Eva Barois De Caevel is Curator in the Department of Contemporary and Prospective Creation at the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Previously, she has worked as an independent curator, researcher and writer; as the coordinator of RAW Academy, and curator at RAW Material Company, Dakar, Senegal. She is a founding member of the international curatorial collective Cartel de Kunst, Paris. In 2016, she was the curator of the 37th EVA International, the Ireland Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick, Ireland.
In 2014, Barois de Caevel was the second recipient of ICI's Gerrit Lansing Independent Vision Curatorial Award, in part for her work on postcolonial questions and socially engaged practices in contemporary art. She was a co-curator of Temps Etrangers (Mains d'Œuvres, Saint-Ouen, 2012) and The Floating Admiral (presented as part of the Nouvelles Vagues season at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2013), two exhibitions curated with her collective, the Cartel de Kunst. And as part of Dak’Art 2014, she curated the exhibition, Libertés individuelles.
Eva Barois De Caevel was born in France and graduated from University Paris-Sorbonne Paris IV in Contemporary Art History. Her research focuses primarily on moving images. Her main interests are the evolution of “experimental” cinema, the history of production structures and the artistic entities behind them, and the question of the porousness of borders between cinematographic genres.
