Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m.
Signing of the coloring book and Venice Biennale catalog by artist Julien Creuzet
Sunday, March 16 at 3 p.m.
Pascale Le Thorel, director of Editions des Beaux-Arts de Paris, presents the Prix du Beau Livre de la Maison de l'Afrique.
From wednesday 9 april 2025 to sunday 1 june 2025
Wednesday to Sunday 1pm - 7pm, Wednesday night until 9pm
Palais des Beaux-Arts
13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris
Chère Melpomène is a call to subvert classical myths in order to convey other stories that are closer to our daily lives. The exhibition invites us to listen, feel, and breathe together in a poetic exploration of what binds us.
Drawing inspiration from the methodology of artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982) in her work Dictée (1982) - where the nine muses of Greco-Roman antiquity are reimagined to honor female martyrs who sought emancipation - the exhibition sublimates reality by rerouting the figure of Melpomène. What relationships should we cultivate among the inhabitants of the earth - beyond species, and between animate and inanimate beings? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha invites us to prioritize our senses, intuition, and pay attention to our surroundings in order to reconnect with the multiple breaths of life and reignite our commoning energy.
The exhibition invites us to navigate our intimate tragedies and the stories we can tell about them. It offers an incantation to summon spiritual and political alliances, to infuse our struggles with magic, expand our imagination, and nurture hope. The pieces in this exhibition embody acts of resistance and solidarity, sharing speculative cosmogonies that translate the plurality of memories that shape our contemporary society and cultivate our interdependence while honoring our individual differences.
Chère Melpomène intertwines a hundred works from the collections, students and international artists, presenting a transhistorical display from the late 17th century to today. Most have never been exhibited—recently acquired by the School or newly created for the exhibition—while others have yet to circulate in institutional spaces.
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« Best of the Month - Beaux-Arts de Paris: “La muse d'aujourd'hui” (The muse of today) » - Technikart
« Beaux-Arts de Paris muse reinvented » - The Art Newspaper
WEDNESDAY MAY 21 2025
2pm | Atelier Matières en errances / matières en questions
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WEDNESDAY MAY 28 2025
2 to 4pm | Atelier d'écriture
6.30pm | Table ronde Muser, Magiser
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Mélanie Bouteloup and Armelle Pradalier, co-directors of the “Artists & Exhibition Professions” program, Giulia Longo, Curator of Prints and Photographs at Beaux-Arts de Paris, with students in the program : Kenza Agbo, Adèle Anstett, Martin Bas, Héloïse Bayard, Léonard Berthou, Pauline Boudaoud, Mathilde Cassan, Mathilde Chabaud, Elisa Leïla Durand, Éloïse Frye De Lassalle, Klara Jakes, Clément Justin Hannin, Zoé Le Bacquer, Shumeng Li, Zahra Mansoor, Timothée Perron, Zoé Siau, Kit Szasz, Lara Ulusoy.
Soraya Abdelhouaret, Océane-Maria Adjovi, Giovanni Altieri, Shelim Alvarado, Dyan Daniel Assogo, Eugène Atget, Gianfranco Baruchello, Baya, Romain Bernini, Pierre-Amédée-Marcel Béronneau, Michel Blazy, Félix Bonfils Et Atelier, Rosa Bonheur, Wanda Elisabeth Bouleau-Rabaud, Jean Bhownagary, Luciano Castelli, Norbert Chautard, Arthur Coquille-Hopfner, Henri Cueco, Storm De Hirsch, Princesse Diakumpuna, Amahiguere Dolo, Azzeazy, Guillaume-Benjamin Amant Duchenne De Boulogne, Aysha E Arar, Mimosa Echard, Laura Esparch, Frederik Exner, Nina Fiorentini, Diego Garcia Lara, Guillaume-Sulpice Dit Paul Gavarni, Clémence Gbonon, Fengyi Guo, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Roger Hardy, Suzanne Husky, Fanny Irina, Svay Ken, Käthe Kollwitz, Shengqi Kong, Adrien Lagrange, Emmanuelle Lainé, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Gherasim Luca, Frédérique Loutz, Rose Lowder, Antoinette Lubaki, Turiya Magadlela, Joshua Merchan Rodriguez, Pierre Molinier, Céleste Moneger, Zora Neale Hurston, Aryle Nsengiyumva, Christel Pereira, Liselor Perez, Enzo Perrier, Romain Pommelet, Jonathan Potana, Pierre Petit, Chloé Quenum, Axel Ramat, Lou Rappeneau, Akshay Raj Singh Rathore, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Paul Richer, Sofia Salazar Rosales, Juliana Seraphim, Seumboy Vrainom :€, Marcel Storr, Shooshie Sulaiman, Eden Tinto Collins, Marion Verboom, François Verdier, Yizhi Wan, Isabelle Waternaux, Yue Yu, Anna Zemankova et anonymes.
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Wednesday April 09 - Sunday June 01 2025 (Closing: Thursday, May 1, 2025)
Palais des Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts de Paris, 13 quai Malaquais, Paris 6e
Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm-7pm
2€, 5€ or 10€ it's up to you!
The " Artistes & Métiers de l'exposition " program is supported by Société Générale
Petit Pierre, Statue de la Melpomène Papier albuminé, 26 x 19 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Grand Palais RMN / Thierry Ollivier
Céleste Moneger, Toujours pas New-York Vidéo, capture d'écran
Akshay Rathore, White thing creeping in black 02, 2022 Feutre et aérosol sur carton, 78 x 97 cm
Odilon Redon, Le Buddha, 1895 Lithographie sur chine appliqué, 60 x 42,5 cm © Beaux-Arts de Paris, Grand Palais RMN / Thierry Ollivier
Henri Cueco, Autoportrait aux feuilles de pissenlit, 2002 Acrylique sur toile, 55,3 x 46,5 cm
Chloé Quenum, 19 juillet 2019, 2022 Courtesy of the artist and galleria Martina Simeti, Milan © Aurélien Mole
Romain Pommelet, En marche, 2023, chaussures, équerre en métal, simili-cuir, mousse, serre-joints, contreplaqué, dimensions variables
Jonathan Potana, Mouvement Primaire, Centre d'Art Ygrec - ENSAPC, 2024 Caméléon dans le formole suspendu avec fil de cuivre sur vélo et pierres, 5 x 1,3 m © Objet Pointus
Océane Maria Adjovi, L'origine de nos actes, 2024 Huile sur toile, 162 x 130 c
Thursday 20 March 2025
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
What do we mean today by “artificial intelligence”?
From February to April 2025, these artists will benefit from a shared workspace of over 200 m² to develop their research and productions. This residency, supported by the French Ministry of Culture via the CulturePro program, will also help them find employment. The 12 graduates are coached throughout the year by Anne-Laure Peressin and Elsa Vettier.
Wednesday 26 March 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
This conference explores the relationship between art and philosophy at a time of environmental change in the humanities. Philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane will draw on his two books Au bord des mondes and Des empires sous la terre. He will highlight some of their resonances with the current practices of several artists and curators in contemporary art worlds, between Europe and America, Africa and Asia.
Wednesday 5 March 2025
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Palais des Beaux-Arts
13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris
Round-table discussion on Baudrillard Spirit with author Ludovic Leonelli, journalist Frédéric Taddeï and Pascale Le Thorel, director of Editions des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Thursday 27 March 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre d'Honneur
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
Michel Poivert describes as “neo-analog” photographic practices involving creative processes that assert the role of materiality and experimentation over the production of an image. It thus opens onto the global notion of “analog culture”, defined as the counterpart to “digital culture”. Analog no longer designates a technical fact, but a cultural one. What characterizes the neoanalogue is a strong “ecosophical” awareness, i.e. a perception of the Anthropocene era as a general historical framework. In this respect, the analogical turn marks a political project.
Friday 14 March 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges (SUR PLACE UNIQUEMENT)
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
Baptiste Morizot recounts the story of how modern people monospecifically confiscated the privilege of developing environments, and explores how certain contemporary environmental restoration practices, carried out by the heirs of this confiscation, now envisage sharing this monopoly with non-human, animal and ecosystem entities. What are the philosophical and political implications of this local shift?
Tuesday 4 March 2025
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Bibliothèque des Beaux-Arts de Paris
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
As an extension of the exhibition Pierre Alferi - Dessins, 2006-2021 currently on view at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, this evening is devoted to Pierre Alferi and his accomplices, through a number of creative experiences arising from these friendships. It will be an opportunity to see and hear several facets of his work, presented or replayed by Rodolphe Burger, Fanny de Chaillé and Grégoire Monsaingeon, Suzanne Doppelt and Paul Sztulman, Jacques Julien and Anne Portugal.
