Charles Aubin

Charles Aubin is co-director of the Centre Pompidou x New Jersey, the French museum’s only branch in the US, scheduled to open in 2026. Previously, Aubin served as Senior Curator & Head of Publications at Performa, where he commissioned and produced new performances, publications, and programs featuring a wide range of artists, architects, and choreographers, including Nairy Baghramian, Jérôme Bel, Julien Creuzet, François Dallegret, Madeline Hollander, Tarik Kiswanson, Yvonne Rainer, Franz Erhard Walther, Mabel O. Wilson, and Haegue Yang. In 2019, Aubin coedited "Bodybuilding: Architecture and Performance," the first book to survey the use of live performance by architects. Between 2015 and 2018 he also served as curator for the inaugural program of Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, where he co-organized the last major exhibition of Lutz Bacher and founded the annual dance festival "Échelle Humaine." At the helm of the Centre Pompidou x New Jersey, Aubin rejoins the institution that gave him his first curatorial position between 2006 and 2010. Aubin received his Master of Humanities in 2006 from Sciences Po (Paris) and pursued graduate studies in Historical & Critical Studies at the Royal College of Art (London). His writing has appeared in Artforum, ArtPress, Critique d’art, and Frieze.