Agnès Violeau
Agnès Violeau is a Paris-based independent curator, writer, and ICOM member whose curatorial research focuses on exhibition-making as a reflective social practice. Her recent projects include Make Me Room, second-hand exhibition (2023, ENSP Arles), The Real Show (2020–22, CAC Brétigny, Sandwich Bucharest), and Wax Figures (2021, MAC Lyon). Other notable exhibitions include Language is a Skin (2020, Frac Lorraine) and Novlangue (2018–2019, Jeu de Paume).
Violeau co-directs the art and literature magazine j’aime beaucoup ce que vous faites and recently published Pratiquer l’exposition, une écologie (2024, Mix. Editions), exploring eco-curating and social pathways. She is active in various juries and advisory boards, continuing to explore curatorial practices and their societal impacts.
"RAD was a unique experience as gathering a wide range of international voices on actual topics such as, on my hand, our relationship to spectacle and materiality. The fair was the occasion to bring a new and multiple gaze on urgent matters that I, based in a western scene, frequently discuss in a capitalist context. I enjoyed being part of RAD that gave a place for sharing expertises, and discuss modalities to think eco-curation in the future. The dialogues in the panels enlightened how much the social, the environmental and the economical are common actors of the art market." Agnès Violeau - RAD Curatorial 2024