Nicolas Bourriaud

The French curator and critic on founding Montpellier Contemporain, the future of institutions and why museums will become editorial platforms

Should art explain, solve or soothe? In ‘The Seventh Continent’, answers are thin on the ground

‘In this era of social violence and the return of the irrational, has the interhuman sphere become, paradoxically, obsolete?’

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At La Panacée, Montpellier, Nicolas Bourriaud’s manifesto for a new movement and attempt to demarcate an artistic peer group

Nicolas Trembley's essential texts on the '90s networked tendency

Tate Britain, London, UK

Curator Nicolas Bourriaud talks botany, modernity, time, class and exhibition-making

frieze asks curators, artists and writers to list the books that have influenced them