Graduating in 2021, Swann Ronné is the 2023 winner of the 1st edition of the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation scholarship, the result of a partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, which consists of the award of 4 scholarships a year, intended to promote the artistic careers of French⸱es and Chinese⸱es students and graduates⸱es of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the China Academy in Hangzhou.
Young Green, 2024, Acrylique sur toile, 130x90cm
The 7th Dior Photography Prize has been awarded to Chia Huang, a 4th year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Jouve and Cogitore workshops, for her moving series on autism Silence Is Speaking, which combines documentary photography and amateur painting. The work of the 2024 winner will be exhibited alongside that of the twelve other artists at La Lampisterie from 1 July to 29 September 2024.
As part of its commitment to social responsibility and sustainable development, the Beaux-Arts de Paris has signed a partnership agreement with Fabrique Pointcarré, a non-profit organisation working in the field of social integration and sustainable development.
As part of this partnership, the Fabrique Pointcarré's social integration workshop will be recovering the tarpaulins used for Beaux-Arts de Paris's communications to design and produce simple, useful and accessible reused objects.
The Contemporary Drawing Prize, to be awarded on 27 June 2024, will go to Mathieu SANTORI-LAMBERTI, a 4th-year student at the Rielly and Trouvé studios. He will receive an endowment from the association Les Amateurs de dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, which will acquire one of his works for the Beaux-Arts de Paris, to enrich the collection of contemporary drawings.
On 27 June 2024, the association Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, founded and chaired by agnès b., awarded seven prizes to students at the School, selected by a jury of professionals from the world of contemporary art.
The Fondation de France, in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, awarded the Foundations' Prizes on 28 June 2024.
Price per technique : Aude de Bourbon Parme, art critic and journalist, Sofia Grimou, deputy director of Continua Paris, Anna Milone, director of the Jean Cocteau - Les Lilas cultural centre, Horya Maklouf, art critic and artistic coordinator at the Palais de Tokyo, Romain Leclère, president of the CAC Synagogue de Delme.
"With a mirror in your eye, you can look beyond the image, beyond the field, to understand what, in plain sight, was being shown without anyone daring to see it. Once the initial astonishment has passed, the paintings cease to be images, and reveal the traces of a process, of a time longer than that of stupor. That of painting, abandoned to itself on the surface of the canvas. It responds indolently to the flash of fear. It flows repeatedly over the background, encountering obstacles methodically arranged between the stretcher and the canvas on its way to collide with its edges and manifest the painting's existence".
Text by Carin Klonowski Medusa / Solo exhibition, Galerie Allen, 2023.
Emmanuel Van der Meulen is a graduate of ENSBA Paris (2001). A former Villa Medici resident (2012-2013), he taught painting at the École Européenne Supérieure de l'Image d'Angoulême-Poitiers (2013-2024). In 2015, he founded STINKSTOTAAL, a critical ska punk band, with Nicolas Chardon. His work is represented by Galerie Allen, Paris.
Recent exhibitions: Fortuna, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan; Medusa, Galerie Allen, Paris; Paris-Peinture, MABA, Nogent-sur-Marne; Épochè, Les Tanneries, Amilly; Blackscreen_Issues_Sleeping_Displays, Glassbox, Paris; Your Friends and Neighbors, High Art, Paris; Embarquez-vous ! FRAC Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque; Opsis, Galerie Allen, Paris.
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Chloé Quenum is a Franco-Beninese artist born in 1983. She lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the Olivier de Serres School of Applied Art and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She also trained at ehess in the anthropology of writing.
Chloé Quenum works with graphic, linguistic and movable elements from a variety of cultures, extracting and schematising them from their context. These elements become signs, decorative forms of unidentifiable origin. She questions the effect that contextual displacement has on their understanding, and consequently their capacity to generate new stories.
Her work is regularly the subject of solo exhibitions, including "Épopée" as part of the Mondes Nouveaux programme at the Hôtel de Ragueneau in Bordeaux in 2023, curated by Cédric Fauq; "Wonder Wander" at the Florence Loewy gallery, Paris (2023); "Overseas" at the Les Bains-Douches art centre, Alençon (2020); and "Le Sceau de Salomon" at The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand (2018). She is regularly invited to take part in group exhibitions: "Sarah Maldoror: Ci-néma Tricontinental", Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2021) and Wexner Center for the Arts (2024); "Diaspora at Home" at CCA, Lagos, Nigeria (2019) and Kadist, Paris (2021); "Ernest Mancoba - An Artist and His Legacy", at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019) and Sodertalje konsthall, Sodertalje, Sweden (2020).
She regularly carries out research and creative residencies, for example in 2019 at the Manufacture de la Cristallerie Saint-Louis as part of the Hermès Foundation's residency programme, and in 2024 at the Villa Medici in Rome as part of the "Résidence Médicis" programme. Chloé Quenum shares her artistic activity with teaching at the Paris College of Arts. She has also been invited to study at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 2022-2023.
Chloé Quenum is representing Benin at the 60th Venice Biennale alongside artists Ishola Akpo, Moufouli Bello and Romuald Hazoumè, curated by Azu Nwagbogu. She will be in residence at the Villa Médicis in May 2024, as part of the "Résidence Médicis" programme.
Her work can be found in the collections of public and private institutions, including: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux; FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; FRAC Grand-Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque; Fondation Kadist, Paris; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.
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As an iconographer, Agnès Geoffray probes, elaborates and reactivates images. Through staging, reactivation and photographic associations, she reveals a world of latent and mysterious tensions.
At the crossroads of photography, text and performance, her work questions the survival of archetypal gestures that draw their source from a heterogeneous repertoire: anonymous and vernacular photography, medical photography, press photography, etc. Her work focuses on the poetic and political dimensions of images.
Often based on archival sources, her proposals result from a process of fictionalised reconstruction and question the idea of reminiscence. She re-enacts and reinvents the images that surround us on a daily basis, inviting viewers to "re-consider" their memories.
Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Lyon and Paris, she was in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and a resident at the Villa Médicis in Rome. Solo exhibitions at the Frac Auvergne, the Point du Jour and the Centre Photographique d'Île-de-France have accompanied group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, the Rencontres d'Arles, the Jeu de Paume and the Mac Val. She has exhibited abroad, including at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg and the Musée de L'Élysée in Lausanne. She is represented by Galerie Maubert and published by La Lettre volée.
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