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Nicolas Bourriaud (born 1965) is a French curator and art critic. From 1999 to 2006 he was co-founder and co-Director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris together with Jerôme Sans. He was founder & director of the magazine Documents sur l'art (1992-2000), and correspondent in Paris for Flash Art (1987-95).

Bourriaud is best known among English speakers for his publications Relational Aesthetics (2002) and Postproduction (2000). Relational Aesthetics in particular has come to be seen as a defining text for a wide variety of art produced by a generation who came to prominence in Europe in the early 1990s. Bourriaud coined the term in 1995, in a text for the catalogue of the exhibition "Traffic" that was shown at CAPC contemporary museum[1] in Bordeaux. See the full article for more.

In Postproduction (2000), Nicolas Bourriaud relates deejaying to contemporary art. He lists the operations DJs apply to music and relates them to contemporary art practice:

• Crossfading
• Pitch-control
• Rapping/ MCing
• Cutting
• Playlists

Bibliography

• Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics, 2002, Paris: Presses du réel
• Nicolas Bourriaud, Formes de vie. L’art moderne et l’invention de soi, 1999, Paris: Editions Denoël
• Nicolas Bourriaud, Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World, 2000, New York: Lukas & Sternberg

Curated exhibitions (selection)

• Courts Métrages Immobiles, Venice Biennale, 1990
• Aperto, Venice Biennale, 1993
• Commerce, Espace St Nicolas, Paris, 1994
• Traffic, Capc Bordeaux, 1996
• Joint Ventures, Basilico Gallery, New York, 1996
• Le Capital, CRAC Sète, 1999
• Contacts, Kunsthalle Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2000
• Négociations, CRAC, Sète, 2000
• Touch, San Francisco Art Institute, 2002
• GNS (Global Navigation System), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003
• Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004
• Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006