Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, proposed to the President of the Republic the appointment of Jean-Marc Bustamante as director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, on the proposal of the selection committee which met on August 28, 2015.
Jean-Marc Bustamante is an internationally renowned artist who represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2003. A curator, he directed the spring of Toulouse between 2012 and 2015 as artistic director.
For the past 20 years, he has taught at several European schools, including the Rijksakademie van Beeldende in Amsterdam and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. He has been a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris since 1998.
Jean-Marc Bustamante wants to place the artist at the heart of the school’s project, increasing its international visibility by placing him among the flagship institutions in a globalized context. He wishes to promote greater transversality within the school while respecting his identity. Drawing on his experience, he intends to respond to the school development issues that the Minister of Culture and Communication stated at the Assises de la Jeune Création to give a new impetus to an institution that occupies a major place in higher arts education.
25 candidates responded to the call for applications. After an initial evaluation, the selection committee heard each of the eight candidates on the basis of the project they had previously submitted.
This committee was composed of Marie-Claude Beaud, director of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Carole Benzaken, artist, Jean-Pierre Greff, director of the Geneva University of Arts and Design, Laure Ortiz, University Law Fellow and President of the Sciences po-Europe Association (ESoPA), Alfred Pacquement, Honorary Director of the National Museum of Modern Art (CNAC – Georges Pompidou), of three school representatives elected to the school’s board of directors, Martin Faure, student delegate, Valérie Sonnier, teacher representative and Alice Rivey, administrative staff representative, and Michel Orier, Director General of Artistic Creation.
The Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris is a public institution with an administrative character under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
It welcomes more than 500 students and has a budget of more than €10 million. Between 60 and 70 teachers, including many internationally renowned artists, teach there.
Paris, 2 September 2015