Aurélie
Pagès

Studio professor

Born in 1975 in Saint-Martin d’Hères, Aurélie Pagès lives and works in Paris. Aurélie Pagès’ artistic practice invests various mediums: drawing, photography, writing, editing, printed image or text. Publishing allows her to confront these various approaches.

Wernher
Bouwens

Studio professor

Wernher Bouwens was born in 1969 in the Netherlands. He lives and works in Paris since 1994.

In his paintings and printed works, the surfaces act as resonances, chromatic and graphic frequency modulations. Its screens are built according to the processes of printing where colors are placed one after another, mixing only by superposition. What emerges is a project that involves recurring issues of our relationship to the reality of the artwork, materials, media, color and of course of the technical usage.

Fabrice
Vannier

Studio professor

Born in 1963, in Savigny (France). Lives and works in Paris.

Has taught at the Beaux-Arts since 2005.

After studying Iberian and Latin American literature and civilisation at the Paris IV-Sorbonne, Fabrice Vannier studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and at the Facultat de Belles-Arts de Barcelona.

Philippe
Renault

Studio professor

Born in 1961, Philippe Renault lives and works in Paris. 
Silicone, plaster, wax, resin…whichever the material, its plasticity, its light absorption capability, its porosity, density or scale, Philippe Renault understands its material intricacies and knows how to cast it.

Götz
Arndt

Studio professor

Born in 1962 in Germany, Götz Arndt lives and works in Paris. A stonecutter in Bavaria, he graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1992 and runs the materials / space lab with Fabrice Vannier and Philippe Renault.

Julien
Prévieux

Studio professor

Julien Prévieux is a French artist whose multidisciplinary work is regularly exhibited in art centers, galleries and museums, in France and abroad. The economy, politics, cutting-edge technologies, the cultural industry are all “worlds” in which his artistic practice is involved. Like these Letters of non-motivation that he sent to companies for 7 years in response to advertisements seen in the press, detailing the motivations which led him not to apply. A keen observer of individual and collective behavior, the artist takes a critical and humorous look at society.

The Premiers Films festival was born from an observation: the desire to show one's own work and to see the work of others and then to discuss it. But then arose the difficulty of finding a projection space where it is possible to take the time necessary for sharing and discussion. One question remained unanswered: where to find this space, which is not only reserved for experienced filmmakers or artists? The Premiers Films festival was therefore born out of a great curiosity to discover the work of others and the difficulty of finding a space to do so.

Jean-Yves
Jouannais

Contemporary Art

Editor-in-chief of the magazine Art Press (1991-1999), member of the editorial committee of the Revue Perpendicule (1995-1998), Jean-Yves Jouannais taught contemporary art at the University of Paris 8. Among other exhibitions: Topographies of war, Le Bal, Paris, 2011; La Force de l’art, Grand Palais (with J.-L. Froment and D. Ottinger), 2009; L’Idiotie, Pommery Experience #2, Reims, 2005; History of Infamy, Venice Biennale, 1995; A contemporary art from South Africa, La Défense, 1994.

Depuis 2013 :
Art contemporain

Véronique
Teyssandier

French FLE

Véronique Teyssandier holds a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in French literature and a maîtrise (master's degree) in French as a foreign language.

Depuis 2005 :
FLE (Français langue étrangère)

Olivier
Blanckart

Studio professor

Olivier Blanckart's work focuses on three areas: activism, sculpture and photography. A self-taught, committed citizen, the artist first came to prominence through his provocative actions: "Jean-Michel", a homeless artist who begs and stinks; virulent leaflets in galleries and museums; a slogan banner on the Centre Pompidou: "Art against AIDS is useless: wear condoms!