François-René

Martin

General art history teacher

Martin François-René Martin studied political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg and art history and archaeology at the Université Marc-Bloch in Strasbourg. His doctorate in political science and art history focused on Grünewald and his critics (16th - 21st centuries), under the supervision of Roland Recht.

Recently appointed Director of Research at the German Center for Art History in Paris, he is also a visiting scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Clark Institute in Williamstown. Professor of general art history at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, he is also research coordinator at the École du Louvre. He works on artistic myths, historiography and Ingres and Raphael.

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Guitemie

Maldonado

Art history professor

Contemporary art historian and critic Guitemie Maldonado devoted her thesis to biomorphism in the interwar period (Le Cercle et l'amibe, 2006), extending it with more occasional monographic studies (devoted to Jean Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Sonia Delaunay, Henry Moore...) and a constant interest in in-between situations (art-nature, art-science, abstraction-figuration).

She has also focused on the situation of abstraction after the Second World War, in particular through a monograph on Nicolas de Staël. Through various encounters and circumstances, she began writing about contemporary art, for exhibitions (Bernard Piffaretti, Djamel Tatah, Sophie Dubosc, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Pierre Buraglio, Frédérique Lucien...) and magazines (Artforum, artpress, Roven and currently The Art Newspaper).
 

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Thierry

Leviez

Scenography

Thierry Leviez is Director of Pavillon Bosio, Monaco's École supérieure d'arts plastiques specializing in art and scenography. From 2016 to 2021, he was head of exhibitions at Beaux-Arts de Paris. There, he curated numerous exhibitions and was in charge of the "Artistes & Métiers de l'exposition" program, a residency for young curators and "L'entour", a seminar on the history and technique of exhibition scenography attended by students from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais.

Previously, he curated exhibitions for Printemps de Septembre, where he developed a wide range of projects, from Jorge Pardo's permanent set for the Musée des Augustins to various retrospectives and new productions for the city of Toulouse.
 

Jean-Yves

Jouannais

Contemporary Art

Editor-in-chief of the magazine Art Press (1991-1999), member of the editorial committee of the Revue Perpendicule (1995-1998), Jean-Yves Jouannais taught contemporary art at the University of Paris 8. Among other exhibitions: Topographies of war, Le Bal, Paris, 2011; La Force de l’art, Grand Palais (with J.-L. Froment and D. Ottinger), 2009; L’Idiotie, Pommery Experience #2, Reims, 2005; History of Infamy, Venice Biennale, 1995; A contemporary art from South Africa, La Défense, 1994. Among other publications: Artists without works (1997); Idiocy (2004); The Use of Ruins (2012); MOAB, Epic in 22 songs (2018).

Since 2008, he has devoted himself to the “Encyclopedia of Wars” conference cycle, a monthly event at the Center Pompidou.

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Christian

Joschke

Art History

Christian Joschke is an art historian and is particularly interested in the relationship between arts and politics and the history of photography. Between 2007 and 2020, he successively taught as a lecturer at the Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Paris Nanterre University. He twice held a substitute professorship at the University of Lausanne, was a Research Fellow at the IFK in Vienna, at the Ryerson Image Center in Totonto, and at the department of art history and archeology at Princeton University (New Jersey, United States) and Humboldt University Berlin (Rudolf Arnheim Chair, 2023).

He translated books by Hans Belting – whose assistant he was at the Collège de France (2003) – and Horst Bredekamp. He published The Eyes of the Nation. Amateur photography and society in the Germany of William II (Dijon, Presses du Réel, 2013). He co-organized the Photography, Class Weapon exhibition. Social and documentary photography in France 1928-1936 at the Center Pompidou (catalogue at Textuel, 2018) and founded the magazine Transbordeur with Olivier Lugon. Photography history society published by Macula and with him directs the “Transbordeur” collection with the same publisher.

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