility have always remained central to our curatorial language. Working nomadically allows each exhibition to respond to its unique surroundings, such as the layers of a city and the properties of a room. By stepping outside of the traditional gallery structure, we stay agile: engaging with artists globally and experimenting freely, to construct environments that feel alive. Every setting we approach, whether an industrial ground floor, a high-rise office space, or a booth at Paris Internationale, forms a nuanced relationship with the artwork that inhabits the space itself. This fluidity keeps Lux Feminae intimate and grounded, especially as we begin to expand.
The name Lux Feminae embodies a powerful duality–light as illumination and femininity as a guiding sensibility rather than a category. Why did you choose the name and how do you navigate curating through the lens of the “female gaze” while maintaining openness to artists of all genders and experiences?
Lux Feminae is Latin for “The Light of Woman.” This name began in 2022 as a way to articulate femininity as a mode of seeing rather than a physical category. Light, for us, speaks to illumination and contrast. One could say it is found in the space between strength and delicacy. While our foundation has always centered the feminine ethos, our program welcomes artists of every gender and background who engage with ideas of perception, transformation, and selfhood. We are interested in what happens when the Feminine becomes a layered way of thinking, rather than a confined label, allowing for open-minded discourse and a celebration of expressive form.
With Hold On, There marking your international debut at Paris Internationale, Lux Feminae enters a more global conversation while retaining its intimate, collaborative ethos. How do you envision translating the sensitivity of your smaller, site-specific exhibitions into the international fair context, and what does this moment represent for Lux Feminae’s next chapter?
With Hold On, There, we approach the booth as a lived space rather than a display, something closer to an interior, where memory, material, and presence coexist. Daniele Toneatti’s layered paintings and site-specific installation meet Hedi Stanton’s photographs in a subtle convergence, each framing the perceptual landscape of the room. Together, their works create a setting that feels inhabited, not by objects, but by the sensations and recollections they hold.
This moment at Paris Internationale represents both expansion and continuity for Lux Feminae. It allows us to bring our language of intimacy, reflection, and balance into a new context, one defined by pace and visibility, without losing the sense of care that grounds our projects. The fair becomes another kind of home, a space where sensitivity and structure can coexist, and where the feminine is understood as both a lens and a way of building worlds.
Lux Feminae are exhibiting at the 11th edition of Paris Internationale, Rond-point des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris from 22nd–26th October, 2025.
For more information and tickets visit: https://parisinternationale.com
