An independant committee which is made up of key figures from the art sector
Philippe Piguet, the fair artistic director has formed the selection committe, which is made up of:
Alexandra Fau, independant exhibition curator and art critic.
Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO.
Marc Donnadieu, curator for contemporary art at the LaM de Villeneuve-d'Ascq.
Olivier Kaeppelin, director of the Maeght Foundation.
Bernard Point, founder of the Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts (Fine Art School) in Gennevilliers and its Edouard Manet art gallery.
Philippe Piguet, artistic director of the fair
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Art critic and exhibitions curator, Philippe Piguet, born in 1946, is the artistic director of DRAWING NOW I PARIS and of the Chapel of the Visitation in Thonon-les-Bains. He collaborates regularly on magazines L’œil, since 1985, and art absolument, since 2002. He is the author of numerous works and texts of catalogues as well as art films. |
Alexandra Fau, independant exhibition curator and art critic.
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Alexandra Fau is curator, critic and art history professor. She has organized several exhibitions in France (« Architecture au corps » galerie Anton Weller (2007), « Subtil textile » à la galerie des galeries aux Galeries Lafayette (2008), En découdre » à la Fondation Ecureuil à Toulouse (2009)) and for the foreign art scene (Liste Berlin, Photo Miami…). She recently organized a collective exhibition on the subject of narration ( "Micro Fiction" at FABRIKculture during Art Basel in June 2010). She has presented the french art scene in Moscow for the year France-Russia 2010 with an exhibition "Philosophers and workers" co-curated with Zhenia Kikodze (November-December 2010). |
Christian Bernard, director of the MAMCO.
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Christian Bernard is the director of MAMCO (Geneva Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) a new type of institution which he both designed and set up. (It was inaugurated in September 1994). Besides the constant development of its collections, MAMCO has to date held nearly four hundred solo and group exhibitions, including retrospectives by Siah Armajani (1995 and2007), Claudio Parmiggiani, Martin Kippenberger, Jim Shaw, Bertrand Lavier, Guy de Cointet, Steven Parrino et John M Armleder. Christian Bernard directed the Villa Arson in Nice from 1986 to 1994, a French Ministry of Culture body with responsibility for a National Centre of Contemporary Art, an experimental art school and artist residencies. Among the many exhibitions organised at the Villa Arson, Tableaux abstraits (1986), Q.U.I. will long be remembered. (Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, 1987), Le Désenchantement du monde (1990), No Man's Time (1991), Le Principe de réalité (1993), and the multi-year programmes Sous le soleil (1988-1991) and Is it about Sculpture? (1990-1994), as well as the retrospectives of the work of Stanley Brouwn, Maurizio Nannucci, Claudio Parmiggiani, Niele Toroni, Michel Verjux, Didier Vermeiren and Franz Erhard Walther. From 1982 to 1985, Christian Bernard was visual arts advisor to the Rhône-Alpes Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs in Lyon. As such, he helped create the Regional Collection of Contemporary Art (FRAC), attracted significant public commissions (Richard Serra at Bourg-en-Bresse, the Jean-Pierre Raynaud project at the Minguettes, etc.) and oversaw the implementation of major contemporary art infrastructure at museums and art centres in Saint Etienne, Grenoble, Lyon, Villeurbanne, etc.) From 1972 to 1982 he taught literature, humanities and philosophy in Alsace while developing his work as an aesthetician and art critic. Christian Bernard was born in 1950 in Strasbourg. He has published numerous articles, prefaces and interviews, both in France and Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. He has lectured extensively and participated in numerous panels, seminars, round tables and seminars in Switzerland and Europe. |
Marc Donnadieu, curator for contemporary art at LaM, Lille Métrople, Musée d'art moderne, d'Art contemporain et d'Art brut.
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Marc Donnadieu is, since September 2010, curator for contemporary art at the LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (Villeneuve d’Ascq) after being director of the Regional Fund of Contemporary Art of Haute-Normandie for twelve years. He is a member of the commission to purchase photographies (2010/2012) of the National Fund of Contemporary Art. Meanwhile, since the mid 80's, he is a contemporary art critic under the name of Charles-Arthur Boyer. Regular writer for Art Press, his articles have been published in many french and foreign magazines. He has also written dozens of catalogs and collective books on art, photography, design, architecture and fashion. Tarabuste Editions published in 1997 his first litterary text "Celui qui est encore au monde (La parole transmise)". |
Olivier Kaeppelin, director of the Maeght Foundation.
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Olivier Kaeppelin is director of the Maeght Foundation. Born in 1949 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), he graduated in sociology at the Sorbonne and Paris X Nanterre, after a Ba in Modern Literature. Familiar with artistic creation but also with lessons - he taught at Paris VIII (Literature Department), and Paris I (Art History Department) - Olivier Kaeppelin is called to the Ministry of Culture (Delegation to the visual arts) where he successively held the positions of project manager, inspector of arts education, inspector of artistic creation before taking the direction of the inspection from 1993 to 1999. He then joined France-Culture as deputy director before becoming advisor to the president of Radio France for the development of cultural policy of the group. Author of numerous books and texts on art and artists, Olivier Kaeppelin has curated and co-curator several exhibitions and events including the young French creation for the Universal Exhibition of Seville, the Villa Medicis, the Frac Pays de la Loire, the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in Villeneuve d'Ascq, the Museum of Fine Arts in Nantes, Mulhouse, the workshops of the Museum of Modern Art in the City of Paris (the ARC) ... From 2004 to 2010 he returned to the Ministry of Culture and Communication as a delegate to the Fine Arts. In 2010, he was in charge of the project of the wasteland of the Palais de Tokyo. |
Bernard Point, Founder of the Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de Gennevilliers and its gallery Edouard Manet.
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Bernard Point, born in le Havre in 1937. From 1955 to 1959, he studied art at the Ecole Nationale des Métiers d'Art in Paris. Creator in 1968 of the Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de Gennevilliers and its gallery Edouard Manet, he is its director until 2002. Meanwhile, he is professor at Université Paris VIII. Author of texts on the artists exhibited at the Gallery Edouard Manet, he is also curator, especially invited at the Galerie Villa des Tourelles in Nanterre, and recently at L'H du Siège, art center in Valenciennes. He also participates in the collective of creation, since 2000, of the Biennale d'Arts Plastiques de Villeneuve-la-Garenne. |
