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4 unusual facts about Nicolas Bourriaud


Christopher Sperandio

Grennan and Sperandio were commissioned to make new work for the international contemporary art survey Traffic, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, and their works have often been exhibited with other "Relational Art" practitioners, such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Maurizio Cattelan.

Edward A. Shanken

Following the second concern, he organized and chaired a panel discussion with Nicolas Bourriaud, Peter Weibel and Michael Joaquin Grey at Art Basel in June 2010 (see external link below) and organized and chaired a panel discussion at the College Art Association Annual Conference (CAA) in 2011, the papers of which were published in a special issue of ArtNodes (see links below).

Kate Vrijmoet

In 2011 Vrijmoet’s installation piece “Mother May I…?” was exhibited at the Orange County Center on Contemporary Arts (OCCCA),in a show that was endorsed by Nicolas Bourriaud, who coined the term relational aesthetics Relational art.

Nicolas Bourriaud

He co-founded, and from 1999 to 2006 was co-director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jérôme Sans.


Masoch Fund

Its artistic practice is connected with the tradition of European actionism and Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics”.


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