The association of the Friends of the Fine Arts of Paris awarded 6 prizes to the students of the School chosen by a jury of personalities from the world of arts and culture. These distinctions are awarded by faithful and generous patrons passionate about young creation.
agnès b. prize
Randa MADDAH - Pagès studio
Thaddaeus Ropac prize
Théo AUDOIRE - Cogitore, Trouvé and Burki studios
Weil, Gotshal & Manges Law Firm prize
Raphaël MAMAN - Trouvé studio
An exhibition of Adrien van Melle at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum, the fourth artist invited in residence at the museum in the framework of a partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
A Journey is rooted in the one the artist made in July 2020, from Paris to Rome, from the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum to the Villa Medici, in the footsteps of his predecessor, winner of the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1858 with Adam and Eve finding the body of Abel (Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, deposit at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum).
Un Voyage - Photo Credit: Adrien van Melle
Adrien van Melle
VIA FERRATA is an integrated preparatory class at the Beaux-Arts de Paris since 2016.
This public preparatory class prepares 50 students from socially, geographically and culturally diverse backgrounds for the exams and entrance examinations to higher art schools (95% success rate).
VIA FERRATA offers practical and theoretical training, and personalized pedagogical support.
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Born in 1974. Lives and works in Paris.
Printing / Multiples Screen printing, video, sound, painting…
Julien Sirjacq’s artistic work takes place on various platforms, modulated according to current inspirations and the artistic partnerships he has developed. In the realm of sound, he co-founded ‘The Bells Angels’ in 2009 with artist Simon Bernheim (musician from the group "10lec6", Ed Banger label). Together, they respond to commissions that allow them to develop their editorial strategies within exhibitions: sound productions, installations, radio workshops, visual identity, exhibition catalogues etc. In his painting, printing and photogrammes practice, he works in a duo with Thomas Fougeirol under the name ‘Suzzanne Wirz’.
After teaching at the Beaux-Arts in Bourges and Angers, he took over the direction of the screen- printing studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he coordinates a publishing practice module looking into production / distribution issues in publication in partnership with with Aurélie Pagès and Catherine de Smet (graphic design historian). The studio focuses on both photosensitive work and painting and takes into account the obsolescence of mediums in the digital age. It therefore creates a bridge between mechanical, chemical and digital processes. His extensive involvement in the school is supplemented by the organisation of lectures on the issues of image semiology, performance and subcultures.
Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar
Born in 1975 in Saint-Martin d’Hères, Aurélie Pagès lives and works in Paris. Aurélie Pagès’ artistic practice invests various mediums: drawing, photography, writing, editing, printed image or text. Publishing allows her to confront these various approaches.
Printing processes account for a constant source of experiments that nourish her research. Printed material can be found notably in constant dialogue with drawing: face to face, back and forth, mutual borrowings. Gratuated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, specializing in engraving, she has taught in the Beaux-Arts of Quimper and Angers. She has also multiplied experiments and collaborations in the field of publishing, with artists and art editing workshops: Jim Dine, Jose Maria Sicilia, Michael Woolworth Publications, L’Œil d’Or, La Barque… She regularly exhibits in France and abroad.
Wernher Bouwens was born in 1969 in the Netherlands. He lives and works in Paris since 1994.
In his paintings and printed works, the surfaces act as resonances, chromatic and graphic frequency modulations. Its screens are built according to the processes of printing where colors are placed one after another, mixing only by superposition. What emerges is a project that involves recurring issues of our relationship to the reality of the artwork, materials, media, color and of course of the technical usage.
French by adoption since 1994, he graduated from the Kunstacademie Saint Joost de Brada (the Netherlands) and learnt lithography at Editions Michael Woolworth (1994-1999), an expert in art publishing. There, Wernher Bouwens learnt traditional printing techniques and launched several projects: “Nomades” magazine, “Etincelle” art books and “Printjam”, an improvisation project. Later he taught at the Beaux-Arts de Quimper (2002-2006), and at the Art Décoratifs in Paris (2004-2009). In 2009 he opened his own studio in Paris, focusing on printmaking, painting and drawing as well as monumental installation. To him, printmaking really is a creation device. He regularly exhibits his work in France and abroad.
Photo credit: © Hugo Aymar
Born in 1963, in Savigny (France). Lives and works in Paris.
Has taught at the Beaux-Arts since 2005.
After studying Iberian and Latin American literature and civilisation at the Paris IV-Sorbonne, Fabrice Vannier studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and at the Facultat de Belles-Arts de Barcelona.
Based on enigma and paralipse, his work reveals, like a system of correspondences and poetic, mythical and biographical reminiscences, an intimate Mediterranean space whose imagination is in turn developed, deviated or denied. This appears in works such as Premières stances sur le nom de Louganis (2005), Lithographies (2008-2010), Elles persistent (2012), Victoire des petites Aphrodites (2017), often presented in situ, in connection with nature, architecture or museum collections, notably at the Louvre, Évreux and Aegina (Greece) museums...
His disturbance with fragments, his approach to the notion of the fragmented image (from the abacus to the digital pixel), as well as his mastery of the processes of "mosaic work", are the bases of a teaching which - linked to painting or to an anti-pictural party - is resolutely oriented towards innovative artistic proposals, it is nourished by the history of mosaics, by the links which unite it with other disciplines and by the influence which it exerts on the creation of major artists.
Fabrice Vannier directs the Matter/Space Laboratory with Götz Arndt and Philippe Renault.
Born in 1961, Philippe Renault lives and works in Paris.
Silicone, plaster, wax, resin…whichever the material, its plasticity, its light absorption capability, its porosity, density or scale, Philippe Renault understands its material intricacies and knows how to cast it.
Initiated into the art of molding and casting by his father in 1978, he started working at the porcelain factory of Villeneuve-la-Grande the following year. At Beaux-Arts de Paris, Robert Nogues taught him the secrets of his art since 1983. Philippe Renault opened his own studio in 1987 and began to work as a restorer and a mold creator. He was commissioned by rigorous institutions such as the French Department of Historical Monuments or the French National Heritage: the Assemblée Nationale, the Reims and Amiens Cathedrals, the Banque de France, the Grand Palais, the Plaza Athénée Hotel, the Ambroisie restaurant, the Musée Bourdelle and the Musée Maillol, the Dina Vierny Foundation… He also works with contemporary artists such as Anne and Patrick Poirier, Etienne Martin, Robert Couturier, etc.
He runs the materials / space lab along with Fabrice Vannier and Götz Arndt.
Born in 1962 in Germany, Götz Arndt lives and works in Paris. A stonecutter in Bavaria, he graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1992 and runs the materials / space lab with Fabrice Vannier and Philippe Renault.
His artistic concerns are primarily with contextualized sculptural interventions, namely those situated in public space and that probe the history, use and attributes of their sites. The means used are economical, the aim being to integrate his sculpture ensembles in such a way as to bring out slight discrepancies between them and the existing architecture, discrepancies understood to hone our perception of space. His studio explores materials, their challenges and shaping, while taking space, lines, density and forms’ multiple variations into account. Götz Arndt has done public commissions in Germany, Luxembourg and France and he exhibits in Europe and Asia. His works are represented in public and private collections.
Julien Prévieux is a French artist whose multidisciplinary work is regularly exhibited in art centers, galleries and museums, in France and abroad. The economy, politics, cutting-edge technologies, the cultural industry are all “worlds” in which his artistic practice is involved. Like these Letters of non-motivation that he sent to companies for 7 years in response to advertisements seen in the press, detailing the motivations which led him not to apply. A keen observer of individual and collective behavior, the artist takes a critical and humorous look at society. In various forms – videos, sculptures, installations, performances, drawings – his works appropriate the mechanisms of the sectors of activity they invest in to better update their dogmas and excesses.
He has recently produced a number of performances, including Of Balls, Books and Hats presented at the Actoral festival in Marseille, at Usine C in Montreal, at the Ménagerie de verre in Paris and at T2G in Gennevilliers. He has presented his work in a number of solo exhibitions at the Art Sonje art center in Seoul, the MAC in Marseille, the RISD Museum of Art in Providence, the Center Pompidou in Paris or the Blackwood Gallery in Toronto. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, at the Lyon Biennale in 2015 and at the 10th Istanbul Biennale.
He received the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2014.
