After graduating with a Master's degree in Art History (2010) and Cultural Engineering art (2011) at Sorbonne University, Madeleine Filippi has been an independent curator and art critic ever since, specializing in contemporary and time -based art.
She has worked with public and private cultural institutions (Beirut Art Fair, Colombo Art Biennale, Frac Champagne Ardenne, Saison France-Romania, Center d’art Ange Leccia, etc.). She orients her research around the themes of Memory(s) - Language(s) - liminal spaces, considered as vectors and witnesses to contemporary societal issues. Her curatorial approach is based on a critical practice informed by philosophy and sociology. Since 2018, she has initiated several projects around the medium of video and photography as artifacts of our contemporary society.
After co-editing the journal Revue Dispo, which specialized in performance and video art, she was the director of the Vanessa Quang gallery (Paris, France). She was then appointed head of collections for several private collectors and for the Zinsou Foundation (Cotonou, Benin). In parallel, she teaches, continues to advise collectors, and also provides tutoring for artists. She is also a member of various juries in France and abroad.
She contributes today to various magazines and exhibition catalogs on emerging scenes and the art market, both in France and abroad (Art Press, Le Quotidien de l'Art, L'art Même, etc.). She also teaches curatorial practices at IESA.
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Co-president of C-E-A (French Association of Art Curators), vice-president of CIPAC (Federation of Contemporary Art Professionals), member of the Altaïr Think Tank expert council, and member of AICA France.
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She was nominated for the AICA Prize in 2020.