From David to Delacroix, Cézanne to Matisse, Ellsworth Kelly to Gina Pane and Hélène Delprat, ‘Souvenirs de jeunesse’ traces two centuries of the history of the Beaux-Arts de Paris through the eyes of its students. More than 260 works and documents highlight the diversity of backgrounds and talents that have attended the school. The exhibition explores the transformations in art education from the academic rigour of David to the upheavals of May 68. It also looks at the place of women and foreigners who attended the school, and at changes in teaching practices. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on the history of art education.

With Alice Thomine-Berrada, responsable des collections des Beaux-Arts de Paris et commissaires de l'exposition

Souvenir de jeunesse - entrer aux Beaux-Arts de Paris 1780-1980

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Since October, thousands of children have been helping to produce a work of art at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, entitled A Thousand Voices. This participatory work was conceived by Oliver Beer as part of the Reanimation Paintings series. It creates a new relationship between the public and the collections of the Musée d'art moderne de Paris. The artist and the museum are offering children a genuine opportunity to reinterpret the works and see their productions become part of the museum's collections.

With Olivia Gaultier, curator of the exhibition

Reanimation paintings: a thousand voices

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Acquisition Group for Contemporary Art

 Acquisition Group for the French Scene from the 1950s to the 1980s

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Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition presents the works of the movement's emblematic artists, as well as those of female Surrealists. The exhibition is both chronological and thematic, with 14 chapters evoking the literary figures who inspired the movement and the poetic principles that structured its imagination. At the heart of the exhibition is a central ‘drum’ housing the original manuscript of the Manifesto, on exceptional loan from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A multimedia projection accompanies the discovery of this unique document, shedding light on its genesis and meaning. 

With Marie Sarré, attachée de conservation au Service des collections modernes

Surréalism