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The Curators
09.23.16 - 10.23.16
Le Printemps de septembre — Lieux du festival

FRANÇOIS AUBART
Art historian, critic and curator, he teaches at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon.

 

CHRISTINE EYENE
Art historian, independent curator and researcher in contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire, Christine Eyene is also editor of the website www.eyonart.org

 

PAUL DEVAUTOUR
Paul Devautour worked for a long time with Yoon Ja as part of the Yoon Ja and Paul Devautour Collection, a major critical form of the French art scene from 1985-2000. Leaving the field of object production in the name of art, he first moved to the canvas with the Collège invisible and to art schools as the ultimate protected space of the market. He now runs the Offshore School in Shanghai.


CHARLES ESCHE
Charles Esche is a world-renowned curator and writer who has been director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven since 2004. Among many other international events, he curated the 31st edition of the São Paulo Biennale in 2014. In 2012 he was awarded the Princess Margriet Prize for European Culture and the Pistoletto Foundation's Minimum Prize.
Charles Esche is also the co-founder of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books.


ARNAUD FOURRIER
Arnaud Fourrier is a contributor to the magazines Archistorm and Horsd'oeuvre and trained at the Consortium in Dijon. After having been in charge of the graphic design department of Chaumont, he became artistic director of the Pavillon Blanc Médiathèque I Centre d'art de Colomiers.


THIERRY LEVIEZ
Thierry Leviez is in charge of artistic programming and has been in charge of the Beaux-Arts de Paris since January 2016. He was co-curator, with Marie-Frédérique Hallin, of the 2007 edition of the Printemps de Septembre, for which he has curated many exhibitions, including the installation of Jorge Pardo at the Musée des Augustins in 2014.


OLIVIER MICHELON
Olivier Michelon is a heritage curator who has worked as a journalist for the Journal des Arts and curated the exhibition "Le mouvement des images" at the Centre Pompidou, before taking over the management of the Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart from 2006 to 2012. Director of the Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées until
December 2015, he is now Chief Curator at the Fondation Vuitton.


CÉCILE POBLON
Cécile Poblon has been the director of the BBB art centre since 2009; she is in charge of its general artistic and cultural programming. She participated in the prefiguration of the Centre international du Graphisme in Chaumont (2008) and directed a prospective gallery in Tourcoing from 2003 to 2007. Her research places the question of the contexts of art, the artist's path, the spaces of the work and of the exhibition at the heart of her proposals, in line with a poetic, political and polysemic representation and perspective of our contemporary time.


MANUEL POMAR
A graduate of the Toulouse School of Fine Arts, Manuel Pomar was the co-founder and artistic director of the artist collective ALaPlage. Artistic director of Lieucommun since 2007, he has curated numerous exhibitions, including off-site exhibitions; a critic for the magazines Multiprise and Superstition and on the FMR radio station, he is also co-founder of the PinkPong network, which brings together contemporary art spaces in the Toulouse area, and co-founder of the Air de Midi network, a network of contemporary art centres in the Midi-Pyrénées region - now extended to Languedoc-Roussillon.


CLAIRE TANCONS
Curator, researcher and critic, Claire Tancons, a graduate of the École du Louvre and the University of Montreal in Museology, and of the Courtauld Institute in Art History, has taken curatorial courses at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Walker Art Center. Among many other collaborations, she was an associate curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, a Prospect.1 New Orleans, the first international biennial of contemporary art in New Orleans, where she resides, and as a consultant for the Harlem Biennial prefiguration project (2010-11). As curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale and CAPE09, she has organised processional performances that combine traditions of political demonstrations and carnival parades.


KARINE TISSOT
Karine Tissot is the director of the Centre d'art contemporain d'Yverdonles-Bains, which she set up in 2013. An art historian with a degree in literature from the University of Geneva, she worked at the Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève, then at the Mamco, where she created and directed the public service (Bureau des transmissions). At the same time, she has always carried out other activities such as teaching art history or criticism. She has mounted numerous exhibitions, contributed to several publications and edited these books, including Les Objets de l'art contemporain (2011); De la Géométrie sur les murs (2013); Hotel Ausland (2014).