Talk: MUSEUM x Cédric Fauq — The Curator is the Vampire

Name: Talk: MUSEUM x Cédric Fauq — The Curator is the Vampire
Start: 2026-02-03T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-03T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark

Schedule

Tue Feb 03 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark | Copenhagen , SK

Hvor kommer kuratorens energi fra – og hvad koster den? I denne talk tager chefkurator Cédric Fauq publikum med ind i kuratorens særlige og ofte modsætningsfyldte rolle i kunstsystemet: som formidler, magtfigur, omsorgsperson – og som én, der uundgåeligt trækker på andres arbejde, idéer og energi.
Med vampyren som metafor ser Fauq nærmere på kuratorisk praksis som noget både sårbart og magtfuldt, både ekstraktivt og produktivt. Talken bevæger sig fra en kritisk refleksion over kuratoren som institutionel figur til en åben diskussion af, hvilke muligheder der kan opstå, hvis man erkender – og måske endda omfavner – denne vampyriske position.
Cédric Fauq er chefkurator og leder af program og samlinger på Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Her har han stået bag en række markante udstillinger og projekter, herunder retrospektiven Rammellzee: Alphabeta Sigma (Side B), gruppeudstillingerne Air de repos (Breathwork) og Barbe à Papa samt performancefestivalen L’Académie des Mutantes. Tidligere har han været kurator på Palais de Tokyo og Nottingham Contemporary og har samarbejdet med en lang række internationale kunstnere.
Talken er en del af MUSEUM, en forelæsningsrække om museet og dets rolle i kunstens økosystem. Hvis akademiet er kunstens vugge, er museet så dens grav? Hvilke roller spiller de mennesker, der arbejder i museets rum – og hvad betyder museets strukturer for kunsten og dens publikum i dag?
MUSEUM er et samarbejde mellem Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler og Kunsthal Charlottenborg og er kurateret af Simon Dybbroe Møller.
PRAKTISK INFORMATION
Bemærk at samtalen er på engelsk.
Der er gratis entré til arrangementet, men der skal bookes billet på forhånd. Info og billetter: https://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/da/events/talk-museum-x-cedric-fauq/
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Where does a curator’s energy come from — and what does it cost? In this talk, Chief Curator Cédric Fauq explores the curator’s unique and often paradoxical role in the art system: as mediator, authority figure, caretaker — and as someone who inevitably draws on the work, ideas, and energy of others.
Using the vampire as a metaphor, Fauq looks at curatorial practice as both vulnerable and powerful, both extractive and generative. The talk moves from a critical reflection on the curator as an institutional figure to an open discussion of the possibilities that arise when one acknowledges — and perhaps even embraces — this vampiric dimension of the role.
Cédric Fauq is Chief Curator and Head of Programme and Collections at the Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. He has led major exhibitions and projects including the retrospective Rammellzee: Alphabeta Sigma (Side B), the group exhibitions Air de repos (Breathwork) and Barbe à Papa, and the performance festival L’Académie des Mutantes (launched in 2022). He has previously worked as a curator at Palais de Tokyo and Nottingham Contemporary and has collaborated with numerous international artists.
The talk is part of MUSEUM, a lecture series about the museum and its role in the ecosystem of art. If the Academy is art’s cradle, is the Museum its grave? What roles do the people working in these spaces play — custodians, doctors, mourners? Are they struggling to keep art alive, or putting it to rest? And if every museum is a kind of mausoleum, what kinds of art does it enshrine, and what ways of looking does it shape?
MUSEUM is a collaboration between the Royal Danish Art Academy and Kunsthal Charlottenborg curated by Simon Dybbroe Møller.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The talk will be in English.
There is free admission to the event but tickets need to be booked in advance. Info and tickets: https://kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/events/talk-museum-x-cedric-fauq/