Donatien Grau

Musée du Louvre, Paris
Head of Contemporary Programmes

Donatien Grau serves as Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Prior to this, he was Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France, where he worked from 2018 to 2022. He served as advisor to Azzedine Alaïa for the couturier's not-for-profit exhibition space, the Galerie, from 2014 to 2017, where he spearheaded a wide programme of exhibitions and publications, such as Adonis, 2015, Jean Nouvel/Claude Parent, 2016, and Richard Wentworth 2017. He curated the inaugural exhibition of the reopening of the Getty Villa, Malibu -Plato in L. A. (2018). He also works as editor-at-large of Purple Fashion Magazine and The Brooklyn Rail, and has published widely on the arts and culture of the Roman Empire, on 19th and 20th literary and art history, as well as on contemporary art and culture. Recent publications include: The Transitory Museum with Emanuele Coccia (2018), Ways of Re-Thinking Literature with Tom Bishop (2018), After the Crisis, Contemporary States of Photography, with Christoph Wiesner (2019), Taking Time with Azzedine Alaïa (2020), Living Museums (2020), and Under Discussion. The Encyclopedic Museum (2021). In 2014, Grau was selected amongst the 40 under 40 in Europe by Apollo Magazine. In April 2023, Grau will become Editor-in-Chief and Artistic Director of the newly-founded Alphabet Magazine.

Donatien Grau was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2018 when he was Head of Contemporary Programmes at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

Donatien Grau. Photo: Paolo Roversi.