Until now deputy director of culture for the City of Rennes, Delphine Galloy has just been appointed head of the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts, and will take up her new position in January. She succeeds Jean-Roch Bouiller who, after five years in this position, left to direct the collections and the museum of the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine last September.
Delphine Galloy (39 years old) holds a master’s degree in aesthetics and art history. Specializing in medieval art, she became a heritage curator in 2013. She learned her skills at the city of Angers museums, occupying for five years the position of curator in charge of sculptures, art objects and antique and extra collections. -Western. It is in this capacity that she is participating in the reopening of the Pincé museum, the redevelopment of the David gallery in Angers as well as that of the Villevêque castle museum. She also curates several exhibitions such as “Curiosity(s): a certain taste for Elsewhere” (2015) and “Medieval splendors: the Duclaux collection revealed” (2018), both at the Musée des beaux-arts d’Ailleurs. Angers.
Delphine Galloy then heads for Brittany. In 2019, she was appointed head of the heritage department of Rennes, City and Metropolis before becoming, three years later, deputy director of culture, in charge of heritage policy, museums and the City Archives. It is therefore on familiar ground that she arrives at the head of the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts. A position that comes with its share of challenges since the museum plans to inaugurate, by early 2025, a free annex in the Maurepas district with four exhibition rooms and a mediation room.
Founded from revolutionary seizures in 1797, the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts draws a large part of its riches from the prestigious cabinet of curiosities set up by the magistrate and historian Christophe-Paul de Robien (1698-1756). Its very diverse collections combine paintings, sculptures, antiques and art objects. The museum notably preserves a fine collection of Italian primitives and numerous impressionist and symbolist works.
