Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator and art critic, who has curated numerous exhibitions and biennials all over the world. He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris. He was also founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l'art (1992–2000) and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art from 1987 to 1995. Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2007-2010 at Tate Britain, London, and in 2009 he curated the fourth Tate Triennial , entitled Altermodern. He was the Director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, an art school in Paris, France, from 2011 to 2015. In 2015, he was appointed director of the future Contemporary Art Center of Montpellier, France, due to open in 2019, and director of La Panacée art center.