Conference
Femmes peintres, de l’impressionnisme aux avant-gardes
Saturday, December 20, 2025Lecture presented by Léa Lefebvre
Impressionist, Neo-Impressionist, Fauvist, or Cubist, these women asserted themselves through perseverance and openly expressed their desire for emancipation. While art academies remained closed to women until late, they established themselves as artists through their own styles, raised their voices, and introduced new iconographies and imaginative worlds. Active participants in their time and in its various groups and movements, they were often overshadowed, silenced, or still lack visibility and recognition today. Their works trace alternative histories of modernity, enriching and complicating its narrative.
Introduction of the speaker
Léa Lefebvre
Léa Lefebvre teaches Contemporary Art History and History of Photography at Sciences Po Aix.
With a degree in art history from Paris-Nanterre University and in cultural policy and political science from Sciences Po Aix, she has focused her studies on the concept of subversion. In her writing and research, Léa Lefebvre approaches the world through the prism of intersecting social, political, and artistic contexts.
She has worked as a studio manager in a gallery, is an editor and artistic coordinator for a digital magazine (La Zone), and co-founded a collective of artists and curators dedicated to the production of immersive works and scenographies, as well as exhibition curation. She supports young artists in their practice, notably by writing texts about their productions and approaches.
