Alexia Fabré. Photo credit: Adrien Thibault
The Biennale de Lyon announces this weekend that it is entrusting Alexia Fabre, director of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, with the curating of the 17e Biennale of contemporary art in Lyon in 2024.
the 17the edition of the Biennale de Lyon will take place from September 2024 to January 2025. Alexia Fabre, current director of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and chief heritage curator, will be in charge of curating the event.
Isabelle Bertolotti, director of the Biennale, clarified her choice in a press release: “I am very sensitive to the values that Alexia defends and to her commitment to artists. Its involvement in the dissemination of art on the territory, to a wide audience, both in museums and in urban space is widely recognized.“. The director wanted to salute the work “copy” led by Alexia Fabre at the Val-de-Marne contemporary art museum (MAC VAL), as well as her “involvement in more event-driven projects such as curating two Nuits Blanches in Paris“.
280,000 visitors in 2022
Alexia Fabre was co-curator of the exhibition Moon, from actual travel to travel imaginary at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2019, and guest curator of Manif d’Artthe Biennale de Québec, in 2017. A graduate of the École du Louvre and the Institut national du patrimoine, Alexia Fabre began her career as director of the Gap departmental museum, from 1993 to 1998.
In 2022, the Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, created in 1991, attracted nearly 280,000 visitors (more than half of whom were under 26) to the controlled sites and nearly 15 million people for the works in public space.
