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Chiara Parisi
Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz
President of Rencontres Artistiques 2022
https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr
French, English, Italian
Specialty: multidisciplinary
Chiara Parisi has been Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz since December 2019. An art historian, she accompanies artists in their most audacious projects, convinced that art can transform the world - and eager to share this sensitive experience with the public.
In 2011, she was appointed Director of Cultural Programs at La Monnaie de Paris, which she transformed into an international art institution. She has organized major exhibitions including Chocolate Factory by Paul McCarthy, Take Me I'm Yours by Christian Boltanski and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Not Afraid of Love by Maurizio Cattelan.
In 2017, she became curator at the Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, where she designed exhibitions with Annette Messager, Claire Tabouret and Yoko Ono, among others. On this occasion, she opened the Villa's gardens to the public at night for the first time, with the exhibition Ouvert la nuit.
In 2019, she also signs the Fondation Carmignac's annual exhibition on the island of Porquerolles, entitled La Source.
In 2024, alongside Bruno Racine, she is co-curator of the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The project, Avec mes yeux, unfolds in the Giudecca women's prison.
