Anissa Touati is a French independent curator trained as an archaeologist. She is curator-at-large at Paris Internationale, guest curator at MAH Geneva, guest curator at Fondation Thalie (Brussels) and artistic director of the Pavilion for a Mediterranean Nation at the Lagos Biennale 2023-2024 (Nigeria). She was artistic director of Contemporary Istanbul - a project for which she built a program of reflection around the question of Mediterraneanism - and associate director of the Chalet Society in Paris.