The Musée du Louvre and the Beaux-Arts de Paris are entering into a new partnership from 2023-2024:
ATELIER DU LOUVRE Throughout the year, the Louvre will invite and host a Beaux-Arts de Paris workshop within its walls, so that young artists can invent their own free reinventions. The first associated workshop is that of Angelica Mesiti with Marion Naccache.
Ever since the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts was founded in 1819, the young artists who studied there have been accustomed to visiting the Louvre Museum, located across the river. The Louvre, long known as the home of artists, was the school's training ground. The links between the two institutions are close, linked by their histories. Teachers have always accompanied their students to the Louvre - like Gustave Moreau, whose workshop included Henri Matisse, Giuseppe Penone, Annette Messager and Hicham Berrada, to name but a few.
The École itself inherited the Royal Academy of Painting and the Academy of Saint Luke, whose headquarters were located in the Grande Galerie at the Louvre in the mid-seventeenth century. The Musée des Monuments Français, created by Alexandre Lenoir during the French Revolution, was housed in the Couvent des Petits-Augustins, in what is now the École des Arts et Métiers. It was the counterpart of the Louvre museum and, when it closed, part of its collections moved to the right bank. Today, artistic practice at the Beaux-Arts de Paris workshops is experimental, forward-looking and committed. The Musée du Louvre offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore this unique teaching method.
Today, the two institutions pursue their missions by closely associating contemporary creation and artistic heritage. The Beaux-Arts de Paris, whose mission is to train artists, continues to organise exhibitions presenting works from the collections in dialogue with students, teachers and guest artists, while the Musée du Louvre, with its collections spanning more than five millennia of creative activity, offers a wide range of contemporary approaches to heritage.
The path taken by the young artists at the Musée du Louvre will take a free form: the subject matter and content are entirely open-ended and to be invented each year. The students in the workshop will find their own path, both personal and collective.
THINKING THE PRESENT - Meetings at the Beaux-Arts de Paris
In November and February, members of the scientific teams at the Musée du Louvre will be invited to take part in the cultural programme of Penser le Présent and to talk with Alain Berland.
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LES PAROLES DU LOUVRE - PODCAST
For Paroles du Louvre, Anaël Pigeat interviewed twelve young artists who had recently graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris: Nathan Bertet, Ymane Chabi-Gara, Jean Claracq, Jennifer Douzenel, Joséphine Ducat, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Dora Jeridi, Thomas Lévy-Lasne, Enzo Meglio, Madeleine Roger-Lacan, Christine Safa, Elene Shatberashvili.
Broadcast on louvre.fr and podcast platforms.
Photo : © Musée du Louvre / Olivier Ouadah
