For over 15 years, Anne Picq has worked to make art more accessible and promote its role in society. Her practice and research connect art, education, and social innovation.
Anne previously served as Director of Education, Public Programs, and Visitor Experience at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Beaux Arts Magazine in Paris. Based in Lausanne, she has worked in Paris, New York, and Milan. She speaks French, English, and Italian.
To make art more accessible and inclusive, Anne develops innovative programs both within and beyond museum walls—in schools, hospitals, prisons, and community-based organizations.
Her current research focuses on the intersections of art and disability. In December 2025, she was co-scientific director of the symposium Art & Disabilities and is now co-directing a research program led by the Fondation Hartung-Bergman.
She lectures in museology, cultural management, and contemporary art at university and executive levels. Her background spans philosophy, art history, journalism, and cultural management. She holds master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor’s degree from La Sorbonne.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
ISTITUTO MARANGONI, Florence / Course “Museology of the Contemporary”, Master Curating Art and Fashion / Course “Anthropology of Art”, BA Arts Curating and Multimedia Arts, 2024-2025
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO / Lecture “Coinvolgere il pubblico e gli artisti: interpretazione e pratiche di mediazione partecipativa verso la giustizia sociale”, December 2023
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA / Lecture “Arte e Innovazione sociale”, October 2022
24ORE BUSINESS SCHOOL, Milan & Rome / Lecture for the Master Economia e Management per l’Arte e la Cultura, 2021-2024
SCIENCES PO, Paris / Guest speaker, Master Cultural Policy & Management, October 2020, September 2021
UNIVERSITÀ BOCCONI, Milan / Guest lecturer, Master Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment, February 2021
PENNINGHEN, Paris / Cours de culture générale, 2011-2012
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION & ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
SCIENCES PO, Paris / Séminaire Arts & Sociétés, Centre d’histoire, Lecture in January 2026
FONDATION HARTUNG-BERGMAN, France / Art & Disabilities symposium & research program, 2025-2027
GALLERIE D’ITALIA ACADEMY, Milan & Turin / Lectures and project work coordination, corso di alta formazione in “Gestione dei patrimoni artistico-culturali e delle collezioni corporate”, 2023-2026
INSTITUT NATIONAL DU PATRIMOINE, Paris / Lecture “The curator: a major player for Art and Cultural Education”, November 2015
COLLABORATIONS WITH CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS
FONDATION HARTUNG-BERGMAN, Antibes / Educational outreach programs for local schools, 2021-2025
FONDATION CARTIER POUR L’ART CONTEMPORAIN & TRIENNALE MILANO, Milan / Audience development & educational workshops, during the exhibition Raymond Depardon, La Vita Moderna, October 2021 - June 2022
MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY-JACQUES CHIRAC, Paris / Director of Education, Public Programs & Visitor Experience, 2014-2016 / Head of Education, 2013-2016 / Project Manager to the Managing Director, upon opening of the museum, 2006-2008
CORPORATE TRAINING & EXPERTISE
APM Expert / APM is an association of entrepreneurs founded in 1986, active in 38 countries, bringing together more than 8,000 French-speaking business leaders across 430 clubs. During full-day participatory sessions, I share my expertise with groups of leaders from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and industries.
BOTTEGA VENETA / Awareness session on Art & Inclusion during UNIQUE ABILITIES MONTH, for 100 employees based in Veneto, December 2025
KERING / Workshop and special visit for Inclusion & Diversity leaders in Italy, June 2025 & February 2024
MIRAKL / Art & Diversity workshops for US employees, with Boston-based non-profit Artists for Humanity and arts4society, Spring 2021
SCHOOLS & NON-PROFITS
INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION IN PROSECUTION, New York / Art series on human resilience & criminal justice reform, with Aude Adrien, 2020
PS84 & THE FRICK COLLECTION, New York / Art is the Way, an educational partnership between a public school in Manhattan and one of the most prestigious museums in New York City, 2016-2020
TALKS & PANELS
FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE (now L’Alliance New York) / Talk “New York, au cœur de la création contemporaine”, June 2022
CONFÉRENCE NATIONALE DU HANDICAP / Panel discussion: “Inclusion: an innovative and well-meaning society”, alongside France’s President, December 2014
