Elisabeth Lebovici

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Elisabeth Lebovici (c): MACBA
Elisabeth Lebovici (c): MACBA

Elisabeth Lebovici a Critic and Art Historian living in Paris

She has been a culture editor for the daily newspaper Libération (1991-2006). Since 2006, she cocurates (with Patricia Falguières and Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez) a seminar at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris titled: "Something You Should Know: Artists and Producers".

Formerly a HIV/AIDS activist, she is a founding member of the LIG/ Lesbians of General Interest fund https://www.fondslesbien.org. Elisabeth is the author, with Catherine Gonnard, of a history of women artists in France between 1880 and the 2000’s Femmes/artistes, Artistes/femmes, Paris de 1880 à nos jours (Paris, Hazan, 2007). Her book : Ce que le sida m’a fait. Art et Activisme à la fin du 20è siècle. (Zurich : JRP Ringier, « lectures Maison Rouge » 2017 and 2021) (What AIDS Has Done To Me. Art and Activism at the End of the XXth C) has initiated an exhibition, EXPOSÉ·ES at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2/16-5/14, 2023. Curator : François Piron) to which Benoît Piéron participated. She is one of the authors in the book Benoît Piéron, Monstera Deliciosa, MUMOK.