The City of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Beaux-Arts de Paris and Audencia have signed a partnership centred on an ambitious educational and community-focused project: to collectively envision the conversion of the Paul-Chemetov Ice Rink, an iconic building in Saint-Ouen’s heritage, into a cultural venue.
At the heart of this partnership lies a shared conviction: students have a key role to play in transforming cities, by bringing fresh, creative and interdisciplinary perspectives to the major urban challenges of today.
Thursday 28 May 2026
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
ENTRÉE LIBRE
From independence to institutional permaculture
Exhibition curator Guillaume Désanges, now president of the Palais de Tokyo, reflects on his curatorial practice as it has unfolded collectively at the Aubervilliers Laboratories, then through his independent production company WorkMethod, and since 2022 at the Palais de Tokyo.
Tuesday 19 May 2026
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Amphithéâtre des Loges
14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
ENTRÉE LIBRE
Where are you speaking from, comrade?
During the events of May ’68, it was common practice to question a stranger in this way if they wished to speak at a General Assembly, in order to ascertain their social position (at the time, people spoke of ‘classes’) and thus their legitimacy to speak. The historian Philippe Artières, who co-curated the exhibition Images en Lutte: The Visual Culture of the Far Left in France (1968–1974) at Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, has been conducting research since the 1990s into ‘minor’ writing and archives.
From Wednesday 13 May 2026 to Sunday 17 May 2026
1:00pm - 7:00pm
CROSBY STUDIOS
8 rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris 6
ENTRÉE LIBRE
Collaboration between CROSBY STUDIOS and atelier Closky as part of the exhibition Des mots et des mondes
Crosby Studios transforms into an experimental showroom: a hybrid space where the exhibition becomes a capsule collection, where artworks are worn, moved, and displayed.
In this book, with a foreword and edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac, Annette Messager reveals the secrets of her creative process and her life. Featuring poems, previously unpublished studio notes, personal diaries, interviews, and texts on her works and exhibitions, *Et pourtant…* is a mapping of her oeuvre and an implicit portrait of one of the most important contemporary artists.
Anne Poirier, born in 1941 in Marseille, and Patrick Poirier, born in 1942 in Nantes, are one of the few artist couples to work together on joint projects. Since meeting in the late 1960s, Anne and Patrick Poirier have developed pioneering work on memory, the weight of the past in our cultures, and the way in which the humanities can convey a relationship with reality. During their four-year stay at the Villa Medici in Rome in the early 1970s, they developed a working method that has since become a model.
Anna Jaccoud and Joséphine Loembe-Sauthat, graduates of the class of 2025, and Valentin Ranger, a graduate of the class of 2023, have been selected to take part in the summer residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Canada), from mid-July to the end of August 2026. This opportunity has been made available to them through a partnership with the David R.
Alexandre Lenoir graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 with honours. He creates large-scale paintings based on photographs, evoking memories of happy days spent amidst a bountiful and mysterious natural world.
“When I rediscovered *The Water Lilies*, I was struck by the way the water moved in time with the shifting light in the exhibition rooms. I’m very interested in painting as a living entity.”
From Monday 11 May 2026 to Friday 15 May 2026
2:00pm - 6:00pm
Galerie IESA, Campus DELTA
16 rue Claude Bernard, Paris 5
ENTRÉE LIBRE
As part of a collaboration between the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the IESA Arts&Culture Master’s in the Art Market, five student artists from the Mural Painting & Site-Specific Art programme are exhibiting their proposed artwork, designed to become a permanent feature of the DELTA campus.
