From wednesday 17 september 2025 to sunday 26 october 2025

Free admission from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Église des Trinitaires

1 rue des trinitaires, 57000, Metz

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Fourteen student artists from the Fresco & Art in Context program at Beaux-Arts de Paris created works specifically designed for the Trinitaires Church in Metz, drawing inspiration from their discovery of the forests on the outskirts of the city.

An invitation from Viviane Zenner (Galerie des Jours de Lune) in partnership with the city of Metz.

More than 2,000 years ago, Metz was known as Divodurum Mediomatricorum, “the divine enclosure between two rivers,” located in the heart of the territory of the Celtic Mediomatrici tribe. Under the growing influence of Rome, the city gradually broadened its spiritual horizons. The inhabitants adopted a profusion of new cults, welcoming goddesses from distant lands.

In the heart of the city, the Trinitaires church, built in its current form in the 18th century, has had several lives and seems to be in a state of eternal transformation. The transition period of the contemporary world, in which the spiritual landscape is being redrawn, this “pivotal age” according to philosopher Karl Jaspers, has led the artist-students of the “Fresco & Art in Context” program at Beaux-Arts de Paris to explore the very notion of worship and the nature of the potential rites of tomorrow.

They are taking over the Trinitaires for a final contemporary art exhibition, drawing inspiration in particular from their discovery of the Meuse forest a few dozen kilometers from Metz. The church is thus linked to the forest, at the edge of the woods, dark and deep, giving way to the imagination of darkness: it serves as a boundary between the real world and the invented world. Searching through the beliefs and practices of the past, proven or imagined, to imagine the cults of the future, to offer speculative thinking, an attentive, meditative experience of the place.

The program is supported by the Gecina Foundation, Vedettes de Paris, Apes/Action Logement group, RM Yachts, and Compagnie de Phalsbourg.

Participating students/artists: Ash, Mehdi Babaei, Helena Heras, Ruoxi Jin, Bahar Kocabey, Jade Maignan, Baptiste Marfaing, Sarah Melloul, Amine Merhoum, Lou Olmos Arsenne, Héloïse Sailly, François Toison, Mehdi Shineshen, Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Guest artists/teachers: Bertrand Planes and Charlotte Imbault

Tuesday 23 September 2025

6:30pm - 8:30pm

Auditorium de l'ADAGP

11 rue Duguay-Trouin, Paris 6

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Les Caprices de la pensée, debate between Christian Jaccard and Nicolas Bourriaud at ADAGP

An exceptional debate between artist Christian Jaccard and art critic Nicolas Bourriaud is being organized in the ADAGP auditorium to mark the publication of Les Caprices de la pensée, a unique encounter that will explore the artist's reflections and delve deeper into the contemporary issues addressed in his work, through the prism of these previously unpublished writings, which mark a turning point in our understanding of the art of our time.

Starting this fall, as part of the new visiting professor program, Beaux-Arts de Paris will welcome an international artist each year.
This invitation has been made possible thanks to a partnership between Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Institut français x Cité internationale des arts residency program.

Les Éditions des Beaux-Arts de Paris has published Les Caprices de la pensée, in which artist and former president of ADAGP Christian Jaccard reveals more than 50 years of artistic experimentation.

In this book, Christian Jaccard presents long and powerful excerpts from his unpublished diary, which he began in 1968. As Nicolas Bourriaud recalls in his preface: "Since his early days, Christian Jaccard has been engaged in what he describes as intelligible experimentation. Through his exploration of combustion phenomena.

Les Caprices de la pensée - couverture

Vedettes de Paris, a partner of Beaux-Arts de Paris, chose Elina Kuhlich, an artist graduating in 2023, to design a work of art and decorate the hull of the electric-powered cruise boat “Le Paris-Montparnasse” that sails on the Seine. The resulting work is a dynamic composition representing several animal species that inhabit the river Seine.

As part of the school's policy to encourage sustainable transport, Beaux-Arts de Paris, in partnership with the CycloCube association, is offering students, teachers, and staff a bicycle repair workshop at Saint Germain des Près site. 


The CycloCube association provides repair tools and spare parts and mobilizes its community of volunteers to assist participants.
These workshops, led by volunteers, will take place every Tuesday from 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. starting September 9, 2025.


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Anne

Bourse

Cheffe d'Atelier

Anne Bourse was born in Lyon in 1982. She lives and works in Saint-Denis.

Her work is characterized by swirling lines and letters, reminiscent of cartoonish cartoons or psychedelic frescoes, which invade the surface of books, clothing, and papers of all kinds. Although her practice encompasses various media, including painting, drawing, and textile and textual productions, it is primarily driven by the continuous movement of self-expression.

Her recent solo exhibitions include: Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) (FR), Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (DE), Galerie Édouard Manet, Gennevilliers (FR), Crèvecœur, Paris (FR). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, notably at the 24th Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize, Paris (FR), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), Villa Empain, Brussels (BE), Frac Corsica, Corte (FR), Scheusal, Berlin (DE), Créduc, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR), and Frac Île de France, Paris (FR).

 

 

The teams at Beaux-Arts de Paris were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Sylvain Amic, President of the Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie, on August 31. Sylvain Amic was a passionate professional who believed strongly in the social and democratic role of museums.This is deeply sad news that affects us particularly.
 

Fourteen student artists from the Fresco & Art in Context program at Beaux-Arts de Paris created works specifically designed for the Trinitaires Church in Metz, drawing inspiration from their discovery of the forests on the outskirts of the city.

An invitation from Viviane Zenner (Galerie des Jours de Lune) in partnership with the city of Metz.

It is with sadness and emotion that we learned of the passing of Alain Bonfand.


Born in 1957, Alain Bonfand taught art history and theory at Beaux-Arts de Paris for over thirty years, from 1986 to 2017. He was appointed professor emeritus in 2022.

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