Yoyo Maeght – Biography

Who is Yoyo Maeght

Yoyo Maeght works primarily in the art world.

Yoyo Maeght grew up among artists and poets: Miró, Calder, Chagall, Giacometti, Prévert, Malraux, Aragon... who transmitted to her a truly unique artistic sensibility.

Her grandfather, Aimé Maeght, founder of the Maeght Foundation, bequeathed to her his audacity, determination, and passion for all forms of art. She was administrator of the Maeght Foundation, the Maeght Gallery, and CEO of Maeght Éditeur.

Her passion for modern and contemporary art, her expertise, and her desire to promote culture led her to organize exhibitions for museums and art centers, both in France and abroad, as a business leader in the cultural and artistic field, bridging the private and public sectors.

Yoyo Maeght is at once a gallerist, publisher, exhibition curator, magistrate, teacher, and author of books, including the bestseller La Saga Maeght.

Yoyo Maeght designs and curates exhibitions, selecting artworks, conceptualizing them, and overseeing the editorial production of catalogs. She organizes their communication and promotion by bringing together sponsors, partners, and media around her projects.

Very active on social media, her broadcasts are followed by thousands of internet users.

Yoyo Maeght has initiated over fifty international exhibitions.

In the 1980s, long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, she was the first to organize exhibitions in Czechoslovakia: Miró, Braque, Calder in Prague, as well as Aki Kuroda at the Bratislava Museum. She initiated the first Miró exhibition in Turkey. She collaborates on retrospectives presented by major international museums and art centers: Centre Pompidou in Paris, Royal Academy in London, Munster Museum in Germany, Pera Museum in Istanbul, Imperial City Museum in Beijing, TS1 Art Center in Beijing, and Dolan Museum in Shanghai...

Yoyo Maeght oversaw the organization, staging, and communication of the exhibition Giacometti & Maeght, twenty years of friendship, which became the greatest success in the history of the Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

Exhibitions designed or realized by Yoyo Maeght (Selection)

Gasiorowski - Retrospective Centre Pompidou, Paris
Maeght and his artists - Royal Academy of Art, London, Great Britain

Aki Kuroda - National Art Galleries, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Joan Miró - Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Giacometti & Maeght - Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Pablo Palazuelo - Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brazil
The adventure of modernity - Picasso Graphikmuseum, Münster, Germany

Georges Braque - National Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
Aki Kuroda - Dolan Museum, Shanghai, China
Joan Miró - Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
Alexander Calder - City Hall, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Aki Kuroda - Imperial City Museum, Beijing, China
Joan Miró - Taormina Cultural Center, Italy
To the East - TS1 Art Center, Beijing, China
Maeght Publisher - French Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
A collection in the 20th century - ELAC, Lyon
Joan Miró - Paris

Gérard Gasiorowski - Carré d'Art Museum, Nîmes
A 20th century collection - National Museum, Yokohama, Japan
Max Neumann - Essen Museum, Germany
Manolo Valdés - Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence

Aki Kuroda, Sidereal Blue - Bouvet-Ladubay Art Center, Saumur
Thierry Lefort, Fahrenheit - Paris

Jacques Monory - Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, United States
Aki Kuroda - Lapidary Museum, Avignon
Aki Kuroda, Happy Boy in Manhattan - Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, United States

Thierry Lefort, Fahrenheit - Paris

Books

Yoyo Maeght is the author of numerous books, including: Maeght, la passion de l'Art Vivant, published by Editions de La Martinière, or Maeght, L'Art et la Vie, by Editions Gallimard, and the bestseller La Saga Maeght. Author of forewords for exhibition catalogs, she also writes texts in more unexpected works such as: l'Europe à la Carte, by Editions du Cherche Midi, or Albert Ayler, témoignages sur un saint fantôme by Le Mot et le reste...

In La Saga Maeght, Yoyo Maeght traces the public and intimate adventure of her extraordinary family.

The book La Saga Maeght by Yoyo Maeght, with dedication. Link here

La Saga Maeght is above all a tribute to her grandfather.

She retraces the steps of her grandfather, this little boy from the North, an orphan of the 14-18 war, who became a friend of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Gifted, visionary, gallerist, publisher, patron, he built an artistic empire and created, for and with artists, the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. She also evokes the fractures that would dislocate her family.

Yoyo shares memories of a chaotic childhood lived in a whirlwind of openings, parties, exhibitions, projects, failures, and successes, between Paris, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, and New York. She recounts with amusement the complicity that bound her to Miró, Chagall, Braque, Prévert, Montand, Giacometti, and all those who guided her steps from childhood.

Social networks

45,600 + 26,000 followers on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/yoyo.maeght.1
39,900 followers on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/yoyomaeght/

18,000 followers on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoyo-maeght-3a6b4944/

Yoyo Maeght's broadcasts are viewable on:

Film

Yoyo Maeght is co-author of Maeght: A Family Story for Dock en Stock productions, a 52-minute documentary broadcast on Arte. To tell the human adventure of Maeght, she draws on the abundant archives compiled by Aimé Maeght, including numerous filmed documents.

Magistracy - Teaching

In 2003, Yoyo Maeght became a magistrate, a consular judge at the Paris Commercial Court where she presided over the 14th and then the 12th chambers, specializing in handling business difficulties. In 2020, she joined the specialized mediation center, EQUI-T.

Yoyo Maeght teaches at various institutions and schools such as Drouot Formation, IESA - Institut Supérieur des Arts, the EAC group, La Sorbonne, and ICART.

Awards and distinctions

Medal of the City of Paris
Montblanc Culture Award
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters

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Interview with Yoyo Maeght, publisher, gallery owner, and exhibition curator, conducted by IESA art&culture and Connaissance des Arts