Events to see

MONDAY 23 MARCH – 6pm–9pmEXHIBITION OPENING7.30pm–8.30pm | DJ SET Ange Paradiz FRIDAYS 27 MARCH AND 24 APRIL AT 5PM GUIDED WALKS AND ORAL TRADITION WORKSHOPSThese stories cannot be written downGuided walks led by Armel Cotinat-Flynn and Jeyni Ba.Starting in the lobby of the Palais des Beaux-Arts.How long can you keep a story ali...

Signing event for the launch of the book Claude Rutault, La Marelle, entre la toile de la même couleur que le mur et la marelle.Texts compiled and prefaced by Blandine Chavanne.7pm | Presentation of the latest volume in the Écrits d’artistes collection published by Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, hosted by Blandine Chavanne, with Ninon Rutault, ...

See with your mind as well as with your eyesThe career of feminist theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey has contributed to profoundly transforming our relationship with images. Since the 1970s, the theorist of the "male gaze" has continued to work on behalf of a mobilised gaze, conscious of the asymmetries between genders, asymmetries that stru...

A staged reading by Tristan Garcia, accompanied by Agnès Gayraud.Tristan Garcia, accompanied for the occasion by the vocals and electric guitar of La Féline (Agnès Gayraud), will give a reading from his short story, "Front Haut" (Âmes, Gallimard, 2019). It is a brief epic tale of a Neanderthal woman betrayed by a human.Tristan Garcia, a lectur...

To mark the exhibition Le Syndrome de Bonnard, currently on display at the FRAC Ile-de-France and curated by the collective Le Bureau/—comprising Marc Bembekoff, Garance Chabert, Aurélien Mole, Céline Poulin and Émilie Villez—the curators reflect on the forms and methods of their curatorial practice. From their diverse positions—artistic,...

Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to be taking part in the 8th edition of 100% L’EXPO, which opens the Grande Halle de la Villette to young graduates of French art schools.100% L’EXPO offers an overview of contemporary artistic practices, where forms, techniques, media and narratives intersect and engage in dialogue. What artistic, political an...

6.30pm | PERFORMANCEAnon, Hors-Série de Journal, performance (2024), 55 minutesSimon Asencio, Matthieu Blond, Fredrik FloenLobby, Palais des Beaux-ArtsThis performance is the result of a dialogue between two projects: *Journal*, an oral and gestural journal initiated by the choreographer Matthieu Blond, and the research project *Quire Whidsune...

Conceived as an extension of the exhibition Après Michel-Ange, this event brings together a series of talks designed to shed light on the contemporary and educational value that Xavier Sigalon’s copy of *The Last Judgement* – on display in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins since 1837 – may hold today. All the talks will take place in this chap...

Nine artist-teachers from the School – Pascale Accoyer, Claude Closky, Clément Cogitore, Frédérique Loutz, Jack McNiven, Guillaume Paris, Philippe Renault, Daniel Schlier, Valérie Sonnier – have joined forces for the exhibition After Michelangelo and invited their students to explore Michelangelo’s work and how it inspires them today.The works...

Let's talk about housework! The artist Miriam Cahn, who is currently presenting the exhibition STILL LEBEN at the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery, is in conversation with the curator and art historian Marta Dziewańska and the curator Emma Lavigne. Together, they reflect on the themes of the exhibition and how this new series of works extends the ar...

Material historiesBritish artist Simon Starling, whose work has been shaped by the digital revolution of the early 2000s and the ensuing technological shifts, explores the nuts-and-bolts of art making, the material nature of these processes, and seeks to trace things back to their source. As masterful storyteller known for his historical digre...

To mark the publication of L’esprit de l’atelier, Beaux-Arts de Paris is organising a round-table discussionFeaturing Numa Hambursin, Director General of MO.CO and curator of the exhibition of the same name, and the artists Djamel Tatah, Mathilde Denize, Léo Dorfner, Blaise Schwartz and Zélie Nguyen. With Guitemie Maldonado and François-René M...

Beaux-Arts de Paris Editions will be attending the 2026 Paris Book Festival to showcase exhibition catalogues, illustrated books and guides on the history and collections of the School.For the first time, the Paris Book Festival is hosting a culinary evening event on Friday 17 April from 6pm to 10.30pm, bringing together cuisine, literature an...

7PM | PERFORMANCEBaptiste Agnero-Rigot and Joséphine Loembe-Sauthat30 minutesA collective performance that unfolds like a chaotic gathering of spoken words, gestures and narratives, centring on the ideas of use, separation, the sacred and its desecration. “To desecrate is to restore to common use that which has been set apart in the realm of t...

Documentaries, experimental films, fiction films, found footage: each project by the students of the Cogitore studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris explores, in its own way, the blurred boundaries and distinctions between these different narrative forms. At the intersection of the personal and the collective, of politics and aesthetics, these wor...