Artists in residence

Click here to visit her eexhibition from May 17 to July 3, 2017

Christelle Téa, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in June 2015, is the first artist in residence chosen as part of the partnership between her school and the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner.

Christelle Téa was born in 1988, and lives and works in Paris. Her work revolves mainly around drawing and photography. Between 2010 and 2015, she was a student in the studio of Patrick Tosani and Jean-Luc Vilmouth at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she also took classes with Philippe Comar and Didier Semin.

Passionate about music (she practiced opera singing for 5 years in Alexandra Papadjiakou's class at the Conservatoire du XVI^e), she has produced a series of drawings of singers and instrumentalists from the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris, which were exhibited at the Opéra Bastille media library in May 2012. In addition, combining photographic montages and drawings, she has created large-scale frescoes, inspired by opera arias such as Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann or Gounod's Faust , in which she stages herself. She is the author of several sung performances, including Carte Blanche at the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in 2011, and, Lady, at the Amphithéâtre d'honneur and the Amphithéâtre de morphologie at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012.

In 2014, she spent six months studying at the Beaux-Arts de Pékin (CAFA). In 2015, she took part in the workshop organized by Jean-Luc Vilmouth and Clélia Zernik, Nature and Me, for the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan. Today, she devotes most of her time to drawing portraits of diverse personalities (artists, collectors, craftsmen, scenographers, conductors, instrumentalists, historians, etc.). She depicts them in their studio, office or home, paying particular attention to the setting in which they work or live, apprehended as the expression of their personality.

Click here to visit her eexhibition from May 16 to September 4, 2018

Born in 1988, Eugénie Alméras lives and works in Paris. Her work has been exhibited many times at the Beaux-Arts, then in Hamburg, and in her former collective painting studio in Kremlin-Bicêtre. She studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 2009 to 2014 in François Boisrond's figurative painting studio. She studied theory with François-René Martin and Didier Semin, and life drawing with James Bloedé. She obtained the Diplôme National Supérieur d'Arts Plastiques from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2014 after a year at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, les Beaux-Arts de Hambourg.

Her first solo exhibition entitled "Les Groupes" is a series of large-format oil paintings on the theme of boxing. She creates portraits of boxers after the match, exposing the stigmata and red blood caused by the fight in the ring. Her palette combines brown, red and blue tones, inspired by the Expressionist tradition, red being her favorite color. At the same time, a series of landscapes, "Les Refuges", inspired by her family village in the South-West, on the Spanish border, accompanies her portraits, depicting a ghostly universe.

For her new paintings at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, drawing on her iconographic research, she places male nudity in a contemporary context. She revisits this subject, the oldest in the history of art, through her vision of nudity and that of her time, in the face of the voluptuous mystery of Jean-Jacques Henner's redheaded nude women. What's the male equivalent of the term "muse"

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Click here to visit his eexhibition from June 5 to September 23, 2019

Born in 1992, Demian Majcen lives and works in Paris. After graduating from Villa Arson in 2014, he continued his studies in Jean-Marc Bustamante's studio at Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he obtained his diploma in 2017. There he also took classes in drawing with Hélène Delprat and film aesthetics with Alain Bonfand. In 2015, he spent a study period at the Centraltrak artistic residency in Dallas, Texas.

At Beaux-Arts, Demian Majcen developed an experimental, multidisciplinary approach: ceramics, engraving, sculpture, painting and weaving... It is the idea of movement that has enabled him to link these different practices through choreography and the making of short films.

Today, he invents a cinematic language based on his sensitive experience as a visual artist. He seeks to blur the boundaries between costumed sculpture and the body in motion, between theater and life.

At the Musée Henner, he has focused in particular on the end of the XIX^e century, a period of intellectual ferment that saw the birth of cinema. In his sets, which evoke the artists' quarters of New Athens and Plaine Monceau, he brings together such fascinating personalities as Sarah Bernhardt, Jean-Jacques Henner, Loïe Fuller, George Méliès and Isadora Duncan... It's through the phantasmagoria of his camera obscura that he sets out to make these rooms lucid.

Click here to visit his exhibition webpage from October 14, 2020 to February 15, 2021.

Adrien van Melle was born in 1987 in Paris, where he lives and works. His production mixes literature with various plastic practices and confronts the viewer with narrative and fictional environments. He works with fiction as a material in its own right, interweaving writing, photography, installation and video.

"Since 2017, he has been creating and evolving characters thought of as an extension of himself, like an arborescence of plastic possibilities that the artist does not wish to abandon, or exclude. He then takes them over entirely, transforming them into work and nurturing their nature in the making*."

After studying at Hunter College in New York and ENS Louis-Lumière, he graduated from Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2017. In 2019 he will take part in the 64th Salon de Montrouge and various group exhibitions. He is currently in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts. Adrien van Melle is also a publisher and curator, having founded with Sébastien Souchon éditions extensibles, which publishes artists' writings, and has an associated exhibition space, AU LIEU éditions extensibles, in Paris. His work is represented by Florence Loewy gallery.

*Text by Licia Demuro for the 64th Salon de Montrouge

Click here to visit the web page for her exhibition from October 4 to December 11, 2023.

Victoire Mangez graduated from the Beaux-arts de Paris in 2021. Worn tiles, grotesque ornamentation and spectacular fountains are all starting points that enable her to unfold a thought through games of rebounds and analogies. Victoire Mangez is the winner of the Prix Dauphine pour l'Art Contemporain (2023), curator of the "Eaux d'artifice" exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris (2021) and of "Olifant", at the Château de Moyen, Lorraine (2017). She has also been working with Ulla von Brandenburg since 2021.

Click here to visit the webpage for her exhibition from May 18 to September 23, 2024.

Margaux Laurens-Neel, born in Deauville in 1997, is a Franco-British painter, photographer and sculptor. She lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021, where she attended the studios of comic book artist Joann Sfar and photographer Eric Poitevin, and was taught by art historian François-René Martin. Her career was punctuated by a stay at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and another in Berlin.

Today, Margaux is accompanied by Galerie Droste, which recently offered her the opportunity to present her first solo show. Through a sensual dialogue between painting and ceramics, she questions the place and representation of women through the history of art and figuration, the modes of representation of the naked body, and the expression of feminine desire, through the use of a symbolic bestiary and the language of flowers, that of clothing, accessories, color...

Click here to visit the web page for her exhibition from October 15, 2025 to January 15, 2026.

Elina Kulich is a visual artist who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2023. With drawing she explores the relationships between memory, space and transmission. through sequential compositions, often realized in situ. She teaches morphology and live-model drawing at the NABA Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Portrait of artist Elena Kulich
Winner of the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2023) and the Prix GIDE (2024), she has also twice been a finalist in the Prix du Dessin Contemporain (2022-23). Having won the Vedettes de Paris call for projects, her drawings will be printed on the hull of one of their boats in June 2025. She has also won the Bredin Prat scholarship (2023), as well as the Hélène Diamond drawing scholarship (2020). She won the Société Française de Physique comic strip prize (2022), and the Libération-Apaj prize (2017). She was the winner of the Strasbourg C.R.O.U.S. video competition (2018).

Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Estivales de Sceaux, the Sarcelle printmaking biennial, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Halle de Fontenay, and Galerie Marie de Holmsky. She has also taken part 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 held residencies at Hamburg's HfBK (ASA program) and at Cartels, in La Défense.

Her project at the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner is part of a reflection on the memory of places, the stratification of their history and the transmission that emanates from it. The museum, marked by a succession of artists, from Roger Jourdain to Guillaume Dubufe, before welcoming the work of Jean-Jacques Henner, is a place rich in these past figures and their imprints left in space. The aim is to explore this memory through drawing, working in situ and using superimpositions, deformations and reflections to capture the atmospheres we have passed through.