Narrating the invisible and the living

Alice Pallot and Clara Bouveresse examine the medium of photography, the links between art and science, new representations of the living, the materiality of the non-visible, experimental degradation processes, representations of the near future, and the need to rethink our interactions with the environment in a damaged world.

Hosted by Estelle Zhong Mengual as part of the “Inhabiting the landscape: artistic practices of hospitality for the living” chair.

Sara Favriau is first and foremost a sculptor: a hut, a pirogue, a bow, a tree... are elements that form part of her formal and conceptual vocabulary, and carry their own dramaturgy.

The artist questions both the work and its ecosystem, its circularity like a pirogue-tree that crosses a sea to find a forest. She summons up forms, symbols and processes of a popular nature and transposes them. Wood is one of her favorite materials, whether considered on a macro or micro scale. 

Interested in joining the Beaux-Arts de Paris? Attend our Open House
 

Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A well-established event since 2020 for those wishing to join the School and find out all about the training offered at Beaux-Arts de Paris - the social preparatory class (Via Ferrata), the 1st cycle diploma (Bachelor's level) and the Higher National Diploma of Plastic Arts (DNSAP, Master's level).

A unique opportunity to talk to the staff, teachers, students and graduates.


Ongoing

Zoé Bernardi, Clémence Gbonon et Ruoxi Jin, 2024 graduates of Beaux-Arts de Paris, are winners of the “Mennour Emergence” program, launched to support young artists in the early stages of their careers, as part of the Mennour Institute. On this occasion, they will benefit from a group exhibition with three other prizewinners Matias Agafonovas, graduate of École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL, Amine Habki and Nicolas Lebeau, graduates of École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy.
 

For the 6th year running, the Gide law firm has invited students and recent graduates to design a series of 3 short films, to be shown throughout the year on the very large LED screens at the firm's headquarters in Paris (8th arrondissement). Thirty-four candidates responded to this call for projects, and were studied by a jury made up of representatives from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Gide's associate lawyers, who met on December 3 to finalize a selection of projects reflecting the different image practices within the school.
 

L'art et la vie et inversement presents the 26 artists who received the Diplôme National Supérieur d'Arts Plastiques from Beaux-Arts de Paris with the Congratulations of the Jury in 2024.

Their works present a wide diversity of subjects, materials and intentions. The challenge of showing them together is to question what they express about a generation, and what they say about today's world.

Lucas Bouan Tsobgny, a 2021 graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris, creates a bust of Marianne in the effigy of Joséphine Baker, a free and committed artist who entered the Pantheon in 2021.

The project was born of a collaboration between the city of Fleury-Mérogis and Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the agreement of the Baker family, represented by Brian Bouillon-Baker. A patinated plaster copy of the work, to be followed by a bronze edition, was inaugurated on January 18, 2025 at the Fleury-Mérogis town hall.
 

In the studio. The imaginary world of Creation

This conference explores the symbolic and social function of the Atelier in the imagination and creative process of artists. Wide-angle, interdisciplinary and transnational, it examines the anthropological, philosophical, aesthetic and cultural fundamentals of the Studio over the long term (second nineteenth-early twenty-first centuries), in order to grasp the realia of a matrix structure as the imaging ego of artists at work.

This monograph is dedicated to photographer and video artist Marie José Burki, studio head at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. It presents major works from her major series, accompanied by exhibition views.

In a world saturated with images and information, Marie José Burki's films, photographs, installations and performances reveal the media strategies to which we are constantly exposed, in order to reconnect ourselves with the living.

Introduction with a critical text by Laurent Busine.