Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator, art critic, and theorist internationally recognized for shaping contemporary art discourse. He is best known for developing the concept of Relational Aesthetics in the 1990s, published in 1998, which has had a lasting influence on global artistic practice. He co-founded and co-directed the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (1999–2006), served as Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, London (2007–2010), and was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (2011–2015). He later became Director of MO.CO – Montpellier Contemporain, overseeing the contemporary art center La Panacée, the art school, and the museum. Bourriaud has curated landmark international exhibitions including Altermodern (Tate Triennial, 2009), The Great Acceleration / Art in the Anthropocene (Taipei Biennial, 2014), The Seventh Continent (Istanbul Biennial, 2019), and Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime (Venice, 2022). In 2022 he founded Radicants, an international curatorial cooperative dedicated to addressing global contemporary art. He is also a prolific writer, authoring influential books such as Relational Aesthetics (1998), Postproduction (2002), Radicant (2009), and Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene (2021–22), which continue to frame debates on globalization, cultural hybridity, and the role of art in society.