2024 CONFERENCES
Mercredi 27 novembre, 14h30, Salon Pelliot de l’Hôtel Heidelbach: conférence de Sandrine Zerbib sur son ouvrage « Dragon tactics : Les tactiques des entrepreneurs chinois pour mieux diriger dans l'incertitude - Sandrine Zerbib, Aldo Spaanjaars » , suivie d’une séance de dédicaces (60 places, gratuit)
Jeudi 21 novembre, 15h, Salon Pelliot de l’Hôtel Heidelbach: rencontre littéraire avec Philippe Charlier sur son ouvrage « La Dame du jeu d'échecs » , suivie d’une séance de dédicaces (60 places, gratuit)
Friday, October 25th, Salon Pelliot at Hôtel Heidelbach: conference hosted by Faith Beasley on the book Versailles à la Rencontre du Taj Mahal: Conversations éclairées sur l'Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil followed by a book signing session. (60 spots, free)
Wednesday, October 16th, Salon Pelliot at Hôtel Heidelbach: conference hosted by Pierre Sevaistre on the book “Chrétiens et Japonais : Histoire du catholicisme au Japon” followed by a book signing session. (60 spots, free)
Thursday, September 19th, 2:30 PM, Salon Pelliot - Hôtel d'Heidelbach : Meeting hosted by Étienne de La Vaissière on the book Asie centrale 300-850. Des routes et des royaumes followed by a book signing session
2024 PRIVATE VISITS
OCTOBER:
Thursday, October 3rd, 2PM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition “L’or des Ming” (full)
Friday, October 4th, 6PM, the Victor Hugo House: private visit of the Victor Hugo House and its Chinese Room (19 spots)
Thursday, October 10th, 5:30PM, le BAL: private visit of the exhibition Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Lines and Bodies (25 spots)
Friday, October 11th, 12PM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition “L’or des Ming” (full)
Monday, October 14th, 2PM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition “L’or des Ming” (full)
Tuesday, October 15th, 10:00AM, Cernuschi Museum: private visit of the exhibition “Lê Phô, Mai-Thu, Vu Cao Dam. Pionniers de l’art moderne vietnamien en France” (24 spots)
Thursday, October 17th, 2:15PM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the new exhibits of the Korean section (24 spots)
Saturday, October 19th, 10AM, Monnaie de Paris: private visit of the ASIA NOW art fair (20 spots, in French)
Saturday, October 19th, 11:30AM, Monnaie de Paris: private visit of the ASIA NOW art fair (20 spots, in English)
Friday, October 25th, 10AM / 11:30 AM, Hôtel d’Ennery: private visit (14 spots for each visit)
Tuesday, October 29th, 2PM, Espace Temps: private visite of exhibition “Et le souffle devient signe”
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2:30 PM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition Alexandra David-Neel sur le toit du monde : Voyage à Lhassa, 1924 by Edouard de Saint‑Ours, Photographic collection curator et Thierry Zéphir, collection manager of the Nepal - Tibet section at Guimet Museum (15 spots, free )
Thursday, September 5th, 2:15 PM, Palace of Versailles: private visit of the Asian collections of the Palace of Versailles, as well as the influence of Asia on the objects of the Palace. (29 spots - 2 groups)
Friday, September 20th, 10 AM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition Gold Ming The splendors and beauties of Imperial China (14th – 17th centuries) guided by Arnaud Bertrand, curator of the Korean and Chinese collection of the Guimet Museum (15 spots, free)
Monday September 23rd, 10 AM, The Victor Hugo House: private visit of the Victor Hugo House and its Chinese Room (19 spots, free)
Tuesday, July 2, 11:00 AM, Missions étrangères de Paris (128 Rue du Bac, 75007 PARIS): Third private visit of the exhibition "The Christian Epic in Japan" (19 places, €10 cash on site)
Saturday, June 8, 2:30 PM, Asian Art Bridge : Private tour of the exhibition “Pretty as a Sheep” by the artist Duong Thuy Duong and Linh An, founder of Asian Art Bridge
Friday, June 14, 2:30 PM, Guimet Museum: Private tour (in English) of the exhibition “At the Heart of Color: Masterpieces of Chinese Monochrome Porcelain (8th-18th Century)” by Richard Kan, honorary member of the SAMG and one of the world's foremost collectors of Chinese monochrome porcelains
Saturday, June 15, 3:00 PM, Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris : Conference “Kenzô Tange & the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts” with Adrien Bossard, Director of the Departmental Museum of Asian Arts and the Lympia Cultural Space
Monday, June 24, 1:45 PM, Sèvres - Manufacture and National Museum : Tour of two Sèvres ceramic workshops followed by an exclusive visit to Chinese works at the museum's documentation center, presented by the department head
Monday, June 24, 4:00 PM, Musée Albert-Kahn : “Monday with Friends” at the Musée Albert-Kahn
Tuesday, June 25, 2:30 PM, Tour of the Tropical Agronomy Garden by Thaïs Dabadie, researcher in art history and social sciences at EHESS
Friday, June 28, 2:30 PM, Guimet Museum: Private tour of the exhibition “At the Heart of Color: Masterpieces of Chinese Monochrome Porcelain (8th-18th Century)” by Claire Déléry, Curator - Chinese Ceramics Section at the Guimet Museum and co-curator of the exhibition (20 seats, free)
2023 CONFERENCES
Friday June 16, 3:00 pm, Guimet museum auditorium, as part of the Printemps Asiatique, Round table : “Sharing Friendship : the Guimet museum and its Friends, 100 years of common history”
Thursday, February 9th, 2:00pm, Salon Pelliot of l'Hôtel Heidelbach: "Arts sacrés, arts laïques au Bhoutan" lecture (in French) by Françoise Pommaret, ethnologist and tibetologist, research director at CNR
Thursday, January 19th, 6:00 PM, on Zoom : videoconference "Collections and collectors of Chinese art at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs" by Béatrice Quette, curator in charge of Asian and non-Western collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
Thursday, September 27th, 6:00 PM, Zoom videoconference, theme : “An exceptional amateur taste : the chinese and monochrome ceramic collection of Alfred Baur (1865 - 1951)”. Lecturer : Mrs Monique Crick, President of the Oriental Ceramic French Research Society (SFECO) in Paris d former Director of the Baur Fondation which is liked to the Far East Museum in Geneva.
2023 PRIVATE VISITS
Monday June 12, 3:00 pm, Marmottan-Monet museum : private visit of the exhibition “Neo-romantics, a forgotten moment in modern art 1926-1972”
Saturday May 13, 10 am, Ennery museum : private visit of the museum with a tour guide
Thursday April 13, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit of the permanent collections on "The tea ceremony in Japan" with Sylvie Ahmadian, guide
Wednesday, April 12, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit n°2 of the permanent collections on "The Khmer kings and the temples of Angkor" with Sylvie Ahmadian, guide
2022 CONFERENCES
Wednesday, June 15, 2:30 PM, Salon Pelliot at l’Hôtel Heidelbach. Conference : “Porcelaines, textiles et mobiliers des Compagnies des Indes : les arts décoratifs chinois et indiens, reflets de la croisée des mondes”, lecturer : Brigitte Nicolas.
Friday, June 10, 10:30 AM - Asian Spring at La Pagode CT Loo.
Thursday, June 9, 2:30 PM, Guimet Museum Auditorium. Conference : “Pierre Loti, un voyageur en Asie”, lecturer : Jean-Claude Perrier, author-journalist, publisher of the 7 volumes wrote by Pierre Loti about his voyages.
Wednesday, May 18, 6:00 PM, videoconference Zoom. Conference : “Emile Guimet et arts d’Asie au musée des Confluences”, lecturer : Hélène Lafont-Couturier, Director of the Confluences Museum based in Lyon.
Tuesday, April 14, 2:30 PM, Salon Pelliot at l’Hôtel Heidelbach. Conference : “Le Dernier Maharaja d’Indore”, lecturer : Géraldine Lenain, President of the Guimet Museum Friends Society.
Thursday, March 10, 2:30 PM, Salon Pelliot at l’Hôtel Heidelbach. Conference : “La sociabilité dans les jardins de lettré dans la Chine ancienne”, lecturer : Antoine Gournay, Art History and Archaeology Professor specialized in the Far East Arts at Sorbonne University.
Monday, February 10, 2:30 PM, Salon Pelliot at l’Hôtel Heidelbach. Conference : “Le paradoxe indien d’André Malraux”, lecturer : Jean-Claude Perrier, author-journalist-publisher.
Thursday, January 20, 6:00 PM, videoconference Zoom. Conference : “Hampi : Inde sacrée, Inde glorieuse”, lecturer : Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat and Vasundhara Kavali-Filliozat.
Thursday, March 23, 6:30 pm, online on Zoom : videoconference on "The departmental museum of Asian arts in Nice" by Adrien Bossard, heritage curator and director of the departmental museum of Asian arts in Nice
Thursday, April 20, 2:30 pm, Salon Pelliot of the Hôtel Heidelbach : conference on "Himalayan art treasures in the collections of the Guimet Museum" by Thierry Zéphir, research engineer - Himalayan World Section at the Guimet Museum
2022 PRIVATE VISITS
Monday, February 6th, 2:30pm, musée Guimet: private tour of the permanent collections "Les rois khmers et les temples d'Angkor" with Sylvie Ahmadian, tour-guide
Monday, January 16th, musée Guimet: private tour of the exhibition "Afghanistan. Ombres et légendes" with Sylvie Ahmadian, tour-guide
Wednesday, January 14th, 2:30pm, musée Guimet: private tour of the exhibition "Afghanistan. Ombres et légendes" with Sylvie Ahmadian, tour-guide
Wednesday, January 11th, 2:30pm, musée Guimet: private tour of the exhibition " Bons baisers de Pékin – Yishu8, histoire d’une résidence d’artistes" with Christine Cayol, founder of Yishu8
Tuesday, January 10th, 10:30am, musée Guimet: private tour of the Carte blanche to Wang Keping, with Claire Bettinelli, curator in charge of contemporary exhibitions and collections at the musée Guimet
Wednesday, May 25, 10:00 AM, Quai Branly Museum. Private visit theme : “DINH Q. LÊ. Le fils de la mémoie et autres photographies”, guide : Christine Barthe, curator of the exhibition and chief of the photographic collections at the Quai Branly Museum.
Tuesday, May 17, 11:15 AM, Albert-Kahn Museum. Private visit theme : “The restoration of the Albert-Kahn Museum”, guide : Sylvie Ahmadian.
Tuesday, May 10, 10:30 AM, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “Carte Blanche à Chiharu Shiota”, guide : Claire Bettinelli, exhibition supervisor at the Guimet Museum.
Sunday, April 2, 10:30 AM, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “L’Arc et le Sabre”, guide : Sylvie Ahmadian.
Tuesday, March 29, 10:30 AM, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “Yoga. Ascètes, yogis, soufis”, guide : Amina Okada, chief curator and supervisor of the indian collections at the Guimet Museum.
Thursday, March 24, 10:30 AM, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “Le tantrisme au musée Guimet (Népal, Tibet)”, guide : Constance Barreault.
Tuesday, March 22, 10:30, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “Yoga. Ascètes, yogis, soufis”, guide : Vincent Lefèvre, chief curator and supervisor of the Guimet Museum collections.
Monday, February 7, 10:30 AM, Guimet Museum. Private visit theme : “La route de la soie au musée Guimet”, guide : Constance Barreault.
Thursday, February 3, 11:00 AM, Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). Private visit theme : “Juifs d’Orient” exhibition.
Tuesday, January 25, 10:00 AM, Cernuschi Museum. Private visit theme : “Peindre hors du monde, Moines et lettrés des dynasties Mingg et Qing - Collection Chih Lo Lou”, guide : Eric Lefebvre, Cernuschi Museum Director.
Saturday, February 25th, 11:00am, musée Cernuschi : private tour of the exhibition "l’Encre en mouvement" with Maël Bellec, curator of Chinese and Korean arts at the musée Cernuschi
Saturday, March 4, 10:30 am, Institut du Monde Arabe : private visit of the exhibition "On the roads to Samarkand. Wonders of silk and gold" exhibition
Monday March 13, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit of the permanent collections, "In the footsteps of Buddha" with Sylvie Ahmadian, guide
Wednesday, March 15, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit of the exhibition "Hiroshige and the fan, a journey in 19th century Japan - exceptional loans from the Georges Leskowicz collection, one of the most beautiful collections in the world" with Georges Leskowicz
Tuesday, March 21, 10:30 am, Musée du Quai Branly : private visit of the exhibition "Kimono" with Julien Rousseau, head of the Asia heritage unit at the Musée du Quai Branly
Tuesday April 4, 3:30 pm, Guimet museum: private visit of the exhibition "Circle and sacred territory. The mandala in the work of Raza" with Thierry Zéphir, in charge of the collection - Nepal-Tibet section at the Guimet museum
Wednesday, April 12, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit n°2 of the permanent collections on "The Khmer kings and the temples of Angkor" with Sylvie Ahmadian, guide
Thursday April 13, 2:30 pm, Guimet museum : private visit of the permanent collections on "The tea ceremony in Japan" with Sylvie Ahmadian, guide