ECR French Nineteenth-Century Art Network: Curating the Nineteenth Century
23 Nov 1600 (GMT) / 1700 (CET) / 1200 (EST)
This session will look at how the nineteenth century has been curated in exhibitions and permanent gallery spaces. We will be welcoming a range of speakers who have curated a variety of exhibitions and displays on French nineteenth-century artists and topics. We will then have a roundtable discussion on how we can diversify and broaden exhibtions and displays.
Marine Kisiel is the curator in charge of the nineteenth century department at the Palais Galliera, the museum of fashion in Paris. Previously she was the scientific advisor at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris and before then was a curator of paintings at the Musée d’Orsay curating Degas, Danse, Dessin (2017/2018) as well as contributing to the exhibition James Tissot: Ambiguously Modern (2020) amongst others. She completed her doctoral thesis on La peinture impressionniste et la décoration, 1870-1895 at the University of Edinburgh under the direction of Richard Thomson and Bertrand TIllier.
Corrinne Chong is assistant curator at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Previously, she was a member of the curatorial team at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. She holds a special interest in opera scenography and the intersections between art and music in the nineteenth century.
Julien Domercq is an independent curator and art historian. He was previously the Vivmar Curatorial Fellow at the National Gallery, London and curated the show Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell (2018). He was recently the Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European at Dallas Museum of Art and is currently the guest associate curator for the National Gallery, London’s forthcoming exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art. Julien completed his doctoral studies at King’s College, University of Cambridge where his dissertation examined the shifts in European depictions of indigenous people in the Pacific Islands at the end of the 18th century.
Bregje Gerritse is a Researcher at the Van Gogh Museum. She is co-curator of the upcoming Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine exhibition set to open in Chicago in May 2023 and in Amsterdam in October 2023. Bregje curated The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? (2021), and has assisted on several exhibition projects, including Van Gogh & Japan(2018) and On the Verge of Insanity (2016). She is one of the authors of a forthcoming collection catalogue Vincent van Gogh: Paintings 3: Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers. She completed a master’s degree in Museology at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam; her research topic is The Reception of Vincent van Gogh in Paris 1886–1914: Art Dealers, Collectors and Critics.
This is a virtual event - the Zoom link will be sent out on the day. For any issues please get in contact via email and we will try and help as best we can.
The network will meet (roughly) once a month virtually via Zoom. It is open to current PhD and research students as well as ECR's who have recently graduated and are making their way in the world of academia/museums/education/arts or heritage. It is global, open to those located anywhere in the world who wish to join. Feel free to join, participate and we hope to create an engaging, diverse, fun and rewarding community.