Martine d'Anglejan-Chatillon

Founder and CEO at MDAC Productions

Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon is a leading figure in the international contemporary art world. Today, d’Anglejan-Chatillon is founder of MDAC, London, which structures and delivers special projects by celebrated international artists working alongside their commercial galleries. She is currently working with Philippe Parreno, Lawrence Lek, John Gerrard and others

d’Anglejan-Chatillon co-founded Thomas Dane Gallery, London, in 2004 where as Partner for 12 years she collaborated with celebrated international artists , museums, collectors and biennales working to cement the gallery as one of Europe's most respected. She worked with celebrated artists such as Glenn Ligon, Lynda Benglis, Hurvin Anderson, Jean-Luc Moulene. Significantly, he developed a speciality producing artists working in film, video and digital, including Steve McQueen, Akram Zaatari, John Gerrard, Kutlug Ataman by creating strategic alliances with collectors, philanthropists, institutions, broadcasters and digital platforms to make such works available to the broadest of audiences.

In 2016, she was named Executive Producer at Phenomen Films UK to oversee the release of DAU, one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken in art cinema. Its world premiere in Paris 2019 took place at le Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre de la Ville and Centre Pompidou in an unprecedented durational event which was held 24/7 for 30 days and included hundreds of screenings and live events - with performers such as Brian Eno, Theodore Currentzis and ARCA and the participation of legendary film stars from Depardieu, to Huppert, Adjani, Bellucci and Ardant.

In the institutional sector, d’Anglejan-Chatillon was appointed to the board of Somerset House in July 2019. The Moving Image Fund for Museums was created by d'Anglejan-Chatillon and Thomas Dane and launched in 2015 in partnership with The Art Fund. In the past, she has worked to pioneer new models of large-scale private and corporate philanthropy here in the UK, as founding member of the National Gallery Trust Office, London; and abroad, via her work managing monumental projects with the Rothschild Foundation, London. She has served as Head of Development at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and has served on the board for the Felix Trust for Art, and the Film & Video Umbrella, and the development boards of The Showroom London and The ICA.

d'Anglejan-Chatillon is a Culture Editor at-large for newly launched Cloakroom Magazine.