Events

A wide-ranging interview with Jean-Baptiste Andrea, winner of the 2023 Goncourt Prize, punctuated by readings by actor Léo Dussolier, accompanied by Lola Malique on cello. In Veiller sur elle (L'Iconoclaste), Jean-Baptiste Andrea takes us to the heart of the secret of a statue hidden in an Italian abbey. To unravel its mystery, the story plunges us into the heart of twentieth-century Italy, m...

The Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Musée du Louvre have always maintained a close and close relationship between contemporary creation and artistic heritage, and are pursuing a joint dialogue. To mark the International Days of Films on Art, the Musée du Louvre is inviting students from the Burki, Cogitore and Mesiti & Naccache studios to present a selection of their films. Musée du Louvre...

Speakers: Isabelle Conte, independent researcher, Séverine Sofio from CNRS, and Claire Dupin de Beyssat from Université Paris 1 Studying at the Beaux-Arts de Paris is not just an academic experience, it also means forging links of various kinds at a key moment in one's life. A wide range of networks are forged: family, artistic, economic, friendly and professional. A sociological approach to...

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are organising an afternoon of study on the subject of walking and the representation of the territory by artists and researchers. The invitation, extended to Hamish Fulton in conversation with Muriel Enjalran, director of the Frac Sud and curator of the Hamish Fulton exhibition, A walking artist, in 2023, and historian Antoine de Baecque (ENS-PSL), will provide food f...

To mark the publication of her latest book, La vraie histoire de l'impressionnisme. Manet, Morisot et les autres (Vrin, 2024), philosopher Fabienne Brugère and artist Agnès Thurnauer discuss the feminist legacies of the Impressionists and the erased modernities. As part of the "Troubles, alliances and aesthetics" chair, coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Madeleine Planeix-Crocker. Fabienne ...

Short film festival at the library This year, for the first time, the library is taking part in the Short Film Festival! A selection of short films made in stop-motion or pixilation will be screened at the library during 2 sessions: Thursday 21 and Monday 25 March at 5pm Programme LE DÉSHABILLAGE IMPOSSIBLE By Georges Méliès - 1900 1:54 - France - Fiction Production: Lobster Films, Star F...

4pm Béryl Coulombié LL, 2023  Performance 20min In LL, Béryl Coulombié presents a reinterpretation of a paragraph from Monique Wittig’s book  Les Guérillères.  A body moves away, transporting an egg from the floor to the ceiling. The stage, a precarious assembly of fleece and wooden planks, is a track and a meadow. “In the gardens there aren’t any little girls playing.” Between the movements...

Speakers: Laure Chabanne (Musée d'Orsay), Maxime Paz (independent researcher) For a long time, teaching at the Beaux-Arts in Paris was divided into several sections (painting, sculpture, architecture, then engraving), the common denominator of which was learning to draw. However, the transition from the "Petite École", which became the École des Arts Décoratifs, to the École des Beaux-Arts i...

18h30 Béryl Coulombié LL 30 minutes In LL, Béryl Coulombié reinterprets a paragraph from Monique Wittig's book Les Guérillères. A body moves away, carrying an egg from floor to ceiling. The stage, a precarious assemblage of fleece and wooden planks, is a runway and a meadow. "In the gardens there are no little girls playing". Between the movements and the snatches of text, the anxiety of rep...

Selecting beauty? A Performing-Lecture based on Suzanne de Baecque's show "Tenir debout  The Beauté.s Chair is inaugurating a new form of conference, the Performing-Lecture, bringing together a round-table of researchers to discuss an artistic performance. To inaugurate this new format, the actress Suzanne de Baecque, who infiltrated the Miss Poitou-Charentes contest by presenting herself as ...

19h Carl Amiard Prenez conscience de la chance que vous n’avez pas, 2023 Lecture-performance 20 minutes “What is it that piques our interest in the work of an artist, singer or film-maker? The myth of artistic genius, widely disseminated in our societies, often pushes us to believe that it is a question of talent. However, my recent research on social media calls this belief into question.  ...

Artist Julieta Hanono presents her work on the Cosmology of the Aubervilliers Aquarium at the La Débrouille workshop, with Adria Bentamate and the support of the Bureau des Heures Invisibles. She is in dialogue with the philosophers Fabienne Brugère and Mara Montanaro, on the relationship between cosmology and the philosophy of care, and on the interweaving of cosmology with the pacha mama an...

6pm Éditions Burn~Août  Presentation of the book Politiser l’enfance (Politicising Childhood), dir. Vincent Romagny, Ed. Burn~Août, 2023) with Marie Preston (artist, contributor), Vincent Romagny (editorial director), Margot Bernard (artist, student) and Théo Pall (2023 graduate and editor of the publication). Politiser l’enfance, collective work (dir. Vincent Romagny), Éditions Burn~Août, ...

Having trained in music rather than dance, Pol Pi still feels that what he does has more to do with time than space. What he creates is above all a matter of listening: intuitive, memorial, affective. What is already there. It is this musicality that calls and questions him. He will attempt to revisit his dance career in order to reflect on his relationship with listening. A veritable observ...

Marianne Martin likes to help.  Marianne Martin likes her life to have meaning.  Marianne Martin loves her name.  Marianne Martin loves freedom. Just like all French people... Come and see a performance that plays with the worst to think about the present, and invites us, not without humour, to question ourselves about freedom, the frameworks we need and those we are victims of, revoluti...

Atravessemos! - Portrait de la ville de São Paulo was created following a study trip to São Paulo in September 2022 by the Atelier danse performance of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, directed by Emmanuelle Huynh.  She then invited visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin to continue the collaboration they had begun in 2016 around city portraits. Nine students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris met with ten studen...

Gilles Clément in dialogue with Michel Blazy and Patricia Ribault As part of the Michel Blazy workshop and Patricia Ribault's diploma seminar on "Ruse, bricolage et savoir-faire: formes de l'ingéniosité", we will be welcoming the gardener, landscape gardener, botanist, entomologist, biologist, writer and teacher Gilles Clément for a special lecture. Gilles Clément will go back over the foun...

Artist and performer Jocelyn Cottencin uses a wide variety of media to question the place and status of the sign. In the form of installations, films and performances, he explores the way in which images inhabit us, as in the performance Monumental, a score of gestures that activates the memory of certain places or monuments. His work focuses in particular on notions of community, group and t...

Speakers: Guillaume Kazerouni from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes and Pierre Oudart, Director of the Institut National Supérieur d'Enseignement Artistique de Marseille Méditerranée. The Beaux-Arts de Paris had a special status in art education in nineteenth-century France, and more and more schools throughout the country were taking their place alongside it. From this period onwards, man...

19h Arthur Dujols-Luquet Please mind the gap-, 2023 Dance duet co-created and danced with Jeanne Bigot. 30 mins "A search between two bodies that, through a series of failures, questions the notion of encounter. And you, what am I? And me, what are you? 3 + 1 tableaux, 4 attempts at encounter, like a series of experiments in the laboratory that is the research space, a series of failures in ...

Interested in joining the Beaux-Arts de Paris? Come along to our Open Day on Saturday 3 February 2024 Free admission from 10am to 5pm A regular event since 2020 for those wishing to join the School and find out all about the training on offer at Beaux-Arts de Paris - the social preparatory class (Via Ferrata), the 1st cycle diploma (Bachelor's level) and the Higher National Diploma of Plas...

To coincide with his exhibition Critical Mass at the Musée Rodin, the artist Antony Gormley talks to Guitemie Maldonado, art historian and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, about his practice as a sculptor. Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. For over forty years, he has been exploring the relationship between man and the space around him through the human body. He is currently pr...

Sehyoung Lee - Gyemyeon (계면)  Performance as part of the "Des lignes de désir" exhibition With Aurélien Vieillard, Gabrielle Taron-Rieussec, Maël Marechal, Sehyoung Lee, Yeongseo Jee, Yixuan Xiao Gyemyeon means interface or border in Korean. This performance takes as its starting point the collision of physical territories, the story of the subtle overlapping that occurs at the border betwe...

Speakers: Éva Belgherbi (doctoral student in art history), Catherine Gonnard (INA) This session will examine the place of women artists in the ranks of students at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. More broadly, it will look at the way in which gender and its non-binarity are dealt with and represented by educational bodies and through the social norms in force in the micro-society that is the School...

Paul Thek (1933-1988), one of the most singular American artists of the second half of the 20th century, always refused to belong to mainstream art.  During the 1960s, his work developed on the fringes of Pop art and minimal art, taking the body as its subject in its most carnal representation.  A free-spirited, well-travelled artist, he spent fifteen years travelling around Europe and living...

"The end of the world is a concept without a future". Paul Virilio, the great architect and philosopher who died in 2018, was the originator of dromology, the study of the role played by speed in modern societies. To mark the publication of 22 of his essays (published by Seuil), his daughter Sophie Virilio, architect Jean Richer, publisher Maria Vlachou and art historian Christian Joschke di...

The École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais and the École des Beaux-arts de Paris invite Chris Dercon, Managing Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, in connection with the "L'entour" course. The conference will be moderated by Yann Rocher (Paris-Malaquais) and Alain Berland (Beaux-arts). The "L'entour" Master's course, devoted to the history and techniques of exhibition sc...

Artist Frank Perrin presents 7 of his films from the series Klash! L'art en acte, which reveals the secret history of independent, radical and wild artistic acts, in dialogue with our current social issues. Revealing a different kind of Art History, this collection of twenty three-minute films, broadcast on Arte, introduces us to contemporary art in a new light of uncompromising commitment. ...

REG-ARTS Sociological approaches to arts education Speakers: Guillaume Fournier (Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés) and Frédérique Joly (École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille). This session will provide an opportunity to examine student and teacher careers from a sociological perspective. The question of the prestige conferred by going to the École, the link be...

On the occasion of the publication of Suffragettes de l'art, author Anaïd Demir talks to Pascale Le Thorel, director of Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, about the stages in women's conquest of the École and their struggle to assert their rights and existence in the artistic field. The interview will be conducted by Alain Berland. Special guests will be artists and teachers Valérie Sonnier, Natha...

Conference Clicking on the archive - digital technology and the preservation of artistic practices What happens when the archive becomes accessible at the click of a button on our computers? Long associated with time and history, the notion of the archive has undergone major changes over the last forty years. It now also applies to the storage of digital data. Since 1992, French law has pr...

Art historian, author and curator Marie de Brugerolle questions the impact and legacy of performativity on the visual arts, and looks back at Post Performance Future, a pioneering travelling artistic research project she directed from 2012 to 2022. Her book Post Performance Future. Method/e, published in September 2023, retraces 10 years of research based on the interweaving of performative ...

Constance Nouvel lives and works in Paris. Since 2010 she has been developing a practice based on the technical elements of photography, questioning the reproduction of tangible reality as a process open to the complexities of representation. She explores the notion of photographic objects, and her reflections unfold in installations that bring space and time into dialogue in a formal languag...

Alice Thomine-Berrada teams up with art historian Sophie Delpeux and artists Anne Rochette and Laurent Poléo-Garnier to present an exceptional collection by artist Gina Pane, recently acquired by the Beaux-Arts de Paris: over thirty photographs, drawings and preparatory documents from the Hot Afternoon performance presented by Gina Pane at the 1977 Documenta in Kassel. Like a "making-of", th...

Speakers: Kra N'Guessan (artist), Ming-Tiampo (Carleton University), Maureen Murphy (Université Paris 1) Dedicated to the transnational trajectories of the École's students, this session will explore the possibilities of capturing and deconstructing the linearity of conventional patterns of formative narratives, particularly in the trajectories of international artists who have experienced p...

On the occasion of the opening of the cultural festival Un Week-End à l'Est, writer, journalist, screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrère talks to Serge Michel, publishing director of Kometa magazine, and Alain Berland. The grandson of Georgian immigrants, Emmanuel Carrère has been investigating his native country for several years. His major works, published by P.O.L., include Un roman ru...

Why a conservator shouldn't be... a conservator.   Over the course of its history, the material work of art undergoes a series of transformations, both as a result of external factors (format modifications, vandalism, accidents, historical context...), and internally, linked to the evolution of the materials used. In the case of old paintings, this process is often approached solely from th...

In the field of photography, François Halard occupies a singular place, that of a great interior architecture photographer nourished by a passion for antique and archaeological fragments, 18th-century decors, the abstract and radical paintings of modernity, and the experimental and documentary photography of the 1920s.   How do you tell and capture what's in front of you? François Halard co...

In June 2023, three naturalists, Grégoire Loïs, Elodie Renouard and Maxime Zucca, undertook a naturalistic study of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. They investigated those who cohabit with us on a daily basis, often invisibly: plants, birds, insects, bats, small mammals... Today, they've come to present their findings, so that we can get to know this living world we come into contact with every day...

An evening of debates between artists from the programme "Les apparences", a Twitch and YouTube channel of interviews with contemporary French painters initiated by artist Thomas Lévy-Lasne.  With Henni Alftan, Marion Bataillard, François Boisrond, Jean Claracq, Claire Chesnier, Marc Desgrandchamps, Jean-Charles Eustache, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Maude Maris, Olivier...

Juliette Delecour and Kokou Ferdinand Makouvia, co-founders of the Atelier Ati association and the ArtMéssiamé residency, which enables artists in Europe and Africa to work together, discuss contemporary African art and the impact of cultural policies with Hajida Jemni, director of the Contemporary Art of Africa and the Diaspora department at the Centre for Applied Research in Contemporary Cu...

Publisher and director Anaïs Ngbanzo talks to Philo Cohen, artist, archivist, curator and publisher, about Éditions 1989 and her work on composer Julius Eastman.  For over two years, Anaïs Ngbanzo, like a detective-poet, lived among the archives and notes of composer and pianist Julius Eastman in order to publish a book. In March 2022, she collaborated with British composer Devonté Hynes to ...

Performed lecture. Gelitin is a collective made up of Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban.  These four artists first met at a summer camp in 1978, where they began to collaborate. The Gelitin collective only officially formed and began exhibiting in 1993. They work and live in Vienna, Austria. Gelitin's projects cover a wide range of media, from performance and ins...

Speakers: Philippe Cinquini (Shanghai International Studies University), Francesca dal Lago (independent researcher) Among the young foreigners who came to train in Paris, Chinese artists represented a significant proportion of those from Asia, particularly during the first half of the 20th century. The participation in the session of two specialists in this field will enable us to understan...

As a choreographer, visual artist and curator, Christian Rizzo relentlessly pursues the elasticity and tension between bodies and space in stories where fiction emerges from abstraction. He began his artistic career in Toulouse, where he formed a rock band and created a clothing brand, before training in the plastic arts at the Villa Arson in Nice and then turning to dance. In the 1990s, he...

Round-table discussion organised to mark the publication of Une révolution iranienne : Femme, Vie, Liberté, with Odile Burluraux, heritage curator at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, Chahda Chafiq, writer and sociologist, Rachida El Azzouzi, journalist at Mediapart and photographer, Hugo Vitrani, exhibition curator at the Palais de Tokyo and Julien Sirjacq, artist and head of studio at the B...

The Beaux-Arts de Paris are opening the doors of their listed buildings, which are usually closed to the public. The Beaux-Arts de Paris, heir to the Royal Academies of Painting and Sculpture, is a centre for artistic training and experimentation, an exhibition and conservation centre for historical and contemporary collections, and a publishing house. Set in an exceptional site covering mor...

Nos cœurs en terre David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan   In a breathtaking performance, David Wahl and Olivier de Sagazan take us along on the trail of vertiginous questions. What if there was such a thing as the sexuality of stones? Louis XIV's anatomist, Pierre Borel, claimed to have irrefutable proof of this in a century when those who believed the Earth to be inert and those who thought ...

Detailed programme Ateliers Ouverts 2023 Thursday, Friday, Saturday at SAINT-GERMAIN and Sunday at SAINT-OUEN The Ateliers Ouverts are a unique opportunity to discover the young creativity and artistic diversity produced by students at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. The studios are transformed into exhibition spaces, offering a panorama of work produced from the first to the fifth year: install...

Screening of short films by six student artists or graduates of the School: Joon Yoo, Valentin Ranger, Elfie Mahé, Enzo Perrier, Jérémie Danon, Anaïs-Tohé Commaret. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with the artists. The programme has been devised and put together by Alice Narcy, curator and director of Premiers Films.   Joon YOO - UNIVERSE MEMORY - (9'25") South Korea. 1985....

Born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Lisa Yuskavage received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art in 1984 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1986. Since 2005, the artist’s work has been represented by David Zwirner.  One of the most original figurative artists of the past three decades, Yuskavage creates works that affirm the singularity of the medium of painting just as they challenge conv...

Le Cercle s'Ouvre Act 2 : 5 July at 5.30pm / conversation between René-Jacques Mayer, Caroline Naphegyi and artists Sara Favriau, Vincent Lamouroux, Nicolas Momein, Morgane Tschiember and Aurélie Sarallier, founder of ColAAb-édition   As part of the Sur le feu exhibition, Le Cercle Chromatique has invited the ColAAb publishing house to present a selection of furniture works by contemporary...

"The price of democracy". Julia Cagé, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Harvard University, Julia Cagé winner of the Best Young Economist 2023 Prize awarded by "Le Monde" and the Cercle des économistes (ex aequo with Vincent Pons professor at Harvard) is a professor of economics at Sciences Po Paris, co-director of the "Evaluation of Democracy" section of the Laboratoire Interdi...

Conversation about the book "Art schools that change the world", in partnership with AICA and the cycle "Between the lines, critical version".   Marc Partouche is an art historian and theorist, and an exhibition curator. He is Dean of the MeiAo Academy at the International Art and Design Center, Shenzhen (China). He has been director of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Pa...

Created in 2020 on the initiative of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in collaboration with Ircam, the Supersonic Chair "exposing, editing, inhabiting sound" is presented as a workshop for sharing tools and practices for composing sound, visual and sensitive space. Composers from Ircam's Composition and Computer Science program and students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris worked together throughout the y...

CANCELLED   As part of the Troubles, Dissent and Aesthetics Chair, Jack Halberstam dialogues with Madeleine Planeix-Crocker (co-head of the chair) and Brent Patterson (École d’architecture Paris-Malaquais). Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monster...

Marion Siéfert and Matthieu Bareyre talk to Alain Berland about the show Daddy presented at the Théâtre de l'Odéon.   Marion Siéfert is an author, director and performer. Her work is at the crossroads of several artistic and theoretical fields and is realised through different media: performances, films and writing. In 2015-2016, she was invited to Gießen (Germany) as part of her PhD at the...

On 12 May, the last session (for the year 2022-2023) of the Reg-Arts seminar, dedicated to former painters and sculptors of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, will take place. It will provide an opportunity to discuss recurring issues in digital publication projects of historical sources. In the light of the enlightening interventions that have punctuated the seminar since October 2022, this one will ...

"A programme of disorder in the arts". The Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais invite the political scientist, activist and curator Françoise Vergès to discuss environmental justice and the decolonisation of the museum and public space with Alain Berland, head of cultural programming at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Brent Patterson, professor of architectural hist...

Gaël Charbau, František Kowolowski and Petra Vlachynská talk with Alain Berland about art in public space, with the support of the Czech Cultural Centre.   Gaël Charbau is an independent artistic director. Committed to the French art scene, he has been working for the past fifteen years to improve its knowledge and recognition on the international scene by organising exhibitions in France,...

Thematic visit of the exhibition Scribble / Scarabocchio - From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly by two artists who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Bianca Argimón and Elvire Caillon.   After training at the Arts Décoratifs, the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Bianca Argimón took part in five artistic residencies, including the Fondation d'Entreprise ...

Exiles and poetic resistances. Adrian Paci (born 1969 in Shkoder, Albania) lives and works in Milan, Italy.   In 1997, Adrian Paci left his native country, Albania, during a turbulent period of political uncertainty and instability. Since then, his work has been self-referential and constructed as a narrative of displacement and loss, often reflecting the trauma of separation and the nosta...

Continuous from 12pm to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, Fré...

Continuous from 12pm to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, Fré...

Continuous from 12pm to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, Fré...

As part of the event Mondes nouveaux X Beaux-Arts of Paris, round-table discussion on artistic creation with the artists Éric Baudelaire, Eléonore Saintagnan and César Vayssié, moderated by Alain Berland.   Éric Baudelaire is an artist and filmmaker. After a career as a political scientist, he developed an artistic practice rooted in research work including photography, printmaking and vide...

Continuous from 12pm to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, Fré...

Continuous from 12 noon to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, ...

Continuous from 12 noon to 10 pm Pavilion exhibition Presentation of 40 artists from Mondes nouveaux and the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops, including : Bouwens, Burki, Mesiti, Prévieux and Sirjacq workshops; Assemblée des noues, Wilfrid Almendra, Méris Angioletti, Felicia Atkinson, Théo Audoire, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin & Mathieu Maldès, Berger & Berger, David Bihanic, Jean Bonichon, ...

Born in 1991, Jeanne Vicerial lives and works in Paris. Since her adolescence, she has turned to clothing design. After studying costume design and obtaining a Master's degree in Clothing Design at the École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris in 2015, she embarked on a research project that took the form of a doctoral thesis SACRe (Sciences, Arts, Creation, Research), which she defended in 2019.  ...

In the biological world, molecules such as cells and living beings happily play with each other. Supported by each other, they innovate, interact and transform the planet. Nested genes, microbial scaffolding, partnerships between organisms, evolution has always been a matter of interlocking networks. Could interference between microorganisms and our own biology explain the phenomenon of agein...

Meeting with the artist Gaëlle Choisne, whose work, conceived as a prism of shared ecosystems, reflects the complexities of the world we live in. In dialogue with Fabrice Bourlez and Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Gaëlle Choisne will reveal the materials, myths and muses that affect her work.   In the framework of the Troubles, Dissidences and Aesthetics Chair, supported by the Thom Browne Hous...

This thematic tour of the exhibition Gribouillage / Scarabocchio, de Léonard de Vinci à Cy Twombly will focus on teaching at the Beaux-Arts and the links it may have had with the notion of scribbling. By Anne-Marie Garcia, co-curator of the exhibition, head of the Beaux-Arts de Paris collections and curator in charge of the photographic collections.   Palais des Beaux-arts, 13 quai Malaquai...

Artificial imagination: images after photorealism. A discussion between Grégory Chatonsky, Antonio Somaini and Christian Joschke on the occasion of the publication of the review Transbordeur: Composite Images.   How can we understand the mutation that artificial intelligences are bringing about in the field of images today? What new type of composite images do digital tools produce? This co...

A roundtable discussion in the context of the exhibition Les professeurs gribouillent aussi... and on the occasion of Printemps du dessin 2023.  The aim is to explore the conditions of appearance of the work, those that the artist chooses and those that escape his control, to evoke the place of chance, the environment, the unconscious in the creative process and the art of doodling. In the pr...

Due to the social movement, we are unfortunately obliged to cancel Amira Casar's new reading "je touche encore aux frontières d'un mot et d'un autre pays" (I still touch the borders of a word and another country) organised in partnership with the Printemps des Poètes   "LOVE AMONG THE RUINS" could have been the title of this unique evening, so dear is this poem by Robert BROWNING to Amira ...

Artists from the African continent at the School of Fine Arts Speakers: Idriss Diabaté, Lola Mirti (INHA) and Pauline Monginot (INHA) Bénédicte Mahé (Beaux-Arts de Paris), in charge of international relations in the studies department, will introduce the session with an overview of the contemporary situation, dedicated to the transnational trajectories of the School's students. It will then ...

This thematic tour of the exhibition Gribouillage / Scarabocchio, de Léonard de Vinci à Cy Twombly will discuss the links between writing and painting.   Julien Zanetta will show how the relationship between scribbling and written signs is as dense as it is intimate, whether the traced letters call for drawing, or vice versa. In a few selected works, he will propose avenues for reflection o...

Political self-defence. Professor of contemporary political philosophy, Elsa Dorlin works on another history of bodies through the genealogy of modern power relations. Pursuing her reflection on the complexity of the mechanics of domination, sexism, racism and capitalism, her thinking is as close as possible to the resistances seized at the level of the flesh, the muscles and the senses.   ...

The second part of a reflection on painting organised at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2022, this round table explores the practice of painting today through a dialogue with major painters of the French pictorial scene: Romain Bernini, Ymane Chabi-Gara, Dora Jeridi and Bruno Perramant.   Primitive masks, abundant exotic plants, twilight mountain landscapes, intriguing body poses, one-eyed face...

Consumerism through its objects.   Jeanne Guien, a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and an associate professor of philosophy, is a doctoral student at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is preparing a thesis at Cetcopra (Centre d'études des techniques, des connaissances et des pratiques) on the reduction of the lifespan of objects in contemporary techniques and consump...

Musical performance   Mehdi Besnainou (aka Mehdi Palmtree), artist, performer and musician, questions with humour the rites, codes and trends of his contemporaries. Based on his drawings and borrowing from certain codes of academic teaching, he proposes, in his performance, a journey told in the form of a semi-improvised lecture. Describing incredible situations through writing and drawing ...

Scribbling and the moving image. Thematic visit of Gribouillage / Scarabocchio by Philippe-Alain Michaud, one of the exhibition's associate curators, curator in charge of the film collection at the Centre Pompidou   Philippe-Alain Michaud is curator of the film collection at the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou and teaches film history and theory at the University of Geneva. H...

For reasons beyond our control, we are obliged to cancel the event Penser le Présent with Achille Mbembe scheduled for this evening at 7pm. We are sincerely sorry for this, thank you for your understanding. Beaux-Arts de Paris     Making community. Achille Mbembe is a professor of history and political science and a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WIS...

A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Glasgow School of Art, Thu Van Tran was born in 1979 in Ho Chi Minh City and fled with her family to France in 1981. Marked by this exile, the artist has created a body of work that includes photographs, drawings, films, sculptures and installations that she brings together in situ to form a grand narrative that raises questions about our ability ...

Delphine D.Garcia has chosen to present for the Chromatic Circle the first two films of the documentary series entitled "Figures", devoted to figurative painters of today. Conceived and directed by Rémi Lavandier, the first film deals with the work of Jean François Debord, professor of morphology at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1969 to 2004, and the second with the work of Delphine D. Garcia,...

Guided tour of Gribouillage / Scarabocchio by the two curators of the exhibition: Francesca Alberti, Director of the Department of Art History at the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici and Associate Professor at the University of Tours, and Diane Bodart, Professor of Art History at Columbia University.   Francesca Alberti is Director of the Department of Art History at the French Academy...

Dance and visual arts   Paris-based Americans, Gerard & Kelly have been collaborating since 2003 on performance, video and installation, among other formats. Having studied visual arts, literature and gender studies, Gerard and Kelly use conceptual strategies in art and dance to address broader themes of memory, history, sexuality and identity. Their reflections are often embedded in a ...

Screening of short films by six student artists or graduates of the School: Théo Audoire and Lova Karlson, Emma Boudon, Julie Coulon, Isabella Hin, Valentin Pinet. Théo Audoire and Lova Karlson - Ovan Gruvan (13'34) The iron mine in Kiruna, Sweden, one of the largest in the world, is eating away at the city's subsoil. Threatened by landslides, some of the city's imposing houses have to be m...

Are you interested in joining the Beaux-Arts de Paris? Come to our Open Day on Saturday 28 January 2023 Free admission from 10am to 5pm   An information day for potential candidates for the entrance exams and their families to find out all about the training offered - the public social preparatory class (Via Ferrata), the Beaux-Arts de Paris undergraduate diploma (Bachelor's level) and the ...

Colonial framing: What equivocal relationships has modern photography had with past or contemporary 'other' cultures?   Damarice Amao is a historian of photography and has a PhD in art history. She co-curated the exhibitions Eli Lotar (Jeu de Paume, 2017), Photography, Weapon of Class (Centre Pompidou, 2018) and Dora Maar (2019) and co-edited the accompanying catalogues. She recently presen...

White, history of a colour. Michel Pastoureau is a historian and a specialist in colours, images and symbols. After studying at the École des Chartes, he was elected director of studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in 1982, where he held the chair of history of Western symbolism for thirty-seven years. Honorary President of the French Society of Heraldry, correspondent of the Inst...

Meet Andrea Weber to discover her project Weahtertranscription, a work around the observation of the sky and its changing colour. Her transcriptions are like a diary of colours that change over time, one colour line after another. The result is both a horizontal and vertical interpretation of time, sky and earth, up and down, lightness and gravity, letting go and capturing. Through Chinese th...

The fourth session will look at the issues raised by this key moment in the life of a student, i.e. entry to the school. Alice Thomine-Berrada and Emmanuelle Quilez will trace the evolution of the entrance exam from the regulations and Lucie Lachenal will show how this evolution is manifested in the students' matriculation records. This historical perspective will be confronted with the testi...

Slow down or perish, the economics of degrowth. Timothée Parrique is a researcher in ecological economics at Lund University in Sweden. A specialist in degrowth, he is the author of Ralentir ou périr, l'économie de la décroissance (2022), a book based on his doctoral thesis, The political economy of degrowth (2019). Timothée Parrique chats with Ondine Berland, a graduate of the École Normal...

From vernacular photography to the museum. Clément Chéroux is currently Director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.  Chief Curator of the Department of Photography at MoMA, New York between 2020 and 2022, he was previously Curator at the Department of Photography at SFMOMA, San Francisco (2017-2020) and Curator and Head of the Cabinet of Photography at Centre Pompidou, Musée N...

Mémoires d'atelier II - dialogue with Émilie Verger and Flore Chesnay   The Reg-Arts project (Beaux-Arts de Paris, CNRS, INHA) aims to understand the history of the Beaux-Arts de Paris in a multidisciplinary way, through the creation of a digital resource giving access to the registration registers of student painters and sculptors between 1813 and 1968. The accompanying seminar aims to exp...

Comics, graphic novels, novels, cinema... Joann Sfar has an insatiable appetite. Meet a man who is helping to make comics an art form in its own right. In dialogue with Alain Berland.   Joann Sfar was born in Nice in 1971, to a singer mother and a lawyer father. He grew up in a Jewish culture, both Ashkenazi and Sephardic, learning Hebrew and the precepts of the Torah, but attending publi...

Les Amis des Beaux-Arts are organising a masterclass by Bertrand Lavier, in dialogue with Bernard Blistène. Born in 1949 in Châtillon sur Seine, Bertrand Lavier lives and works in Paris and Aignay-le-Duc, near Dijon, France. His work has been the subject of a considerable number of solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, including the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d'Art Moderne de la V...

Arts and radio: meeting with Loraine Baud and Simon Nicaise, co-directors of DUUU radio, on the relationship between radio and contemporary creation.   DUUU is a radio station dedicated to contemporary creation, co-directed by Loraine Baud and Simon Nicaise. Founded in 2012, it was born from the desire to make situations of reflection and work heard. Located at Folie N4 in the heart of the...

The Chromatic Circle ATFU - Sirine Ammar, Clara Citron and Clémentine Tissot   To bring together visual artists, Sirine Ammar, Clara Citron and Clémentine Tissot have developed the ATFU application, which takes up a fundamental use: the exchange of works between artists. On ATFU, artists from all over the world meet and exchange their works. This gives rise to avant-garde collections that...

"We are (still) not somewhere”   Originating in the performance Nós não estamos algures, imagined by the Portuguese filmmaker, art critic and curator Ernesto de Sousa in 1969 at the Primeiro Acto theater club (Algés), the event "We are (still) not somewhere" aims to be a transcultural iteration of the performative and intermedia experiments initiated by the Portuguese artist collectives in ...

Private Christmas sale at the Beaux-Arts bookshop in Paris From Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th December 2021 Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.  Among the latest publications: Memoirs of John Giorno, Baalbek, Le grand voyage au Liban, Félicités 2022 - Pour en finir encore, Les Louanges de Raban Maur, Eva Jospin, dessins pour un jardin, Respirer l'ombre de Gius...

Marie-José Mondzain: decolonising the imaginary.   On the occasion of her latest book K comme Kolonie: Kafka et la décolonisation de l'imaginaire, published by La Fabrique, Marie-José Mondzain talks to Alain Berland and Christian Joskhe.   Marie-José Mondzain is a philosopher specialising in the study of the relationship to images. She is director of research at the Groupe de sociologie p...

A Permanent Revolution: Contemporary Ukrainian Art - meeting with Alisa Lozhkina Alisa Lozhkina is one of the most important historians, critics and curators of Ukrainian art. She was the director and chief curator of the Mystetskyi Arsenal Museum, the largest museum and exhibition complex in Ukraine, chief editor of Art Ukraine, curator of the exhibition Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art ...

The Reg-Arts project (École des Beaux-arts de Paris, CNRS, INHA) aims to understand the history of the École des Beaux-arts from a multidisciplinary perspective, through the creation of a digital resource giving access to the registration registers of student painters and sculptors between 1813 and 1968. The accompanying seminar is intended to explore this history in a collective way. The se...

Meeting with visual artists Igor Gusev and Iryna Ozarynska and curator and photography researcher Kateryna Radchenko, founder and director of the Odessa International Photo Days festival. Moderated by curator Solomia Savchuk, head of the Contemporary Art Department of the Mystetskyi Arsenal National Museum Complex of Art and Culture, a leading cultural institution in Kiev. As part of the cul...

Joseph Kosuth, a major figure of conceptual art, dialogues with Jacinto Lageira, professor of aesthetics, about the relationship of art to language and philosophy. This discussion will be followed by a signature by the artist of the Jeu du Dicible, published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions.   Joseph Kosuth, born in 1945 in the United States, is one of the main theorists and actors of conce...

Post Monument Study Day: Art in situation - when the work takes place The questions of the presence and practice of art on the scale of a site, a city or a territory, though ancestral, are regularly posed in new terms. On the one hand, the spatial and temporal opening up of the places of the work since the 1960s (land art, site specific, in situ art, urban art) has inaugurated the enlargemen...

The Cercle Chromatique, the alumni association of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, invites Béatrice Duport and Stéphane Pichard to present their performance Correspondance. A snapshot of a photographic conversation that has been developing since 2012, the Correspondance performance updates the dialogue of images that takes on an unexpected direction and meaning with each exchange. This project is t...

On the occasion of PhotoSaintGermain, the Beaux-Arts de Paris welcomes the artists Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Elsa and Johanna and Agnès Geoffray to discuss the presence of photography in contemporary art.   Round table moderated by Alain Berland.   Rather than a photographer, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud describes himself as an artist who reflects through photography. His works tirelessly question ...

Never work: the youth of Guy Debord. Dialogue with Frank Perrin on the occasion of the publication of his essay Guy Debord, Printemps at Louison Editions.   "They are barely twenty-one years old on average. They form a tribe of the clean slate, a family of unprecedented demolition.  In the post-war Saint-Germain-des-Prés, they reject the mirages of the Trente Glorieuses: happiness, work, su...

Thibault Boulvain defended his dissertation in 2017 at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on visual representations of HIV-positive status and AIDS in Europe and the United States between 1981 and 1997. The resulting book, L'art en sida. 1981-1997, was published in June 2021 by Presses du réel (collection "Œuvres en sociétés").   While continuing his research on this question, and ...

The Cercle Chromatique, the alumni association of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, invites Cyprien Chabert to present his project Le théâtre des formes.  The amphitheater, a place of learning about human morphology, will host a vast wall drawing. It is a kinesis of vegetal and organic forms that combines performance and the realization of a painting on the scale of architecture, the basis of this wor...

On the occasion of the publication of John Giorno's Memoirs by the Editions des Beaux-Arts de Paris, a reading is organized at the Maison de la Poésie in the presence of the artist Ugo Rondinone and Jean-Jacques Lebel, artist and specialist of sound poetry.   Reservation Practical information Maison de la Poésie 157 rue Saint-Martin, Paris 3e Admission by reservation, subject to availabi...

The artist Haegue Yang creates installations composed of photographs, videos and sculptural elements from her philosophical and political research. Responding to the places where she exhibits, she creates new in-situ installations integrating both the architecture of the exhibition space and the materials collected around it. Her refined yet singular vision of materiality, combined with an el...

"With Isadora Duncan, Jérôme Bel drew up for the first time the danced portrait of a choreographer, after having concentrated exclusively on the life of the dancers. For this new creation, which he describes as "auto-bio-choreo-graphic", he lends himself to his own exercise and delivers his personal account of a life of dance. The choreographer's performance address, alone on stage, responds...

The REG-ARTS project is a joint project of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the CNRS and the INHA. Its objective is to establish an essential resource for art history, enriched digital access to the registration registers of student painters and sculptors at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1813 and 1968.   The evening of 12 October is the first session of a monthly seminar that will bring...

OPEN WORKSHOPS From 30.06 to 3.07 Free admission The Open Workshops are a unique opportunity to discover the young creation and artistic diversity produced by the students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Some thirty studios are transformed into an exhibition space where students can meet, offering a panorama of work produced from the first to the fifth year: installations, paintings, photos, s...

The aim of this day is to take stock of the work of young researchers on the history of the School. It is organised within the framework of the constitution of the Reg-Arts database, which will provide access to the register of painting and sculpting students at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris from the 19th century to 1968, i.e. more than 12,000 people.   9:00 Welcome by Alexia Fabre, Dir...

Cercle s'ouvre - Invitation by Fanny Béguery, 2011 graduate SHROUDED AND THE DINNER & Sa marmelade Shrouded and the Dinner - created in 2012 by the coming together of five friends, Sylvain Azam, Astrid de la Chapelle, Adel Ghezal, Lina Hentgen and Julien Tiberi, at the invitation of a concert for the magazine Mercure - has continued on its musical path ever since, a gruppetto that is ...

Videoconference from the amphi des Loges As part of the monthly programme of the Rencontres SACRe, dedicated to the dialogue between research and creation, the Beaux-Arts de Paris welcomes Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. In his talk entitled "Art and Science for a sustainable world", Tim Ingold will question and put into perspective the re...

We regret to announce that the conference with Laure Prouvost is cancelled this evening. A new date will be scheduled soon.   Phantasmagoria and visual arts. This dialogue between the visual artist Laure Prouvost and Alexia Fabre and Alain Berland is an opportunity to explore the artist's fantastical universe, populated by objects endowed with memory, but also to question her, in particula...

The Beauty Chair welcomes Ann Veronica Janssens, María Boto Ordoñez, Heleen Santobin, and Liliana D'Alba for an interactive conference. Dr. María Boto Ordoñez and Ann Veronica Janssens, visual artist and professor at the École des Beaux Arts de Paris, combine their interests around the sensory experience of colour and attempt to create new forms of beauty. In living beings, colours come from...

Cercle s’ouvre - Association Cercle Chromatique des diplômés des Beaux-Arts de Paris   « Air and the investigation of the imaginary breath Phrenos – la Banque du Souffle »   Meeting between the pneumologist and biologist of the Fondation du Souffle, Paris Jean-Philippe Santoni and the artist-researcher Filomena Borecka Moderation: Pauline Lisowski, art critic   An exchange on differen...

Techno-imaginary, languages and politics. Critically acclaimed author and winner of several Grands Prix de l'Imaginaire, Alain Damasio discusses his latest novel, Les Furtifs (La Volte), which brings together his political concerns, his inventive language and his typographic innovations.   Born in Lyon in 1969, Alain Damasio has been riding high in the world of the imagination since the pu...

Indigenous contemporary art. Following his collaboration with Daria de Beauvais for the project "Reclaiming the Land" at the Palais de Tokyo, this discussion is an opportunity for Léuli Eshrāghi to share his artistic, curatorial and critical commitment. He proposes a reflection on the definition of autochthony, as well as its current presence in the French and international art scene.   Lé...

Meeting organized in the context of the new staging of Copi's L'Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s'exprimer, created by Thibaud Croisy and presented from May 17 to 23, 2022 at the T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers.   First staged by Jorge Lavelli fifty years ago at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale (Paris), L'Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s'exprimer, an emblematic play of Copi's work, has had...

In collaboration with Ircam-Centre Pompidou Created in 2020 on the initiative of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in collaboration with Ircam, the Supersonic chair "exposing, editing, inhabiting sound" is presented as a workshop for sharing tools and practices for composing sound, visual and sensitive space. Composers from Ircam's Composition and Computer Science program and students from the Beaux-...

Has everything become a network? The network is constantly multiplying: information network, communication network, biological network, power network, neural network, social networks... The exhibition "Réseaux-Mondes" (Feb. 23-Apr. 25, 2022) at the Musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Pompidou questioned the place of the network in today's society, which is permeated by social networks and ...

On the silent voice of the world. Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós, art theorists and curators, present their latest book Qui parle? pour les non-humains (PUF, Collections perspectives critiques, 2022) in dialogue with Alain Berland.   In the 1970s, when the question "who is speaking?" was asked, a theatrical stage was opened that invited questions about identity politics, the legitimacy ...

Screening of short films by three artists who graduated from the School : Tilhenn Klapper, Cham Lavant and Mathilde Soares. With the support Les amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris.   Tilhenn Klapper - SANS SOL, 17 min Women and plants tell the story of a funeral garden through dance, song and words; Alexandre Lenoir's Jardin-Elysée, formerly located on the site of the Musée des Monuments Françai...

A specialist in the work of Otto Neurath and the graphic information system Isotype, researcher in the history and culture of German-speaking countries Nepthys Zwer joined the independent research group visionscarto in 2018. She analyzes the cartographic image in terms of its creative gesture, its form, and its social function: what intentions command the graphic choices of cartographers in t...

Hybrid spaces. The Beaux-Arts de Paris will host the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin for two days of screenings, meetings and discussions dedicated to contemporary practices of the moving image.   Tuesday, May 3 - Programming 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Honorary Amphitheatre / Ecosystem Assembly Temporary presentation, video works and virtual reality Matthew Garrison, Night Life Pia R...

Painting today. Round table with the painters Jean-Luc Blanc, Nicolas Chardon, Myriam Haddad, Louise Sartor and the curator Cristiano Raimondi.   Nicolas Chardon is a French painter who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1997. He was a resident at the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome in 2008 - 2009. He is co-founder of the alternative school BABA and of the publishing house CONNO...

An artist without borders.   Myriam Mihindou's work knows no boundaries, literally or figuratively. From high jumping to architecture, via the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts, her training deploys several spaces of expression. She evacuates the question of belonging to a specific culture or artistic medium by playing with porosities and "Relation" as defined by Édouard Glissant. The performanc...

For an archaeology of drones.   Round table around the last issue of the magazine Transbordeur. Photographie histoire société (Macula) with Angela Lampe (curator at MNAM), Anne-Katrin Weber (University of Basel, coordinator of the dossier), Pauline Chasseray-Peraldi (Sorbonne University), Linda Garcia d'Ornano (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Christian Joschke (Beaux-Arts de Paris, co-editor in...

Restitution of the masterclass directed by Julian Vogel with the students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris (Huynh and Prévieux workshops) and of the Académie Fratellini.  The content of the masterclass is articulated around Julian Vogel's artistic approach with his China Series project. The focus is on working with objects and exploring the links between visual arts and circus. The difference lie...

A life for dance.   Dimitri Chamblas joined the dance school of the Paris Opera at the age of ten. Over the course of his career, he has collaborated with the choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, William Forsythe, Emmanuelle Huynh, Benjamin Millepied, and Mathilde Monnier among others. He co-founded Edna association with choreographer Boris Charmatz in 1992. Together they created the duet...

In the folds of exquisite cadavers Each fold shows a great elegance for those who know how to contemplate it. For the physicist, the artist or the art historian, this physical phenomenon carries fundamental questions with unexpected consequences. From one keyword to another, our three guests will engage in the exercise of exquisite cadavers: a first speaker will bring a notion into play, unf...

Since the beginning of March, a surprising and monumental architectural element has taken place in the Cour Bonaparte. It is a cornice, which comes from one of the most sumptuous tombs of the French Renaissance, that of the Constable Anne de Montmorency. This cornice, which is a legacy of Alexandre Lenoir's museum, has been in the School's walls for more than two centuries, feeding the curios...

Histories of modernologists. Marjolaine Lévy has a doctorate in contemporary art history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), is an art critic and teaches art history at EESAB (Rennes) and Ensad (Paris). She is the author, among other essays and exhibition catalogues, of Les Modernologues (Mamco, 2017) and edited the book 20 ans d'art en France. Une histoire sinon rien. (Flamma...

The 3rd cycle programme, in collaboration with the Laboratoire matière / espace of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, proposes to devote an afternoon of study to the mythical figure of Ulysses, starting with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. We will go back in time and compare the archaeological realities with the legends that have formed around the hero. The aim is not to deconstruct the myth, but rather to ...

Different perspectives, different selves   The contemporary English artist Marcus Coates will present his work, with a particular focus on the capacity of his actions to create personal, social and cultural transformation. The ability to reformulate and reinvent relationships with the 'more than human' world is central to his concerns. He is today one of the most important artists on these ...

HELL NO* meeting with the artist Tarek Lakhrissi in the presence of Madeleine Planeix-Crocker and Fabrice Bourlez, coordinators of the Troubles, Dissidences and Aesthetics chair.   Tarek Lakhrissi is a French artist and poet with a background in literature. His literary background is nourished by influences from feminist and queer authors, such as Elsa Dorlin, Jean Genet, Monique Wittig and...

The politics of images.   Georges Didi-Huberman is a philosopher and art historian who teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He has taught at numerous universities abroad and has received numerous awards, including the Aby Warburg Prize, the Max Weber Prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Prize and, in 2015, the Theodor W. Adorno Prize. He has published some sixty...

William Kentridge is one of today's most prominent contemporary artists. He works in a multitude of media: drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theater, and collaborative practices, to create artworks that are rooted in politics, science, literature, and history, while maintaining space for contradiction and uncertainty.  Kentridge's work has been shown in museums, galleries, and thea...

Due to scheduling reasons, Penser le Présent with Édouard Louis has been postponed to a later date. We will inform you as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding    Édouard Louis is a writer. His novels have been translated into some thirty languages and have met with exceptional success throughout the world. He has collaborated with numerous directors such as Stanislas Nordey, I...

Giuseppe Penone is one of the most important contemporary sculptors and is internationally recognized. Born in 1947 in Italy, he is part of the Arte Povera movement. He taught for more than 20 years as a studio head at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He represented Italy at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and invested the park of the Château de Versailles with monumental sculptures in 2013. He is exhibi...

As part of the Exhibition Theater - Season 2, Act 3, come and attend an exceptional evening during your visit to the exhibition. Come for a real ♥ Speed Dating ♥ meet art, love, and more if you like...   The exhibition Speed Dating is the result of pictorial encounters framed by a protocol imagined between the students of the Nina Childress studio at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Beaux-A...

The artist as curator. Round table with artists who founded curatorial projects around the theme "How to think of an exhibition as an artistic gesture?"   Antoine Donzeaud, artist and founder of the Exo Exo Gallery, Thomas Fougeirol, painter at the origin of numerous projects such as INTOTO and DUST: The Plates of Present, and Emma Passera and Violette Wood, artists and founders of the MOTH...

Being a shaman. Corine Sombrun is a writer, ethnomusicist and specialist in Mongolian shamanism, trained in trance by Mongolian shamans. She is a travel writer. Her books, largely autobiographical, as well as the interviews and conferences she gives, testify to her journey into shamanism and her participation as a subject and co-author of scientific research on shamanic trance. She dialogues...

Philippe Descola talks with the philosopher Emmanuel Alloa on the occasion of the publication of his latest book, Les formes du visible : une anthropologie de la figuration.   After contributions to the ethnology of Amazonia, based in particular on investigations among the Achuar Jivaros, Philippe Descola has devoted himself for several years to the comparative anthropology of relations bet...

Exhibition design, design exhibition Matali Crasset is an internationally renowned French designer. Since her training at the Ateliers-ENSCI in the 1990s, she has defended a design at the crossroads of artistic, anthropological and social practice. She works for a design of creation, of the living and the everyday: how can design contribute to living together and accompany us in the contem...

The event is fully booked, only those who have been able to book will be able to access the amphitheatre Please note that there might be a bit of a wait in the early evening. So don't hesitate to come later if you wish, during the 6 hours of the marathon. Under the impetus of Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos, artistic director of the Paris Book Festival 2022 and Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, writer and...

On the occasion of the exhibition "Inhabiting the interstices, Beirut, the artists and the city" at the Michel Journiac gallery of the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, round table with the two curators of the exhibition, Françoise Docquiert and Nayla Tamraz, and some of the artists of the exhibition: Nadim Asfar, Sirine Fattouh, Mireille Kassar, Marwan Moujaes and Maha Yammine  Since th...

Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator and art critic. He directs Radicants, a "curatorial cooperative" that will begin in 2022. He founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo from 1999 to 2006, before becoming Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at the Tate Britain in 2007, and leading the creation of the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev. In 2010, he was called upon to head the Ministry of Culture's D...

The taste of the ugly   French-British fashion journalist Alice Pfeiffer talks with Alain Berland on the occasion of the publication of her essay Le goût du moche (The taste of the ugly) published by Flammarion.   This essay, in the form of a personal account, touches on what is foreign about loving what does not fit into the norms of good taste. Is ugly a new trend? Is it a simple pleas...

Historians and curators Marcella Lista and Florian Ebner talk with Christian Joschke, art historian and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, on the occasion of the publication of Formations en mouvement, which gathers the writings of the artist and director Hito Steyerl, published by the Centre Pompidou.   With her singular language mixing satire and critical essay, the work of the German ...

In order to pay tribute to Huang Yong Ping who passed away in October 2019 and on the occasion of the exhibition Is Paris Burning? 2019 by Huang Yong Ping and Shen Yuan, an exceptional round table is organized by the gallery kamel mennour and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Friday, December 10, 2021 from 6 to 8:30 pm in the honorary amphitheater of the Beaux-Arts de Paris.  With: Donatien Grau, Ph...

The art of loving Emmanuel Mouret is a director and actor. He graduated from the FEMIS in 1998 and directed his first feature film, Laissons Lucie faire in 2000. Since then, he has directed 9 other films and has been an actor in 8 of them. His latest film Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait was nominated for the 2021 Césars in the categories of best original screenplay, best directio...

Private Christmas Sale at the Fine Arts Bookshop in Paris From Thursday 9 to Saturday 18 December 2021 Books, posters, prints, postcards, gift items at exceptional prices.   Among the latest releases: Breathing in the shadow by Giuseppe Penone, Patrick Faigenbaum's coloring album, 1081 Paintings by Nina Childress, Reflection on color by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Humor! by Georges Wolinski... Disc...

Michelangelo Pistoletto was born in Biella in 1933. In the sixties he was a true source of inspiration and protagonist of the Arte Povera artistic movement. We remember some of his main projects developed during his long career: Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings) 1962, Oggetti in meno (Objects in less) 1965-66, Venere degli stracci (Venus of the rags) 1967, Le Stanze (The halls) 1976, L'ar...

Be unreadable   Roxanne Maillet questions the text, its formatting and its reading as a collective practice as well as in a "feminist dyke" perspective. Her work manifests itself in the form of reading groups, books, typographies, T-shirts...   Fatima Daas was born in 1995 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Her parents came from Algeria and settled in Clichy-sous-Bois. She grew up in the small tow...

Art historians Arnauld Pierre and Pascal Rousseau discuss the publication of the reference work L'Abstraction, published by Citadelles et Mazenod. The emergence of abstraction at the beginning of the 20th century led to a total paradigm shift. This book aims to retrace the epic of these works that emancipate themselves from reality and the major rupture they provoke in the history of art. N...

Proprioception at work An overview of the experiences of transitional landscapes through trees and their musicality. Re-iteration, proprioception: how to lean on a power of the plant to develop a power to act? Born in 1980 in the South-West of France, Thierry Boutonnier affirms his agricultural filiations and develops his artistic practice by confronting the question of domestication. He m...

To close the 5th edition of the festival "A Weekend in the East" dedicated to Sofia, a look at Bulgaria today and its capital, its place within Europe, its concerns, its hopes. With the writer Kapka Kassabova (The Echo of the Lake, translated from English by Morgane Saysana, Marchialy, 2021) and the political scientists and essayists Ivan Krastev and Jacques Rupnik.   A meeting moderated by...

Theodore Ushev at work Theodore Ushev's very distinctive, unique style made him one of the most outstanding animation artists and filmmakers of his generation. Born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, in 1968, son of a journalist and abstract painter, he graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia. He started out as a poster artist and illustrator, then as an art director for several agen...

An iconic couple in contemporary art: Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff was born in Bulgaria in 1935. He studied at the Fine Arts School in Sofia before fleeing the regime and moving to Paris in 1958, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who would become his wife and the partner in all his huge artistic projects. The leitmotiv of their work? To pack monuments,...

Chantal Jaquet is a former student of the ENS, agrégée in philosophy and doctor of philosophy. She is a professor of the history of modern philosophy at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne and director of the Centre for the History of Modern Philosophy at the Sorbonne. Centered on the expressions of the power to act, her research focuses on the philosophy of the 17th century (Spinoza...

"Trees in paintings: what do they tell us about their history?" Trees are in many works the backdrop for scenes telling stories of men and women. Yet their forms and status illustrate situations that the naturalist can interpret. A tree takes its place with regard to its environment, the presence of other trees nearby, and a whole host of species with which it interacts, and the management o...

Gender and sexuality. Maïa Mazaurette is an author and illustrator, specializing in gender and sexuality issues for over fifteen years. She is now the regular gender and sex columnist for Le Monde, for the program Quotidien on TMC, and for Grand Bien Vous Fasse on France Inter.   In parallel, she has published a large number of short stories, novels (Dehors les Chiens, Rien ne nous survivra...

Writing life. A not-to-be-missed conference by the extraordinary writer Annie Ernaux. Her texts - including La place, Les armoires vides, La femme gelée, Mémoire de fille, etc. - explore autobiographical material in various non-fictional forms   Agrégée of modern literature, she taught until 2000. Her texts, about twenty since 1974, explore the autobiographical material in various forms, no...

What language does to art. The language acts in the work of David Douard as a material as such. By this means, he redefines a new social space, hybrid, in full mutation. By injecting the poems of anonymous people always marked by a form of chaos, deviance, disease or frustration, he recreates a contaminated environment in parallel to the real world, augmented by the fantasy of new digital te...

Loic Touzé is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. With Je suis lent, Loïc Touzé tells his story with dance. The one he has lived through these last forty years. He evokes the inspiring figures that form the backdrop of his imagination. This story begins in the temple of 19th century academicism alongside the ghosts of ballet. He then branched out onto the paths traced by the key figures of...

Ronan Bouroullec, a French designer born in Quimper in 1971, has been working with his brother Erwan since 1999. From industrial design to craftsmanship, from mass production to research, from objects to public spaces, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's creations are spread across many fields of expression and have gradually become part of our daily lives. Their work ranges from collaborations wit...

On line and on site This international colloquium, organized by the ENS and the École du Louvre and Beaux-Arts de Paris, aims to renew the discourse on idleness in art, taking as its object all the artistic forms of idleness (voluntary but also, sometimes, suffered) from the mid-1940s to the present day, also questioning the refusal to make work and anti-productivist strategies.   October ...

As part of her exhibition the homemaker and her domain presented at the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, the artist Leonor Antunes looks back on her practice and the origins of the project.    To know more about the exhibition     Penser le Présent is realized with the support of Société Générale Photo credit: Pati Grabowicz According to the regulations in force since July 21, you will...

During 3 days, the Open Studios are a unique opportunity for the general public and professionals to discover the young creation and the artistic diversity produced by the students of the Beaux-Arts de Paris. All the studios of the St-Germain-des-Prés site will be accessible, offering a panorama of the work produced by students from the first to the fifth year. Installations, paintings, pho...

On the occasion of its 10th anniversary and as part of the Beaux-Arts de Paris conference program, the Rubis Mécénat endowment fund invites artists Dhewadi Hadjab and Stéphane Thidet, as well as curator Gaël Charbau, to participate in a discussion moderated by Alain Berland about commissioning works for specific locations.      As part of the Carte blanche à Dhewadi Hadjab, presented fro...

Christine Macel is an art historian and exhibition curator, general curator of heritage, and head of the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at the Musée national d'Art moderne du Centre Pompidou. Among many exhibitions, she was curator of the 57th Venice Biennale and, most recently, curator of the exhibition "Elles font l'abstraction" at the Centre Pompidou. She will discuss cu...

The Beaux-Arts de Paris open their doors to you! During the European Heritage Days, come and discover our listed buildings and the treasures they contain. Whether you take a guided or self-guided tour, this is an opportunity to explore the richness of over 300 years of history and architectural innovations, where works by great masters and creations by up-and-coming artists are on display.  ...

The Inner Show, a proposal by Big Dumb Object that will take place Friday and Saturday, July 16 and 17 from 1 to 7 pm. As part of the CRÛ exhibition at the Théâtre des Expostions Act 3   On November 18, 2020, a shimmering metal monolith several meters high is discovered in Utah, USA. On November 27, a triangular prism of the same type appears in the north of Romania, before disappearing fo...

On the occasion of the Nuit Européenne des Musées 2021, come and discover the exhibitions Sammy Baloji, K(C)ongo, Fragments of interlaced dialogues and Le Théâtre des expositions Acte 3 with free entrance.   The program is online! Discover the participating museums without delay and make your selection among the activities listed on the map. Already more than 700 activities listed, the map ...

An intervention of Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann within the framework of the Théâtre des Expositions and the exhibition CRÛ organized in the Beaux-Arts of Paris, on Wednesday June 30 at 6:30 pm. Hijacking the title of an essay by Molly Nesbit published in the collection Sexuality & Space, denouncing the absence of female figures in Atget's photographs, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann proposes a re...

A committed life.   A fashion designer, patron of the arts, collector and president of the Association des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Agnes Troublé, also known as agnès b., has supported artistic creation in all its forms, solidarity and the environment for many years. In 2009, she decided to create an endowment fund in order to structure the patronage, partnership and philanthropy acti...

As part of the "Supersonic: exhibiting, editing, inhabiting sound" chair, students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris were able to collaborate with young composers from Ircam to compose sound and visual works together and thus imagine a collective exhibition, Orbital Orchestra. This collaboration takes the form of a digital score activated by a central sound device, collectively imagined and progra...

As part of his exhibition K(C)ongo, Fragments of Interlaced Dialogues presented at the Palais des Beaux-arts until July 2021, the artist Sammy Baloji discusses his practice and the origins of the project in an interview with Alain Berland.     Penser le Présent is realized with the support of Société Générale. Wednesday June 9, 2021 Palais des Beaux-Arts

Radio arbres, as part of Agir pour le Vivant 2021. A France Culture program by Laetitia Dosch, actress, playwright and director. Live and in public. Saturday, June 5 from 7 to 9 pm in the garden of the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Become a tree! Do an experiment! Put yourself in the skin of a tree. Let's put ourselves in the shoes of trees for the duration of a radio show, which is free to air. R...

"Inscrire le mouvement", interview with Emmanuelle Huynh, head of the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshop. A leading figure in French choreographic research, Myriam Gourfink has been invited to numerous international festivals. For the past 20 years, she has been pursuing her research to formalize her own language of composition. Her approach is based on the breathing techniques of yoga.   To com...

Opening As part of the Théâtre des Expositions Act 2 Since 2016, Lénio Kaklea has been developing Encyclopédie pratique, a multidisciplinary project that consists of the creation of a non-exhaustive corpus of daily, intimate, visible or invisible practices of the European territory. From this corpus, the choreographer proposed to the students of the Emmanuelle Huynh workshop to question th...

Marie Robert is chief curator at the Musée d'Orsay, in charge of photography. Author of a dozen hangings of the collection marked by social sciences, she was also co-curator of the exhibitions Misia, Reine de Paris (2011), Splendeurs et Misères. Images of Prostitution (2015) and Who is Afraid of Women Photographers? (2015). With Luce Lebart, she co-edited in 2020 Une histoire mondiale des fem...

Quentin Dupieux, born in 1974, is a musician, screenwriter and director. He has directed numerous video clips and a dozen feature films, including his latest, Mandibules, which received much attention at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. It tells the story of two friends who discover a giant fly in a stolen car. He talks to students at the Beaux-Arts de Paris about his work as a filmmaker and...

Inhabiting the Landscape Chair: Art meets the living The production of works in shared territory by living humans and non-humans   For this first cycle of conferences of the chair "Inhabiting the Landscape Chair: Art meets the living", the art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual invites three French curators who approach creation in a natural environment as creation on a specific territory share...

What will we remember about the crisis we are currently experiencing? What visual and artistic trace will we have of 2020-2021?  Creating for the living is an invitation to rethink the way in which all living things interact with each other and the way we inhabit the world today.  On the occasion of its launch in Paris in June 2021, the Beaux-Arts de Paris are offering CREATE FOR THE LIVING,...

Phillipe Lançon is a journalist and writer. He has been a reporter and cultural critic for Libération, where he has worked since 1994, and a columnist for Charlie Hebdo since 2003. That's where he met Georges Wolinski. He has published several books, including Les îles (Lattès, 2011), L'Élan (Gallimard, 2013) and Le Lambeau (Gallimard, 2018), which won the Prix Femina. He also writes short st...

Lucie Tréguier and Corentin Schimel, co-founders of the association "Le Barreau des Arts", talk with Alain Berland about the relationship between art and law.   Le Barreau des Arts is an association that aims to promote access to the law for authors and precarious performers. The association acts under the aegis of the Paris Bar Association, and offers beneficiary artists legal advice on co...

The male gaze   Specialist of gender in cinema and series, Iris Brey in her book Sex and the Series (Éditions de l'Olivier, 2018) analyzes the representation of female sexualities in American television series. She continues her reflection on this subject by making a documentary series for OCS by making five portraits of series heroines who have changed our view of female sexualities. Her b...

From the guerrilla of signs   Jacques Villeglé began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, where he met Raymond Hains. From 1947 to 1949 he studied architecture in Nantes, then moved to Paris. In 1949 he became a collector of torn posters, calling himself a "poster artist" and proclaiming the "guerrilla war of signs.   In 1958, he wrote a report on the torn posters entitled ...

Author of a prolix work since the 1970s, pioneer of "musical theater" associating musicians, actors and the public with his Atelier Théâtre et Musique (ATEM), Georges Aperghis is one of the cardinal figures of contemporary musical creation, recognized by numerous distinctions such as the Golden Lion of the Venice Music Biennale or the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge prize.   When we present Ape...

Neïl Beloufa (born in 1985 in Paris, France) is a French-Algerian artist/director who lives and works in Paris. Through his practice, he questions society and its issues through different mediums: films, sculptures and installations. He studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris; at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (USA); a...

As part of the Troubles, Dissent and Aesthetics Chair coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Ilana Eloit, and in collaboration with professors Patricia Ribault and Clara Schulmann, a live meeting with philosopher Rosi Braidotti. Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University where she has been director of the Humanities Center since 2007. She founded the Women's Studi...

Dialogue with Christian Joschke and Alain Berland around the "Noms du Présent". Jacques Rancière is Professor Emeritus of the University of Paris VIII. It is by working on proletarian writers that he develops his reflection on the equality of citizens before power and knowledge, thus questioning, even in crisis, the dominant positions of the thinker and the intellectual who tells the truth o...

Equality of (artificial) intelligences. Catherine Malabou is a specialist in contemporary French and German philosophy. She works on the importance of the concept of plasticity in neuroscience. Today, intelligence allows its own simulation by synaptic chips. The Human Brain and Blue Brain programs intend to map the human brain in its entirety until one day producing an artificial consciou...

What is black art? Anne Lafont is an art historian and director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. She has recently published two books: Une Africaine au Louvre ; La place du modèle and a monography entitled L'Art et la race. L'Africain (tout) contre l'œil des Lumières (Presses du réel, 2019) which won her the Maryse Condé literary prize in the research category ...

Arts and Social Signs   Franck Scurti uses all mediums indifferently: video, sculpture, installation. His work is constituted around a reflection on art, social signs and the reality of the time. His works are often created from found materials and forms, things devoid of values that he carefully redefines by elaborating each time their logic of appearance.  Over time, this sequence of wor...

Painting in New York Daughter of a Vietnamese father and a French mother, Julie Curtiss (1982) studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and graduated in 2006. She now lives and works in Brooklyn.  Painting, sculpture and drawing: the lines and colors are sharp and immediately recognizable. Her work deploys a black humor in which female figures dominate. Silhouettes with forked nails, long hair, o...

"Penser le Présent" A gallery owner's life: Dialogue with Chantal Crousel and Niklas Svennung In 1980, Chantal Crousel founded her eponymous art gallery with the intention of reporting on the changes in international contemporary creation in France and around the world. Of Belgian origin, she chose to represent artists of different nationalities participating in the elaboration of a universa...

Cancel Culture: dialogue with Éric Fassin Éric Fassin is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Gender Studies and the Department of Political Science, University Paris 8 Vincennes - Saint-Denis, Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva and researcher at the Laboratory of Gender and Sexuality Studies (LEGS, UMR 8238: CNRS - Paris 8 - Paris Nanterre). He works scientifically and en...

Would you like to join the Beaux-Arts de Paris?   Meet online on Saturday, February 6, 2021 for an information day dedicated to admissions.   Register for the conference of your choice Participate in live videoconferences with the management and the pedagogical teams to find out everything about the training offered, from the preparatory class to the DNSAP (Higher National Diploma in Plas...

Heritage and Contemporaneity: Dialogue with Cécile Debray Cécile Debray has been General Curator of Heritage, Director of the Musée national de l'Orangerie, since June 2017. She was in charge of modern collections at the Musée national d'Art moderne / Centre Pompidou from 2008 to 2017, scientific advisor to the General Administrator of the RMN, in charge of programming at the Galeries nation...

Gisèle Sapiro is director of studies at EHESS, director of research at CNRS (European Centre for Sociology and Political Science) and a member of Academia Europae. A specialist in the sociology of culture, literature and intellectuals, she is the author of La Guerre des écrivains, 1940-1953 (Fayard 1999), La Responsabilité de l'écrivain. Littérature, droit et morale en France, XIXe-XXIe siècl...

Aurélien Bellanger, born in 1980, has published 4 novels, La théorie de l'information, L'aménagement du territoire, Le grand Paris and Le continent de la douceur, which are like a long drift through the terminal mythologies of Western modernity. He has also written Eurodance, for the theatre, and since 2017 he has had a daily column on France Culture. He talks with Alain Berland about the my...

Pascal Rousseau joined the Beaux-Arts de Paris, at the beginning of the 2019 academic year, as a professor of theoretical education and art history. He is also, since 2011, professor of art history at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A specialist in historical avant-gardes and the links between the arts, (para)sciences and technical cultures, he has curated exhibitions such as "Au...

Marine Van Schoonbeek is the president and co-founder of the association Thanks for Nothing. Founded in 2017, she mobilises artists and the world of culture, together with Blanche de Lestrange, Anaïs de Senneville and Anne-Sarah Bénichou, by organising artistic and solidarity projects with a concrete impact on society. In February 2020, Thanks for Nothing was awarded the City of Paris consult...

LIVE on this page As part of the Troubles, dissidences and aesthetics Chair coordinated by Fabrice Bourlez and Ilana Eloit, a cross talk between the choreographer Bintou Dembélé and the curator Christine Eyene.   Bintou Dembélé is a dancer, choreographer and artistic director. In 2019, she choreographed the Opera-ballet Les indes Galantes for the 350th anniversary of the Paris National Ope...

Cédric Durand is an economist at the University of Geneva and a member of the Paris-Nord Centre for Economics. His research focuses on globalisation, financialisation and changes in contemporary capitalism.   He dialogues with Alain Berland on his latest book, Technoféodalisme, Critique de l'économie numérique (Zones), which has just been published.   Technoféodalism, Critique de l'économ...

Heritage curator and art historian specializing in women artists, Camille Morineau is co-founder and director of AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. Founded in 2014 based on the observation that women are under-represented, if not totally absent, in art works, exhibitions and museum collections, AWARE's mission is to contribute to making them visible through the creati...

Eva Bester made her debut on France Culture by collaborating on a dozen of programmes. She became a journalist for the 28 minutes programme on Arte, in which she summoned writers and texts from past centuries that resonated with current events. At the same time, she wrote portraits of writers for the magazine Transfuge and joined Le grand bain on France Inter to talk about cinema classics. Sh...

Patrick Boucheron has been a professor at the Collège de France on the "History of Powers in Western Europe, 13th-16th century" chair since 2015. While his work focuses primarily on the urban history of medieval Italy, he is also interested in the writing and epistemology of history, attempting to re-articulate literature and the social sciences. He is involved in several projects, both edito...

Dork Zabunyan is a professor of film studies at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Among his publications : Les Cinémas by Gilles Deleuze (Bayard, 2011), L'Insistance des luttes - Images, soulèvements, contre-révolutions (De l'incidence éditeur, 2016), or Foucault at the Movies (Columbia University Press, 2018) with Patrice Maniglier. He has also produced with Laurent Jeanpierre...

As part of the Diagonal Philosophy coordinated by Clélia Zernik within the Chair of the Present Chair of Beaux-Arts de Paris, Jean-Christophe Bailly will evoke the importance of the animal presence in our understanding of the world.   Jean-Christophe Bailly is a writer. At the frontier of literary genres, his essays have precisely turned towards thresholds, limits, shifts, and deal with the...

Since the late 1960s, Bertrand Lavier's work has continued to subvert the traditional categories that compartmentalize artistic creation, with the artist exploring the relationships between painting and sculpture, representation and abstraction, life and art. Passing with ease from one medium to another, he continually develops and experiments with strategies of translation, transposition and...

Instagram Live Éric Reinhardt is the author of eight novels, including L'Amour et les forêts (Students novel France Culture - Télérama 2015, Prix Renaudot des Lycéens 2014 and Prix Roman France Télévisions 2014, selected for the Goncourt and Médicis prizes), La Chambre des époux (2017) and finally Comédies françaises, published by Gallimard in August 2017 and on the Médicis and Interallié pr...

As part of the exhibition Critical Zones at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, which he curated, Bruno Latour talks about the critical zone, this unsuspected territory that we must get to know and inhabit, in order to finally terrestrialize ourselves.   Invited as part of the chair "Inhabiting the landscape: where art meets the living world", coordinated by Estelle Zhong Mengual.   Bruno Lato...

New "Cercle s'Ouvre" carried by Stéphane Pichard, a former student of Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the artist Béatrice Duport. They will perform the conversation in images that they have been maintaining since 2012.   Performance followed by a round table moderated by Magali Nachtergael,an art critic and curator of exhibitions, including « Cartes postales, nouvelles d’un monde rêvé » in Arles ...

Event cancelled due to new health regulations   On the occasion of the Nuit des Musées, discover Le Théâtre des Expositions, a composite, disordered and experimental piece written by students of the "Exhibition Professions" program, with free admission.   Many museums will open their doors free of charge throughout France and Europe from dusk until midnight. Guided and illuminated tours, ...

L'artiste chercheur : un rêve américain au prisme de Donald Judd, the latest essay by Sandra Delacourt published by B42, retraces the emergence, since the middle of the 20th century, of a figure of the artist whose activity is shifting into the academic field, opening up a new imaginary for art. Sandra Delacourt is an independent art critic, professor of contemporary art history at ESAD TALM...

Catherine Malabou is a specialist in contemporary French and German philosophy. She works on the importance of the concept of plasticity in neurosciences.   Today, intelligence allows its own simulation by synaptic chips. The Human Brain and Blue Brain programs intend to map the human brain in its entirety until one day producing an artificial consciousness capable of self-transforming itse...

Leïla Slimani is a journalist, novelist and was awarded the Prix Goncourt 2016 for her second novel Chanson douce. In her stories and articles, she develops a remarkable talent for observing and analyzing modern life, with a particular interest in the secret life of women. Her latest novel Le pays des autres relates a family saga at the crossroads of Franco-Moroccan history and her own family...

An artistic director and independent curator, Gaël Charbau founded Particules in 2003, a free independent art journal that he ran until 2010. In 2014, together with Laurent Dumas and Angélique Aubert, he created the "Bourse Révélations Emerige", dedicated to the promotion of young French artists. The artistic director of the 18th edition of Nuit Blanche in Paris in 2018, he was appointed a...

"For a culture of the living": How can we contribute to a cultural battle that would restore the importance of the living and give it another place in the fabric of our common world? Conference within the framework of the Chair "Inhabiting the landscape: where art meets the living world", coordinated by Estelle Zhong Mengual.   Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at the...

A round table discussion on the collective projects initiated by the artists of the photogram project and the exhibition Dust: the plates of the present at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (October 19, 2020 - March 1, 2021), co-founded by artist Thomas Fougeirol and artist/curator Jo-ey Tang. Dust: The Plates of the present is a collective photographic archive, created between 2013 and 2018 on the...

To be followed live: Artist, art critic and founder of the Ars Technica association in Paris, Piero Gilardi talks with Valérie da Costa, art historian, art critic and teacher. This dialogue between the artist Piero Gilardi and Valérie da Costa, a specialist in Italian art, is an opportunity to look back on the artistic, theoretical and political career of one of the leading figures in Italia...

A philosophy graduate and yoga teacher, Jeanne Burgart Goutal dialogs with Alain Berland about her latest book: Être écoféministe, théorie et pratique, a philosophical road-trip alternating investigations and analyses. Jeanne Burgart Goutal has been conducting research on ecofeminism for nearly ten years, mixing theoretical and real-life approaches. She is the author of several reference tex...

A philosopher and teacher at EHESS, Emanuele Coccia studies, among other things, the nature of living things. He dialogs with Alain Berland about his latest works: La vie des plantes, une métaphysique du mélange and Métamorphoses, an essay published last March.   Since 2011, Emanuele Coccia has been a lecturer at École des hautes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He first trained in agr...

The director of the Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière island), Marianne Lanavère dialogs with Alain Berland about her exhibition program, which reflects the paradoxes of landscape and our links with the living, and questions the arrangement of natural spaces.  Marianne Lanavère is the director of the Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière island). After stud...

Anna Colin is a curator, educator and researcher. She dialogs with Alain Berland on the theme « Alternative educational, social and artistic spaces in England from the end of the 19th century to the present day, continuities and discontinuities in the French and English artistic scenes ».    Find this Dialogue on our YouTube channel! Youtube video link

A Beaux-Arts de Paris graduate and former resident of the Villa Médicis, the painter Thomas Lévy-Lasne talks about his artistic practice but also about his work as a director and an art critic.  Born in 1980 in Paris, Thomas Lévy-Lasne lives and works in Saint-Ouen. He is represented by the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire and is a former resident of the Villa Médicis (2018-2019).  A Beaux-Ar...

Isabelle Alfonsi is a graduate of Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and University College of London. In 2009, she created Marcelle Alix, a contemporary art gallery located in Belleville, which she co-directs with Cécilia Becanovic. Since 2014, she has been developing conferences on the lines of contemporary queer art, some of which have been performed in drag. Her book on this topic, Pou...

Pierre Charbonnier is a philosopher, researcher at the CNRS and a member of the LIER-FYT, at the EHESS and a teacher at Sciences-Po. His work focuses on the history of social sciences and political ideas, and in particular on the way they convey a conception of collective relationships with nature. He is the author of two books: La fin d'un grand partage (CNRS, 2015) and Abondance et liberté ...

A draftsman, sculptor, photographer, performer and musician, Jean-Luc Verna dialogs with Alain Berland about his artistic practice.  Jean-Luc Verna's work has the particularity to link, by various references, the history of art and the history of (underground) rock music. He takes up and displaces elements of high and popular culture and traces a parallel history of contemporary mythologies....

Paolo Roversi is a self-taught, independent photographer. He is famous for photographing with a camera equipped with a polaroid back, which allows him to instantly obtain an original enlargement. All the major magazines publish his fashion series, nudes and portraits of stars. Olivier Saillard holds a degree in art history. In 1995, he was appointed director of the Marseille Fashion Museum; ...

After Le capital au XXIème siècle, Thomas Piketty and his team of researchers are publishing a new book, Capital et idéologie, that shows that all the discourses describing inequalities as « natural, intangible and inevitable » are being broken by History.  The author proposes a global history of inequality and offers possible avenues for a different distribution of wealth.    Find this Co...

Ulla von Brandenburg is a German artist born in 1974 in Karlsruhe and settled in Paris since 2005. After training in stage design in Karlsruhe and a brief foray into the theatre world, she trained at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. Her work is characterized by the diversity of supports and mediums (installations, films, watercolors, murals, collages, performances...) responding...

Mona Chollet is an essayist and journalist at Le Monde Diplomatique, the author of Beautés fatales and Sorcières, la puissance invaincue des femmes.  She questions the figure of the witchs and looks at these emblematic characters to understand the persecutions they have suffered and how the mechanisms of male domination are exercised. According to her the witch is « the one who manages to fi...

Anne Imhof lives and works in Berlin and New York. Her paintings, sculptures and performances have been shown internationally since 2012. Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions: Tate Modern in London (2019), Art Institute in Chicago (2019), German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2017), Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2016), Kunsthalle in Basel (2016), MoMA PS1 in New York, Carré d...