Stéphanie Moisdon

Born in 1967 in Paris, France . Lives and works in Paris et Lausanne.
Art critic and exhibition curator, Stéphanie Moisdon is co-director of Le Consortium, a contemporary art centre in Dijon, and head of the Master's programme in Visual Arts at ECAL – École cantonale d'art de Lausanne.

Co-founder, with Éric Troncy, of Frog magazine, she is a regular contributor to various publications, including Beaux Arts Magazine, Artforum, art press, Purple and Self Service.


In 1994, she founded bdv (bureau des vidéos) with Nicolas Trembley, a distribution and production company for artists' videos. From 1989 to 1996, she worked as an exhibition curator at the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris.


She has organised numerous exhibitions, including: Heimo Zobernig at the Chantal Crousel Gallery (2023); 1984-1997. La décennie, with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2015-2016); Sturtevant Sturtevant at MADRE, Naples (2016); the 9th Lyon Biennale, with Hans Ulrich Obrist (2007); Manifesta 4, European biennial of contemporary art in Frankfurt (2001); the group exhibition ZAC 99, with Nicolas Trembley, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999); and Présumés innocents, with Marie-Laure Bernadac, at the CAPC in Bordeaux (2000).

 

Since 2006, she has curated solo and group exhibitions for Le Consortium, including: Diego Marcon (2026), Peter Wächtler (2025), Alain Guiraudie (2023), Ernst Yoji Jaegger (2023), Julien Ceccaldi (2023), Sergej Jensen (2022), Heji Shin (2021), Nick Relph (2020), Mathieu Malouf (2019), Nicolas Ceccaldi (2018), David Hominal (2017), Willem de Rooij (2016), John Armleder (2015), Trisha Donnelly (2014), Richard Hawkins (2014). She also designs thematic exhibitions such as THEY, histoire et figures de la jeunesse (2023), Le monde comme volonté et comme papier peint (2012), adapted from Michel Houellebecq's novel La carte et le territoire, and Before the End, co-directed with Olivier Mosset (2006).


Since 2006, she has been running an alternative, travelling school, ‘L'École de Stéphanie’, hosted by various institutions in Paris, Turin, Biel, Berlin and Toulouse.
She is the author of several monographs, including: Wade Guyton: Five Paintings 2013-2015 (published by the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris); Heimo Zobernig (Galerie Chantal Crousel / Les Presses du réel, 2023); Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (Les Presses du réel, 2023); Jean-Luc Verna, Les Roches Noires (Flammarion, 2017); Marnie Weber (CNAC / Les Presses du réel, 2011); Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Hazan, 2002). She also published Stéphanie Moisdon, an anthology of her critical writings, with Les Presses du réel – JRP|Ringier (2007).


 

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