Vincent Normand is an art historian, writer, and occasional curator. He teaches at ECAL / École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, where he is director of the research project Theater, Garden, Bestiary: a Materialist History of Exhibitions. He is codirector and coeditor of Glass Bead, a research platform and journal concerned with transfers of knowledge across art, science, and philosophy, as well as with their practical and political dimensions. He has curated exhibitions at: Centre Pompidou (Paris); LABOR (Mexico City); David Roberts Art Foundation (London); Kadist Foundation (Paris); Fondazione Nomas (Rome); and Forde (Geneva). He gave talks at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), The Artist’s Institute (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Banff Centre (Canada), and the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris). He is also a member of Synapse – Curators International Network at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. His texts have been published in various exhibition catalogs, edited volumes, and journals.