Marc Pottier

Specialist in modern and contemporary art for over 30 years.

Marc Pottier, a Frenchman, living between Paris and Rio de Janeiro, is an international curator of contemporary art, specializing in art in public spaces. He also is involved with cultural digital platforms, television and webtv.

Pottier managed the Sawada collection of modern and contemporary art between Paris, New York, Tokyo and Nagoya. He worked for eight years at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Cultural attaché in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon. As an independent curator, Pottier organized important exhibitions such as “Avant-garde walk a Venezia” during the 1995 Venice Biennial, "Aleksander Rodchenko" at MAM-SP, "Picasso Ceramics" (Bernard Picasso’s collection), “Egypt of the Pharaohs” with the Louvre, “Elles@Pompidou” with the Centre Pompidou in Rio de Janeiro and "Luzboa-a bienal da Luz" in Lisbon. In 2008/9 he has been working for the Royal Group/ Abu Dhabi for a Public Art Park program. He has been giving lectures in Abu Dhabi, Dubaï and Bahrain on Public Art.

He is the author of the book "Made by Brazilians" (Enrico Navarra publishers) featuring interviews with 230 people representing the world of contemporary Brazilian art. He was the guest curator of the 3rd Bahia Biennial and also of the 'Made by Brazilians' creative invasion at the former Matarazzo hospital in São Paulo in 2014. Pottier is the creator and host of 'Foreign Eye', a weekly program on Brazilian Cultural TV channel Arte1.

Since 2016 he is involved with the Cidade Matarazzo Floresta Atlântica hotel in São Paulo imagined by French Architect Jean Nouvel and designer Philippe Starck: 50 different site-specific and unique works to be installed in the public areas (Lobbies, corridors, swimming pools, parking arrivals…). Opening planned for second half of 2021. He was the curator and creator of the exhibitions ‘Monumental – arte na Marina da Gloria’ 2016, 2017 and 2018 and is preparing a new tv program Imaginary Museums. He was appointed as the main Curator of the future Curitiba Biennial (2022).

Working today on web.tv cultural programs. In May 2020, with the director Elisabeth Schlumberger, he has created for MuseumTV a series of 18 interviews with international artists: “Journal d' un artiste confiné“ (Diary of a Contained Artist). Currently they are preparing a new program on art collectors.