Born in Geneva, Corinne Diserens studied art history at Université Panthéon Sorbonne Paris 1, and was Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program (New York). She first worked as a curator at the IVAM-Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centre Julio Gonzales in Valencia and was director of the Musée de Marseille (1996–1999), the Musée des Beaux–Arts de Nantes (2001–2005) and Museion- Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Italy.Since 2011 she has been the director of the École de Recherche Graphique (erg) in Brussels. Diserens curated thematic and retrospective exhibitions, and monographs dedicated to artists such as Oskar Schlemmer, Eva Hesse, Gordon Matta-Clark, Trisha Brown, Dan Graham, Lygia Clark, Dieter Roth, David Goldblatt, Santu Mofokeng, Francis Alys, Marcel Broodthaers, among others.