Yves Robert is appointed executive director of La Biennale de Lyon.
Yves Robert was part of the first intake, in 1986, to study for the degree in curatorial practices at Le Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble. From 1989-1992, he was Administration and Finance Manager at the Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble. Then in 1993, he served as Secretary General of the Nouveau Musée / Institut d'Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne. From 1994-1999, he headed the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Valence, followed by its counterpart in Lyon until March 2011. In parallel, the City of Lyon appointed him Director of the city’s École d'Arts Appliqués in 2003. From 2004-2007, he was also Artistic Director of the Château des Adhémar in Montélimar. From March 2011 to February 2012, he headed the Villa Arson -- Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Centre d’Art Contemporain in Nice. From February 2012 to February 2014, he directed ISDAT (Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse, formed by the merger of the École Supérieure d’Art and of the CESMD, Centre d’Etudes Supérieures Musique et Danse de Toulouse, within a new EPCC, or “public establishment for cultural cooperation”). From September 2014 to September 2019, Yves Robert was Director of the CNAP in Paris. Yves Robert holds the rank of Officier in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In January 2020, he was appointed Executive Director of La Biennale de Lyon.