{"id":203753,"date":"2025-09-06T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203753\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:33:21","slug":"art-basel-paris-director-clement-delepine-to-lead-lafayette-anticipations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203753\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel Paris Director Cl\u00e9ment Del\u00e9pine to Lead Lafayette Anticipations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLafayette Anticipations<\/a>, the closely watched Paris exhibition space, has announced that Cl\u00e9ment Del\u00e9pine<\/a>, the director of Art Basel Paris<\/a>, will be the institution\u2019s next director.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe succeeds Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, who has been the director for the past six years and \u201chas chosen to embark on a new personal and professional challenge,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n

\n\tDel\u00e9pine will start in his role on November 17, a few weeks after this year\u2019s edition of Art Basel Paris, which opens to VIPs on October 22. Art Basel said that a search for new director for the Paris fair is currently underway.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDel\u00e9pine will be tasked with plotting \u201cthe next stage\u201d of Lafayette Anticipations, which is a nonprofit foundation for the iconic department store Galeries Lafayette, per the release. Since its founding in 2012, the organization has become known for its ambitious exhibition program, spotlighting a high-profile roster of international artists. Recent shows have been dedicated to Martine Syms, Issy Wood, Cyprien Gaillard, Martin Margiela, and Wu Tsang. It now operates out of a 19th-century industrial building in Le Marais, which opened in 2018 after a renovation by Rem Koolhaas and OMA. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement, Guillaume Houz\u00e9, the president of Lafayette Anticipations and the great-grandson of one of Galeries Lafayette\u2019s founders, said, \u00a0\u201cI would like to thank Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel for everything she has done leading the Fondation over the past six years and I appreciate her energy, vision and hard work, which shaped our programming and bolstered the unique place Lafayette Anticipations occupies in the Parisian and international cultural landscape. The arrival of Cl\u00e9ment Del\u00e9pine represents the start of an exciting new chapter for Lafayette Anticipations in support of contemporary creation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDel\u00e9pine was named the director of Art Basel Paris in March 2022, a few months after Art Basel announced that it would launch a French fair after nabbing the October dates at the Grand Palais from longtime French fair, FIAC. His appointment came when Art Basel had announced that the new fair would be called \u201cParis+, par Art Basel\u201d\u2014a name it has since ditched.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201c+,\u201d or plus, was meant to indicate that his iteration of Art Basel would be more ambitious than the others it mounts in Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and Basel, Switzerland, with a citywide program that create a \u201cdynamic dialogue between its cultural industries\u2014from fashion and design to film and music,\u201d according to a release at the time. Those ambitions never quite panned out, though many of Paris\u2019s top institutions do mount their most important shows when the fair opens. (That might also simply be due to its general timing in mid-October.)<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI warmly congratulate Cl\u00e9ment on his appointment as director of Lafayette Anticipations,\u201d Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz said in a statement to ARTnews. \u201cHis spirited leadership and vision have been central to establishing Art Basel Paris as such a strong fixture on the international stage in just three years, and we wish him only the best as he embarks on his next chapter. We are fully focused on working with Cl\u00e9ment and the team to execute a stellar Paris edition next month, and continuing to deliver for our clients on a global basis beyond this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPrior to Art Basel Paris, Del\u00e9pine led Paris Internationale, an independent fair that was founded by a group of galleries in 2015, from 2016 to 2021. He previously worked as a director in New York\u2019s Bortolami Gallery and before that at the Swiss Institute, also in New York.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel incredibly fortunate to join Lafayette Anticipations and take over from Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, whose vision I have admired over the past six years,\u201d Del\u00e9pine said in a statement. \u201cI have considerable affection for this institution and I am honoured by the trust Guillaume Houz\u00e9 has placed in me. I am looking forward to further affirming its unique positioning on the French and international art scene. It has been a privilege to direct Art Basel Paris and I would like to express my immense gratitude to Noah Horowitz, Vincenzo de Bellis and all the teams at Art Basel for their trust and support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lafayette Anticipations, the closely watched Paris exhibition space, has announced that Cl\u00e9ment Del\u00e9pine, the director of Art Basel…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[112422,648,1032,112423,1033,171,112424,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-203753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-basel-paris","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-clu00e9ment-delu00e9pine","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-lafayette-anticipations","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115154780492105231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}