Yvannoé Kruger
Yvannoé Kruger is curator and director of Poush. Trained at the University of the Arts London (LCC and Central Saint Martins), he approaches his role as a thoughtful and committed guide, focused on creating fertile contexts for artists. He brings together people who observe, write, transmit, and experiment—fostering intersections between practices, voices, and materials.
Positioned between support and disruption, he creates situations where art can be experienced, transformed, and opened to new forms of narrative and reception. After an initial career in fiction and documentary filmmaking, he joined the Palais de Tokyo in 2011, working there until 2015 on a vibrant programme combining performances, installations, and festivals—closely connected to the emerging scene and its spaces of invention.
In 2018, with Manifesto, he initiated L’Orfèvrerie, located in the former Christofle factory in Saint-Denis, bringing together several major figures of the contemporary French art scene. Since 2020, he has guided the development of Poush, a constantly evolving space that has become a key player in the contemporary art landscape. Now based in a former perfume factory in Aubervilliers, Poush hosts over 270 artists from more than 30 nationalities.
It serves as a space for work, research, and exhibitions, as well as a meeting ground for diverse practices, geographies, and sensibilities. He has curated more than thirty exhibitions in France and internationally, with projects at venues such as Château La Coste, the Zhi Art Museum (Chengdu), the Collection Lambert, the Monnaie de Paris, the Théâtre National de Chaillot, the Grand Palais, the Pavillon Vendôme, and Nuit Blanche.
His work explores the role that artists can play in society undergoing transformation—and the ways in which art can inhabit public, institutional, or emotionally charged spaces. He is frequently invited to speak at conferences, seminars, and juries for institutions such as EHESS, Beaux-Arts de Paris, La Sorbonne, the Ministry of Culture, Penninghen, Sciences Po, and the Grand Paris development agency (SGP). In 2024–2025, he served as President of the Rencontres Carrés sur Seine.
