The world of museums is preparing to celebrate a double anniversary: the forty years of the Musée d'Orsay in 2026, followed by the centenary of the Musée de l'Orangerie in 2027. These highlights of Parisian cultural life will revolve around the hundredth anniversary of the death of the painter Claude Monet, December 5, 1926.
“These birthdays will be great collective meetingsdeclared Sylvain Amic, president of the Public Establishment of the Orsay Museum and the Orangerie Museum – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (EPMO). I hope that they will permeate the life of our museums and stand out for their ambition. Also, I am delighted that Sylvie Patry is joining the Establishment to build, in conjunction with all the departments and their teams, the program for the upcoming celebrations. With an international background and experience combining 19th century Art and the creation of our time, she will put her expertise, her intimate knowledge and her passion for our museums, as well as her openness to all artistic and cultural expressions. » Its ability to implement ambitious projects in partnership with major international public and private institutions will be a strong asset for the success of these celebrations, adds the museum.
The program of festivities, which will be revealed later, should combine “popular meetings, artistic commissions, exhibitions, events, new routes, combining both a look back at history and a projection into the futureindicates the public establishment. New partnerships will make it possible to share these festive moments both in the capital and in the region, on a national and international scale. »
After studying philosophy and art history at the Sorbonne University, Sylvie Patry was a student at the Institut national du Patrimoine (Paris) and the Center for Curatorial Leadership (New York). Art historian, specialist in painting from the second half of the 19th century, more precisely impressionism and post-impressionism, Sylvie Patry is a world-renowned museum professional.
Before being appointed director of conservation and collections at the Musée d'Orsay in July 2017, she was deputy director and chief curator of collections, exhibitions, publications and archives at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, United States. . This international experience followed ten years spent at the Musée d'Orsay as curator, then chief curator, and before that, to curatorial missions at the National Institute of Art History (Paris), at the Gustave Moreau Museum (Paris) and at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
She has curated more than twenty international exhibitions, including the major retrospective “Monet” (from September 22, 2010 to January 24, 2011) at the Grand Palais and “Paris 1874. Inventing Impressionism” (from March 26 to July 14, 2024) at the Musée d'Orsay. At the same time, throughout her career in France and abroad, she published and taught 19th century art, the history of the Musée d'Orsay and its collections.
Sylvie Patry joined Kamel Mennour as artistic director of the gallery in December 2022. She created the Mennour Institute there to develop educational, scientific and philanthropic programs. She notably accompanied projects by Daniel Buren and Dhewadi Hadjab, and signed the first exhibition dedicated to the Parisian years of the artist Huguette Caland (1970-1987).
