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Diane PIGEAU
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I used to be until 2008 both an artistic director for a private gallery and a non-for-profit organization. In october 2008, I was selected for the international curatorial training program in l'Ecole du Magasin. During one year, I focused my researches on border devices. I'm now on the preparation of our last collective project within l'Ecole du Magasin which will take place from mid-september to january 2010 in Lyon Biennial, curated by Hou Hanru.
I studied literature and art history focusing on the 20th century. Between 2001 and 2008, I worked as an artistic director for different contemporary art galleries in Nice (Atelier Soardi & Galerie Norbert Pastor) widely involved in the promotion of French and international artists such as César, Günter Förg, Raymond Hains, Martin Kippenberger, Peter Kogler, Yue Minjun, Otto Mühl & Ben Vautier. In that frame, I also took part in different international contemporary art fairs. In 2007, I actively participated in the creation of two non-for-profit organizations: la Maison - galerie singulière, programming exhibition and performance projects in a flat, and Botox[s], a project which aims to bring diverse organizations (public institutions, associations & private galleries) to work in common. Within a year in L'Ecole du Magasin, with 5 other particpants coming from France, Armenia, South Korea, Turkey, we launched a blog called Season18 mixing individual researches and group discussions. In this context, I developed a research around border devices and their dislocation, with special interests in artists such as Chantal Ackerman, Heath Bunting, Collectif 1.0.3., Avi Moghrabi, Société Réaliste, Florian Pugnaire, … Now for our last collaboration, I'm working on social networks as a tool for social links in regard of distance and absence.
Links :
www.ecoledumagasin.com/?lang=en
www.season18.com
www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/
botoxs.fr/
www.soardi.fr/
