Isabelle Bertolotti, director of the Contemporary Art Biennale, explains her choice:
"I am highly receptive to the values that Alexia champions
and to how committed she is to artists. She has earned
wide recognition for her dedication to spreading art to
a wide audience throughout a territory, in both museum
and urban-space settings. She has done exemplary work
at the contemporary art museum of Val-de-Marne (MAC
VAL), providing artists with long-term support, and also
in primarily event-based projects, such as twice curating
Nuit Blanche in Paris."
About Alexia Fabre
Alexia Fabre has been Director of the Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris since January 2022.
Holding the grade of Chief Curator of Heritage, she previously headed MAC VAL, the contemporary art museum
of the Department of Val-de-Marne, in Vitry-sur-Seine
(2005-2022). She was recruited in 1998 by said Department to research and bring to life this new museum, and
wrote the scientific and cultural project for it. At MAC VAL,
Alexia Fabre ran an arts and culture policy for contemporary artists and audiences, applying the values of diversity
and equality; women artists enjoy equal representation
there.
Alexia Fabre also sat on the expert committee of the
Grand Paris Express for the artistic direction of certain
rail stations in Val-de-Marne. She co-curated the exhibition Lune, du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires at
the Grand Palais, Paris, in 2019 and was guest curator of
Manif d’Art – La Biennale de Québec in 2017. In 2009
and 2011, she was joint artistic director of Nuit Blanche
Paris with Frank Lamy, head of temporary exhibitions at
MAC VAL. A graduate of the École du Louvre and of the
Institut National du Patrimoine, Alexia Fabre began her
career as Director of the Musée Départemental de Gap
(1993-1998).
