Christine Macel (born 1969) is a French curator. She was the director of the 2017
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, and is chief curator at the
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
.
Early life
Christine Macel was born in Paris in 1969.
Career
Macel is a contributor to several magazines such as ''
Artforum
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,
Flash Art
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, Art Press, Parkett'' and ''Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne''.
Macel has served as the Chief Curator at the
Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...
since 2000, where she started the museum's contemporary art department.
She has curated shows for
Sophie Calle
Sophie Calle (born 9 October 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement known as Oulipo. ...
,
Gabriel Orozco
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,
Nan Goldin
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, and
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno (born 1964 in Oran, Algeria) is a contemporary French artist who lives and works in Paris. His works include films, installations, performances, drawings, and text.
Parreno focuses on expanding ideas of time and duration thro ...
.
At the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
, Macel curated the French pavilion in 2013 (
Anri Sala
Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.
Life and career
Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Pari ...
), and the Belgian pavilion in 2007 (Eric Duyckaerts).
In 2022, Macel was appointed director of the
Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
References
Further reading
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1969 births
Living people
Venice Biennale artistic directors
French art curators
French women curators
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