Baptiste Brun Author

The art historian Sarah Lombardi has been the fully-fledged director of the Collection de l'Art Brut since March 2013. Immediately upon taking over as the museum's director, Sarah Lombardi gave priority to highlighting the museum's collections: this included the creation of a new publication series entitled Art Brut: The Collection intended to accompany the Art Brut Biennales. The resulting thematic shows present works exclusively from the institution's own holdings. She has also published numerous essays on Art Brut and directed several books on this topic. Baptiste Brun is a lecturer in the history of contemporary art at Rennes 2 University. He wrote a dissertation on Jean Dubuffet. Nicolas Garnier is an anthropologist and a researcher at the University of Papua-New Guinea from 2003 to 2016. He is currently in charge of the Oceania collections at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris. Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska is curator for the photography collection at the MNAM Centre Pompidou. In the years 1999-2010 curator at the Zacheta National Contemporary Art Gallery, Warsaw. She was co-founder of the Photography Archaeology Foundation and its president until 2014.