Meet the Speakers

Camille Morineau
AWARE at Centre Pompidou

Camille Morineau, heritage curator and art historian founded AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions in 2014, a private initiative and non profit which has been recently integrated in Centre Pompidou as a specific research program. With degrees from both the École normale supérieure and the Institut national du patrimoine, Camille Morineau has worked for twenty years in public cultural institutions in France, including ten years as curator of the contemporary collections at the musée national d'Art moderne - Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris) where she curated the hanging elles@centrepompidou (2009-2011) dedicated solely to female artists from the collections of the museum. From 2016 to October 2019, she was the director of exhibitions and collections at Monnaie de Paris, where she curated for example Women House in partnership with NMWA. Recently, she curated Pionnières with Lucia Pesapane (musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2022), Jean Tinguely (Hangar Biccoca, Milan, 2024) and Thomas Schütte (Punta della Dogana, Venice, 2025). Her recent book Owning the Nude (2025) received the André Malraux Prize.