Marc-Olivier Wahler
Director of the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève
With a 30-year career directing art institutions across Europe and the United States, Marc-Olivier Wahler is renowned for developing spaces with distinct identities, designed to function as genuine “ecosystems”. His extensive contributions to the art world include founding three art centres, two magazines, a sculpture park, an educational television series, an online radio station, and an art laboratory. He is currently the Director of the MAH (Musée d’art et d’histoire) in Geneva.
Over the past three decades, Marc-Olivier Wahler has curated and organised more than 400 exhibitions across the world.
An accomplished author, he regularly writes about contemporary art and its underlying challenges, contributing to monographs, international journals, and anthologies on art theory. His notable publications include the five-volume encyclopaedia From Yodelling to Quantum Physics (Palais de Tokyo) and The Transported Man (MSU Broad Museum), an exploration of the intersections between art and magic.