Artistic Committee

  • Alexandra Baudelot, Director of the Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours
  • Hervé Digne, Co-founder and President, Managing Partner of Manifesto Middle East
  • Anissa Touati, French independent curator specialising in the art scenes of the Global South
  • Eugenio Viola, Director of the Museo Madre, Naples

 

Board of Directors 

  • Thibault Bastin
  • Caroline Mierop
  • Hervé Digne
Alexandra Baudelot

Alexandra Baudelot

Alexandra Baudelot is a curator, art critic and publisher. As director of the CCC OD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré in Tours, she envisions the institution as a living ecosystem, open to its territories and welcoming to all.
In 2009, she founded ROSASCAPE in Paris, an independent art space set in an apartment. Until 2013, she worked there with artists such as Katinka Bock, Ulla von Brandenburg, Camille Henrot, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, and Berger&Berger. From 2013 to 2018, she co-directed Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers with Dora García and Mathilde Villeneuve. She went on to serve as artistic director of the Fondation Fiminco in Romainville (2019), then led artistic development and audience engagement at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva (2022). Between 2023 and 2025, she headed the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis (MACS MTO) in Chatou.
Her independent curatorial work includes collaborations with the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo, the Bourse de Commerce and The Power Plant (Toronto). She writes for publications such as e-flux and AOC média, and chairs Figure Project, an association supporting the work of choreographer Latifa Laâbissi.

Hervé Digne

Hervé Digne

Hervé Digne has devoted his career to the cultural and creative industries. A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and the ENA, he first held senior management positions at Hachette and then in Lagardère’s media division. He went on to serve as media adviser to Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and contributed to the launch of France 24.
In 2003, he founded Postmedia Finance, through which he has led numerous advisory assignments for organisations across the sector. Active in the film industry, he headed Cofiloisirs, a specialist financing institution (2012-2019), and has been a director of UGC since 2014.
His commitment to the arts has taken many forms. He presided over the Forum d’Avignon, of which he was a co-founder, as well as the Collection Lambert. He established the Cercle de l’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, of which he remains Honorary President. He currently chairs the board of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. In 2015, together with Laure Confavreux-Colliex, he launched Manifesto, followed in 2020 by POUSH, Europe’s leading artist residency, which he heads. Deeply attached to Provence, his native region, he is Vice-President of the Festival du dessin in Arles. He also serves on the supervisory board of the Fonds Bustamante.
He is a Knight of the Legion of Honour, an Officer of the National Order of Merit and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.

Anissa Touati

Anissa Touati

Anissa Touati is a transnational curator and researcher at Brown University (USA), where she develops the notion of “Entangled Legacies of Space.” She is currently curator of the Biennale BCK 2026 in Rhodes, Greece. Most recently, she served as guest curator at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva (2023–2024), curator-at-large of Paris Internationale (2020–2023), and artistic director of Contemporary Istanbul (2018–2019), where she introduced the concept of “Mediterraneanism.” Over the past decade, she has served as artistic director and has curated, co-curated, or advised exhibitions and projects worldwide, including ARCO Madrid (Spain); Asia Now (France); BEMA Museum (Lebanon); Broad Museum (USA); Chalet Society (France); Kochi Biennale (India); RAK Art Foundation (Bahrain); and Thalie Foundation (Belgium), among others. She has lectured at institutions including Harvard GSD (Boston), MIT (Boston), and the University of Zürich (Switzerland).

Eugenio Viola

Eugenio Viola

Eugenio Viola is an Italian curator, art historian and writer whose research and exhibitions have left a lasting mark on contemporary art in Europe, Latin America and Oceania. He was recently appointed Director of Madre - Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples, where he had held several curatorial positions between 2009 and 2016.
From 2019 to 2026, he was Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO). Under his leadership, the museum presented more than fifty exhibitions and gained significant international standing. In 2025-2026, he served as General Curator of the 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala. He was previously Senior Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (2017-2019).
At the Venice Biennale, he curated the Estonian Pavilion in 2015 and the Italian Pavilion in 2022, the first in its history devoted to a single artist. In total, he has organised over one hundred exhibitions worldwide.
A leading scholar of performance art, he has authored more than sixty publications. He contributes regularly to Artforum and is a member of IKT and CIMAM. In 2025, he was included in ArtReview’s Power 100.