Affiliated Researcher to the Centre for History at Sciences Po (CHSP)

Member of AICA, SHAF, ADHC.

Academic Background

1981: Degree in Science. Sciences Po Paris, public service section.
1982: Bachelor's degree in Law, University of Paris II.
1983: DESS Sciences Po. Paris, ‘Employment and Corporate Social Development’.
2012: Doctorate in Contemporary Art History, University of Picardie, Jules Verne / Centre for
Research in Arts, ‘Images and Forms’.
2013-2016: Research Associate at IHTP.

Research areas

Temporary exhibitions at the heart of the media dimension of contemporary social history: temporary exhibitions and their curators, developments since 1945.
Contemporary art in France and Italy: transculturality, mobility of Italian artists, history of museum institutions.
History of changes in the world of modern and contemporary art museums, folk art and art brut since the end of the Second World War.
Since 2025: member of the RAMHO consortium (RAMHO-Recherche et Acoustique Musicales en France: une histoire orale project), a project selected by the ANR following its call for generic projects.

Since 2022: scientific coordinator of the seminar of the Ministry of Culture's history committee: ‘The first fifty years of the Centre Georges-Pompidou: assessments and perspectives’.

At CHSP: contributes to the Arts and Societies Seminar Newsletter.

Selective bibliography

Books

2020 - Paroles de commissaires – Histoires. Institutions. Pratiques. Dijon, Presses du Réel. "An investigation into the history of temporary exhibitions, through a series of interviews with 38 curators.
2014 - Réinventer le musée, François Mathey, un précurseur méconnu (1953-1985) (Reinventing the museum, François Mathey, a little-known pioneer (1953-1985)), Dijon, Presses du Réel, 2014.

Contributions to collective works

‘Fifty Years of Promoting Icons (1967-2017)’ in Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Laurent Gervereau (eds.), Does Art Brut Exist? Lienart, March 2019, pp. 188-193.
"Curators' Words. Temporary exhibitions of Art Brut since 1967,‘ in Vincent Capt, Sarah Lombardi and Jérôme Meizoz (eds.), L’Art Brut – Actualité et enjeux critiques, Lausanne, Éd. Antipodes & Collection de l’Art Brut, coll. ’Littérature, culture, société," 2017, pp. 157-170.
“François Mathey at the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs,” in Agnès Callu (ed.), Autopsie du musée. Études de cas (1880–2010), Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 2016, pp. 65–75.

Recent articles

‘I am a migratory bird. At the frontiers of art: Arsen Pohribný,’ Revue Création Franche no. 62, June 2025, pp. 36-46.
‘Italian paintings and drawings exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux (1952-2015),’ Artitalies no. 30, December 2024, pp. 170-178.
‘The origins of Italian irregular art in the collections of the Musée de la Création Franche in Bègles: an article-interview with Dino Menozzi,’ Création Franche no. 61, December 2024, pp. 46-55.
‘The genesis of the CCI,’ Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 170 special issue ‘CCI, 1969-1992,’ winter 2024-2025, pp. 12-20.
‘Resolutely without collections,’ an interview with François Barré, Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 170 special issue ‘CCI, 1969-1992,’ winter 2024-2025, pp. 21-22.
“An experience at Brera: tribute to Franco Russoli (1977–1978),” Artiltalies no. 29, pp. 71–79, November 2023.
‘François Mathey and his team, or the little-known work of the creators of the CCI at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD)’, @Problemata, no. 1, April 2022.
‘Lucienne Peiry, or the expansion of the field of Art Brut’, Création Franche, no. 44, June 2016, pp. 10-17.
‘The work of François Mathey through the lens of three art critics,’ Critique d'art, no. 42, 2014, pp. 142-165, bilingual version (French, English), May 2015.

Interviews published in 2024: https://aicafrance.org/author/brigitte-gilardet/

Working papers on HAL SHS

- ‘The reception of Mario Ceroli's work in France and Italy. Sixty years between celebration and oblivion (1964-2024)’, November 2025.
- ‘A look back at the birth of the Louvre Lens’, December 2024.

Latest communications and presentations at study days, conferences and symposiums

-Participation in the round table discussion, ‘Art brut and its heritage status’, during L'Argument de Rouen #4: The museum and its controversies. The place of alternative cultures in institutions, an event organised by the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, the Réunion des musées métropolitains Rouen-Normandie (RMM) and the Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), 5 February 2020.
- ‘Fifty years of promoting icons (1967-2017)’, symposium Does outsider art exist? organised by the Musée Maison John et Eugénie Bost, La Force, 25, 26 and 27 March 2019.