The Nouvelle Académie des Amateurs (NABA) offers you an original and range of activities to develop your artistic skills in an emblematic school and venue, for ages 16 and up!

Whether for beginners or advanced students, the courses on offer, both theoretical and practical, enable you to acquire an artistic technique, complete or perfect your training and refine your personal culture. Accompanied by qualified artists, come and learn or perfect your skills in life drawing, painting, morphology... and much more!

 

Ilaria Andreotti, Maëlle Lucas-Le Garrec, Oskar Fougeirol Lété, Liselor Perez, Lou Rappeneau, Apolline Regent, Emilia Shine and Pierre Sérot, students at the Figarella studio, are exhibiting their work as part of a Beaux-Arts de Paris partnership with Sorbonne Université and École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL.

Éric de Chassey, the new Director of Beaux-Arts de Paris, takes up his post on July 1. We wish him a warm welcome!  

Professor of art history at the École normale supérieure de Lyon since 2012, Éric de Chassey was director of the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis from 2009 to 2015, before becoming director of the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) in 2016. He is the author of numerous books, essays and articles on contemporary art and artists, and has curated over fifty exhibitions in France and abroad.

Les Beaux-Arts de Paris extends its warmest and most sincere congratulations to Nina Childress, who joins the Académie des Beaux-Arts. She has been head of studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2019.

 

Nina Childress was officially installed as a member of the painting section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on June 25, 2025 by her colleague Catherine Meurisse, member of the engraving and drawing section.
 

For 2 days, the Ateliers Ouverts are a unique opportunity for the general public and professionals to discover the young creativity and artistic diversity produced by students at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

The studios are transformed into exhibition spaces, offering a panorama of work produced from the Via Ferrata preparatory class to the fifth year: paintings, photos, sculptures, drawings, videos, etc. Studio training is the hallmark of Beaux-Arts de Paris, and is named after the renowned artist in charge.

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On June 26, 2025, the association Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, founded and chaired by agnès b., awarded seven prizes to  Beaux-Arts de Paris students selected by a jury of professionals from the contemporary art world.

Salomé BOTELLA, 5th year student, winner of Prix agnès b.
Léonard BERTHOU, 3rd year student, winner of the Prix THADDAEUS ROPAC
Charlotte MENUT, 4th year student, winner of the Prix du PORTRAIT Bertrand de DEMANDOLX- DEDONS

À première vue returns this summer, giving the galleries of Saint-Germain des Prés carte blanche to showcase the work of young artists who have graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris.

The Fondation de France, in partnership with Beaux-Arts de Paris, awarded the Prix des Fondations on June 27, 2025.

FOUR FOUNDATIONS PRIZES SHELTERED AT FONDATION DE FRANCE

BAP PERF, Aides au projet collectif Guillaume Dethan / Dream Big and Grow Fast
Sehyoung LEE, graduate 2023, Prix de danse-performance Fondation Villa Seurat for contemporary art
Abdelhak BENALLOU, graduate 2024, Prix de peinture Rose Taupin-Dora Bianka
Mehdi GÖRBÜZ, graduate 2024, Prix Marguerite et Méthode Keskar, volume-installation

The contemporary drawing prize, awarded on June 26, 2025, goes to Marguerite Hollemaert, a 4th-year student at the Bernini and Blanc/Nielsen studios. She receives an endowment from the association Les Amateurs de dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, which acquires one of her works for the Beaux-Arts de Paris, to enrich the collection of contemporary drawings.