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Grégory Castéra

Grégory Castéra (he/him) is a curator, an educator, a director and an institution advisor working in the field of contemporary art. He works at the intersection of curating, artistic research and institution development.

He is currently curator-at-large and chief of «Learning from the Commons» at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels). As an advisor, he works with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris and Lisbon), the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), and Kerenidis Pepe (Paris and Anafi). His last essay, «Of Attentional Environments (The Pearl Necklace)» has just been published by Valiz in the anthology Sensing Earth.

Before this, Castéra was director of Council, a curatorial office for art and society that he founded together with Sandra Terdjman. They are still involved in one of Council’s projects, Afield, a translocal network of artist-led social initiatives, that continues to grow independently. From 2019 to 2022, he was guest professor of collective practices at the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm. From 2010 to 2012, he served as co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research situated in the outskirts of Paris, together with Alice Chauchat and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. From 2007 to 2009 he was coordinator and educator at Bétonsalon, a center for art and research located in the new 13th’s ‘city university’ in Paris. From 2007 to 2014, with the collective L’Encyclopédie de la parole, he created an online encyclopedia and several productions exploring the spoken word in all its forms.

Grégory Castéra has worked with artists such as Agency, Tarek Atoui, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Eglė Budvytytė, Jennifer Lacey, Franck Leibovici, Mobile Akademie Berlin, Carlos Motta, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Marjetica Potrč, Zhou Tao and Akram Zaatari. Among projects that he has curated and co-curated are The Against Nature Journal (2020-2022); Shoreline Movements at Taipei Biennial (2020); Collectively at Iaspis (2019); Infinite Ear at Sharjah Biennial (2013), Bergen Assembly (2016), Garage Museum (2018) and CentroCentro (2019-2020); Foreign Places at Wiels (2016); The Manufacturing of Rights at Ashkal Alwan (2015); On Ordinary Narratives at Villa Arson (2014); and Playtime at Betonsalon (2008, 2009).