Please note change of timetable: starts at 6pm instead of 6.30pm


Viewpoint visit to the Souvenirs de jeunesse exhibition with Daniel Schlier, artist and teacher at the Beaux-Arts, and Alice Thomine-Berrada, exhibition curator and head of collections at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Alice Thomine-Berrada is head curator and head of collections at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Since her arrival in 2018, her research has focused on the history of the School.

A psychiatric look at Souvenirs de jeunesse with Nassim Sarni, 2024 graduate, and Alice Thomine-Berrada, exhibition curator and head of the collections department.

Nassim Sarni's work was developed both at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and in psychiatric hospitals, where he has been practising since 2017, after an initial medical degree in this speciality.

Alice Thomine-Berrada is head curator of heritage and head of collections at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Since her arrival in 2018, her research has focused on the history of the School.

From David to Delacroix, Cézanne to Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly to Gina Pane and Hélène Delprat, Souvenirs de jeunesse is a journey back in time over two centuries, from 1780 to 1980, during which the Beaux-Arts de Paris welcomed tens of thousands of aspiring artists. 

Through more than 260 works and documents, the exhibition adopts the point of view of youth, that of young men and women on the threshold of their artistic vocation. 

Horya Makhlouf is artistic coordinator and curator of special projects at the Palais de Tokyo.

Daisy Lambert is an independent curator, researcher and co-founder of the SMAC collective. Committed to the study of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in cultural institutions, her projects are conceived as a critical effort to distance herself from dominant knowledge and ways of thinking. She has recently worked with : Villa Arson, CAC Brétigny, Frac Ile de France, SAVVY Contemporary.

Since September 2021, Cédric Fauq has been chief curator at the CAPC - musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux. From 2020 to 2021, he was curator at the Palais de Tokyo.

Prior to that, he was curator of exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary (UK). An author, he also develops projects on a freelance basis. 

 

Penda Diouf is passionate about writing and the intimacy that live performance can create between hitherto unknown people, and enjoys writing about forgotten or invisible stories. The question of identity and exile runs through her texts, as does the idea of care and reparation. The relationship between fiction and politics guides her artistic approach.

For the past 9 years, she has also been co-organising the "Jeunes textes en liberté" festival to support playwrights and promote a diversity of narratives, stories and forms. 
 

Sound reading by Costanza Spina and Alexi Shell

In their performances, author Costanza Spina and singer and musician Alexi Shell bring to life a dreamlike and liberating queer imagination. For this sound reading, Alexi Shell will be putting on a live performance to accompany Costanza Spina's reading from her book ‘Manifesto for a Deviant Democracy - Queer Love in the Face of Fascism’, as well as previously unpublished texts from her forthcoming novel, ‘Infinite Letter’. 

 

Photo : ©Zoé Chauvet