An independant committee which is made up of key figures from the art sector
Alexandra Fau, curator, critic and art history professor.
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Alexandra Fau is curator, critic and art history professor. She has organized several exhibitions in France ((« Architecture au corps » galerie Anton Weller (2007), « Subtil textile » à la galerie des galeries aux Galeries Lafayette (2008), En découdre » à la Fondation Ecureuil à Toulouse (2009)) and for the foreign art scene (Liste Berlin, Photo Miami…). She recently organized a collective exhibition on the subject of narration ( "Micro Fiction" at FABRIKculture during Art Basel in June 2010). She has presented the french art scene in Moscow for the year France-Russia 2010 with an exhibition "Philosophers and workers" co-curated with Zhenia Kikodze (November-December 2010). |
Marc Donnadieu, curator for contemporary art at the LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (Villeneuve d’Ascq).
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Marc Donnadieu is, since September 2010, curator for contemporary art at the LaM – Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (Villeneuve d’Ascq) after being director of the Regional Fund of Contemporary Art of Haute-Normandie for twelve years. He is a member of the commission to purchase photographies (2010/2012) of the National Fund of Contemporary Art.
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Olivier Kaeppelin, project director at the Palais de Tokyo
Born in 1949 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Olivier Kaeppelin is an advanced sociology graduate from the Sorbonne and Paris X Nanterre, following a degree in modern literature. Familiar with the creative as well as teaching side of art - he taught in the literature department of Paris VIII University then Paris I University in the art history department - Olivier Kaeppelin then worked for the French Ministry of Culture (visual arts division) where he in turn held the posts of project manager, inspector of art teaching and inspector of artistic creativity before heading the inspectorate from 1993 to 1999. He then joined France-Culture as deputy director before being made an advisor to the president of Radio-France for development of the group’s cultural policy. The author of numerous works and texts on art and artists, Olivier Kaeppelin was also curator and co-curator of several exhibitions and events on young French creativity particularly for the Universal Exposition of Seville, the Villa Medicis, Frac des Pays de la Loire, the Venice Biennale, the LaM (Lille museum of modern art) in Villeneuve d’Ascq, the Musée des Beaux-Arts (museum of fine arts) in Nantes, Mulhouse, the Ateliers du Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (studios of the Paris Museum of Modern Art), etc. He rejoined the French ministry of culture and communications from 2004 to 2010 as head of visual arts. .
Olivier Kaeppelin is project director at the Palais de Tokyo.
Bernard Point, former director of the Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de Gennevilliers and its gallery Edouard Manet.
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Bernard Point was born in Le Havre in 1937. From 1955 to 1959, he studied art in Paris at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers d’Arts (higher college of art trades). In 1968 he founded the Ecole Municipale des Beaux-Arts in Gennevilliers and its Edouard Manet gallery, and was its director until 2002. At the same time, he lectured at the Paris VIII University. The author of articles on artists exhibited at the Edouard Manet gallery, he is also an exhibition curator, particularly as a guest of the Galerie Villa des Tourelles in Nanterre, and recently at L’H du Siège art centre in Valenciennes. Since 2000, he has also been part of the creative and operational committee for Villeneuve-la-Garenne’s Biennale d’Arts Plastiques. |
Michel Poitevin, collector.
Originally from the south of France, but living in Lille for nearly 40 years, I have always looked at art, for a long time. The frequent pleasure of seeing Hubert Robert drawings in red chalk at the Musée de Valence is still a particularly pleasant memory from my youth. The possibility of collecting came later, during the 1970s and 1980s. It took time to create a company and build it up. Now, with retirement age behind me, I wonder whether my main profession isn’t "collector". At the ADIAF (international association for the dissemination of French art), we have many initiatives and projects (Marcel Duchamp Prize, de leur temps exhibition, trips, etc.). The pleasure of being part in a wide range of technical committees (e.g. FNAC, FRAC) provides contact with the world of institutions. These activities take up my time beyond all reason, more for passion.
