The French Public Higher Schools of Art
Paris
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
about
Heir to the Royal Academies of painting and sculpture created under the old regime located at the heart of Saint-Germain des Prés on an exceptional architectural site, the Beaux-arts de Paris are a public establishment of an administrative nature under the supervision of the Minister for Culture and Communication. The training is based on studio work, a diversity of practices and international exchange. The school places great importance on new technologies and on the transmission of the most patrimonial techniques, as well as on theoretical teaching.
The Beaux-arts de Paris represents over 500 students, 100 professors, artist-teachers and technicians, over 70 international exchange agreements with art schools all over the world, a mediatheque proposing 45 000 articles and a collection of more than 450 000 oeuvres, including the second most important collection of drawings after that of the Louvre.
Thanks to the solid structure of the teachings and the dynamism that has carried it, since 2011 the school has been part of the project for the initiative of excellence carried by the PSL, Paris Sciences Lettres – Quartier latin foundation of scientific cooperation of which it has become an associated member, at the invitation of the École normale supérieure, the Collège de France, the Observatoire de Paris, two engineering schools, the ESPCI and the ENSCP, the université Paris-Dauphine and four other parisian art schools, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse, the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique, the École nationale supérieure d’arts décoratifs, the Fémis, with the goal of participating in the construction of a university for research..
options
Diplôme de 1er cycle
DNSAP Diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques
qualifications
third cycle
SACRe (Sciences, Arts, Creation, Research)
In the context of the Initiative for excellence project carried by the foundation for scientific cooperation PSL, Paris Sciences Lettres – Quartier latin, of which the ENSBA has become an associated member, our establishment contributes not only to the setting up of an original doctoral training in art, SCARe, but is also associated to programmes of distribution of knowledge such as the Faberlabo, a museum space destined to bring out the best of artistic and scientific collections of the institutions of the PSL, or the LiberLabo, digital network of the libraries.
Bringing science and art together, allowing creators and scientists to work and invent together, to explore the common areas of research and creation: such is the ambition of the doctoral training called Science, Arts, Creation, Research (SACRe), the result of the collaboration between these six institutions.
post-graduate
La vie tumultueuse des œuvres d’art contemporain (The tumultuous life of Oeuvres of Contemporary Art)
This programme, set up by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts with the École du Louvre, is geared towards fifteen or so students equally divided between postgraduate students of the Ensba and fifth year students from the École du Louvre; It aims to train participants in the specific area of the scientific management of contemporary works of art, complex installations in particular.
The conference studies the issues relating to documentation, archiving, conservation and restoration of works of contemporary art, leaning principally on tangible cases coming from the contemporary collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Demanding a full attendance record, it is composed of between four and five sessions, completed by a summary report, and results in the awarding of a training certificate. The programme, the conditions of participation and the precise dates of the conference will be communicated in October.
Programme for artists intervening in schools
This programme constitutes a one year long training programme in the school, leading to a postgraduate level degree. It has the goal of training young artists to intervene in schools while allowing them to develop their artistic practice. This programme is at the same time founded on the experience of an artistic and cultural project done with a class, and on research work destined to produce a dissertation with for subject the analysis of the specific nature of the role of the artist in an approach to education and transmission starting from the year long experience. This programme leads to an art degree in school intervention. The applicants must hold a Diplôme national supérieur d’arts plastiques / Higher National Diploma in visual arts (Dnsap) awarded by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, having obtained it in the three years previous to the current school year. The art degree in school intervention of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts is a higher education degree. It is awarded by the school’s director on behalf of the state.
publications
A publishing department producing more than thirty articles every year in the Écrits d’artistes, D’art en questions, Beaux-arts histoire, Principes et théories de l’art, Ateliers collections. Exhibition catalogues and guides.
activities and events
– A regular cultural programming open to all artistic disciplines, allowing students to keep up to date on creation and its issues (encounters, conferences, seminars, workshops, projections and debates).
– Exhibitions in the spaces of the Palais des Beaux-Arts
– Two days of “Open Workshops” take place each year at the end of June and allow free access to the whole of the workshops, amphitheaters, historical buildings and other sectors of activities of the school.
international cooperation
A particularly active international policy, through exchange agreements with over seventy foreign art schools around the world. Each year a number of trips to workshops connected to original artistic projects in relationship with partner schools are organized, followed by exhibitions and publications.
gallery
Palais des Beaux-Arts and Cabinet de dessins Jean Bonna.
specific equipment
4 departments: artistic practices (26 workshops), technicalities, theoretical workshops, languages
3 sections: drawing, digital (2D and 3D computer generated images, interactivity, photography, sound and video), print edition (engraving, lithography, editorial practices, screen printing, aluminum lithography).
A mediatheque of 45,000 articles with free access, such as DVDs, videos, cassettes and electronic documents.
A prestigious fund of documents, iconographic and morphological collections linked to the history of the school, resulting from school competitions, and through a series of prizes and consignments from Rome of painting, sculpture and architecture and through donations and gifts.
administrative team
Nicolas Bourriaud Directeur
Jean-Luc Vilmouth Responsable du Département des études
Tanguy Grard Responsable Communication, mécénat et partenariats
Jany Lauga Responsable de la Programmation culturelle
Laurence Nicod Relations internationales
Marc Petit Médiathèque
Carole Croënne Vie scolaire
professors
Pascale Accoyer
Jean-Michel Alberola
Patrice Alexandre
Pierre Alféri
Götz Arndt
Jacques Aumont
Dominique Belloir
Philippe Bennequin
James Blœdé
François Boisrond
Alain Bonfand
Wernher Bouwens
Tony Brown
Tania Bruguera
Marie-José Burki
Jean-Marc Bustamante
Elsa Cayo
Jean-François Chevrier
Claude Closky
Philippe Cognée
Philippe Comar
Hélène Delprat
Daniel Dobbels
Elie During
Patrick Faigenbaum
Sylvie Fanchon
Dominique Figarella
Michel François
Dominique Gauthier
Gilgian Gelzer
Ann Veronica Janssens
Jean-Yves Jouannais
Tadashi Kawamata
Guitemie Maldonado
François-René Martin
Aurélie Pagès
Guillaume Paris
Marc Pataut
Bernard Piffaretti
Éric Poitevin
Philippe Renault
Patricia Ribault
James Rielly
Anne Rochette
Emmanuel Saulnier
Didier Semin
Valérie Sonnier
Djamel Tatah
Pascale-Marthine Tayou
Patrick Tosani
Fabrice Vannier
Jean-Luc Vilmouth
Clélia Zernik
students
556 students