Grégory Castéra (he/him) works in the field of contemporary art at the intersection of curating, research, and institution development. Born in Fréjus, France, in 1981, into a French-Italian family, he currently lives between Brussels-Les Marolles and Paris-Goutte d’or.
He is currently curator-at-large and chief of “Learning from the Commons” at KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels). As an advisor, he works with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Paris and Lisbon), the Jan van Eyck Academie (Maastricht), and Kerenidis Pepe (Paris and Anafi). His latest essay, “Of Attentional Environments (The Pearl Necklace),” was published in 2023 by Valiz in the anthology Sensing Earth (.pdf in Creative Commons).
2023 marked the 10th anniversary and the closing of Council, a curatorial office for art and society that he founded together with Sandra Terdjman. They developed long-term collaborative programs on social and environmental concerns connecting different localities internationally. They are still involved in one of Council’s projects, Afield, a translocal network of artist-led social initiatives, that continues to grow independently.
Before this, Castéra was a guest professor of collective practices at the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm (2019-2022). From 2010 to 2012, he served as co-director of Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, a center for artistic research situated in the outskirts of Paris, together with Alice Chauchat and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. From 2007 to 2009, he was a coordinator and educator at Bétonsalon, a center for art and research located in the new 13th’s ‘city university’ in Paris. From 2007 to 2014, with the collective L'Encyclopédie de la parole, he created an online encyclopedia and several productions exploring the spoken word in all its forms.
Grégory Castéra has worked with artists such as Agency, Tarek Atoui, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Eglė Budvytytė, Jennifer Lacey, Franck Leibovici, Mobile Akademie Berlin, Carlos Motta, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Marjetica Potrč, Zhou Tao, and Akram Zaatari. Among the projects that he has curated and co-curated are Shoreline Movements at Taipei Biennial (2020); Collectively at Iaspis (2019); Infinite Ear at Sharjah Biennial (2013), Bergen Assembly (2016), Garage Museum (2018), and CentroCentro (2019-2020); Foreign Places at Wiels (2016); The Manufacturing of Rights at Ashkal Alwan (2015); On Ordinary Narratives at Villa Arson (2014); and Playtime at Betonsalon (2008, 2009). He co-edited a number of publications including The Against Nature Journal (2020-2022) and Le journal des Laboratoires (2010-2012).
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