“Gardens and Museums,” a lecture by Laurent Le Bon and Marc Jeanson
Laurent Le Bon, © Centre Pompidou – Didier Plowy
Marc Jeanson, photo : Anne- Emmanuelle Thion
As Marc Jeanson was unable to attend on the day of the conference, it was led solely by Laurent Le Bon.
Laurent Le Bon and Marc Jeanson, co-curators of the “Gardens” exhibition at the Grand Palais in 2017 and the “CACTUS” exhibition currently on display at the Villa Sauber, will draw on their diverse experiences of exhibiting gardens in museum spaces to highlight the challenges, limitations, and contradictions involved.
Laurent Le Bon, general curator of heritage, was in charge of public commissions at the Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Delegation for the Visual Arts and then, from 2000 to 2010, curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou. He has curated some fifty exhibitions and authored related publications, notably “Dada” at the Centre Pompidou (2005-2006), “Jeff Koons Versailles” at the château de Versailles (2008), “Jardins” at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (2017), “Dioramas” at the Palais de Tokyo (2017), and “Picasso. Blue and Pink” at the Musée d’Orsay (2018-2019). From 2008 to 2014, he directed the Centre Pompidou-Metz, where he curated the exhibitions “Masterpieces? “ and ”1917.” From June 2014 to July 2021, he was president of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. On July 19, 2021, he became president of the Centre Pompidou, succeeding Serge Lasvignes.
Marc Jeanson is an agricultural engineer, holds a PhD in plant systematics from the New York Botanical Garden, and is a botanist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where he was head of the Herbarium until 2019. Thanks to his extensive field experience on different continents, he has a deep knowledge of tropical flora and frequently collaborates with various players in the gardening world. From 2019 to 2023, he is the botanical director of the Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech. He has curated various exhibitions dedicated to the plant world or gardens, such as “Jardins” at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris (2017) and “Végétal – L’école de la beauté“ at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2022). Marc Jeanson is also the author of various scientific publications and books for the general public, such as ”Botaniste” published by Grasset in 2019 with Charlotte Fauve.
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