Magdalena

Chansel

Born in 1978 in Bucharest, lives and works in Paris.

An art historian with a double Master's degree in Renaissance art and contemporary architecture, as well as a DESS in history and management of cultural heritage obtained at the Sorbonne, Maria-Magdalena Chansel is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the performative aspects of Arte Povera, under joint supervision of the Universities of Paris X and Rome III.

Since 2009, she has been teaching in French and English, notably for the American University of Paris and the Institut d'Etudes Supérieures d'Art (international section, Master's level), specializing in the teaching of contemporary art and performance practices.

In parallel, she regularly collaborates with the journal Connaissance des Arts, for which she writes articles on current exhibitions in France, and has worked for contemporary art and photography galleries, including Esther Woerdehoff and Cyrille de Gunzburg.

Daphné

Brottet

Daphné Brottet has been teaching preparatory classes at Via Ferrata-Beaux-arts de Paris from the very begining where she guides her students through Modern and Contemporary Art with onsite visits to exhibitions and suggests extra focuses in relation to them. She displays a keen interest in fostering her students’ artistic development throughout their year of training.

She also lectures at the Philharmonie de Paris using her expertise to explain temporary.

PhD Student in Æsthetic, she is doing a reasearch on various philosophical matters of « screen », its metaphysical involvements and phenomenology belongings, the in between and the fringes that it provides. While on the way, she is exploring news potentialities with an « off screen » being. She is graduated from les Beaux-arts, obtained a Master of Art in the History of Contemporary Art and attended the selective Curatorial Training Program at l'Ecole du Magasin.

And then, she co-founded RESzone, a nonprofit organization which promotes a curatorial practice in itself and in the widest sens of the term.

Erwan

Bout

Born in Heerlen in the Netherlands, lives and works in the Paris region.

Associate professor of arts, PHD in art sciences, researcher and theorist in art, National Education trainer.
At the Beaux-arts of Paris, Erwan Bout is a teacher in Via Ferrata, preparatory class for high schools of arts. He also acts as tutor and educational advisor in the AIMS (Artist Intervening in School Program).

He also teaches at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris.

His research focuses in particular on the epistemological approach of art as well, and on the intersections between arts and sciences.