Exhibition of the 50 works selected for the Bob Calle Prix du livre d'artiste.

This exhibition, open to the public until Friday, July 4, 2025, presents the works selected for the Bob Calle Prize for Artists' Books. The books will then be added to the Bibliothèque d'art contemporain's specialized collection of artists' books, where they will be available for consultation.

Discover the 2025 sélection

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.

Clémence Gbonon, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors in 2024, will benefit from the prize of Catherine and Mamadou-Abu Sarr, French entrepreneurs and collectors based in Chicago, for a one-month research residency at the Villa Albertine in Chicago in 2026.

A figurative painter with a strong emphasis on color, the artist will explore the political radicalism of art in Chicago's black communities, questioning black figuration in France and enriching her practice with these two approaches.

Gold occupies a singular place in the work of Daniel Schlier, a painter based in Strasbourg and professor at ENSBA in Paris. This “masterclass” gives him the opportunity to look back at certain uses of this metal in his creations and in contemporary practices. In dialogue with the room, it will also consider how the discovery of gold, its use on a variety of supports (wood, dibond, labradorite, marble, parchment) and its reception can be part of a long-term history of art, echoing the works of 16th-century German painters as well as those of Jacques Stella.

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 the Beaux-Arts de Paris, and each studio bears the name of the renowned artist in charge.

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Tracing the careers of students at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the 19th and 20th centuries necessarily involves consulting numerous, scattered and partial archives. By publishing the Ecole des Beaux-Arts register (1813-1968) in digital format, Alice Thomine-Berrada, Déborah Laks, Lucie Lachenal and France Nerlich have confronted themselves with the arid data of administrative archives, far removed from the contrasting, lively, singular experience of those who, at some point in their youth, wished to commit themselves to the path of art.

For the Nuit Blanche and La Fabrique du Regard Festival at the BAL, students from the Clément Cogitore studio are offering an original program of films and videos entitled Soudain parmi les autres, presented from 7pm to 11pm.

Between free fiction and fragmentary documentary, the films presented explore contemporary uses of the image as a place of resistance, doubt and address. Borrowing from diaries, reportage, amateur cinema and found footage, they question our relationship to the visible, the archive and the narrative.