Vita
Studied Political Science at Sciences Po, Aix-en-Provence and Art History at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Earned a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University / Centre André Chastel in Paris with the dissertation Art & Language’s Indexes (1972–1999). Forms and Functions of the Conversation.
From 2022 to 2023, Research Assistant at the documenta Institut, Kassel (under the supervision of Felix Vogel); since then, Associate Researcher at documenta Institut, Kassel. 2024: Research Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre, London. 2024–2022: Annual Fellow at the German Forum for Art History (DFK), Paris (under the supervision of Peter Geimer and Georges Didi-Huberman). Teaching positions at the Université Jules-Verne in Amiens, the Sorbonne University in Paris, and the Université de Lorraine in Nancy.
Main research areas
Conceptual Art History
British Contemporary Art History
Cultural History and Artistic Creation
Politics and Epistemology in Art since the 1960s
Publications (selection)
Mège, Louis-Antoine (coming soon): Permutations et perturbations dans l’Index: Wrongs Healed in Official Hope (1999) d’Art & Language. In: Geimer, Peter; Didi-Huberman, Georges (Ed.): Message ou bruit? Sur la lisibilité des images, Paris, DFK.
Mège, Louis-Antoine (coming soon): Art & Language: un art conceptuel sans (petite) histoire? In: Revue Communications.
Mège, Louis-Antoine: La conversation d’Art & Language: cartographie d’une pratique conceptuelle en mutation (1972-1982). In: Savoirs en prisme, Nr. 19, 2025, pp. 98-124.
Mège, Louis-Antoine: Répétition et distanciation. Les “ateliers” dans le renouvellement de la pratique d’Art & Language. In: Massin, Marianne; Périot-Bled, Gaëlle (Ed.): Répéter, refaire, reprendre, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2025, pp. 205-218.
Mège, Louis-Antoine; Mrgan, Lejla; Stoica, Paula; Spathoni, Anthi-Danae (Ed.) (2025): Fear of Knowledge? Sonderausgabe Periskop: Forum for Kunsthistorisk Debat, Nr. 33.
Mège, Louis-Antoine (2023): L’art conceptuel à la lumière de l’ekphrasis. Peinture et langage à l’origine d’Art & Language. In: Theory and Criticism of Literature & Arts, Sonderausgabe Reversed Ekphrasis: Verbal Imagery/Imaging Words, Bd. 7, Nr. 1, April 2023, pp. 63–89.
Academic conferences and workshops (selection)
09 | 2026: Conceptual Art in the Expanded Field: Past, Present, Future, international workshop, in collaboration with Anja Delz, Paula Stoica, and Emma Wils, University of Basel, Basel.
10 | 2025: Mrs. Malaprop, A Conceptual Ventriloquist: Continuities and subversions in the Art & Language’s conversation (1970s–1990s), international conference In Conversation with Virginia Wolf and other Modernists: From Modernism to Contemporary Revisions of the Art of Conversation, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-Marseille Université.
11 | 2024: Les formalismes d’Art & Language (1966–1976), as part of the seminar Pour la forme, by Larisa Dryansky, Sorbonne-Université, Paris.
12 | 2023 ‚Art for Society?‘ Polémique et politique dans la pratique conceptuelle d’Art & Language (Angleterre, circa 1979) in the seminar „Arts et Société“, by Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac and Thibault Boulvain, Sciences Po, Paris.
10 | 2023 Analytique, linguistique... anecdotique? Un autre regard sur la démarche conceptuelle d’Art & Language entre petite histoire et histoire culturelle (1970-2000) in the seminar Et pour la petite histoire by Emmanuel Guy and Déborah Laks, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris.
09 | 2023 Message or Noise? On the Readibility of the Images, conference in collaboration with Guillaume Blanc-Marianne, Max Bonhomme, Georges Didi-Huberman, Sarah Flitti, Peter Geimer, Francesca Golia, Marie Schiele, Anna Siebold, Élodie Vaudry, DFK-INHA, Paris.
05 | 2023 Text Troubles. Writings Between Arts and Philosophy, Workshop in collaboration with Yazan Alloujami and Marie Schiele as part of the seminar Histoire de l’art et philosophie under the direction of L. Dryansky, V. Mavridorakis, M. Massin and G. Périot-Bled, INHA-Sorbonne-Université, Paris.
10 | 2022 ‚’Bibliotherapy’ or the Effect of Bibliography in the Conceptual Approach of Art & Language, internationale Konferenz Fear of Knowledge: Artists’ Book Collections, NORDIK-Konferenz, online.
10 | 2022 Challenging the Museum: documenta as Para-Museum. Functions and Frictions as illustrated by Harald Szeemann’s documenta V (1972), with Felix Vogel and Paula Stoica, international conference Reinventing museology. The role of conceptual art, Fondation Maison Science de l’Homme/Universidade Lusofona, Paris.
03 | 2022 ‚A Place to Work‘. Après Courbet, politique de l’atelier dans la démarche conceptuelle d’Art & Language, international conference Courbet, un atelier sans fin, Pôle Courbet/INHA, Ornans.