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Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to welcome Harry Nuriev and the Sultana Gallery (Paris) for Art Basel Paris.

Harry Nuriev presents Objets Trouvés (2025), a participatory installation transforming the Petits-Augustins chapel into a space for circulation and exchange. Carefully aligned supermarket boxes are filled with objects brought in by visitors. Each person leaves an object they no longer need and takes another left by someone else. Each contribution is certified as a work of art, and at the end of the exhibition, all exchanges will be compiled in a Yellow Pages-style directory, transforming this ephemeral process into a permanent archive.

Harry Nuriev describes his practice as Transformism—the reinvention of everyday materials to give them new functions and meanings. With Objets Trouvés, he extends this philosophy into a collective dimension, where the simple act of exchange becomes social interaction as much as artistic creation.

This is the fourth project in the Public Program organized by Art Basel Paris in collaboration with the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
A mediation program will be provided every day from October 21 to 26, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. by students from the École du Louvre.

Photo credits: Harry Nuriev, Objets Trouvés, project 18 © Harry Nuriev

Vimala Pons talks with Clément Cogitore, studio professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

A multimedia and transdisciplinary artist, Vimala Pons trained in competitive sports, art history, cinema, and music. Known for her performances but also for her distinguished career as a film actress, all of her artistic work is based on emotional macro-introspection and the manifestation of imbalance in all its forms.

Winner of the 2025 Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with the Church of Saint-Eustache and Beaux-Arts de Paris, Liselor Perez, a fifth-year student, presents a unique installation of a set of puppets scattered throughout the main nave and side chapels. Curated by Julia Marchand.

“My installation is a poetic exploration of existential tensions: the fragile body, seeking elevation, confronted with timeless, immutable architecture.” Liselor Perez

Drawing on the inner silence and materiality of the place, which the artist frequented at length during her research phase, Liselor Perez has sketched these mysterious silhouettes, which seem to emerge from the building. By imagining a “church guardian” with a body covered in Jesmonite reminiscent of the pillar against which he leans, or a puppet-like being balancing in one of the chapels, becoming the receptacle for a stained-glass face, the artist sculpts a point of connection between the work and its environment, absorbing the motifs that surround it to cover it with adornment.

Between poetry and science fiction, the works offer a sensory experience, an invitation to daydream where the puppet is no longer a simple toy, but the medium for an embodied questioning of the meaning of being and the other.
Since 2021, the Rubis Mécénat Prize, in partnership with the Beaux-Arts de Paris, has enabled a student from the school to receive production assistance and critical support for the creation of a new work at the Saint-Eustache church in Paris.

To mark the publication of Thomas Hirschhorn: From Graphic Design to Art (MIT Press, 2025), American art historian Lisa Lee talks to the artist about the origins of his work.

"Lisa Lee captured the true nature of my Parisian experience after my arrival in 1983. Determined to pursue graphic design, but confronted with the challenges of time, the world, and reality, I realized that I had to reverse my thinking: art became the mission to accomplish, far beyond graphic design.

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

Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to welcome Harry Nuriev and the Sultana Gallery (Paris) for Art Basel Paris.

Vimala Pons talks with Clément Cogitore, studio professor at Beaux-Arts de Paris.

To mark the publication of their monograph Monochrome by Beaux-Arts de Paris Editions, artist duo The Bells Angels are taking over the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins.

For a critical reading of cartels

Brazilian artists Leda Catunda and Erika Verzutti are in the spotlight this fall in Paris with two solo exhibitions.

Winner of the 2025 Rubis Mécénat Prize in partnership with the Church of Saint-Eustache and Beaux-Arts de Paris, Liselor Perez, a fifth-year student, presents a unique installation of a set of puppets scattered throughout the main nave and side chapels. Curated by Julia Marchand.

We must defend society (against images)

To mark the publication of Thomas Hirschhorn: From Graphic Design to Art (MIT Press, 2025), American art historian Lisa Lee talks to the artist about the origins of his work.

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.

Beaux-Arts de Paris is taking part in the Journées européennes du patrimoine 2025. Come and discover our listed buildings and the treasures they contain!