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Bernard Blistène
Director of the french National Museum of Modern Art (born 1955) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bernard Blistène (born 1955) is a French art curator who served as the director of the Musée national d'Art moderne from 2013 to 2021.[1][2]
Biography
Born in 1955,[3] son of film director Marcel Blistène[3] and brother of lawyer and writer François Blistène, Bernard Blistène is a graduate of the École du Louvre[3] and the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie.
Career
Blistène was a member of the jury for the inaugural Sigg Prize which selected as winner Samson Young in 2020.[4][5] He also chaired several juries for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, choosing Melik Ohanian (2015), Kader Attia (2016), Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (2017), Clément Cogitore (2018),[6] Éric Baudelaire (2019)[7] and Kapwani Kiwanga (2020).[8][9]
In 2021, KANAL - Centre Pompidou appointed Blistène as one of two artistic directors, alongside Kasia Redzisz.[10]
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Recognition
Together with Serge Lasvignes and Christine Macel, ArtReview ranked him the 21st in their annual ranking of the most influential people in art of 2020, the Power 100. [11]
References
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