Nicolas Bourriaud
- January 5, 2024
- Curator
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Nicolas Bourriaud Biography
| Name | Nicolas Bourriaud |
| Birthday | Apr 13 |
| Birth Year | 1965 |
| Place Of Birth | Niort |
| Home Town | Niort |
| Birth Country | France |
| Birth Sign | Aries |
Nicolas Bourriaud is one of the most popular and richest Curator who was born on April 13, 1965 in Niort, Niort, France. Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a curator and art critic, who has curated a great number of exhibitions and biennials all over the world.
In Postproduction (2001), Bourriaud relates deejaying to contemporary art. Radicant (2009) aims to define the emergence of the first global modernity, based on translation and nomadic forms, against the postmodern aesthetics based on identities. In The Exform (2016), Bourriaud examines the dynamics of ideology, specifically as it was developed in the work of Louis Althusser, to account for distinctions between the productive and unproductive, product and waste, and the included and excluded in their relation to society and art production.
Nicolas Bourriaud Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Curator |
| House | Living in own house. |
Nicolas Bourriaud is one of the richest Curator from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicolas Bourriaud 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (1998/English version 2002), Postproduction (2001), and The Exform (2015/ English version 2016). Relational Aesthetics in particular has come to be seen as a defining text for a wide variety of art produced by a generation who came to prominence in Europe in the early 1990s. Bourriaud coined the term in 1995, in a text for the catalogue of the exhibition Traffic that was shown at the CAPC contemporary art museum in Bordeaux.
With Jérôme Sans, Bourriaud cofounded the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where he served as codirector from 1999 to 2006. He was the Paris correspondent for Flash Art (1987–1995) and the founder and director of the contemporary art magazine Documents sur l’art (1992–2000). Bourriaud was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2007 to 2010 at Tate Britain in London. In 2009 he curated the fourth Tate Triennial, titled Altermodern. He was the Director of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, an art school in Paris, France, from 2011 to 2015. In 2015, he was appointed director of the La Panacée art cente and the director of the Contemporary Art Center of Montpellier, France, which is scheduled to open in 2019.
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What is relational art According to Nicolas Bourriaud?
According to Bourriaud, relational art encompasses “ a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.” The artwork creates a social environment in which people come together to …
How does Nicolas Bourriaud see the artist in relational aesthetics?
He saw artists as facilitators rather than makers and regarded art as information exchanged between the artist and the viewers.
What is relational antagonism?
Framing relational aesthetics as the aesthetic equivalent of a regressive, consensus-based politics, Bishop goes on to identify relational antagonism, characterized by relations of dissent, friction, unease, instability, confrontation, and the like , as the aesthetic equivalent to the politics of antagonism.
Why is relational aesthetics important?
Rather than producing objects for individual aesthetic contemplation, Relational artists attempt to produce new human relationships through collective experiences. These practices have their roots in earlier art movements, namely Dada, Conceptual art, Fluxus, and Allan Kaprow’s “Happenings.”
What is participatory and relational art?
Participatory Arts refers to a range of arts practice, including Relational Aesthetics, where emphasis is placed on the role of the viewer or spectator in the physical or conceptual realisation and reception of the artwork.