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(1) Chinese art critic and curator, born 1963 in Guangzhou. He curated the French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and the Chinese Pavilion in 2007. He is the artistic director of MAXXI in Rome. (2) Exhibition organised by J.-H. Martin in 1989 (Centre Pompidou and Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris) which brought together for the first time works of artists from all continents. (3) Wu Zetian (624-705), the only reigning empress in Chinese history. (4) Another exhibition organised by J.-H. Martin (Grand Palais, Paris, 2016) on the principle of free association between works of art and objects of diverse origins from all periods. (5) Anthropologist, chair of anthropology at the Collège de France (2000-19), author of Beyond Nature and
Culture (2005), trans. Janet Lloyd, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Jean-Hubert Martin was director of the Kunsthalle Bern, the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, the Musée des arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, Paris, and the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. He has directed the artistic programmes of the Château d’Oiron and the CAMP, Milan. He has devised decompartmentalized exhibitions by bringing together works of a heterogeneous nature, thus promoting a renewal of perception. He has curated numerous biennials and major exhibitions: Paris-Berlin (1978), Paris-Moscou (1979),
Magiciens de la Terre (1989), Carambolages (2016).