The Nantes School of Fine Arts has a strong international policy and particularly encourages student mobility, whether incoming or outgoing.

To come and study in our establishment for a semester or an academic year is to come and study contemporary art in a dynamic cultural territory. It also means benefiting from the 4300 m² of workshops in a modern building, divided into three main areas:
- Construction (metal, wood, ceramics and glass)
- Image and multimedia (photography, sound, video and multimedia)
- Print (engraving, lithography, offset and serigraphy).

The Beaux-Arts are developing a pedagogy based on the transversality of learning. In addition, all international exchange students can benefit from linguistic support and a sponsor to help them adapt to their new life at school and in Nantes.

Photos Marc Dieulangard

Vassili Mitrecey

Natalia Jachowich

Atelier Bois

Jean Gfeller en workshop avec Ernesto Sartori

Atelier de sérigraphie

Petit Auditorium

Bibliothèque

Exchange programs

The school has a rich policy of international relations, particularly in Europe thanks to the Erasmus+ program and bilateral agreements signed with excellent art schools and universities. This framework offers opportunities for semester to year-long mobility for Nantes' fine arts students.

Study stay in a European art school (ERASMUS +)

Stays in the European Union are carried out within the framework of the ERASMUS program.

Find out more:

The Eramus + website

The Erasmus + Charter 2021-2027 (doc FR)

Erasmus + Charter 2021-2027 (ENG version)

Erasmus Strategy Statement

+ More information on Erasmus grants on the Student Traveller website

This program provides special support for students with disabilities.

Erasmus+ grants can be awarded to students who wish to apply for a study mobility and/or an internship mobility abroad.

Studying outside the European Union

For stays outside the European Union, students can apply to several
exchange programs:

The B.C.I (Bureau de Coopération Interuniversitaire) allows you to study in Quebec at one of the 11 member institutions of the program: http://echanges-etudiants.bci-qc.ca/

The cooperation/bilateral agreements allow you to carry out a mobility to partner institutions.

Institutions partenaires

Bruxelles, Gand Luca School of Art

Brazil

Rio de Janeiro - Belas Artes (UFRJ)

Salvador Bahia - Universidade Federal da Bahia

Canada – Province of Québec

Québec Université Laval - Ecole des Arts Visuels

China

Pékin Central Academy of Fine Arts

south Korea

Séoul Korea National University of Arts

Séoul Hongik university

Spain

Madrid Universidad Complutense – Facultad de Bellas Artes

Séville Facultad de Belles Artes de la Universidad de Sevilla

Valence Universitat Politecnica - Facultat de Belles Arts de Sant Carles

United-States

Houston University of Houston

United Kingdom

Cardiff CARDIFF Metropolitan University

Dundee University of Dundee - D.J.C.A.D. -School of Fine Art

Glasgow The Glasgow school of Art

Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University

Iceland

Reykjavik Listahaskoli Islands - Iceland Academy of the Arts

Italy

Venise Instituto Universitario di Architettura - Facolta di design e arti

Naples Accademia di belle arti di Napoli

Milan Accademia di Brera

Milan Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

Rome Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

Japon

Tokyo Tokyo University of the Arts – Geidai
Kanasawa College of art

Malta

Malte Università ta' Malta

MaROC

Tétouan INBA Institut national des beaux-arts

Mexico

Mexico Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda"

Norway

Bergen Kunst-Og designhogskolen i Bergen

Poland

Lodz Faculty of Fine Arts

Portugal

Porto Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Belas Artes
Lisbonne Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade

Romania

University West Timisoara – Fine Arts (painting, graphics, sculpture)

Sénégal

Dakar Institut Supérieur des Arts Numériques

Switzerland

Genève Haute école d'Art appliqué HEAD

Sierre L'École de design et Haute école d'art

Tokyo University of the Arts - Japan - Toshihiro Gamo

Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Belas Artes - Portugal - FBAUP

School of art Laval University - Québec

Cérémonie d'emménagement sur le campus de Seokgwan-dong, 23 novembre 2006, Service d'information sur les arts numériques de l'Université nationale des arts de Corée (DAIS).

Korea National University of Arts - Séoul - Corée du Sud

College of Art - Kanasawa - Japon

Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade - Lisboa

Facultad de Belles Artes de la Universidad de Sevilla - Espagne

University of Houston - Texas - USA

Accademia di belle arti di Napoli - Italie

Central Academy of Fine Arts Pékin - Chine

Muthesius Kunsthochschule - Kiel - Allemagne

Coming on an exchange mobility

Contact

International Office

international@beauxartsnantes.fr

T. : +33 2 55 58 65 14

More information on exchange schemes

Please send us your complete application by email, including the following documents :

Academic year

1st semester: From mid-September to mid-January
2nd semester: From mid-January to mid-May

Application deadlines

Deadline for student nominations:
- For the first semester or the entire academic year: April 20

- For the second semester: October 1st

Deadline for student applications:

- For the first semester (Fall): May 1
- For the second semester (spring): October 15

Results will be communicated to you two weeks after the application deadlines.

Language level

It is recommended that non-French speaking students have a minimum knowledge of French (A2). If possible, please send us any exams proving your level.

French courses will be offered to students who wish to take them.

- Exchange students have the same student status as those enrolled at the Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts

- No registration fee will be charged to exchange students, except for the purchase of the 5€ entrance badge.

- Registration for French Social Security: https://etudiant-etranger.ameli.fr/#/

- Classes are held entirely in French, except for English and Korean classes.

Bachelor year 2

Course Y2

Catalogue L2 2025/26

Master year 1

Course M1

Catalogue M1-M2 2025_26

Scoring grid

Système crédits ECTS

Projections (inter)nationales

The international campuses are platforms for debate, research and production that engage students, artists and researchers in multi-faceted exchanges. They offer master's students selected on the basis of a project the opportunity to spend a month on one of our three international campuses.

Plunged into a dynamic context of research and production, both local and international, developed by the school's faculty with their international partners, students encounter other realities, other ways of doing, thinking, and producing, which force them to leave their comfort zone, to invent new forms and practices. Confronted with approaches from art history, philosophy and critical theory, postcolonial and decolonial studies, activist and radical pedagogies, cultural studies, urban studies, gender issues, image theory, and film history, they participate in institutional projects (biennials, exhibitions) and artists' projects (production, performances), workshops, conferences, and tours.

Borrowing the tools of the ethnographer, the geographer, the historian, the architect, the designer, the strategist or the philosopher, the objective of these campuses is to create aesthetic, speculative and prospective zones, contributing to renew our perceptions, our conceptions, our ways of doing and engaging, in order to participate in the invention of a new reality.

Issues

Turned towards great contemporary stakes, cultural and economic globalization, game of the borders, impact of the digital technologies, rise of the identity politics, refoundation of the knowledge, and epistemological rupture initiated by the criticisms of the narratives of the modernity, they have for vocation the production of the forms of tomorrow.

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L'océan comme méthode

Salvador de Bahia, 2025

Space Odity

Fieldwork: Marfa

Un espace-atelier à ciel ouvert pour des projets artistiques à l’échelle 1
Photo Charles Stankievech

Seoul Suncheon

Corée du Sud, 2019

Dakar

port de Dakar

Marfa TX

Lost Horses, 2012, avec Ty Mitchell. Film couleur, sonore, 38 min

Production École supérieure d’art de Clermont Métropole

Dakar

Dakar - Présence du futur

Seoul Suncheon

Corée du Sud, 2019, mené par Stéphane Thidet, Christiane Carlut et Alain Declercq,
avec les étudiants des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire et de l'ENSAD - Paris

Marfa TX

Donald Judd, Chinati Foundation

photo Charles Stankievech

Seoul Suncheon

Suncheon Bay

Marfa TX

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Seoul Suncheon

Exhibition at the French Campus

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Presences of the Future

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Research and production are carried out by artists and researchers during residencies, involving the production of pedagogical devices or artistic events. The studios are intended for master's students (transdisciplinary and experimental teaching methods).

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Mobilités

Exchange programs

Study stay in a European art school (ERASMUS +)

Studying outside the European Union

Institutions partenaires

Germany

Austria

Belgium

Brazil

Canada – Province of Québec

China

south Korea

Spain

United-States

United Kingdom

Iceland

Italy

Japon

Malta

MaROC

Mexico

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Sénégal

Switzerland

Coming on an exchange mobility

Contact

International Office

Programs: ERASMUS +, B.C.I, O.F.A.J...

Please send us your complete application by email, including the following documents :

Academic year

Application deadlines

Language level

General information

Course Y2

Course M1

Scoring grid

Projections (inter)nationales

Objectives

Issues

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Desert Unit for Speculative Territories

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Presences of the Future

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Where we are - one landscape after another

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