Category: Museum Director
Nationality: French
Last Year: 15

Despite tighter budgets, the Pompidou Centre in Paris remains one of the world’s most relevant art institutions. In 2011, Pacquement and his team of curators and administrators (including indefatigable president Alain Seban) brought a smart mix of exhibitions to the Pompidou, including midcareer solo surveys (Jean-Michel Othoniel), commissioned group exhibitions (Paris-Delhi-Bombay) and crowd-pleasing megashows (Edvard Munch). In its first full year of operation, the Pompidou-Metz satellite drew the country’s largest art crowds outside of Paris, with more than 900,000 visitors. The new Mobile Pompidou hit the road in October, as part of the centre’s continuing mandate to decentralise its collections. The institution also shared its wealth with a record number of museums around the world – banking favours that it can draw on in the future.