Picasso: From the Studio - In Conversation: Cécile Debray and Dr Caroline Campbell

Cécile Debray (President of the Musée national Picasso-Paris) and Dr Caroline Campbell (Director of the National Gallery of Ireland) will be taking part in this special in-conversation event.

They will discuss what it means to be a national museum dedicated to a single artist; from rethinking Picasso’s legacy to creating space for women artists and how to address diversity in museums today, their conversation will explore some of the pressing questions facing cultural institutions now.

About Cécile Debray:

Appointed in November 2021 as President of the Musée national Picasso Paris, Cécile Debray, Conservatrice Générale du Patrimoine, was Director of the Musée de l'Orangerie from May 2017 to November 2021. She was in charge of the modern collections at the Musée national d'art moderne / Centre Pompidou from 2008 to 2017, scientific adviser to the General Administrator of the RMN, in charge of programming at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, from 2005 to 2008, and curator at the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 2000 to 2005. She has curated several major international exhibitions including Gertrude Stein/Pablo Picasso. L'invention du langage (Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2023); Faith Ringgold. Black is beautiful (Musée national Picasso-Paris, 2023). Debray is also the founder and curator since 2016 of the annual festival of artistic residencies Viva Villa! (Villa Medicis, Villa Kujoyama, Casa de Velazquez), president of the AWARE association (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions) in 2019, member of scientific and artistic committees (AWARE, Casa de Velazquez / Académie des Beaux-Arts, FIAC Tuileries, CIMAM - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art -, Comité éditorial de la Revue de l'Art, Prix Pierre Daix), and French Committee Praemium Imperiale.

Acknowledgments: 

The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Ireland in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris. 

Proudly supported by KPMG Ireland, Exhibition Partner.

The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for their ongoing support.