Kathy Alliou has been head of the Œuvres des Beaux-Arts de Paris department (collection, exhibitions, outreach) since 2013. Together with her team, she coordinates, designs and contributes to the exhibition programme and the promotion of the institution's Musée de France collection. With the help of artists, she strives to think, write and invent dialogues with the works of today and those of yesterday.
Her artistic projects range from curating exhibitions to research residencies and projects based on the spoken word, the performative potential of the body, and the transmission and circulation of thought: international colloquia, seminars, conferences and performance programmes. Her texts are regularly published.
Recent commissions and projects (selection) :
2023:
- Curator of Bocar Niang's ‘Diner Griot’, Villa Medicis, Rome, May 2023
- Moderator of the round table: ‘Artist talk, Deborah Roberts and Niki de St Phalle, Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, May 2023
-Curator of Lise Haller Baggesen's solo exhibition ‘Apocalypstick’, co-curated by Yann Chevallier, le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, 23 June-03 September 2023
- Artistic director of Asia NOW, La Monnaie de Paris, 19-22 October 2023
- Curator of Bocar Niang's solo exhibition, co-curated by Gora Diouf, Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar, Senegal, November 2023-January 2024
2024 :
- Dialogue with Apolonia Sokol, Beaux-Arts de Paris, May 2024
- Curator of Sumayya Vally's performance installation, ‘Water in one Hand and Fire in the other’ Asia NOW, Monnaie de Paris, Oct. 2024, in partnership with the Museum of Sufi Art and Culture MTO
- Round-table panellist: ‘Sumayya Vally's installation, between the living and the spiritual, with Sumayya valli ( architect, Nadia Samadani, Samdani Foundation, Eve lemesle, Whataboutart agency, Alexandra Baudelot, Director of the MTO Sufi Art and Culture Museum, Moderator: Alexandra Munroe, curator at large Guggenheim Museum, NY
- Curator of Bocar Niang's ‘Diner Griot’, Lyon Biennial, November 2024
- Curator associated with the ‘Aurora’ residency programme, between le Bicolore, Paris, La fondation Fiminco, Paris, and ArtHub, Copenhagen, 2024
- Nominator of the Carta Bianca Prize, 2022-23-24
- Member of the acquisition commission of the City of Paris collection (FMAC) and of the Commission d'Aide Individuelle à la Création of the Ministry of Culture.
2025 :
- Curator of the solo exhibition by Lise Haller Baggesen, ‘ChromAmour’ le Bicolore, Paris, February-March 2025
- Co-curator with Paul Sztulman of the solo exhibition by Pierre Alferi, Cabinet des dessins et des estampes des Beaux-Arts de Paris, February-April 2025
