Cécile Bargues
Cécile Bargues is an art historian and curator based in Paris, France. She is a pensionnaire ( researcher )at Institut national d'histoire de l'art.
A Dada scholar, Cécile published part of her PhD dissertation under the title Raoul Hausmann. Après Dada (Brussels : Mardaga, 2015). Her postdoc at Quai Branly (Labex CAP) was about Dada and "primitivism".
Cécile has a strong interest in Dada afterlife, and more broadly in the relationship between art and politics. Her last book is « Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Les dernières années » (Fondation Giacometti / Fage, « École des modernités », 2022). She published several essays in Marc Dachy's review Luna-Park and she contributed to many reviews and exhibition catalogues (L’Art en guerre, Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sonia Delaunay, London, Tate, Félix Feneon. The anarchist and the avant-garde, Moma, etc). She was an associate curator at Centre Pompidou-Metz for the exhibitions "Chefs-d'oeuvre?" (2010), and "Hans Richter. La Traversée du siècle" (2013). She curated « Raoul Hausmann. Photographies » at Le Point du Jour and Le Jeu de Paume in Paris, as well as other exhibitions in French museums (recently « Chaosmose » at the Pompidou, 2024-2025).
Cécile also holds a MA in Arts Administration from Sciences Po in Paris. After having taught several years at the Sorbonne (Paris 1) where she received her PhD, she is currently teaching Art History at Columbia University in Paris (Reid Hall) and at Sciences Po.
A Dada scholar, Cécile published part of her PhD dissertation under the title Raoul Hausmann. Après Dada (Brussels : Mardaga, 2015). Her postdoc at Quai Branly (Labex CAP) was about Dada and "primitivism".
Cécile has a strong interest in Dada afterlife, and more broadly in the relationship between art and politics. Her last book is « Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Les dernières années » (Fondation Giacometti / Fage, « École des modernités », 2022). She published several essays in Marc Dachy's review Luna-Park and she contributed to many reviews and exhibition catalogues (L’Art en guerre, Paris, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Sonia Delaunay, London, Tate, Félix Feneon. The anarchist and the avant-garde, Moma, etc). She was an associate curator at Centre Pompidou-Metz for the exhibitions "Chefs-d'oeuvre?" (2010), and "Hans Richter. La Traversée du siècle" (2013). She curated « Raoul Hausmann. Photographies » at Le Point du Jour and Le Jeu de Paume in Paris, as well as other exhibitions in French museums (recently « Chaosmose » at the Pompidou, 2024-2025).
Cécile also holds a MA in Arts Administration from Sciences Po in Paris. After having taught several years at the Sorbonne (Paris 1) where she received her PhD, she is currently teaching Art History at Columbia University in Paris (Reid Hall) and at Sciences Po.
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