Cécile Giroire
Cécile Giroire is General Curator of Heritage. She has been overseeing the collections of Roman mosaics, paintings, goldsmithery, and silverware held at the Louvre Museum for nearly twenty years. Alongside her teaching activities, mainly at the Ecole du Louvre, she has curated several exhibitions in France and abroad, including the one dedicated to the Emperor Augustus at the Scuderie del Quirinal in Rome and at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais in Paris in 2013-2014, as well as the one on “Rome, the City and the Empire” organized at the Louvre-Lens Museum in 2022. In 2024, she was the general curator of the exhibition, Masterpieces from the Torlonia Collection at the Louvre Museum. Since 2021, Cécile Giroire has been the director of the Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities. She is currently particularly involved in the project to redeploy the Roman collections in the area of the apartments of Anne of Austria and the Court of the Sphinx, which is scheduled to reopen in 2028.
September 2025Special Report
FROM OBJECT FRAGMENTS TO PHANTOM LIMBS
Kader Attia experienced his artistic epiphany at the Louvre. Alongside with Elizabeth Peyton, he has been offered the status of “Hôte du Louvre” by the museum, acting as a fellow-traveller to the museum and holding a studio at the Pavillon de Flore. Amongst the many activities he has developed, including the Artist’s Lessons program, with a final sequence on September 25th, he conceived as seminar entitled What is Missing in the Object. This seminar was held at the museum’s research center, the Centre Dominique Vivant Denon, and brought together members of the curatorial team as well as leading figures from the contemporary world. The questions raised stemmed from both his work and the thinking inherent to the Louvre: how does the lack of an object, the lack in an object, the lack around an object, enable us to extend and clarify our perception of art, of the museum, and of our humanity?
