Guillaume Désanges is curator and art critic,
founder of Work Method, a Paris based agency for curatorial projects.
He coordinated the
artistic projects of Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers between 2001 and 2007. He
organized the exhibitions "Pick-Up" at Public, Paris 2004 and STUK,
Leuven (Belgium), 2008, "Untouchable, The transparency Ideal" at
Villa Arson, Nice and Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, in 2006-2007,
"Jiri Kovanda Vs rest of the World" at gallery gb agency, Paris, at De
Appel (Amsterdam), Centre d’Art Santa Monica (Barcelone), Prague City Gallery -
House of Photography (2014)"Child’s Play", Biennale Periferic, (Iasi,
Rumania), Nam June Paik Center (South Korea), "Michel François, Plans for
escape" at SMAK (Belgium), "Erre" at the Centre Pompidou-Metz,
"2001-2011 : Suddenly-Yet"at the French National School Gallery
and "Amazing ! Clever ! Linguistic !, An Adventure in
Conceptual Art" (Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria, 2013). In 2007-2008,
he is invited curator at Centre d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie and in 2009-2011
at the art centre le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, in Paris, for a series of
shows called "Concrete Erudition".
He developed several
performed conference projects shown internationally like "A History of
Performance in 20 Minutes" "Vox Artisti, his Masters’ Voice",
"Signs and Wonders". In 2013 he is co-curator with the artist Michel
François for the exhibition "Une exposition Universelle" for the
Biennal of Louvain La Neuve.
Since 2013, he is the
curator of La Verrière (Hermès Foundation, Brussels) with a cycle of exhibitions
titled "Gestures of the Mind". He teaches at Paris Sorbonne
University.
The residency of
Guillaume Désanges is co-organised with the SVIT Gallery
http://www.guillaumedesanges.com