François Quintin studied art history at the École du Louvre and at the university, as well as curatorial training at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 1994, he became one of the curators of the Fondation Cartier, a position he held until 2000. The following year, he was appointed director of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, which he left in 2007 to take over as director of the Xippas Gallery. In 2011, he launched the Lafayette Anticipations project, Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette with Guillaume Houzé, director of image for the Galeries Lafayette group. After several years at the head of the prefiguration and conceptualization of the Foundation's project, largely based on production assistance, he is the artistic director of the venue which opens its doors in 2016. In 2019, he joins the Direction générale de la création artistique (DGCA) at the Ministry of Culture.

Katinka Bock's approach involves a discursive understanding of sculpture. The form is often the result of a working process in which the rational and the unexpected response to each other.

Her work now occupies an important place on the international art scene. Her work is represented by galleries Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), Meyer Riegger (Berlin) and Greta Meert (Brussels). 

Noted for her sculpture work, in 2012 she received the 14th Ricard Foundation Prize and the Dorothea von Stetten Prize in Germany. She is also a resident at Villa Medicis in 2012-2013. 

Katinka Bock presented a travelling exhibition project at the Kunst Museum Winterthur, the MUDAM in Luxembourg and the IAC in Villeurbanne. Her work was also presented at Lafayette Anticipations for her solo show Commotion in Higienópolis and at the Pivô art centre in São Paulo in an exhibition entitled Avalanche. She is nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2019.

She has graduated at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (2004) and has a post-diploma from the National School of Fine Arts of Lyon (2005),