Oriane Durand
Oriane Durand is an independent curator and author based in Berlin.
Oriane studied art history at the Sorbonne (Paris) and the Freie Universität (Berlin). From 2015 to 2020, she was director of the Kunstverein Dortmund, before becoming director of the Kunstverein Bielefeld in 2023. Prior to this, she was curator at the Kunstverein Nuremberg and the Kunstverein Bonn. With a particular interest in discovering young artists and experimental practices, she organised the first institutional exhibitions in Germany of artists such as Raphaela Vogel (Bonner Kunstverein, 2015), Sol Calero (Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2017), Elaine Cameron-Weir (Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2018), Mimosa Echard (Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2019), Anne-Lise Coste (Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2020), Sara Sadik (Westfälischer Kunstverein, 2022) and Tolia Astakhishvili (Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2023).
In 2020, she founded Le Berceau, an independent exhibition space in Marseille. She writes regularly for the international art press (Frieze, CFA...) and for artists' catalogues.