Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel

Chief curator
2nd Riga Biennale, Latvia

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel is a French curator and writer, deputy director of the Foundation Lafayette Anticipations and former curator at Palais de Tokyo (2012 - 2019). Her internationally acclaimed projects include the solo exhibitions of Tomás Saraceno, Tino Sehgal, Marguerite Humeau, Ed Atkins, David Douard, Helen Marten, François Curlet and Jon Rafman. ON AIR by Tomás Saraceno (2018-2019) spanned the entire 13000m2 of the Palais de Tokyo and became the most attended exhibition in its history, while the carte blanche to Tino Sehgal (2016) was the largest live-art show ever presented worldwide. In 2015 she curated the group show Le Bord des Mondes (At the Edge of Worlds), which focused on the limits of the territories of art after the writings of Marcel Duchamp. In 2020, she served as chief curator for the 2nd Riga Biennale (RIBOCA2).

Lamarche-Vadel has regularly collaborated with international institutions, such as the Château de Versailles with Voyage d’Hiver (co-curator, 2017), the 11th Bamako Biennale (curatorial advisory, 2017-2018), MoMA PS1 with the projects Truce (2013) and Bright Intervals (2014), the Stedelijk Museum and Trouw with Landscape (2013), and the 12th Biennale de Lyon with Unachieved Presents (Resonance, 2013). A graduate in History, Political Sciences and Art History at the Sorbonne, she regularly coordinates and participates in seminars, juries and talks worldwide, and her writings have appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Monopol, Mousse, Cura, and l’Officiel Art, amongst others.

Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel visited Vienna for a curatorial research trip in 2019 in her role as Chief curator for RIBOCA2.

Rebecca Lamarche–Vadel. Photo: Courtesy of the curator