Recent years have seen the development of super-resolution variational optimisation in measure spaces. These so-called off-the-grid approaches offer both theoretical and numerical results, with very convincing results in biomedical imaging. However, the gridless variational optimisation is generally formulated for reconstruction of point sources, which is not always suitable for biomedical imaging applications: more realistic biological structures such as curves should also be reconstructed. In the first part of this talk, we propose a new strategy for the reconstruction of curves in an image through an off-the-grid variational framework, thanks to the sharp characterisation of the extreme points of the unit ball of a new regulariser thus enabling new theoretical and numerical results for optical imaging. In a second part of the talk, we investigate a new strategy for off-the-grid curve untangling, with some practical results for Localisation Microscopy.