Nicolas Ballet is an art historian and associate curator at the Centre Pompidou. He specialises in research into alternative visual cultures, experimental art, sound studies and the avant-garde. He received his PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he teaches contemporary art history. He has written numerous texts exploring the visual and sonic contributions of counter-cultures and experimental artistic practices. He is the author of two books on
Genesis P-Orridge, and has published in
Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne,
Octopus Notes,
Marges,
OpticalSound,
Volume !,
Revue & Corrigée,
Klima, in
Cahiers du CAP and
Histo.art (Éditions de la Sorbonne), as well as in books devoted to the work of Nigel Ayers and Zoe Dewitt. In 2023, he curated the exhibition "
Who You Staring At? Visual culture of the no wave scene in the 1970s and 1980s" at the Centre Pompidou.
