<sup>Amélie Adamo is a writer, art historian and independent curator. Her history of contemporary art thesis focussing on figurative art in France in the 1980s was published by Éditions Klincksieck in 2010 and led to an essay published by Éditions Galilée and two exhibitions at the Musée des Sables d’Olonne, Passages and Aux sources des années 1980. Since 2008, she has regularly contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues and written articles in specialised magazines, including L'Œil and Le Journal des Arts. In 2023, she co-curated Immortal at MO.CO. in Montpellier together with Numa Hambursin. In February 2025, she will curate Luxe, Calme et Volupté to mark the reopening of the Centre d’Art La Malmaison in Cannes. The exhibition will look at the painters who travelled to the South of France, while considering hedonism and the way in which it creates parallels between modern and contemporary artists.

Numa Hambursin (b. 1979) is an art critic, exhibition curator and general director of MO.CO. (Montpellier Contemporain). After a foundation degree in literature, he studied law (specialising in African cultural heritage law), before opening a contemporary art gallery in Avignon at the age of 23, followed by a second in Montpellier. In 2009, he was appointed director of the Carré Sainte Anne and then Espace Dominique Bagouet in Montpellier, where he organised numerous contemporary art exhibitions. Between 2018 and 2021, he founded and directed the Pôle Art Moderne et Contemporain de la Ville de Cannes, which is composed of three art centres: La Malmaison, Le Suquet des Artistes and Villa Domergue. In parallel, from 2013 to 2021, he managed the corporate contemporary art programme for Hélénis, before creating and launching the Fondation GGL-Hélénis for contemporary art, which was inaugurated in June 2021. Since 2021, he has been general director of MO.CO., a public cultural body comprising two art centres (MO.CO. and La Panacée) and an art school (Esba). Numa Hambursin has written extensively about art, notably contemporary painting. In 2018, he was awarded the AICA France art critics prize.</sup>

The BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize. A focus on the French scene

The BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize. A Focus on the French Scene (with prize money totalling 40,000 euros) was jointly launched in 2024 by BNP Paribas Banque Privée and Art Paris as a means of supporting the French art scene. It rewards the career of a living artist (regardless of age) chosen from among those selected by guest curators Amélie Adamo et Numa Hambursin as part of Immortal: A Focus on Figurative Painting in France.

Jury members: Amélie Adamo, writer and art historian and Numa Hambursin, general director of MO.CO. (Montpellier Contemporain), guest curators at Art Paris 2025; Valérie Duponchelle, journalist and art critic; Christine Macel, Museum curator, artistic and scientific consultant for the Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Nicolas Otton, director BNP Paribas Banque Privée France; Alfred Pacquement, independent exhibition curator; Guillaume Piens, fair director Art Paris; Marie-Aline Prat, art historian and collector; and Floriane de Saint-Pierre, president of the Amis du Centre Pompidou