Émilie Renard

Function: Director Bétonsalon– Centre for Art and Research Country: France Visiting period: 27 - 31 March Visiting year: 2023

With a program mainly based on the politics of sensibilities, she curated solo shows of Katia Kameli (2023), Judith Hopf (2022), Tiphaine Calmettes (2022), Anne Le Troter (2022), Jagna Ciuchta (2021), la facultad with Myriam Lefkowitz and Catalina Insignares (2021-22).

From 2013 to 2018, she was director of La Galerie, Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec, where she has sought to make the artistic program of the art centre a lever to influence the social, aesthetic and symbolic relationships between the people who animate it: artists, teams, publics, partners. There, she curated solo show by Hedwig Houben and Jean-Charles de Quillacq (2018), Pierre Joseph (2015), John Smith (2014), Laura Lamiel (2013), and group exhibitions such as “A House of Stone In a Metropolis…”, ass. curators Maud Jacquin and Sébastien Pluot, “Your Hands in My Shoes” (2016-2017)  ass. curator Vanessa Desclaux, “Greek type Problems” (2014)…

Since 2000, she has been a curator and art critic, with exhibitions such as “Eye of the lynx and wooden head”,  ass. curators with Barbara Sirieix, at Occidental temporary, Villejuif, (2016); Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Paris, (2012), at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris,  ass. curators with Mélanie Bouteloup, Claire Staebler, Abdellah Karroum, and Okwui Enwezor, artistic director.

Her researches are based on the power of art to act within the structures of the imagination and society. She is attentive to the ways in which power relations operate within institutions, distribute roles and prioritize practices. To overcome these divisions, she seeks to connect what is separate within and around the practices of art: the personnel and the professional, the work of art and its administration, the majority and the minority states.