Jérôme Sans
These artists included Maurizio Cattelan, Pierre Huyghe, Erwin Wurm, Kendell Geers, Philippe Parreno, Barthélémy Toguo, Steve McQueen, Kimsooja, Joachim Koester, Annelies Strba, Lars Nilsson, and Annika von Hausswolff.
During this period, the Palais de Tokyo presented more than 80 solo exhibitions featuring artists such as Tobias Rehberger, Chen Zhen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kendell Geers, Candice Breitz, Wang Du, Bruno Peinado, and Katharina Grosse.
It also hosted 8 group exhibitions, including Translation, Hardcore, Live, GNS, and Notre histoire, as well as over one hundred events, concerts, and performances featuring artists like Laurent Garnier, Marina Abramović, Jan Fabre, and Christophe.
From 2006 until 2008, Jérôme Sans served as the artistic director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England, where he contributed to re-establishing the international center as one of the most creative venues in the UK.
Jérôme Sans has curated numerous solo shows there, featuring artists such as Kendell Geers, Subodh Gupta, Brian Eno, Kader Attia, and British painter Beryl Cook.
By gathering a community (LM100) of interdisciplinary creators and ambassadors—artists, architects, chefs, filmmakers, photographers, and perfume designers, each recognized in their field for their innovation—Sans reinvented the company's vocabulary around the three words "Chic, Culture, and Discovery."
This included developing the brand's olfactory identity, its original soundtrack, a signature breakfast menu, a creative wine list, and the in-situ creation of works of art in the hotels.
He also introduced magnetic collector cards designed by artists, which not only provided room access but also offered guests free opportunities to discover curated creative cultural institutions in the cities where Le Méridien hotels are located worldwide.
Since 2010, Sans has served as the artistic director of the 50 km reorganization of the Lyon docks along the Saône River, an important program for permanent public art in Europe.
It is the first open-air shopping center in France and also functions as a cultural venue that strongly emphasizes contemporary art, featuring eleven works by world-renowned artists on display at the center, including Ben, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Daniel Buren, César, Antony Gormley, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Pablo Reinoso, Pascale Marthine Tayou, and Wang Du.
Jérôme Sans has been appointed as the artistic director for the prefiguration of the future contemporary art venue, designed by Catalan architects RCR Arquitectes, winners of the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2017.
Sans managed the first eight issues of the magazine, inviting eight artists to create special covers: Daniel Buren, Farhad Moshiri, Bertrand Lavier, Yan Pei-Ming, Sterling Ruby, Marina Abramovic & Terence Koh, Loris Gréaud, and Youssef Nabil.
It is supported by CMR, the operator of the Del Lago restaurant, in partnership with OMR as the space's cultural arm, and ALGO, in collaboration with Jérôme Sans as the artistic director.
It serves as an open platform for dialogue and exchange, aimed at exploring, questioning, and potentially reinventing the world—a world in which we are deeply connected to nature and concerned about our shared future and its sustainability.
In 1998, Jérôme Sans published the reference book Au Sujet de about Daniel Buren (Flammarion), followed by two others on the artists Jonas Mekas (Just Like A Shadow, Steidl, 2000) and Chen Zhen (Les entretiens, Presses du Réel, 2003).
The house addressed neglected themes and subjects on the fringe or considered controversial, such as the history of Gay Pride by Oliviero Toscani and Goth culture by Patrick Eudeline.
Approximately 200 books were published between 2004 and 2008, featuring authors such as Richard Bronson, Jonas Mekas, Virginie Despentes, Nina Roberts, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Joey Starr, Bruce Benderson, Marie Darrieusec, and Brian Epstein.
[citation needed] More recently, Jérôme Sans completed a series of pocket books that incorporate interviews with artists and architects, including Kendell Geers (2013), Ma Yansong (2012), and Jannis Kounellis (2012), published by BlueKingfisher Ltd.
Skira) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, and co-published the accompanying catalog, highlighting both major and emerging figures from the burgeoning Kazakh art scene and its spirit of nomadism, in dialogue with artists from other parts of the world.
He collaborated with Kiki Allgeier on creating portrayals of the members of the creative community LM100 for Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts (between 2006 and 2013) and directed the film Breaking the Silence, which focused on AIDS in Mozambique as a special commission from UNICEF.
