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Tatyana Franck (born in Geneva on 12 May 1984) is a museum director and nonprofit executive. She was the director of the Photo Élysée museum in Lausanne from 2015 to 2022. She is the current president of the French Institute Alliance Française in New York.[1][2]
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Between the ages of 8 and 12, Franck attended a school for circus performers.[1]When she was 17, she worked for the art printing house Idem.[3]
In 2006, Franck obtained a double degree in Art History and Law from the Sorbonne University in Paris. In 2007, she obtained a master's degree in Business Law and in 2008 a degree in Art Market Law from the University of Lyon.[4]She also received an EMBA-Global Asia from Columbia Business School, London Business School and the University of Hong Kong in 2016.[1][5]
Franck is a former alpine skier. training in Val d'Isère under the guidance of former Olympic champion Patrice Bianchi.[1]She participated in several French, European, and World Championships in the "minime" (12-15 years) and "benjamin" categories and received the award for best skier in Île-de-France in 1996 from Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë. She retired from competition following a torn cruciate ligament.[6]
Between 2006 and 2015, she directed the Claude Picasso archives in Paris and Geneva. In particular, she curated the exhibition "Picasso at Work".[7][1]
In March 2015, Franck was named director of the Lausanne Museum of Photography (Musée de l'Élysée), now known as the Photo Elysée.[1][3] During her tenure as president, she oversaw the construction of a new building to house the museum’s collections at Plateforme 10 in Lausanne.[1][8]In addition to overseeing its move and building the new museum, she has expanded its collections and strengthened its international influence through the development of digital initiatives.[9]She also relaunched the photography magazine ELSE and began allowing donations of artist’s entire archives rather than just deposits.[10][11]As director of the museum, she accepted the Spotlight Award for the Musée de l'Élysée at the Lucie Awards held at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2016.[12][1]
Franck is the niece of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson and Belgian photographer Martine Franck and the daughter of gallery owner Eric Franck.[1][3][10]She has four brothers.[13]
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