Frédéric Paul (born in 1959) is a French curator and writer who works and lives in Vannes and Paris, France.

Career

Paul was former director of the F.R.A.C. Limousin (Limoges, France) from 1990 to 2000, and of the Domaine de Kerguéhennec from 2000 to 2010. Since he curated exhibitions of

Guy de Cointet Guy de Cointet (1934–1983) was a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces. Biography Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934, the ...

(2011) and Beatriz Milhazes: ''Panamericano. Paintings 1999–2012'' (2012) at the Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires and ''Meu Bem'' (2013) at the Centro Cultural Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, among others. Paul is currently curator at the National Museum of Modern Art (

Musée National d'Art Moderne The Musée National d'Art Moderne (; "National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou. In 2021 it ranked 10th in the list of ...

) at the

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

Other activities

In 2016, Paul was a member of the jury which selected Njideka Akunyili Crosby as recipient of the Prix Canson.

Bibliography (selection)

* "La bibliothèque de l'instituteur,

Hubert Duprat Hubert Duprat is a French artist known for his unusual work, an artistic intersection between caddisfly larvae and gold, opal, turquoise and other precious stones. Caddisfly larvae live in fresh water and naturally construct elaborate protective t ...

, l'archéologie et la macération" (reprint), ''Hubert Duprat, Les écrits restent'', Paris : éditions MF, 2020. * ''Points de rencontres'', Paris : Centre Pompidou, 2019. * ''

Dorothy Iannone Dorothy Iannone (August 9, 1933 – December 26, 2022) was an American visual artist. Her autobiographical texts, films, and paintings explicitly depict female sexuality and "ecstatic unity."Rosenberg, Karen"An Iconoclast Who Valorizes the Ero ...

, Toujours de l'audace !'', Paris : Manuella éditions, 2019. * " William Wegman : architecte en tous genres", ''Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne'', n° 149, Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, 2019. * '' Barbara Probst : The Moment in Space'', Stuttgart-Paris : Hartmann Books, Le Bal, 2019. * "Homme à tout faire et propre à rien, le silence de Robert Walser est surestimé", ''Robert Walser, Grosse kleine Welt - Petit grand monde'', Paris : Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, 2019. * "Un numéro monstre / From Distraction to Displacement : The Collages of Beatriz Milhazes", ''Beatriz Milhazes, Collages'', Rio de Janeiro : Editora Cobogó, 2018. * "Monk et Boetti ou l’esprit de famille", ''Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne'', n° 143, éd. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2018. * ''Steven Pippin / Aberration optique'', Paris : éd. Xavier Barral, 2017. * ''

Sarah Morris Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist. She lives in New York City in the United States. Personal life and education Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 Ju ...

: Capital Letters Rear Better for Initials'', Berlin: August Verlag, 2015. * ''Guy de Cointet'', Paris: Flammarion, 2014. * ''

Giuseppe Penone Giuseppe Penone (born 3 April 1947, Garessio) is an Italian artist and sculptor, known for his large-scale sculptures of trees. He is interested in the link between man and the natural world.

: Archéologie'', Paris: Actes Sud Editions, 2014. * ''Beatriz Milhazes, Meu Bem'', Rio de Janeiro: Base7 Projetos Culturais, 2013. * ''

Mel Bochner Melvin Simon Bochner (August 23, 1940 – February 12, 2025) was an American conceptual artist. He is considered to be one of the founders of Conceptual Art,Haus der Kunst (March 7, 2013 - June 23, 2013) Mel Bochner: If the Color Changes./ref ...

'', Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2009 * '' Shirley Jaffe - I work when I can, preferably in the day time'', Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2008 * ''

Richard Artschwager Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism. Early life and art Artschwager was born in Washington, D. ...

: Step to Entropy'', Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2004 * ''

Jonathan Monk Jonathan Monk (born 1969, in Leicester, UK) is an artist living and working in Berlin. Life and career Art practice Monk questions the meaning of art using conceptualism in a way that Ken Johnson in ''The New York Times ''The New ...

'', Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2003 * ''Glenn Brown'', 2001, Bignan: Domaine de Kerguehennec, 2003 * ''

Claude Closky Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris. Reception Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF. Dike Blair wrote in ''Artforum'' Ma ...

'', Paris: Hazan, 1999. * '' William Wegman : dessins/drawings, 1973-1997'', Limoges: Frac Limousin, 1997. * ''Le Plus grand espace'', Paris: Maeght, 1994.

References

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