American artist Alison Saar (born 1956) has been chosen to create the Olympic sculpture in Paris, which will be inaugurated on 23 June 2024.

Born into a family of Los Angeles artists, Alison Saar's work deals with issues of justice and compassion, honouring people who have been under-represented and marginalised in the past, or continue to be so today.

Detailed programme Ateliers Ouverts 2024

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The Ateliers Ouverts are a unique opportunity each year for the general public and professionals to discover the young creativity and artistic diversity produced by students at the Beaux-Arts de Paris on the Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Saint-Ouen sites.

Artist Apolonia Sokol, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, is known for her political stance on portraiture. During this meeting, she will talk about the film portrait - Apolonia, Apolonia - recently released in cinemas, which director Léa Golb devoted to her over a period of thirteen years. 

From her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris to the recognition of her work, the destinies of Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of Femen, and of the director, are also mirrored in Apolonia. A sorority with three faces, facing the test of today's world.

Mohamed Amer Meziane The desert and the underground, The environmental history of Orientalism

In many ways, the critique of Orientalism is the founding act of postcolonial studies. Criticised as a colonial system of representation, the question of the contribution of this discourse to the current climate crisis has been less frequently raised. This is what philosopher Mohamed Amer Meziane proposes in this lecture by analysing two non-human figures: the desert and the underground.

Artist Vincent Barré talks to his guests - François Barré, Gabrielle Conilh de Beyssac, Sylvain Dubuisson, Gérard Dupaty, Cyril Neyrat and Mathieu Pilaud - about the notebooks he donated to the Beaux-Arts collection in Paris in 2023. 

As part of the exhibition L'amitié : ce tremble (Friendship: this trembles), taking place at the CRAC Alsace in Altkirch until 12 May, and at the Crédac in Ivry from 28 April to 13 July 2024.

Norwegian artist Marthe Ramm Fortun (born 1978 in Oslo) creates empathetic and meaningful links with her audience through a series of distinct performances and specific sculptural environments.

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