Born into a family of immigrants from across Europe, Joséphine Topolanski describes having grown up nurtured by a Sephardic Jewish mother and grounded by an Ashkenazi father. This hybrid family heritage inspires an intimate reflection on the dual transmission of cultural relationships to truth. She traces a line between different beliefs, provoking a syncretism between attention to aesthetic forms and instinctive practices, and an obsessive interest in systems based on verified knowledge.
A 2021 graduate of ENSAD, she received the ADAGP Design Revelations Jury's Special Mention. In 2022, she exhibited at 100% L’EXPO at La Villette and joined the collections of the City of Pantin. In 2023, she was selected for the 73rd edition of Jeune Création and joined the Passerelle program of Contemporaines.
In 2024, she exhibited with the CAC Bretigny under the curatorship of Valentina Ulisse, followed by shows at Galerie Chantiers Boite Noire in Montpellier and Galerie Aline Vidal in Paris. She co-created, with independent curator Salomé Fau, the exhibition cycle *“Vers les hauteurs célestes”* and exhibited at the Plateau of Frac Île-de-France under the curatorship of Maëlle Dault, following her residency at Villa Belleville. She is currently part of the second cohort of the Artagon Pantin residency for the next 18 months.