Beaux-Arts de Paris is taking part in the 2026 European Heritage Days – come and discover our buildings, which are listed as historic monuments, and the treasures they hold!

A special day to explore the School’s iconic venues on your own or on a guided tour: the Main Courtyard, the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, the Mulberry Courtyard, the Main Lecture Theatre, the Contemporary Art Library and the Morphology Lecture Theatre.

À première vue is back this summer and is giving the galleries in Saint-Germain-des-Prés free rein to display the works of young artists who have graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in their shop windows.

As part of the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, a preview event featuring a talk, presentation and book signing of Joseph Rozé – How do you imagine 2025? published by Beaux-Arts de Paris Éditions, at the Maison des Treilles in Arles, in the presence of the artist and Violette d’Urso, who wrote the foreword.

Joseph Rozé is an artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2026; his practice lies at the intersection of analogue photography and video.

Anna Giner, Jeanne Beyaert, Maëlle Lucas-Le Garrec, Malek Abdelmajeed, Mariana Escobar and Pierre Sérot, students on the Figarella workshop, are exhibiting their work as part of a partnership between Beaux-Arts de Paris, Sorbonne University and École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL.

Falando de amor is an immersive site-specific exhibition conceived by fourteen student artists from the Fresco & Art in Context programme at Beaux-Arts de Paris, created specifically for the Espace Niemeyer to mark Nuit Blanche 2026.

Falando de amor is a romantic dialogue with the fluid, futuristic architecture of this iconic building of the Modernist movement, a true demonstration of the technical possibilities offered by concrete, steel and glass that foreshadows 21st-century architecture.

Book launch, presentation and signing of Chourouk Hriech – Un récit au fil des mondes published by Beaux-Arts de Paris editions, in the presence of Anne Bourrassé, exhibition curator and art critic, and Armelle Dakouo, independent exhibition curator and specialist in the contemporary art scene in Africa and the African diaspora.

Visual credit : © Théo David Gehin 

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Emma Bigé – dancer and philosopher – and Gisèle Vienne – artist, choreographer and director – will discuss the question of the archive as a space of struggle and resistance.

Annette Messager, former head of  studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris and an artist featured in the French Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, will be in conversation with Marie-Laure Bernadac, who wrote the foreword to her book  Et pourtant…, published at a time when the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature is currently hosting a solo exhibition of her work: *Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps*. The talk will be followed by a book signing.

The fourth exhibition dedicated to publishing practices, co-organised by La Fab. and students from the Sirjacq workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, on 16 and 17 May.

With the participation of students from the École nationale supérieure d’Arles.

Saturday 16 May | 12 noon – 8 pm
Performances from 6 pm

Sunday 17 May | 12 noon – 8 pm
Panel discussion and performance from 4 pm