Chloé Siganos

Chloé Siganos is a French curator and cultural programmer specializing in contemporary live performance and interdisciplinary artistic practices that bring together performance, dance, music, visual arts, and critical thought.

She currently serves as Head of Performing Arts at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), where she oversees strategic direction and artistic programming. Since her appointment in 2019, she has supported major contemporary artists while fostering new voices in theater, dance, performance, and experimental practices.

Her programming, recognized for its interdisciplinarity and boldness, promotes hybrid and immersive projects, supports emerging and experimental artists, reinvents spaces for creation, and offers sensitive and poetic experiences that fully engage audiences.

As a curator of exhibitions and installations, she has collaborated with major artists such as Tim Etchells (“Qu’y a-t-il entre nous?”, Centre Pompidou, 2021), Patti Smith and Soundwalk Collective (“Evidence”, Centre Pompidou, 2022; CCB, Lisbon, 2024), Björk and Aleph (“Nature Manifesto”, Centre Pompidou, 2024), and Mohamed El Khatib (“Le Grand Palais de ma mère”, GrandPalaisRmn, Paris, 2025).

She previously served as Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in Rome (2017–2019) and Lisbon (2010–2014), as Head of Performing Arts / Theatre at the Institut français (Paris, 2015–2017), and as Artistic Coordinator of the music festival FOLISBOA (Paris, 2015). She was also actively involved with the Fondation Nuovi Mecenati, a Franco-Italian foundation dedicated to supporting contemporary artistic creation and fostering cultural cooperation between France and Italy, where she served first as Secretary General and later as Artistic Advisor.

Chloé Siganos is a member of the Permanence Artistique et Culturelle de la Région Île-de-France, sits on the Board of the Biennale de Lyon, and is a former member of the Artistic Committee of the Mondes nouveaux program (2021–2023), a major public commissioning initiative launched by the French government to support contemporary artistic creation as part of the country’s cultural recovery strategy following the COVID-19 crisis. She is a jury member for the 2026–2027 class of the Académie de France à Rome – Villa Medici and sits on the international jury for Évora 2027 (European Capital of Culture).

Having grown up in the Azores, Lisbon, and Tokyo, and lived in Vienna, Rome, and Paris, she speaks five languages (French, Portuguese, English, Italian, and German) and brings an international perspective that deeply informs her curatorial and artistic sensibility.