Danaé Panchaud
Photography Curator, Director at Centre de la photographie Genève
Languages
English, French
Topics
Storytelling, Concept Development, Method, Curating, Research
Bio
Danaé Panchaud is a Swiss exhibition curator, museologist and lecturer specialising in photography. She has been the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève since 2022, after serving from 2018 to 2021 as director of Photoforum Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. She trained in photography at the Vevey School of Photography before completing a bachelor’s degree in visual arts with a specialisation in curatorial practices at Geneva University of Art and Design. She later studied museology at Birkbeck, University of London, earning a master’s degree in 2017. She has held positions in Swiss institutions in the fields of contemporary art, design and science since 2007, including at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Gallery SAKS, Fondation Verdan and mudac. As a free-lance curator, she has curated exhibitions for several Swiss and international museums, independent spaces and galleries since 2012. She often writes texts for monographs of contemporary artists, exhibition catalogues, and thematic publications such as Flora Photographica and Aviary, co-authored with William Ewing and published by Thames & Hudson in 2022 and 2025, respectively. She regularly lectures at art and photography schools in Switzerland since 2014, and joined the teaching faculty of the CAS in Theory and History of Photography at University of Zurich in 2023.
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