Curator, art critic, and scholar. Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (1998/English version 2002) and Postproduction (2001). 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. Bourriad co-founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, together with Jérôme Sans, and was the Gulbenkian curator of contemporary art from 2008-2010 at London’s Tate Britain. He currated the fourth Tate Triennial there, entitled Altermodern.
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