Clément Delépine to take the lead of Lafayette Anticipations – the Galeries Lafayette corporate Fondation from 17th November 2025, following the next Art Basel Paris show, which he has headed since 2022. He will take over from Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, who has chosen to embark on a new personal and professional challenge and will leave her role in the autumn.
“I would like to thank Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel for everything she has done leading the Fondation over the past six years and I appreciate her energy, vision and hard work, which shaped our programming and bolstered the unique place Lafayette Anticipations occupies in the Parisian and international cultural landscape. The arrival of Clément Delépine represents the start of an exciting new chapter for Lafayette Anticipations in support of contemporary creation.”
Guillaume Houzé, President of Lafayette Anticipations
Clément Delépine’s responsibilities will include working in close collaboration with Guillaume Houzé, President, to help the Fondation enter the next stage of its development to strengthen its positioning in the world of contemporary art in France and around the world. The Fondation will provide artists as well as personalities from the worlds of design, fashion, literature and music with dedicated resources to enable them to produce, connect, experiment and exhibit their creations.
“I feel incredibly fortunate to join Lafayette Anticipations and take over from Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, whose vision I have admired over the past six years. I have considerable affection for this institution and I am honoured by the trust Guillaume Houzé has placed in me. I am looking forward to further affirming its unique positioning on the French and international art scene. It has been a privilege to direct Art Basel Paris and I would like to express my immense gratitude to Noah Horowitz, Vincenzo de Bellis and all the teams at Art Basel for their trust and support.”
Clément Delépine
About
Clément Delépine has been Director of Art Basel Paris since 2022. Having graduated with a master’s degree in social sciences from the University of Lausanne (2009), he started his career at the Swiss Institute in New York, where he worked from 2010 to 2015, before moving on to join the Bortolami Gallery as Director. He returned to Paris in 2016 to co-direct the Paris Internationale independent art fair until 2021. This event has rapidly forged its own identity in the artistic landscape by shining a spotlight on young galleries and emerging artistic practices. Since 2022, he has led Art Basel Paris, where he developed an ambitious and unifying approach, overseeing a cultural programme working in collaboration with public and private institutions in the French capital. He has also served as Art Editor at large since 2020 at Novembre Global, an interdisciplinary platform for expression, guiding individuals and professionals in search of inspiration, new styles and emergent cultural trends.
Set up in October 2013 by the Galeries Lafayette Group, Lafayette Anticipations – Galeries
Lafayette corporate Fondation opened its doors in March 2018 in a 19th-century industrial building renovated by OMA (Rem Koolhaas) located on rue du Plâtre in the heart of the Marais district in Paris. The Fondation is a place of exhibitions and sharing dedicated to the visual and performing arts that invites visitors to discover other ways of seeing, feeling, and listening to today’s world in order to better imagine, thanks to artists, the world of tomorrow. Each year, the Fondation presents through its exhibitions, daring, inspiring, and moving works, offering as many visions of the world as ways of living in it. The emerging music scene is invited to the Closer Music Festival in February, and the performing arts meet the visual arts during the Échelle Humaine Festival in September. The public programme reflects, through talks, conversations, and performances, the ideas that shape and shake up our time. As a vibrant space open to the public, the Fondation also houses The Librairie that stocks titles published by Éditions Lafayette Anticipations, and books related to the programme and social issues, as well as a range of design objets.
