Jérôme Sans

Jérôme Sans (born 1960) is a director of contemporary arts institutions, critic and curator, living in Paris and Beijing.

Jérôme Sans is a non-traditional curator, a cultural agitator who has pioneered new ways to approach and discuss contemporary art. As one of the most unconventional, creative curators of his generation, Jérôme Sans is known for an idiosyncratic and pioneering approach to the presentation, discussion and exhibition of contemporary art.

He has curated numerous majors exhibitions around the world. Internationally renown for reinventing himself and building new models for institutions. Jérôme Sans was the former director of the ground breaking Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing and co-founder of the acclaimed Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Between 2006 and 2013, Jérôme Sans was also the Global Cultural Curator for Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts ; and, in 2012, he created the French cultural magazine L’Officiel Art as creative director and editor-in-chief.

He is currently Artistic director of one of the most important urban development projects in Europe, the Lyon « Rives de Saône-River Movie », and has been named recently as co-artistic director to the Grand Paris Express project - France's largest urban redefinition through culture initiative since Haussmann. He is also the co-founder of Perfect Crossovers ltd, a Beijing-based cultural consultancy group, providing leading artistic directions and services destined for foundations, museums, collections, brands and creators, focused on the visionary connection between Asia and the rest of the world. Jérôme Sans remains on the advisory board for UCCA, as well as a member of the committee of Sam Art Projects foundation in Paris.

Jérôme Sans began his career in the early '80s as one of the first independent curators in Europe, aiming to rethink the question of the contemporary art exhibition through an engagement with young emerging artists. With the aim of relocating the artwork into the real, Jerome Sans devised “pop up” exhibitions, such as: "Fictions", taking place in Mirabel International Airport (Montreal) in 1989; "Escales "in the rural and coastal landscape from the Côtes-d’Armor (France) in 1991; "On the Road - between Besançon and Belfort" in 1994, an exhibition visible from the train, the road and the river; "Infrasound" in 1995 in Munich, taking place in several public spaces delivering sound to diffuse contemporary art sound pieces. In 1993, with "Before The Sound of The Beep", he invites a dozen of artists to create sound works diffused through the dial tones of contemporary art galleries in the Marais, during the summer holidays. "Shopping" was first presented in Bordeaux (1995) where it was produced by the CAPC, and then relocated to New York (1996), to be produced by Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. There, it involved various commercial locations in SoHo, a district that at the time was significantly undergoing cultural change. "Street Life" in 1999 invested 7 “shotgun houses”, developed in collaboration with Project Row Houses in Houston. "Wide Screen" exhibition in 2000 presented video works within the streets of seven cities in Japan.

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