Lauren Laz has been unanimously selected by the jury and appointed Director of the Artworks Department at Beaux-Arts de Paris. A historian of modern art and a specialist in prints from the French School, she will take up her post on 1 April 2026. We wish her a warm welcome! 

As director of the Angladon-Dubrujeaud Foundation, which manages the Avignon museum, since 2015, she has conceived and organised numerous exhibitions there.

Congratulations to Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, who graduated with honours from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025 future resident at Villa Medici for 2026–2027, alongside Neïla Czermak Ichti. 


“During this residency, we hope to develop and establish a shared visual practice. For several years now, we have been nurturing the idea of creating an illustrated book, conceived, painted and written by us.”
 

For the seventh consecutive year, the law firm Gide invited students and recent graduates from the School to create a series of three short films, to be shown throughout the year on the giant LED screens at the firm’s headquarters in Paris (8th arrondissement). Forty-seven candidates responded to this call for projects, which were assessed by a jury comprising representatives from Beaux-Arts de Paris and partners from Gide, to finalise a selection of projects reflecting the diverse approaches to visual arts within the School.

Wednesday 22 April 2026

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Palais des Beaux-Arts

13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris

BILLETTERIE RESPONSABLE

7PM | PERFORMANCE
Baptiste Agnero-Rigot with Théo Noel
L'allée des soupirs au lendemain du cyclone
20 minutes

Wednesday 8 April 2026

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Palais des Beaux-Arts

13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris

BILLETTERIE RESPONSABLE

6.30pm | PERFORMANCE

Anon, Hors-Série de Journal, performance (2024), 55 minutes
Simon Asencio, Matthieu Blond, Fredrik Floen
Lobby, Palais des Beaux-Arts

This performance is the result of a dialogue between two projects: *Journal*, an oral and gestural journal initiated by the choreographer Matthieu Blond, and the research project *Quire Whidsune* on medieval poetic and theatrical forms led by the artist Simon Asencio. This collaboration aims to develop a choreographic reconstruction of Virginia Woolf’s essay *Anon*.

Wednesday 1 April 2026

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Palais des Beaux-Arts

13 quai Malaquais, 75006 Paris

BILLETTERIE RESPONSABLE

A staged reading by Tristan Garcia, accompanied by Agnès Gayraud.

Tristan Garcia, accompanied for the occasion by the vocals and electric guitar of La Féline (Agnès Gayraud), will give a reading from his short story, "Front Haut" (Âmes, Gallimard, 2019). It is a brief epic tale of a Neanderthal woman betrayed by a human.

Tristan Garcia, a lecturer at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, has published works on theory and novels. His latest book is *Vie contre vie* (Gallimard, 2021).

Monday 27 April 2026

7:00pm - 8:30pm

La Cinémathèque

51 rue de Bercy, Paris 12

ENTRÉE PAYANTE

Documentaries, experimental films, fiction films, found footage: each project by the students of the Cogitore studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris explores, in its own way, the blurred boundaries and distinctions between these different narrative forms. 

At the intersection of the personal and the collective, of politics and aesthetics, these works hold as much promise for what is yet to come as they do for the unique artistic visions they embody. Hybrid, contemplative, furious, conceptual, participatory, cathartic films: a new generation of artists is emerging.

From Wednesday 8 April 2026 to Sunday 26 April 2026

2:00pm - 7:00pm

La Villette

211 avenue Jean Jaurès, Paris 19e

ENTRÉE LIBRE

Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to be taking part in the 8th edition of 100% L’EXPO, which opens the Grande Halle de la Villette to young graduates of French art schools.

100% L’EXPO offers an overview of contemporary artistic practices, where forms, techniques, media and narratives intersect and engage in dialogue. What artistic, political and societal issues are shaping the early careers of these artists under the age of 30? Has their perception of their social role as artists evolved in recent years?

From Friday 17 April 2026 to Sunday 19 April 2026

8:30am - 8:00pm

Grand Palais

Grand Palais, Paris 8

ENTRÉE PAYANTE

Come and browse our exhibition catalogues, art books and guides on the School’s history and collections at stand NS2. 
 

A new book on Les recettes de cuisine des artistes des Beaux-Arts will be unveiled on that occasion.

From Thursday 9 April 2026 to Saturday 11 April 2026

1:00pm - 7:00pm

Beaux-Arts de Paris

14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

ENTRÉE LIBRE

Exhibitions and performances related to the exhibition After Michelangelo

Nine artist-teachers from the School – Pascale Accoyer, Claude Closky, Clément Cogitore, Frédérique Loutz, Jack McNiven, Guillaume Paris, Philippe Renault, Daniel Schlier, Valérie Sonnier – have joined forces for the exhibition After Michelangelo and invited their students to explore Michelangelo’s work and the way it inspires them today.

The works created in this context are on display for three days in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, the left gallery and the cour vitrée.