Pauline Pavec
Founder
- Organisation
- Galerie Pauline Pavec
- Biography
- Pauline Pavec (born in 1995) is an art historian and co-founder of the Galerie Pavec. Trained at the École du Louvre, she specializes in the French art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Her research first focused on the art critic Anne Tronche and later on the work and thought of Jacques Prévert. Active since 2013 within Diamètre, an association of young curators dedicated to emerging practices, she met the artist Quentin Derouet. Together, they founded Galerie Pavec in 2018, now located in the Marais district, just steps from Place des Vosges. Conceived as a space for reflection as much as for exhibition, the gallery reinterprets 19th- and 20th-century art through contemporary sensibilities, in dialogue with living artists. Within this framework, Pauline Pavec has developed a curatorial approach grounded in the recontextualization of works and close collaboration with estates and rights holders. Recognized for its work on historical women artists, the gallery publishes scholarly catalogues, collaborates with leading French and international museums, participates in major international art fairs, and maintains a strong independent voice. In 2026, she launches Umbra, a research journal initiated by the gallery, devoted to lesser explored areas of art history and historiography, with the aim of fostering an active and renewed reading of art history.
Speaker on
Panel: New Voices, New Models: Entrepreneurship in the Art Market During Times of Change (FR)
Session
02/18/2026
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09:30 - 10:25