Elina Kulich, 2023 graduate, presents her end-of-residency exhibition at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner. In partnership with Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Échos explores the memory of the Museum's spaces through drawing and painting. During five months spent in the studio overlooking the winter garden, Elina Kulich conducted research and created works based on the different historical layers of the building, formerly the private mansion of artist Guillaume Dubufe, itself built by Roger Jourdain at the end of the 19th century.
In her works, Elina Kulich superimposes different temporalities: in black ink, she draws the museum's rooms as they appear today; in blue ink, she recreates the layout of the space as it was in the Dubufe era, based on archives, engravings, and old inventories. The staircases, original architectural elements, become a visual and symbolic thread, carrying memory and transmission. The Dubufe couple, visitors, objects, receptions of yesterday, and cultural events of today intersect in a play of pictorial layers.
The Échos exhibition is a sensitive dialogue between past and present, where each stroke awakens the memory of the place and reveals the soul of a house that has become a museum.
Elina Kulich is the seventh artist in residence invited to create at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum. Established in 2017, this collaboration with Beaux-Arts de Paris allows emerging talents to build a body of work that resonates with the museum's spaces and collections.
Elina Kulich is a visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023) and the GIDE prize (2024), she has also been a finalist twice for the Prix du Dessin Contemporain (2022-23). Having won the Vedettes de Paris call for projects, her drawings were printed on the hull of one of their boats in June 2025. She also received the Bredin Prat scholarship (2023) and the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship (2020). She won the Comic Book Prize from the French Physics Society (2022) and the Libération-Apaj Prize (2017). She was the winner of the C.R.O.U.S. video competition in Strasbourg (2018).
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, notably at the Estivales de Sceaux, the Sarcelle engraving biennial, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Halle de Fontenay, and the Marie de Holmsky gallery. She has also participated in international projects, such as the Venice Biennale (video for architect Inessa Hansch) and the Rencontres Internationales at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has been a resident artist at the HfBK in Hamburg (ASA program) and at Cartels in La Défense.
Practical information
Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner
43, avenue de Villiers
75017 Paris
Exhibition from October 15, 2025, to January 19, 2026
Image credit: © Elina Kulich
