Mélanie Desliens Flint is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Villa Albertine San Francisco and also sits on the boards of the Villa Albertine foundations in New York, San Francisco and Paris. She has also served as President of the French-American Cultural Society (FACS).

Mélanie brings strategic leadership to the Villa Albertine, a newly established cultural institution and think tank. This innovative program from the French Embassy, launched in 2021, reinvents the original concept of French Villas in the United States.

Its mission is to facilitate forward-looking, interdisciplinary dialogues between artists and diverse communities, particularly in the technological, scientific and academic fields. Villa San Francisco was born of the conviction that culture and artists must play a central role in our ever-changing world.

An eye on new technologies

As a writer, Mélanie Desliens explores innovation in the context of art history and examines the question of new technologies in relation to alienation and disruption.

She holds Masters degrees in marketing from French and American universities, and previously held a key role in charge of strategic partnerships at Ubisoft in the United States, a world leader in video game publishing.

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Initially trained as a radiologist, Victoire Satto became interested in the ecological and social issues of the fashion industry. The turning point in her career came when she discovered the harmful impact of “fast fashion” on workers’ health and the environment, particularly in denim production, which exposes workers to the toxic chemicals used for dyeing and washing.

In 2017, she created The Good Goods, an engaged media and consultancy dedicated to promoting more sustainable and ethical fashion. The media aims to raise awareness of responsible consumption practices, while highlighting innovative solutions for circular fashion.

Promoting CSR in the textile sector

In addition to The Good Goods, Victoire Satto is a speaker, podcaster and founding member of the Circular Fashion Federation, actively contributing to discussions on corporate social responsibility in the textile sector.

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Sika Abbey is a development and communications strategy consultant for institutional, state and corporate players in Africa, Europe and the United States.

Sensitive to issues of sustainable development, she works in the field of educational science and inter-sectoral policies linked to culture.

Passionate about innovative projects with a strong social impact, she works to develop synergies between committed civil society players, project developers and government action.

Supporting artists from the African continent

An art enthusiast, Sika Abbey is also actively involved in supporting artists and projects dedicated to cultural riches, particularly those of the African continent.

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Yanni Chen is a curator and founder of Philart, an agency that covers all aspects of the art market, communication, consulting and cooperation in the field of art exhibitions.

Between France and China

Since 2020, she has been cooperating on Franco-Chinese exhibitions with players such as Les Franciscains, L’association Peindre en Normandie and RMN-Grand Palais art workshops. Yanni Chen holds a Master’s degree in art history from L’université Panthéon Sorbonne, graduating in 2019. Her motto is“That artists may live from their creation”.

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Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a wide range of subjects related to art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design and Hunter College, among other institutions. His museum and research positions have included work at the Museum of Modern Art and the College Art Association. She has also worked at Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she taught art market history and art history, with a particular focus on French art and women artists.

A specialist in the history of 19th-century French landscape painting, her areas of expertise also include 19th-century art criticism, the art market and the role of women in the art world. She received her doctorate from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, her master’s degree from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and her bachelor’s degree from the Université Paris-Sorbonne. She also holds a degree in museum studies from the Ecole du Louvre.

Her current collaborative project is the Women Art Dealers Digital Archive (WADDA), a digital platform that maps the role of women art dealers in the institutionalization of modern and contemporary art. With Dr. Caterina Toschi, she recently co-edited “Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940-1990” (Bloomsbury Press, 2024).

Spotlighting women artists

Since leaving Christie’s Education, Véronique Chagnon has returned to academic research and writing, as well as curating contemporary art exhibitions[In the Flesh, 2023]. In January 2024, she organized“She.Her.Hers“, an exhibition of ten women artists for the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.

In September 2022, she was elected co-president of the International Art Market Studies Association [TIAMSA]. She is section editor for the Art Market Dictionary [BAM, Bloomsbury Art Markets], an online tool published by Bloomsbury Press in London in 2023.

Selection of publications

• Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern Art, 1940-1990, Bloomsbury Press, 2024
• “Book Review of Florence, Berlin and Beyond: Late Nineteenth-Century Markets and Their Networks,” edited by Lynn Catterson, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, vol.21, issue 3, Fall 2022
• “Women Art Dealers Digital Archives [WADDA]: From the Gallery to the Museum, Mapping How Women Art Gallerists Supported Contemporary Art in New York,” Journal de l’Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky, n°6-7, 2021, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Conclusion in Pioneers of the Global Art Market: Paris Based Dealers Networks, 1850-1950, Christel Hollevoet-Force, ed. Bloomsbury Press Contextualizing Art Markets Series (2020)
• “The Market for Contemporary Art,” Grove Art Dictionary (2018)
• Women Art Critics in the Nineteenth Century: Vanishing Acts, a collaborative anthology with Heather Jensen and Wendelin (2013
• “Rue Laffitte: Looking at and Buying Contemporary Art in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris,” in Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (2012)
• “Les Femmes et la Critique d’art au 19ème siècle”; “Marie de Flaviny, La Baronne Bonne Decazes, et Judith Gautier,” in Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices (2010)
• The Politicization of Nature: The Critical Reception of Barbizon Painting During the July Monarchy (2009)

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Laurent Coriot is an industrial designer who has been involved with heritage and regional structures for twenty years.

He chooses to take a different route when he realizes that his main skill boils down to: “Draw me something cheap that I can sell for a lot of money”.

A commitment as total as it is radical

“How can we give back to nature what it offers us?”

He therefore decided to redirect his career by using the tools of value creation through design to serve a transversal vision of material transformation and product design.

To better understand the environmental issues surrounding the use of resources, Laurent Coriot follows the path of foresters and engineers committed to biodiversity, telling their stories through books and objects.

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Catherine Dobler is the founder of the Fondation LAccolade, whose main aim is to support, promote and encourage artistic creation.

Located in the heart of Paris, the Fondation LAccolade explores our relationship with life and its fragility. Its international creative residencies, at the crossroads of the arts and sciences, aim to forge new links between urbanity and nature.

The Foundation pays particular attention to the creations, approaches, projects and actions of artists in connection with the themes of water, the environment, the fragility of life and the feminine. It also aims to enhance and promote Matrimoine, the legacy of women of historical or artistic importance.

From Paris to Palm Springs (California)

Catherine Dobler has also joined forces with Epicenter Projects – an artistic and curatorial platform based in California – to create an art center in Palm Springs whose programming is dedicated to artistic expressions and creations linked to the living world, Land and Earth Art. It was inaugurated on February 12, 2022.

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Founder of Dot to Dot Consulting, a consulting agency specializing in cultural, social and philanthropic projects.

Julie Fry is an international arts and culture consultant based in Paris, bringing her expertise in strategic philanthropy and transnational cultural projects.

A field of action between France and the United States

Julie is also Chairman of the American Board of Directors of Kaimera Productions and teaches a course on philanthropy and equity as part of the Master of Cultural Policy at Sciences Po Paris University.

She was most recently President and CEO of California Humanities, the statewide arts and humanities grant-making and programming organization.

Since 2019, Julie Fry has been co-producer of the Oakland/Saint-Denis cooperation project, an ongoing initiative of international cultural and educational events between California and France.

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Gao Bo lives and works between Beijing and Paris. In 2017-2018 he is a guest teacher at FRESNOY Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. He graduated from the Lycée Affilié à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts du Sichuan in 1983 and from Tsinghua University’s Academy of Arts and Design in 1987. In 1990, he moved to France and worked with Agence VU and Galerie VU. He founded the BoARCHI architecture studio in 2002 and worked as an architectural designer until 2009.

He has won numerous awards:

• first prize (Hasselblad camera) in a national photography competition in China in 1986
• Gold Award at the VISA pour l’image International Photography Festival, Perpignan, 1989
• the “Most beautiful book in the world” award
• and the German UNESCO-Kommission Prize in 1998

His work has appeared in exhibitions in China, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, the United States, Brazil, England, Japan and South Korea. They can be found in museums, art institutions and private collectors all over the world.

The inventor of Laostime

Gao Bo initiated “laostism”, a philosophical and aesthetic concept that permeates his total works of art. “Laostisme” and “laostiste” derive from lost and loser in English and lao tse in spoken Chinese meaning “me”. The Chinese translation of lost is luosi, meaning “naked thought”. For the past 30 years, his work has involved a comprehensive practice combining photography, photographic installations, mixed media and performance.

An open-minded approach to the world’s cultural riches

In 2017, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris organized his retrospective exhibition “Gao Bo: Les Offrandes”. On this occasion, six international publishers published eight catalogs of his work. In addition, two films focusing on the life and art of Gao Bo are also being shown at the MEP during the exhibition:

• “Gao Bo: Between Beijing and Paris”, directed by Wu Wenguang, director of “Bumming in Beijing”.
• “Gao Bo: In the Dark of History”, directed by the renowned French director, author and photographer Alain Fleischer.

Currently based in France, Gao Bo has settled in Vernon, Normandy. Here, he has transformed a former toy factory into a contemporary art space, called the “Pavillon des Jouets”. The space hosts artist residencies, exhibitions and cultural events open to the public. Gao Bo ‘s workshop is a unique combination of industrial aesthetics and traditional Chinese elements. Lacquered furniture and antique statues, for example, create a hybrid space between cultures and eras.

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