“This conversation promises to be a profound exploration of art's relationship with the environment, offering insights into the artist's process, the beauty of the natural world and climate impact."

Dorothée Charles is Cultural & Artistic Development Director at Cartier North America. For the past 10 years, she has been based in New York City, where she established and developed the Art and Culture department. Her notable exhibition projects include Bernie Krause’s “The Great Animal Orchestra” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (2021) and at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (2023), as well as “The Yanomami Struggle” at The Shed in NYC (2023) in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris.

From 2017 to 2019, Charles served as the Executive Director of the Anne Fontaine Foundation, focusing on the environmental reforestation of the Mata Atlântica Forest in Brazil. Prior to this, between 2013 and 2017, she promoted French visual arts, architecture, and design in the United States at the Cultural services of the French Embassy in NYC, leading and collaborating on significant projects such as Art2 in 2014 in New York, the Night of Philosophy in 2015, and Oui Design from 2015 to 2016 in New York and Miami. She also coordinated The Méthode Room residency in Chicago and develop the Etant donnés program to foster exchanges between French and American artists.

Previously, Charles worked in prestigious institutions in France, where she was curator at the Decorative Art Museum in Paris; professor at Science Po Institute and head of the publication Department at the Cartier Foundation.