Museums and transgression

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Emma Lavigne, Head of the Pinault Collection – General Curator, Paris Manuel Segade, Director Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Moderator: Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, Co-curators Art Basel Paris Conversations
The artistic avant-garde has never ceased to transgress the rules of the institutional game, whether to transform them or to expose their limits. From Pontus Hultén’s ambition to create a museum without walls with the Centre Pompidou, to Andrea Fraser’s parody of the museum as a site of artistic genius, institutions have been torn apart from both within and without. What is the relationship between museums and transgression? What is the outcome of 20th-century experimentation? Can the museum be the nucleus of subversion against conservative forces? 

Emma Lavigne has been the general curator and general director of the Pinault Collection since November 2021. Trained as an art historian, Emma Lavigne earned her degrees in history, art history, and the history of architecture at the Sorbonne and the École du Louvre. She served as a curator at the Cité de la Musique and then the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou before being appointed director of the Centre Pompidou – Metz in 2014 and president of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2019. She has organized over a hundred exhibitions and curated more than 50, in France and abroad, including solo exhibitions of the work of Pierre Huyghe and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster at the Centre Pompidou; Christian Marclay at the Cité de la Musique; Andy Warhol at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Kimsooja at the Centre Pompidou-Metz; and Anne Imhof and Miriam Cahn at the Palais de Tokyo; as well as thematic exhibitions such as ‘Danser sa vie’ at the Centre Pompidou, and ‘Jardin Infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie’ and ‘Couples modernes’ in Metz. She curated Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s exhibition at the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, as well as the exhibition ‘Mondes flottants’ at the Lyon Biennale in 2017. As the director of the collection and programming at the Pinault Collection, she has curated exhibitions in Paris and Venice, including ‘Une seconde d’éternité’, ‘Avant l’orage’, ‘Icônes’, ‘Anri Sala’, and ‘Tacita Dean’. 
Manuel Segade is the director of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He trained as an art historian and led the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in the Madrid municipality of Móstoles for 10 years, receiving the CIMAM Outstanding Museum Practice Award in 2021. Segade has taught on postgraduate curatorial programs and has authored and edited numerous books, including Elements of Vogue (2020), Kiss My Genders (2019) and Endgame. Duchamp, Chess and the Avant-Garde (2016). He is a founding member of the European Art Assembly and the European Forum for Advanced Practices. Segade curated the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. 
 
 
The Art Basel Paris 2024 Conversations program is curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.

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