Horya Makhlouf is artistic coordinator and curator of special projects at the Palais de Tokyo since 2024. She is also an art historian, writer and art critic. A graduate of the École du Louvre after three years of preparatory classes for the grandes écoles, she defends the emancipatory capacity of the arts in society by crossing different approaches, borrowing from art history, fiction and the social sciences. In recent years, she has been particularly interested in notions of the archive, representation and the writing of history, and in the role of institutions in promoting contemporary practices. In particular, she has carried out research on the “Contemporary Arab Representations” exhibition, curated by Catherine David from 2001 to 2007, and on the artist Akram Zaatari.
She regularly writes for artists, magazines and art institutions. She has participated in the visual arts section of the podcast L’esprit critique (Mediapart), contributes to the podcasts PQSD (Jeunes Critiques d’Art / Projets Média) and Verni-es (Projets Media), and co-founded the podcast Le Croissant de feu with artists Seumboy Vrainom :€ and Rayane Mcirdi.

Recently, she curated the exhibition “Une Affaire de famille” (CAC Passerelle, Brest, 10.24.2024 – 01.25.2025), the Nuit Blanche program at Césure (Paris, 2023), co-curated“Crush” (with Chris Cyrille-Isaac and Julia Marchand, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, 03.06 – 03.16.2025); “Banlieues Chéries” (with Susana Gállego-Cuesta and Aleteïa (Emilie Garnaud), MNHI, Paris, 04.09 – 08.07.2025); “LA ELLE”, an on-sitework by Renée Levi (with Hugo Vitrani, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2024) and participated to conceive the “Chambre des Echos – Hommage à Akira Toriyama” at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2024).