Claire Le Restif

Claire Le Restif is an art historian, curator and director of the Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac since 2003. In 2008, she created Royal Garden, an online curatorial project on the Crédac website. Then, in 2011, she moved Crédac to the Manufacture des Œillets in Ivry-sur-Seine, where it set up a space dedicated to video and a research residency. She organised the first solo exhibitions in France of work by Leonor Antunes, Liz Magor, Ana Jotta, Friedrich Kunath, Bojan Šarčević, Alexandra Bircken and Caroline Bachmann. She has curated the Altadis Prize in Madrid and Paris (2005), the Pernod Ricard Corporate Foundation Prize (2019), the 7th edition of Paris internationale (2020) and the exhibition L'Âme primitive at the Musée Zadkine in Paris with Jeanne Brun (2021). Since 2002, she has organised a number of exhibitions abroad, including at the Smack Mellon Center in Brooklyn, the Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal in Basel, the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Madrid and the Attitudes art centre in Geneva. Between 2015 and 2020, she will be an associate professor at Sorbonne University for the Master's degree 'Contemporary art and its exhibition'. In 2021, she will curate the exhibition Dead Soul Whisper (1986-1993) devoted to Derek Jarman, and in 2022 she will co-sign the exhibition La Fugitive with Ana Mendoza Aldana, presented at Crédac as part of the Festival d'Automne.