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French Women Artists and the Permanent Collection: The “Elles” Exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou (2009-2011) Thursday, February 9 What happened when the Centre Georges Pompidou decided to store all artworks created by male artists in order to exhibit for the first time in the world the feminine side of its permanent collection? With a clear intension to show commitment to women artists and place them to their rightful place in modern and contemporary art, the exhibition “Elles” (elles@centrepompidou) not only highlighted women artists, but also asked critical questions on gender and cultural identity, and addressed the challenges of making curatorial choices. Discussion will include the ideology and aims of the exhibition, its structure from a museum studies perspective and some of the controversy involved in the project. Anna Tahinci studied History and Archaeology in Greece, Museum Studies at the Ecole du Louvre, and Comparative Literature and Art History at the Sorbonne. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne with a dissertation on “The Collectors of Rodin’s sculptures during his lifetime”. She has worked at the Musée Rodin, the Musée d’Orsay, the Harvard Art Museum, and the Louvre. She has taught at Boston University-Paris, the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and the College of Visual Arts and she is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art History at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She co-curated the sculpture exhibition for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004 and the exhibition Rodin and America at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University in 2011.
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