Elina Kulich, 2023 graduate, presents her end-of-residency exhibition at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner. In partnership with Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Échos explores the memory of the Museum's spaces through drawing and painting. During five months spent in the studio overlooking the winter garden, Elina Kulich conducted research and created works based on the different historical layers of the building, formerly the private mansion of artist Guillaume Dubufe, itself built by Roger Jourdain at the end of the 19th century.
In her works, Elina Kulich superimposes different temporalities: in black ink, she draws the museum's rooms as they appear today; in blue ink, she recreates the layout of the space as it was in the Dubufe era, based on archives, engravings, and old inventories. The staircases, original architectural elements, become a visual and symbolic thread, carrying memory and transmission. The Dubufe couple, visitors, objects, receptions of yesterday, and cultural events of today intersect in a play of pictorial layers.
The Échos exhibition is a sensitive dialogue between past and present, where each stroke awakens the memory of the place and reveals the soul of a house that has become a museum.
Elina Kulich is the seventh artist in residence invited to create at the Jean-Jacques Henner Museum. Established in 2017, this collaboration with Beaux-Arts de Paris allows emerging talents to build a body of work that resonates with the museum's spaces and collections.
Elina Kulich is a visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023) and the GIDE prize (2024), she has also been a finalist twice for the Prix du Dessin Contemporain (2022-23). Having won the Vedettes de Paris call for projects, her drawings were printed on the hull of one of their boats in June 2025. She also received the Bredin Prat scholarship (2023) and the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship (2020). She won the Comic Book Prize from the French Physics Society (2022) and the Libération-Apaj Prize (2017). She was the winner of the C.R.O.U.S. video competition in Strasbourg (2018).
Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, notably at the Estivales de Sceaux, the Sarcelle engraving biennial, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, the Halle de Fontenay, and the Marie de Holmsky gallery. She has also participated in international projects, such as the Venice Biennale (video for architect Inessa Hansch) and the Rencontres Internationales at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. She has been a resident artist at the HfBK in Hamburg (ASA program) and at Cartels in La Défense.
Practical information Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner 43, avenue de Villiers 75017 Paris Exhibition from October 15, 2025, to January 19, 2026
Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to participate in the sixth edition of LABO_DEMO, an initiative that aims to promote emerging and as yet unidentified artistic talents in order to highlight both the distinctive features of Belgian and French art school training programs and their interconnection at a time when artistic careers are becoming increasingly international.
The exhibition recreates, in its very scenography, the simulacrum of a corporate workspace. But this fictional coworking space is riddled with flaws, saturated with bugs, haunted by ghosts. It becomes the scene of a multitude of attempts at resistance aimed at breaking the spell of capitalist and bureaucratic logic. Some works bring back repressed emotions and muffled voices from vanished professions and deserted factories. Others invent corporate fictions or attach themselves to the administration to derail it. In this unstable landscape, populated by art-eating insects and nostalgic bots, team building turns into a dystopian tale. Slogans turn into tales of collapse. In places, dreams of escape pierce the sanitized surface of reality, like lights at the end of the tunnel.
Artists from Beaux-Arts de Paris: Joséphine Berthou, Ruoxi Jin, Raphaël Maman, Sara Noun, Clarisse Pillard, and Éditions Burn Aout.
Practical information November 14 to December 4 Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles Gallery, 127-129 rue Saint Martin, Paris 4 Free admission Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In partnership with PhotoSaintGermain, Beaux-Arts de Paris and École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles are joining forces to organize an exhibition entitled Paradis artificiels (Artificial Paradises), presented in various spaces at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
This exhibition takes the form of a journey through technology, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and the upheavals it is causing in all strata of society. It explores the misuse of tools and technology as a field of possibilities, with prompts paving the way for new poetic and creative licenses. More broadly, the exhibition raises questions about artifice and a hallucinatory world where disasters, fake news, and seas of plastic populate social media as much as the pages of newspapers.
Artificial Paradises provides an overview of photographic approaches as practiced at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles.
Curated by Audrey Illouz and Vincent Lambert, assisted by Geoffrey Soghomonian.
Beaux-Arts de Paris artists: William Basseux, Léonard Berthou, Lea Citi, Simon Deterre, Lea Farant, Eric Godin, Chia Huang, Anjeyanne Huynh, Shumeng Li, Melina Malheurty, Olivier Perusat, Ilona Plissonneau, Ingrid Portal, Colombe Thaller, Emmanuel van der Elst.
ENSP Arles artists: Ulysse Barry, Aure Baucher, Cécile Blaque, JINGDI, Mathis Clodic, Valentin Derom, Fiona Faivre, Orane Grunenwald, Eva Sustar, Morgane Ubaldi, Charlotte Van de Walle, Baptiste Vitorino, Samuel Vorms.
With the support of the Neuflize OBC Foundation, patron of the Extra-Large Photography Chair at Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Dupon Art & Factory.
Practical information November 7 to 16 Cour Bonaparte and Cour vitrée Free admission from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. 14 rue Bonaparte, Paris 6
Photo credits: Chia Huang, Océan temporaire, 2018 Baptiste Vitorino, Sous le soleil, 2025
Felicità 2025 presents the 24 artists who obtained their diplôme national supérieur d'arts plastiques from Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors from the jury, chaired by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, curator of the exhibition.
The exhibition invites visitors to take unusual and unique paths to construct, under a shared sky, a renewed image of the world and the cyclones that sweep across it. How can we inhabit a world when disaster seems imminent? How can we build community, repair, slow down, represent, and re-enchant the world, and perhaps manage to extricate ourselves from the continuous flow of images and representations that reduce reality?
“The works brought together for this exhibition are those we discovered during each artist's graduation, and which, in their diversity of medium and skill, ranging from video installation to sculpture and painting, paint a complex and sensitive picture of our contemporary condition.” - Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, exhibition curator
With the artists : Mehdi Boualli Sila Candansayar Virgile Desbat Ladji Diaby James Dosa Marine Ducroux-gazio Héléna Fourmont Yann Fonseca Rodrigues Cléopatra Gones Hugo Hectus Sanggu Kim Arya K/Nell Adrien Lagrange Ibrahim Meïté Sikely Winca Mendy Salomé Moindjie-Gallet Viktoriia Oreshko Liselor Perez Caroline Rambaud Rose Ras Apolline Régent yietnu (duo d'artistes, Yi ZHANG et Nu HA) Yi YE
A catalog accompanies the exhibition. The exhibition and catalog are supported by Icicle.
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.
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.
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
“The exhibition highlights the two major artists invited to France by Francis I - the Florentine Rosso and the Bolognese Primatice - but differs from exhibitions devoted to their drawings or to the Fontainebleau worksite in its focus on the engravers who were associated with them on site, and who were not only skilful interpreters of the compositions of these two masters, but also inventors of forms and experimenters with the new etching technique, which they profoundly renewed.”
Éric de Chassey, Directeur des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Through a selection of some 50 works, this exhibition highlights the exceptional collection of drawings and prints by École de Fontainebleau held by Beaux-Arts de Paris. It provides an opportunity to (re)discover the art of maniera that developed at the Château de Fontainebleau and then spread to France under the impetus of Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primatice, two Italian artists in the service of Francis I and then Henry II.
The works on display evoke the genesis of the château's painted and sculpted decorations, from the Galerie François I to the Galerie d'Ulysse, and are complemented by etchings produced at Fontainebleau in the 1540's. This innovative corpus, the result of an unprecedented project in France, raises numerous questions, notably concerning the distribution of models, material organization, formal research and the technical trials and tribulations of the artists.
Some of the works on show are previously unseen, and the vast majority have not been shown to the public for over 30 years. A rare drawing from Rosso's French period, Pandora Freeing the Plagues from her Box, is one of the major pieces in the exhibition. Beaux-Arts de Paris collection of drawings relating to 16th-century art in France is one of the largest and most remarkable in France, alongside those of the Musée du Louvre and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. With almost 400 works, Beaux-Arts de Paris holds the second largest collection of Bellifontaine prints in France after the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and one of the largest in the world alongside the British Museum. Beaux-Arts de Paris owes this wealth to the contributions of passionate collectors from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as to the generosity of contemporary patrons, in particular the Association des Amateurs de Dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The Fontainebleau project is an example of artistic ferment and effervescence, a symbol of transnational artistic collaboration whose modernity has marked the history of art in Europe. Today, this exceptional moment is reflected in the activities of Beaux-Arts de Paris, where the conservation, study and transmission of heritage play a central role in contemporary teaching.
CURATORS
Hélène Gasnault and Giulia Longo, respectively curator of drawings and curator of prints and photographs at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
PRACTICAL INFOS
Exhibition from Tuesday, October 21, 2025 to Sunday, February 1, 2026
Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm-7pm
€2, €5 or €10 - the choice is yours!
Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to take part in the 7th edition of 100% L'EXPO, which opens the Grande Halle de la Villette to young artists who have recently graduated from French art schools
The works of some forty artists are displayed over 3,500 m² in the Grande Halle de la Villette, in a scenography composed entirely of salvaged elements from previous events.
For this 7th edition, the Haute école des arts du Rhin Mulhouse - Strasbourg joins 100% L'EXPO, alongside Beaux-Arts de Paris, Beaux-Arts de Marseille, École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL, École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy and Villa Arson Nice.
Beaux-Arts de Paris artists: Thomas Besset, Ninon Enéa, Claire Gitton, Lou Le Forban, Valentin Ranger and Alexandre Yang.
Practical info
100% L'EXPO
April 10 to May 11, 2025
Wednesday to Sunday 2 pm - 7 pm
Nocturnes until 8pm Thu. 11, Thu. 24 and Fri. April 25 and Wed. May 7
Guided tours Sat. and Sun. departures every 30 min.
“Chère Melpomène,
We call to you, the ancient muse of tragedy, who once reigned at the back of the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Once a towering statue, several meters high, you have now become a ruin. From the residue of your dust, we seel to transcend the archetype of the muse and evoke a fresh, nuanced breath, able to seep into the interstices of established orders. In between inspiration and expiration, between what is spoken and what remains silent, this breath embodies our deepest desire for social justice.”
Chère Melpomène is a call to subvert classical myths in order to convey other stories that are closer to our daily lives. The exhibition invites us to listen, feel, and breathe together in a poetic exploration of what binds us.
Drawing inspiration from the methodology of artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982) in her work Dictée (1982) - where the nine muses of Greco-Roman antiquity are reimagined to honor female martyrs who sought emancipation - the exhibition sublimates reality by rerouting the figure of Melpomène. What relationships should we cultivate among the inhabitants of the earth - beyond species, and between animate and inanimate beings? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha invites us to prioritize our senses, intuition, and pay attention to our surroundings in order to reconnect with the multiple breaths of life and reignite our commoning energy.
The exhibition invites us to navigate our intimate tragedies and the stories we can tell about them. It offers an incantation to summon spiritual and political alliances, to infuse our struggles with magic, expand our imagination, and nurture hope. The pieces in this exhibition embody acts of resistance and solidarity, sharing speculative cosmogonies that translate the plurality of memories that shape our contemporary society and cultivate our interdependence while honoring our individual differences.
Chère Melpomène intertwines a hundred works from the collections, students and international artists, presenting a transhistorical display from the late 17th century to today. Most have never been exhibited—recently acquired by the School or newly created for the exhibition—while others have yet to circulate in institutional spaces.
Mélanie Bouteloup and Armelle Pradalier, co-directors of the “Artists & Exhibition Professions” program, Giulia Longo, Curator of Prints and Photographs at Beaux-Arts de Paris, with students in the program : Kenza Agbo, Adèle Anstett, Martin Bas, Héloïse Bayard, Léonard Berthou, Pauline Boudaoud, Mathilde Cassan, Mathilde Chabaud, Elisa Leïla Durand, Éloïse Frye De Lassalle, Klara Jakes, Clément Justin Hannin, Zoé Le Bacquer, Shumeng Li, Zahra Mansoor, Timothée Perron, Zoé Siau, Kit Szasz, Lara Ulusoy.
Artists
Soraya Abdelhouaret, Océane-Maria Adjovi, Giovanni Altieri, Shelim Alvarado, Dyan Daniel Assogo, Eugène Atget, Gianfranco Baruchello, Baya, Romain Bernini, Pierre-Amédée-Marcel Béronneau, Michel Blazy, Félix Bonfils Et Atelier, Rosa Bonheur, Wanda Elisabeth Bouleau-Rabaud, Jean Bhownagary, Luciano Castelli, Norbert Chautard, Arthur Coquille-Hopfner, Henri Cueco, Storm De Hirsch, Princesse Diakumpuna, Amahiguere Dolo, Azzeazy, Guillaume-Benjamin Amant Duchenne De Boulogne, Aysha E Arar, Mimosa Echard, Laura Esparch, Frederik Exner, Nina Fiorentini, Diego Garcia Lara, Guillaume-Sulpice Dit Paul Gavarni, Clémence Gbonon, Fengyi Guo, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Roger Hardy, Suzanne Husky, Fanny Irina, Svay Ken, Käthe Kollwitz, Shengqi Kong, Adrien Lagrange, Emmanuelle Lainé, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Gherasim Luca, Frédérique Loutz, Rose Lowder, Antoinette Lubaki, Turiya Magadlela, Joshua Merchan Rodriguez, Pierre Molinier, Céleste Moneger, Zora Neale Hurston, Aryle Nsengiyumva, Christel Pereira, Liselor Perez, Enzo Perrier, Romain Pommelet, Jonathan Potana, Pierre Petit, Chloé Quenum, Axel Ramat, Lou Rappeneau, Akshay Raj Singh Rathore, Man Ray, Odilon Redon, Paul Richer, Sofia Salazar Rosales, Juliana Seraphim, Seumboy Vrainom :€, Marcel Storr, Shooshie Sulaiman, Eden Tinto Collins, Marion Verboom, François Verdier, Yizhi Wan, Isabelle Waternaux, Yue Yu, Anna Zemankova et anonymes.
Wednesday April 09 - Sunday June 01 2025 (Closing: Thursday, May 1, 2025)
Palais des Beaux-Arts
Beaux-Arts de Paris, 13 quai Malaquais, Paris 6e
Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm-7pm 2€, 5€ or 10€ it's up to you!
The " Artistes & Métiers de l'exposition " program is supported by Société Générale
