27/8/24 – Nominations – Grenoble, Fécamp and Nice – We are continuing our series of brief articles devoted to recent appointments at the head of French museums and are interested in the Museum of Grenoble, the Fisheries-Museum of Fécamp and the Matisse Museum of Nice which have welcomed three new directors in recent months.
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- 1. Sebastien Gokalp
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Sébastien Gokalp took over as director of the Musée de Grenoble last January following the retirement of Guy Tosatto, who had been working there for just over twenty years. A former associate professor of history and a graduate of the Beaux-Arts, Sébastien Gokalp worked at the Centre Pompidou for six years before becoming a heritage curator in 2007. A graduate of the Institut National du Patrimoine, he held his first position at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris before joining the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2017 and then the Musée national de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in 2019. Alongside these positions, which saw him embrace collections of modern art, contemporary art, history and society, he continued teaching, giving courses in the history of contemporary art at the Ecole du Louvre and then in museography at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. At the age of fifty-three, he is leaving Paris today to take charge of one of the most important French public collections, renowned as much for its modern and contemporary collection as for ancient art. In addition to continuing the diligent policy of studying and promoting these collections – as recently demonstrated by the exemplary exhibition on the Grenoble school (see the article) and before it by those attached to its prestigious cabinet of drawings (see the articles devoted to the Italian, French from the 16th to the 18th century, Nordic and French from the 19th century) – and the remarkable acquisition policy led by his predecessor, illustrated once again by the purchase of an unpublished painting…
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