Céline Kopp will take over the management of the Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art (Mamac) in Nice from January 1, 2026. His appointment was officially announced on September 25, 2025 by the City of Nice. She succeeds Hélène Guenin who left the Mamac in February.
Art historian, Céline Kopp (44) graduated from the Louvre school in Paris and the Royal College of Art in London. After a career as an independent exhibition commissioner, she directed from 2012 to 2022 Triangle-Astéids in Marseille, a contemporary art center of national interest, where she structured a program of exhibitions and artistic residences with an international dimension.
Since 2022, she has managed the store – National Center for Contemporary Art (CNAC) in Grenoble, reopened under her direction after several years of crisis. The store obtained on September 25, 2025 the label of contemporary art center of national interest (Cacin).
Céline Kopp also provided the co-commentarial of the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 as well as Rennes workshops in 2017. She participated in several international juries, such as those of the Villa Medici in Rome or the Villa Albertine in the United States. In total, she organized around forty exhibitions in France and abroad.
Opened in 1990, Mamac is a pillar of Nice cultural life. His collection of more than 1,300 works look at new realism and abstract American expressionism. The new management will have to accompany the rehabilitation of the museum, ensure an off-the-world program for the duration of the work and prepare for the reopening planned for 2029.
Hélène Guenin, who has run the Mamac for nine years, joined the Yves Klein Foundation in Paris in February 2025. She presented this departure as the end of a professional cycle, affirming in the Journal of Arts to want to give way “to new imaginations and other energies”. His departure coincided with certain difficulties in the rehabilitation site, including a change of architect. Since that date, the temporary worker has been provided by Johanne Lindskog, director of the Nice Museum of Fine Arts.
