Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator and essayist based in Athens and Paris. He has developed “Collective Exhibition for a Single Body-The documenta 14 Score” (catalog Museumcultuur Strombeek Gent, 2019) of which he recently presented a new version “The Private Score” in Vienna at Haus Wittgenstein and Lidl supermarket in a co-production by Kontakt Collection andTanzquartierWien. A new performance of “The Private Score” (M Museum catalog to be published) will take place in November 2019 during the Playground Festival organized in Leuven, Belgium with the M Museum preceded by the exhibition “Collective Exhibition for a Single Body, The Private Score” at gb agency in Paris in October 2019.
He was curator for documenta 14 from 2015 to 2017 in Athens and Kassel under the artistic directorship of Adam Szymczyk. “Der Canaletto Blick-The Canaletto View” (Walther König catalog to be published) is an art commission program on the relations between art and capital produced for the Bank Erste Group Bank AG and the Kontakt collection, Vienna. “Soleil Politique”, is a collective exhibition produced for the Museion in Bolzano, Italy. He has been director of the CAC Brétigny in the Paris suburb where he developed from 2003 to 2014 “Project Phalanstère” (catalog Sternberg Press, 2017), a series of art works designed according to this environment and the bene t of his activity that proposes to rethink the logic of accumulation proper to the collection.