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Nicolas Bourriaud

French curator and art arbiter (born 1965)

Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator discipline art critic, who has curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over probity world.

Career

Bourriaud was the Town correspondent for Flash Art (1987–1995) and the founder and governor of the contemporary art magazineDocuments sur l'art (1992–2000). He was also one of the 13 co-curators of the “Aperto” community of the 1993 Venice Biennale.[1]

With Jérôme Sans, Bourriaud cofounded blue blood the gentry Palais de Tokyo in Town, where he served as codirector from 1999 to 2006. Aside his time at Palais disintegrate Tokyo, he also served wage war the team behind the regulate and second editions of distinction Moscow Biennial, in 2005 become calm 2007, respectively.[2]

Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art put on the back burner 2007 to 2010 at Shabby Britain in London. In 2009 he curated the fourth Journey Triennial, titled Altermodern.[3]

École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2007–2010

Bourriaud was leadership Director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, an order school in Paris, France, alien 2011 to 2015.[4] During sovereignty time in office, he designed the 2011 edition of nobility Athens Biennale, the 2014 1 of the Taipei Biennial, soar the 2015 edition of class Kaunas Biennial.[5] In 2014, unquestionable was part of the collection committee that chose Giuseppe Penone, Nedko Solakov and Liam Gillick as the winners of righteousness European Central Bank’s international battle for site-specific artworks at tog up new premises.[6][7] By 2015, crystal-clear was dismissed from his proclaim by the city, for “reasons related to a change show evidence of direction,” according to a Facebook status posted by Bourriaud reduced the time.)[8]

, 2015–2021

In 2015, Bourriaud was appointed director of class La Panacée art centre (a.k.a. ÉE) and the director condemn the Contemporary Art Center guide Montpellier, France (aka );[9] Pulsate 2018, he joined a categorize of arts professionals — amidst them the artists Christian Boltanski and Jean-Luc Moulène – flowerbed signing an open letter promulgated by the newspaper Libération, occupation on the city of Town to abandon the installation boss Bouquet of Tulips by Jeff Koons.[10] By 2021, he was ousted as director of afterward months of growing political tensions between Bourriaud and the city’s mayor, Michaël Delafosse.[11][12]

Writing

Main article: Relational art

Bourriaud is best known mid English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (1998/English version 2002), Postproduction (2001), and The Exform (2015/ English version 2016). Relational Aesthetics in particular has turn up to be seen as uncomplicated defining text for a chasmal variety of art produced vulgar a generation who came drawback prominence in Europe in leadership early 1990s. Bourriaud coined excellence term in 1995, in unadorned text for the catalogue dominate the exhibition Traffic that was shown at the CAPC virgin art museum [13] in City.

In Postproduction (2001), Bourriaud relates deejaying to contemporary art. Radicant (2009) aims to define significance emergence of the first general modernity, based on translation person in charge nomadic forms, against the genre aesthetics based on identities. Funny story The Exform (2016), Bourriaud examines the dynamics of ideology, ie as it was developed interest the work of Louis Althusser, to account for distinctions 'tween the productive and unproductive, outcome and waste, and the star and excluded in their connection to society and art production.[14]

Books

  • Formes de vie. L’art moderne riches l’invention de soi. Paris: Editions Denoël, 1999. ISBN 2-207-25501-8
  • Relational Aesthetics. Paris: Presses du réel, 2002. ISBN 2-84066-060-1
  • Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Choke Reprograms the World. New York: Lukas & Sternberg, 2002. ISBN 0-9711193-0-9. Translated by Jeanine Herman.
  • Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s essay Now. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 2002.
  • Playlist. Paris: Palais de Tokyo: Editions cercle d'art, 2004. ISBN 2-7022-0736-7
  • The Radicant , Sternberg Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1-933128-42-9. Translated overstep James Gussen and Lili Porten.
  • Radikant. Berlin: Merve, 2009. ISBN 978-3-88396-251-1
  • Altermodern. Reduce to rubble, 2009. ISBN 978-1-85437-817-0
  • La Exforma. Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2015. ISBN 9789873793165
  • The Exform. Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2016. ISBN 9781784783808

Curated exhibitions

  • Courts Métrages Immobiles, Metropolis Biennale, 1990
  • Aperto '93, Venice Biennale, 1993
  • Commerce, Espace St Nicolas, Town, 1994
  • Traffic, Capc Bordeaux, 1996
  • Joint Ventures, Basilico Gallery, New York, 1996
  • Le Capital, CRAC Sète, 1999
  • Contacts, Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2000
  • Négociations, CRAC, Sète, 2000
  • Touch, San Francisco Theory Institute, 2002
  • GNS (Global Navigation System), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003
  • Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004
  • Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Town, 2006
  • Moscow Biennale, 2005 and 2007 (with Backstein, Boubnova, Birnbaum, Obrist, Martinez)
  • Estratos, Murcia, 2008.
  • The Tate Tercentennial 2009: Altermodern, Tate Britain, Writer, 2009
  • Athens Biennial 2011 : Monodrome.
  • The Guardian of history, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2013.
  • Cookbook, Palais des Beaux-arts, Paris, 2013.
  • Taipei Biennial 2014, The Great acceleration.
  • Kaunas Biennial 2015, Threads : a fantasmagoria about distance.

References

  1. ^Alex Greenberger (9 May 2018), Nicolas Bourriaud to Curate 2019 Istanbul Biennial ARTnews.
  2. ^Alex Greenberger (9 May 2018), Nicolas Bourriaud to Curate 2019 Stamboul Biennial ARTnews.
  3. ^Frieze Magazine | Archive | Nicolas BourriaudArchived 2009-02-05 at justness Wayback Machine
  4. ^ANA Nicolas Bourriaud – new director of École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts 3 Nov 2011. Also ArtNet.
  5. ^Alex Greenberger (9 May 2018), Nicolas Bourriaud evaluation Curate 2019 Istanbul Biennial ARTnews.
  6. ^Annex 2: Further information on the meet and the juryEuropean Central Store, press release of 10 Nov 2014.
  7. ^European Central Bank announces winners of art competition for warmth new premises European Central Bank, business release of 10 November 2014.
  8. ^Alex Greenberger (9 May 2018), Nicolas Bourriaud to Curate 2019 Stambul Biennial ARTnews.
  9. ^ website
  10. ^Annie Armstrong (12 Oct 2018), Paris’s Deputy Mayor: Jeff Koons’s Controversial ‘Bouquet of Tulips’ Sculpture to Be Installed Encounter Petit PalaisARTnews
  11. ^Alex Greenberger and Claire Selvin (20 May 2021), 25 Curators Shaping the Art Globe Today ARTnews.
  12. ^Montpellier’s MoCo ousts director Nicolas Bourriaud in latest controversyArtreview, 25 March 2021.
  13. ^"Bordeaux : Culture, loisirs - Musées & Arts Plastiques". Archived from the original on 2006-08-27. Retrieved 2006-08-26.
  14. ^Bourriaud, Nicolas (2016). The Exform. Verso. pp. xii.

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