On the occasion of the publication of Suffragettes de l'art, author Anaïd Demir talks to Pascale Le Thorel, director of Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, about the stages in women's conquest of the École and their struggle to assert their rights and existence in the artistic field. The interview will be conducted by Alain Berland. Special guests will be artists and teachers Valérie Sonnier, Nathalie Talec and Tatiana Trouvé. 

Art historian, author and curator Marie de Brugerolle questions the impact and legacy of performativity on the visual arts, and looks back at Post Performance Future, a pioneering travelling artistic research project she directed from 2012 to 2022.

Her book Post Performance Future. Method/e, published in September 2023, retraces 10 years of research based on the interweaving of performative experiences and practices with several generations of students and artists including Andrea Fraser, Agnieszka Kurant, Cally Spooner, Julien Bismuth and Jimmy Robert.

Contre-Espaces
PhotoSaintGermain

In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, a group exhibition of artists from the Beaux-Arts de Paris is being held at the École, with the aim of showcasing the diversity of photographic writing in today's image community.

From 2 to 18 November, Le Labo Photo, the Perret corridor and the outside area will be bringing together 26 artists' proposals on the theme of Counter Spaces.

Speakers: Kra N'Guessan (artist), Ming-Tiampo (Carleton University), Maureen Murphy (Université Paris 1)

Dedicated to the transnational trajectories of the École's students, this session will explore the possibilities of capturing and deconstructing the linearity of conventional patterns of formative narratives, particularly in the trajectories of international artists who have experienced plural formative stages.

Alice Thomine-Berrada teams up with art historian Sophie Delpeux and artists Anne Rochette and Laurent Poléo-Garnier to present an exceptional collection by artist Gina Pane, recently acquired by the Beaux-Arts de Paris: over thirty photographs, drawings and preparatory documents from the Hot Afternoon performance presented by Gina Pane at the 1977 Documenta in Kassel.

In the field of photography, François Halard occupies a singular place, that of a great interior architecture photographer nourished by a passion for antique and archaeological fragments, 18th-century decors, the abstract and radical paintings of modernity, and the experimental and documentary photography of the 1920s.