Chantal pontbriand biography for kids
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Meet Chantal Pontbriand, New CEO Leading the MOCA
In , while still in her 20s, Chantal Pontbriand took her first-ever museum job working in programming and education at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It wasn’t to gods terribly long. “At the time, the education department was run by a very nice woman, but it was all about guided tours,” Pontbriand, now 64, said recently. “Even then, it felt a bit dépassé.”
She would know. Just outside its doors, Pontbriand had her hands full with perhaps the most au courant thing going in Canadian culture in that very moment: the first, fiery throes of Parachute, the avant-garde journal she had co-founded with René Blouin in and would go on to build into an international hub of art and ideas, right up until it stopped publishing in
By , Pontbriand had said goodbye to the tidy path of full-time museum employment, choosing instead the churn of a living culture and its cross-fertilized chaos. So it might be with some surprise that she found her
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Chantal Pontbriand est nommée directrice générale du Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) à Toronto
MOCCA APPOINTS CHANTAL PONTBRIAND
TO NEWLY CREATED CEO POSITION
Toronto, ON (October 22, ) MOCCA announces the appointment of Chantal Pontbriand to the newly created position of CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA). The appointment comes as the Museum embarks on a major expansion project taking place over the next two years, including relocating to a new building in early
Chantal Pontbriand is an internationally-renowned curator and art critic from Montreal. She recently returned to Canada after being based in Paris and London for the last ten years. Pontbriand will guide the re-opening of the Museum at its new premises in the refurbished and historically-designated Tower Automotive Building built in Pontbriand will evolve a comprehensive vision for the general orientation of the collection, exhibitions, programs and events, media initiatives, and pub
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This interview between Chantel Pontbriand, contemporary art critic and curator and co-founder of Parachute magazine, and the artist Max Dean took place via Zoom on May 28th,
Chantal Pontbriand ():
I’m delighted to do this interview, Max Dean. It is a great pleasure and a great honour. I followed your work forever. We reconnected in , when I came back to Canada after living for a decade in Europe and, you were in the middle of great discoveries then. And we’ll talk about that later, but I propose that we conduct this interview by following the letters that spell out your name, and then we can call it Under the Spell of Max Dean, which is really everyone’s opinion about your work and yourself, dear Max,
Max Dean ():
Even though there are only six letters to deal with. Okay. So what letter are we starting with?
Chantal Pontbriand ():
Just before we start, the rules of the game tell us that we have five minutes for each letter. Okay.
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