Imagining the Museum of Tomorrow

The Boghossian Foundation is delighted to welcome Chris Dercon, Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and a leading figure in the museum world, for an inspiring conversation with Jean-Marie Wynants, cultural journalist at Le Soir.

From New York to Berlin, from London to Paris, Chris Dercon has directed some of the world’s most prestigious cultural institutions, including MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, the Volksbühne and the Grand Palais. Today, as head of the Fondation Cartier, he continues to reflect on the future of museums: places of dialogue across disciplines, open to all audiences, and in constant transformation between architecture, art and society.

In this discussion, he will share his vision of the museum of tomorrow – a laboratory of ideas and a living space inspired by the new Fondation Cartier building designed by Jean Nouvel, where artists, thinkers and visitors from all horizons come together.

Born in Belgium in 1958, Chris Dercon is a curator and museum director specialising in the relationship between ancient and contemporary art.
Trained in art history, theatre and film theory at Leiden University, he began his career as an art critic before taking the helm of major institutions in the late 1980s. After holding the position of Head of Exhibitions at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, he went on to direct the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, followed by the Haus der Kunst in Munich and Tate Modern in London. From 2019 to 2023, he chaired the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais in France, and since 2023 he has been Director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

Jean-Marie Wynants is a cultural journalist at Le Soir.

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With Chris Dercon, in conversation with Jean-Marie Wynants

Art talk ◇ 4 December 2025