Marc-Olivier Wahler

Marc-Olivier Wahler is an international museum director, curator, and writer. He is the current director of the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. He also serves as the founder and president of PAL Paris Art Lab and Chalet Society (Paris), as well as the founder and creative director of Transformer Sculpture Park (Melides, Portugal). As director of the MSU Broad museum he organized around 30 exhibitions a year, among them solo presentations of seminal figures such as Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, David Lamelas, and Michel Parmentier. He founded a new project: the Art Lab, a collaborative and community-oriented venue. He also founded the Chalet Society, producing contemporary art exhibitions in a former school building in central Paris, including outsider artists, young emerging artists as well as international stars. During the last 25 years, Marc-Olivier Wahler has organized over 400 exhibitions – principally as museum director / chief curator, but also as a free-lance curator. As a writer and art critic, Marc-Olivier Wahler regularly writes on contemporary art in international magazines and academic books.