Françoise Docquiert Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts

During this Wednesday, December 14, 2022 plenary session, the Académie des beaux-arts elected Madame Françoise Docquiert corresponding member of the sculpture section. Alongside Jean Dubos, Robert Rigot, Zurab Tsereteli, Gualtiero Busato, Didier Bernheim, Wu Weishan, and Patrick Poirier, she will assist the work of the 6 academicians of the sculpture section, made up of Claude Abeille, Brigitte Terziev, Pierre-Edouard, Jean Anguera, Jean-Michel Othoniel, and Anne Poirier.

Françoise Docquiert

Françoise Docquiert teaches at IESA arts&culture, in the Master 1 and 2 Exhibition Curating program. She was an emerita senior lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne until 2020, where she was notably head of the "cultural project and public institution management" track. Her research and publications focus on the aesthetics of contemporary art, mediation, and photography. An independent curator, she leads or takes part in exhibition projects on contemporary art and photography, notably at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (she curated the Michel Journiac exhibition in 2017), at the "MOMENTA" Biennale of the Image in Montreal in 2017, and at the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon (the Des Villes et des Hommes exhibition in 2018 and in 2019 with a retrospective of the photographer Harry Gruyaert).

She has just completed (September 2022), as co-curator, a cycle of exhibitions in South Korea at the Daegu Art Factory and the contemporary museum of Seoul National University around Nature and the Animal, bringing together 4 French artists (Edi Dubien, Romain Bernini, Chrourouk Hriech, and Suzanne Husky). In 2022, she took part in the 1% Artistic Committee of the French Embassy in Seoul as a guest figure. She is also the author of the documentary series Art Investigation (France Télévisions), and of several 52-minute films for the Arte channel: Bernard Buffet, the Great Disruptor (2016), César, the Decompressed Sculptor (2017), and Oskar Kokoschka - European Portraits (2022). She is currently preparing an exhibition on The Portrait / Damien and Florence Bachelot Collection for the Reattu museum as part of the Rencontres d’Arles 2023, an exhibition of the artist Elika Hedayat at the Maison des Arts de Malakoff in fall 2023, and an exhibition of the photographer Raphaël Dallaporta for the Var department in 2024.

Academy of Fine Arts

Permanent Secretary: Laurent Petitgirard

President for 2022: Astrid de La Forest

Vice President for 2022: Michaël Levinas

Painting Section: Yves Millecamps • Philippe Garel • Jean-Marc Bustamante • Gérard Garouste • Fabrice Hyber • Ernest Pignon-Ernest • Hervé Di Rosa٭

Sculpture Section: Claude Abeille • Brigitte Terziev • Pierre-Edouard • Jean Anguera • Jean Michel Othoniel • Anne Poirier

Architecture Section: Jacques Rougerie • Aymeric Zublena • Alain Charles Perrot • Dominique Perrault • Jean-Michel Wilmotte • Marc Barani • Bernard Desmoulin • Pierre-Antoine Gatier • Anne Démians

Printmaking and Drawing Section: Erik Desmazières • Astrid de La Forest • Pierre Collin • Catherine Meurisse

Music Composition Section: Laurent Petitgirard • François-Bernard Mâche • Edith Canat de Chizy • Michaël Levinas • Gilbert Amy • Thierry Escaich • Bruno Mantovani • Régis Campo

Free Members Section: Henri Loyrette • François-Bernard Michel • Hugues R. Gall • Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière • William Christie • Patrick de Carolis • Muriel Mayette-Holtz • Adrien Goetz

Film and Audiovisual Section: Roman Polanski • Régis Wargnier • Jean-Jacques Annaud • Coline Serreau • Frédéric Mitterrand

Photography Section: Yann Arthus-Bertrand • Sebastião Salgado • Jean Gaumy • Dominique Issermann

Choreography Section: Blanca Li • Thierry Malandain • Angelin Preljocaj • Carolyn Carlson

Foreign associate members: H.I.M. Farah Pahlavi • Léonard Gianadda • Seiji Ozawa • Woody Allen • H.H. Karim Aga Khan IV • H.H. Sheikha Mozah • Sir Norman Foster • Philippe de Montebello • Antonio Lopez Garcia • Jiří Kylián • Georg Baselitz • William Kentridge • Kaija Saariaho • Giuseppe Penone • Annie Leibovitz٭

٭pending approval by the President of the Republic, protector of the Académie des beaux-arts