After having studied philosophy and art history in Neuchâtel, Lausanne and Geneva, he began his career as a museum curator in 1992 at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne and then at MAMCO in Geneva. In 1995, he co-founded the CAN (Art Center of Neuchâtel) and was its director until 2000, when he became the director of the Swiss Institute in New York (2000-2006), the director of Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2006-2012), the founding director of Chalet Society in Paris (2012-2016), the director of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan (2016-2019) and, since 2019, the director of MAH Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva.
