Simon Castets (b. Caen, France, 1984) is a French-American curator serving as the Director of Strategic Initiatives of LUMA Arles, France since 2022. From 2013 to 2021, he was Director of

Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art New York (SI) is an independent non-profit contemporary art organization founded in 1986. SI is located at 38 St. Marks Place, at the corner of Second Avenue, in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in ...

, then its Executive Chair through 2022, and continues to serve on its Board as a Trustee.

Career

In addition to projects and exhibitions at LUMA Arles and Swiss Institute, recent curatorial work includes the 2018 Samdani Art Award for the

Dhaka Art Summit Dhaka Art Summit is an art summit held in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organised by Samdani Art Foundation, a non- profit art infrastructure development organisation founded by Nadia Samdani and Rajeeb Samdani in 2011. About The summit displays ...

; ''Americans 2017'' at

LUMA Foundation LUMA Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 2004 that is based out of Zurich, Switzerland. It supports the activities of independent contemporary artists and other pioneers working in the fields of art, photography, publishing, doc ...

, Zurich, together with

Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is a Swiss art curator, critic, and art historian. He is artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries, London. Obrist is the author of ''The Interview Project'', an extensive ongoing project of interviews. He is ...

(2017, as a part of 89plus, a research project they co-founded in 2013); ''Rachel Rose'' at

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, (2016); ''Poetry will be made by all!'' at LUMA Foundation and

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, Stockholm, also with

(2014); and ''Champs Elysées'' at

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, Paris, with Julie Boukobza and Nicola Trezzi (2013). Following the 2013

Digital Life Design Digital Life Design (DLD) is a global conference network, organized by Munich-based DLD Media, a company of Hubert Burda Media. In 2005, Stephanie Czerny founded DLD as an annual conference scheme. The main purpose of DLD is to bring together bus ...

conference, Castets and Obrist launched 89plus, a research project that seeks to foster and bring together artists born in, or after, 1989. Castets also regularly contributes to catalogues and periodicals and frequently participates in panels and juries internationally. Under the leadership of

Daniel Birnbaum Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art curator and an art critic. Since 2019, he has been director and curator of Acute Art in London, UK. Early life and education Birnbaum studied at Stockholm University, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Col ...

, he served on the jury for the 2017 Absolut Art Award, which was given to

Anne Imhof Anne Imhof (born 1978 in Giessen, Germany) is a German visual artist, choreographer, and performance artist who lives and works between Frankfurt and Paris. She is best known for her endurance art, although she cites painting as central to her pr ...

and Huey Copeland.Anne Imhof and Huey Copeland Win 2017 Absolut Awards
''

Artforum ''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ × 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably ...

'', 12 May 2017.

Publications

SInce 1986 by Simon Castets (Editor, Author), Karen Marta (Editor), Mary Staniszewski (Author), Laura McLean-Ferris (Author) Co-published with Swiss Institute and Koenig Books, London, 2019. Jeremy Shaw Christine Macel (Editor) and Simon Castets (Editor). With contributions by Simon Castets, Nora M. Khan, Christine Macel, Laura McLean-Ferris and Monika Szewczyk. Published by

Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

, Paris and Swiss Institute, New York, 2020. PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home Texts by Carson Chan, Trish Goff, Marc Matchak, Shawn Maximo. Felix Burrichter (Editor), Simon Castets (Editor), Karen Marta (Editor). Published by Swiss Institute / Karma, New York. David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979 Karen Marta (Editor), Simon Castets (Editor). Text by Douglas Fogle, Urs Lüthi, Hans Ulrich Obrist, David Weiss. Published by Swiss Institute / Karma, New York. The St. Petersburg Paradox Karen Marta (Editor), Simon Castets (Editor). Text by Ericka Beckman, A.E. Benenson, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Brandt, Vitalik Buterin, Alex Mackin Dolan, Hugh Scott Douglas, Cooper Francis, Sam Frank, Konstantin Genin, Remco Heesen, Nicolas Langlitz, Scott Lyall, Tabor Robak, Ben Schumacher, Emily Segal, Amalia Ulman, Douglas Wilson, Eric Zimmerman. Published by Swiss Institute / Karma, New York. Heidi Bucher Karen Marta (Editor), Simon Castets (Editor). Text by Indigo Bucher, Mayo Bucher, Bice Curiger, Heike Munder, Beatrix Ruf, Christian Scheidemann, Philip Ursprung. Published by Swiss Institute / Karma, New York. Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present Karen Marta (Editor), Simon Castets (Editor). Text by Joe Fyfe, Amelia Groom, William Hanley, Adam Szymczyk. Published by Swiss Institute /

Kunsthalle Basel Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre ...

/ Karma, New York.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Castets, Simon 1984 births Writers from Caen Living people French art curators Columbia University alumni