Date: December 15th, 2025, 5 pm-7 pm
Venue: Design Commons, 2nd floor, Ohashi Campus of Kyushu University
Language: English
*Online participation is available. To register, please visit:
https://forms.office.com/r/E3RzPDASPf
We are pleased to announce that Florian Ebner, curator and head of the Cabinet of Photography at Centre Pompidou, will join us online on December 15th, 2025, to discuss his different approaches to exhibition design. This event marks the second installment in our curators’ talk series, following the third session featuring Che Kyongfa, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, scheduled for January 9th, 2026.
During his presentation, Ebner will share insights from his exhibition projects and innovative curatorial methodologies. He will discuss his most recent project, “Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us” (June 13–September 22, 2025), the final exhibition at Centre Pompidou before the closure for its five-year renovation, as well as his acclaimed work on the German pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Ebner’s talk will particularly focus on his innovative approach to exhibition design making, highlighting how different projects use and recycle existing materials and spaces within exhibition environments.
Florian Ebner is curator and head of Centre Pompidou’s Cabinet of Photography. He studies photography at École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France, and art history, history, and Romance languages and literature at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. With over 30 years of experience in photography and contemporary art, Ebner has held prominent curatorial positions at leading institutions. He served as head of the photography collection at the Folkwang Museum in Essen from late 2012 to 2017, and as director of the Braunschweig Photography Museum from 2009 to 2012. In 2015, he curated the German pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
Venue: Design Commons, 2nd floor, Ohashi Campus of Kyushu University
Language: English
*Online participation is available. To register, please visit:
https://forms.office.com/r/E3RzPDASPf
We are pleased to announce that Florian Ebner, curator and head of the Cabinet of Photography at Centre Pompidou, will join us online on December 15th, 2025, to discuss his different approaches to exhibition design. This event marks the second installment in our curators’ talk series, following the third session featuring Che Kyongfa, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, scheduled for January 9th, 2026.
During his presentation, Ebner will share insights from his exhibition projects and innovative curatorial methodologies. He will discuss his most recent project, “Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us” (June 13–September 22, 2025), the final exhibition at Centre Pompidou before the closure for its five-year renovation, as well as his acclaimed work on the German pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Ebner’s talk will particularly focus on his innovative approach to exhibition design making, highlighting how different projects use and recycle existing materials and spaces within exhibition environments.
Florian Ebner is curator and head of Centre Pompidou’s Cabinet of Photography. He studies photography at École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France, and art history, history, and Romance languages and literature at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. With over 30 years of experience in photography and contemporary art, Ebner has held prominent curatorial positions at leading institutions. He served as head of the photography collection at the Folkwang Museum in Essen from late 2012 to 2017, and as director of the Braunschweig Photography Museum from 2009 to 2012. In 2015, he curated the German pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.