Paul Ardenne

| occupation = Professor, critic, curator | image = Paul Ardenne in 2022.jpg | image_size = | caption = Ardenne in 2022 | name = Paul Ardenne }} Paul Ardenne (born 4 October 1956) is Professor of history at the University of Amiens, and is also an art critic and a curator in the field of contemporary art.

He grew up in a family of farmers from Charente (for a while he, too, worked in farming), he studied literature, history and philosophy at the University of Poitiers and University of Toulouse, before completing a doctorate in history of art with Laurence Bertrand Dorléac at the University of Paris I (''Contemporary Fine Art – Forms and Constraints''). In Paris, he encountered the future contemporary art curator, Ami Barak, as well as Catherine Millet, founder/director of Art Press and José Alvarez, director of the publishing label Regard three figures whose positions on aesthetics influenced his own views. Provided by Wikipedia