Yann Chateigné Tytelman

Yann Chateigné Tytelman is a curator and author. His work focuses on the study of minor histories and countercultures, interior explorations, and the politics of obscurity. He is currently working to understand how an exhibition can take the form of a novel, while also researching the disappearance of the Night. Often working collaboratively, his projects intersect curating, publishing, performance, and education. He is a cofounder of Celador in Brussels, a space for doing things with words.
In recent years, he (co-)convened the exhibitions such as Regenerative Futures, Thalie Foundation, Brussels (2024); Four Sisters, Jewish Museum, Brussels (2023); A Gittering Ruin Sucked Upwards, HISK, Brussels (2022); It Never Ends, KANAL–Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020-21); Material Thinking: Gordon Matta-Clark, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (2019); and By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape, Le Commun (BAC), Geneva (2019). He has (co-)edited a series of collective works, artists’ books, and monographs, including Histories of predation (Mousse, 2024); It Never Ends (LENZ, 2023), Curating in the Educational Field (HEAD and Les Presses du Réel, 2019) and Almanach Ecart. A Collective Archive, 1969–2019 (HEAD and art&fiction, 2019–21).
He was guest curator at Thalie Foundation, Brussels (2023–24), at Country SALTS, Basel (2021-22), Associate Curator at KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2019–21), Head of the Visual Arts Department at Geneva University of Art and Design (2009–17), and Head of Programming at CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2007–09). He was on the advisory board of art residences MORPHO, Antwerp and Podere Trafonti, Montefollonico. Since 2018, he serves as a PhD supervisor at the Royal Academy of the Arts, Oslo. He has taught at schools and universities, including École du Louvre, Paris; HEAD, Geneva and Erg, Brussels.
As a critic, he has contributed to numerous books, exhibition catalogues, and periodicals, including Conceptual Fine Arts, Joyfully Waiting, Mousse, Spike, and frieze. His first short story, Blackout has been published by Centre d'Edition Contemporaine, Genève, in 2023. Its translation is planned to be released in Great Britain by Les Fugitives in 2025.