Madeleine Schuppli is a curator and lecturer in contemporary art. She was a curator at Kunsthalle Basel, director of the Kunstmuseum Thun, and director of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. Currently, she is president of the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

She studied art history at the Universities of Geneva, Hamburg, and Zurich and obtained an MAS in Cultural Management from the University of Basel. From 1996 to 2000, she was a curator at Kunsthalle Basel, where she was responsible for exhibitions with Mona Hatoum (1998) and Maurizio Cattelan (La nona hora, 1999). She led the Kunstmuseum Thun from 2000 to 2007. There, she curated exhibitions with artists such as Christoph Büchel & Gianni Motti (2002), Pierre Bismuth (2005), and Mark Grotjahn (2007). Madeleine Schuppli was the director of the Aargauer Kunsthaus from 2007 to 2019, during which time she curated exhibitions with Mark Wallinger (2008), Fiona Tan (2010), Christian Marclay (2015), and Su-Mei Tse (2018) as well as major thematic exhibitions such as Swiss Pop Art (2017), Cinema mon Amour (2017), and MASK (2019). From 2020 to 2022, she was the head of the Visual Arts Department at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Since 2022, she has been living as a freelance curator in Zurich and realized a double exhibition with Wade Guyton & Rebecca Warren for the Bechtler Foundation (2023) and the exhibition Hannah Villiger: Amaze me (2023) for the Muzeum Susch.