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In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles are joining forces to organize an exhibition entitled Paradis artificiels (Artificial Paradises), presented in various spaces at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

This exhibition takes the form of a journey through technology, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and the upheavals it is causing in all strata of society. It explores the misuse of tools and technology as a field of possibilities, with prompts paving the way for new poetic and creative licenses. More broadly, the exhibition raises questions about artifice and a hallucinatory world where disasters, fake news, and seas of plastic populate social media as much as the pages of newspapers.

Artificial Paradises provides an overview of photographic approaches as practiced at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles.

Curated by Audrey Illouz and Vincent Lambert, assisted by Geoffrey Soghomonian, with the assistance of Tatiana Rosette and Olivier Vernhes.

Beaux-Arts de Paris artists: William Basseux, Léonard Berthou, Lea Citi, Simon Deterre, Lea Farant, Eric Godin, Chia Huang, Anjeyanne Huynh, Shumeng Li, Melina Malheurty, Olivier Perusat, Ilona Plissonneau, Ingrid Portal, Colombe Thaller, Emmanuel van der Elst.

ENSP Arles artists: Ulysse Barry, Aure Baucher, Cécile Blaque, JINGDI, Mathis Clodic, Valentin Derom, Fiona Faivre, Orane Grunenwald, Eva Sustar, Morgane Ubaldi, Charlotte Van de Walle, Baptiste Vitorino, Samuel Vorms.

With the support of Neuflize OBC corporate foundation, patron of the Extra-Large Photography Chair at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Dupon.photo.art.

Practical information
November 7 to 16
Cour Bonaparte and Cour vitrée
Free admission from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6

Photo credits: Chia Huang, Océan temporaire, 2018
Baptiste Vitorino, Sous le soleil, 2025

A look back at the biography of a storyteller

On the occasion of the Un Week-End à l'Est festival, which this year honors the Romanian art scene, Cristian Mungiu, patron of this 9th edition, discusses the making of his book Une vie roumaine (A Romanian Life), in which he questions his relationship with truth and reminds us that storytelling remains an act of resistance. In conversation with Arnaud Laporte, journalist and producer at France Culture.

Felicità 2025 presents the 24 artists who obtained their diplôme national supérieur d'arts plastiques from Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors from the jury, chaired by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, curator of the exhibition.

The exhibition invites visitors to take unusual and unique paths to construct, under a shared sky, a renewed image of the world and the cyclones that sweep across it. How can we inhabit a world when disaster seems imminent? How can we build community, repair, slow down, represent, and re-enchant the world, and perhaps manage to extricate ourselves from the continuous flow of images and representations that reduce reality?

“The works brought together for this exhibition are those we discovered during each artist's graduation, and which, in their diversity of medium and skill, ranging from video installation to sculpture and painting, paint a complex and sensitive picture of our contemporary condition.” - Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, exhibition curator

With the artists :
Mehdi Boualli
Sila Candansayar
Virgile Desbat
Ladji Diaby
James Dosa
Marine Ducroux-gazio
Héléna Fourmont
Yann Fonseca Rodrigues
Cléopatra Gones
Hugo Hectus
Sanggu Kim
Arya K/Nell
Adrien Lagrange
Ibrahim Meïté Sikely
Winca Mendy
Salomé Moindjie-Gallet
Viktoriia Oreshko
Liselor Perez
Caroline Rambaud
Rose Ras
Apolline Régent
yietnu (duo d'artistes, Yi ZHANG et Nu HA)
Yi YE

A catalog accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition and catalog are supported by ICICLE.

Late-night events related to the exhibition:

Wednesday 3 December at 7pm
Guided tour with Mathieu Abonnenc, exhibition curator, and Ladji Diaby, Adrien Lagrange, and Caroline Rambaud, artists featured in the exhibition, focusing on their artistic practice.

Student-led tours – guided tours of the exhibition:

Wednesdays at 6pm.
Thursdays and Fridays at 5pm.
Saturdays and Sundays at 4pm.

Visits are free with an admission ticket and no booking is required.
Duration: approximately 1 hour.

Closures:

The exhibition will be closed on Thursday 25 December 2025 and Thursday 1 January 2026.
Exceptional early closure at 4pm on Wednesday 24 and Wednesday 31 December 2025.

Technological wanderings

The quest for immortality, cryogenics, personal development, resource depletion, pyropictomania (or the pleasure derived from images of energy dissipation)... From the American West to the Atlantic coast, against a backdrop of climate catastrophe, we meet the authors of two books devoted to the technological turning point we are currently experiencing. How do these writings, connected to the visual arts and imbued with displacement, capture this turning point?

In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles are joining forces to organize an exhibition entitled Paradis artificiels (Artificial Paradises), presented in various spaces at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

A look back at the biography of a storyteller

Felicità 2025 presents the 24 artists who obtained their diplôme national supérieur d'arts plastiques from Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors from the jury, chaired by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, curator of the exhibition.

Technological wanderings

We are delighted to announce that Xie Lei, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté, graduates of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, are among the four finalists with Bianca Bondi for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025. We offer them our warmest congratulations.