Denis Pernet is a curator and writer educated as an artist at Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts Geneva where is was an assistant for three years. For more than ten years he has worked as a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video and sound, with a focus on transdisciplinary formats. Working as an independent curator he began his institutional career at Geneva Contemporary Art Center where he curated numerous exhibitions by emerging artists, as well as exhibitions that linked to contemporary discourses.
Currently, he is director of « La nuit des musées » in Lausanne. He has also edited numerous catalogs in the field of contemporary art, and has collaborated to several art magazines.