Currently a curator at Foundation LUMA in Arles, Martin Guinard is co-curator, with Bruno Latour and Eva Lin, of the 2020 Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Art. The exhibition consisted in a planetarium in which each version of the Earth reflects different lifestyles, as well as the ways in which we predict the future, and was also held, in a scaled-down version, from November 2021 to April 2022 at the Centre Pompidou Metz.
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Denis Chevallier has headed MuCEM’s Research and Education Department since its inception. An ethologist and museum curator, he was tasked with prefiguring the new museum and ran many ‘collection surveys’ to inform its exhibitions, emphasizing objects to foster connections as is key in achieving a socially relevant museum.
Laure Colliex spearheaded the establishment of a residence for 200 artists in a high-rise slated for refurbishment. This temporary place of creation located in Clichy is conducive to collaboration between young artists using the surrounding area as a material.
Though the virtualization of museums is a corollary of the health crisis, curator Nicolas Bourriaud insists on the importance of physically meeting artworks. He postulates that the museum institution cannot be fully transformed without inventing places for community life and experiences.