Guilhem André

Dr. Guilhem André is Acting Director for Scientific, Curatorial and Collections Management at Louvre since July 2023. He oversees the museum’s curatorial strategy and the development of its narrative and growing collection, ensuring it caters to visitors from all corners of the world.

For the past five years, Dr. André was the Chief Curator for the Middle-Ages and Asian arts spearheading the curation and development of the museum’s acclaimed permanent collection and aligning the acquisition process in the museum by setting up its policies and procedures. He has also played a significant role in training and teaching the team at Louvre Abu Dhabi sharing his expertise as archaeologist and art historian.

Dr. André has worked with Louvre since 2012 where he started working as curator for the Louvre Abu Dhabi project at Agence France-Muséums and relocated to Abu Dhabi in 2016. During this period, he designed a program for Asian arts, started building the collections and oversaw the museum’s completion from the curatorial side.

He began his career as an assistant curator at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris, in 2001 actively participated in numerous exhibitions across Europe, Asia, and the Gulf before creating the chair of Far Eastern Art History at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

From 2001-2008, he also worked at the department of Chinese art, Musée Guimet in Paris developing, implementing an international multidisciplinary scientific program on East Asian archaeology, from field research to museum exhibition. Prior to this, he was an advisor at the Ministry of Culture in France where he prepared an agreement with the Municipality of Chengdu to strengthen cross-cultural and archaeological cooperation between France and China.

Dr. André holds a PhD (2007) from University of Paris IV Sorbonne and was Senior Lecturer at Ecole du Louvre, Chair of Far Eastern Arts (2013-2015), and Lecturer at Catholic University of Paris Faculty of Humanities, Department of Art History.

Dr. André is fluent in French, English, Mandarin and reads Classical Chinese.