Thierry Fournier is an artist, curator, author, and teacher. Trained as an architect, he is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Lyon. His practice addresses issues of otherness, co-presence, and sociality through a wide range of often digital media: installations, networked works, photography, video, and drawing. His work is regularly exhibited in France and abroad.
His curatorial approach addresses similar questions on a collective scale. Recent exhibitions include: This Land Is Your Land (Château de Goutelas 2022); Selphish (Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète 2020 with Pau Waelder); Collection Artem (first French public art school collection in Nancy from 2015 to 2020), The Watchers (Mori Tower, Tokyo, 2019); Andrès Baron (Cité internationale des arts 2018). With J. Emil Sennewald, he co-directed the EnsadLab Displays curatorial research workshop at ENSAD, and now teaches L’Exercice du regard contemporary art workshop at Sciences Po Paris. He is a member of C-E-A, Commissaires d’Exposition Associés.
As an author, Thierry Fournier has written on numerous artists and exhibitions. He is artistic director and co-coordinator of the international journal antiAtlas Journal, which addresses the contemporary border stakes and forms. He is frequently invited as an editorial designer by art and humanities research groups (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS IREMAM, Leonardo Olats, Institut Mines-Telecom). His recent publications include Au Capa, un lieu d’art à la Maladrerie, Aubervilliers with Juliette Fontaine and La Main Invisible (Nancy, Empreintes et Digitales).
A campaigner for fairer working conditions for art workers, in 2014 Thierry Fournier co-founded and co-led the group Économie Solidaire de l’Art. He is now pursuing a similar project within the National Network of Hybrid Arts and Digital Cultures (Hacnum).
Thierry Fournier lives and works in the Perche area, France.
Solo shows
2022 – L’Insu, résidence et exposition, Turbulence, Aix-Marseille Université
2020 – Ecotonalia, Aperto, Montpellier (postponed)
2020 – Órganon, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (cat)
2019 – Université Montpellier 3 – Paul Valéry (FR)
2018 – Axolotl, duo show with Laura Gozlan, CAPA, Aubervilliers (FR)
2018 – Machinal, Villa Henry, Nice (FR), cur. Isabelle Pellegrini (cat)
2017 – Heterotopia – Synesthésie, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis (FR) (cat)
2015 – Overflow – Lux Scène nationale de Valence (FR) (cat)
2011 – Hotspot – Contexts (Paris, FR)
2010 – Seul Richard, performance, La Chartreuse CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon (FR)
2009 – Un Geste qui ne finit pas – Lux Scène nationale de Valence
2009 – Point d’orgue – Kawenga art center, Montpellier (FR)
2008 – Step to step — Rennes College of Art (FR) (cat)
2008 – Conférences du dehors – La Chartreuse CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon (FR)
2005 – Reanimation – CCN Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy (FR), with Samuel Bianchini et Nathalie Simon
2003 – Le Trésor des Nibelungen – Carré des Jalles, Saint-Médard en Jalles (FR)
2002 – L’Ombre d’un doute – Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Lyon (FR)
2001 – La Mue de l’ange, performance – Maison de la Culture de Bourges (FR)
2000 – The Nibelungen Treasure – Nibelungen Museum, Worms (DE) (cat)
2000 – La Mue de l’ange, performance – Théâtre de la Ville, Montréal (CA).
2000 – The Nibelungen Treasure – Goethe Institut, Paris (FR)
Curating
2022 – This Land Is Your Land, group show, Château de Goutelas (FR)
2020 – Selphish curated with Pau Waelder, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, FR (cat)
2019 – The Watchers, Tokyo French Institute, Mori Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2018 – Andrés Baron, Mirror Travelling, solo show, Cité internationale des arts, Paris (cat)
2016 – Données à voir (Datas on view), co-curator, La Terrasse, Nanterre
2015 – Augmented Window 05 – La Panacée, Montpellier (cat)
2015 – Augmented Window 04 – Royal Castle of Collioure (cat)
2015 – What is missing – La Panacée, Montpellier (cat)
2013 – Augmented Window 03 – Friche La Belle de mai, Marseille (cat)
2012 – Augmented Window 02 – Prats de Mollo, Eastern Pyrénées (FR) (cat)
2011 – Cohabitation II – Galerie NaNiMa, ENSA Nancy 2011
2011 – Augmented Window I – Centre Pompidou, Paris, (cat)
2011 – Cohabitation I – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy
2008 – Outside Lectures (Conférences du dehors) – Chartreuse / CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon
1997-2004 – Pandore, curatorial project on CD
Group shows (selection)
2023 – L’Evénement photographique, Nancy
2022 – ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Barcelone
2022 – Contre-Visualités, Turbulences, Marseille, cur. Julie Martin
2022 – Maquinas Misticas, Teatros del Canal, Madrid, cur. Charles Carcopino
2022 – Supplementary Elements, Université de Strasbourg, cur. Emeline Dufrennoy
2021 – Instructions Follow, Feral File (feralfile.com), cur. Pau Waelder
2021 – Des Mondes Possibles, Mérignac, cur. Emeline Dufrennoy
2021 – Shared Sacred Sites, Cermodern, Ankara, cur. Dionigi Albera & Manoël Pénicaud
2020 – Muses Algorithmiques, Grrranit Belfort, cur. Pierre Soignon
2020 – Biennale Chroniques, Aix-en-Provence, cur. Mathieu Vabre
2019 – Shared Sacred Sites, Depo Gallery, Istanbul, cur. Dionigi Albera & Manoël Pénicaud
2019 – Aube immédiate, vents tièdes, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier, cur. Victorine Grataloup et Diane Turquety
2019 – Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, cur. Peter Weibel, Natalia Fuchs, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás et Yasemin Keskintepe
2018 – Panorama #20, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing 5FR), cur. José Manuel Gonçalvès
2018 – Fading away, Galerie 22,48 m2, Paris, cur. Céline Flécheux et Rosario Caltabiano
2017 – Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Allemagne), cur. Peter Weibel & Yasemin Keskintepe
2017 – Newwwar, Bandjoun Station Art Center (Cameroon), cur. Marion Zilio
2017 – Le Paradoxe du cartel, Delaunay Gallery, Paris, cur. Isabelle de Maison Rouge
2017 – Variation Art Fair, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, cur. Dominique Moulon
2017 – Sacred sites, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Biennale (Grèce), cur. Thouli Misiroglou
2017 – Language Machines, Fondation Vasarely / Seconde Nature, Aix-en-Provence, cur. Emilie Fouilloux, Corentin Touzet and Mathieu Vabre
2017 – Ososphère, Strasbourg
2017 – Public Pool #3, Commissaires d’exposition associés, FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque (FR)
2017 – Well, I’m the only one here, curated by Jean-Christophe Arcos & Laurent Lacotte, Alma Paris 5FR)
2017 – In Lothringens Fruchtbäume kletterte ich…, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken (DE)
2017 – Chroniques, Seconde Nature / Zinc, Marseille (FR)
2016 – Variation Art Fair, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, cur. Dominique Moulon
2016 – Données à voir (Datas on view), La Terrasse, Nanterre (FR)
2016 – Home Cinema, Daegu Contemporary Art Museum, Korea
2016 – Home Cinema, Printemps de Saint-Sauveur, Lille
2016 – Perceptions, Via (Maubeuge, FR) & Exit (Créteil, FR) festivals, curators Emilie Fouilloux and Vladimir Demoule
2016 – Real Time, Ars Santa Monica, Barcelona (ES), curated by Pau Waelder
2015 – Ososphère Festival, Strasbourg (FR)
2015 – New Cinema Festival, Montreal (CA)
2015 – Renaissance – Lille (FR), curator Didier Fusilier
2015 – Kunst und Kino – State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich (DE), curator Franziska Stöhr
2015 – Home Cinema – VIA (Maubeuge, FR) & EXIT (Créteil, FR), curator Charles Carcopino
2014 – Un moment d’éternité dans le passage du temps – La Terrasse art centre, Nanterre (FR)
2014 – Mémoires d’un amnésique – Maison Populaire, Montreuil (FR)
2014 – Alter narratives – Atsuko Barouh gallery, Tokyo, curator Yukiko Shikata
2014 – Digital Choc Festival – Alliance Française, Tokyo
2014 – The End is the Beginning – The Wand, Berlin
2013 – Bouillants Festival, Rennes
2013 – Silent Rooms – Kawenga (Montpellier), curator Grégory Diguet
2013 – Hors-pistes Festival – Centre Pompidou (Paris)
2013 – Emergences Festival – Lux Scène nationale de Valence
2012 – Fantastic, Lille
2012 – Nuit Blanche, Aubervilliers
2012 – Festival Bouillants, Rennes
2012 – Festival Electroshoc, Bourgoin
2012 – Festival Des Souris et des Hommes – Le Carré des Jalles, St Médard en Jalles
2011 – Gamerz – Vasarely Fondation, Aix-en-Provence
2011 – Nuit Blanche, Aubervilliers
2011 – Rubbing Glances – Salles Poirel, Nancy
2011 – Cohabitation, Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy
2010 – Entrelacs, interactive video for Entrelacs dance project, Lionel Hoche.
2010 – Cohabitation, École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy
2009 – Ososphere Festival, Strasbourg
2009 – Carthage Choreographic Festival, Tunis, Tunisia
2008 – Vers Agrippine (To Agrippine), Kawenga / Montpellier
2008 – Ososphere Festival,Strasbourg.
2008 – Zaragoza International Exhibition 2008 – Monaco pavilion, Zaragoza (Spain).
2008 – Electronic music festival Seconde Nature – La Chartreuse CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon.
2008 – Cube Festival, Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux.
2008 – JIM’08 Festival, GMEA, Albi.
2007 – Montre moi l’œuvre autrement – FRAC Haute-Normandie, curator Marc Donnadieu.
2007 – Outlab – La Bellevilloise, Paris.
2007 – Open 2007 – Lelabo, Paris.
2006 – Les Inaccoutumés Festival – La Ménagerie de verre, Paris.
2005 – Alltag, ein Gebrauchanweisung – Techniches Museum Wien (Austria), curator Susanne Wernsing
2005 – French pavilion, Aichi World Fair (Japan).
2005 – Ars Numerica Festival, Montbéliard.
2004 – Vers Agrippine (To Agrippine) – Lelabo, Paris.
2004 – Vers Agrippine (To Agrippine) – Studio-Théâtre de Vitry.
2003 – Novellum Festival, Toulouse.
2002 – Cyberarts Festival – Goethe Institut, Boston (USA).
2000 – ISEA festival – Le Divan du Monde, Paris.
Grants, residencies, competitions and public commissions
2015 – Expériences interactives, Pictanovo / Nord Pas de Calais Région
2014 – Artist in residence, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil
2013 – Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montréal, special prize of the jury
2013 – ZKM App Award nomination (Karlsruhe, Germany)
2012 – Digital creation grant (Languedoc-Roussillon Region, France)
2011 – Dicréam grant, French Ministry of Culture / CNC
2011 – Winner of Digital Culture competition (Languedoc-Roussillon Region)
2011 – Winner of Futur en Seine competition (Ile de France Region)
2011 – Artem Creation Grant, Nancy
2010 – Residency, La Charteuse / CNES (France) Residency Grant (Languedoc-Roussillon Region)
2009 – Commission by Technisches Museum Wien (Austria)
2008 – Dicréam grant, French Ministry of Culture / CNC
2008 – Residency, La Chartreuse / CNES (France)
2007 – Winner of competition for Monaco Pavilion, Zaragoza World Fair (Spain)
2007 – Digital Creation Grant (Languedoc-Roussillon Region)
2006 – Commission by Technisches Museum Wien (Austria)
2006 – Residencies at Arcal Lyrique and Avant-Rue, Paris (France)
2005 – Dicréam grant, French Ministry of Culture / CNC
2005 – Winner of competition for French Pavilion, Aichi World Fair (Japan)
2005 – Residency, Mains d’Œuvres, Saint-Ouen (France)
2004 – Public commission, Navel Garden, Pougne-Hérisson (France)
2004 – Public commission, Studio-Théâtre de Vitry (France)
2003 – Public commission and residency, Institut de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges
2000 – Public commission, 21th Century Celebration, French Ministry of Culture
2000 – International Grant, Arts Council of Canada
1998 – Winner of Nibelungen Museum Worms competition (Germany) with A+H
Lectures and panels (selection)
2018 – Talk with Fabienne Grasser-Fulchéri, art critic, curator and head of Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Villa Henry, Nice, March 24
2018 – Panel, L’Artiste et le commissaire, INHA, February 3
2017 – Presentation, Taxi Tram, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Saint-Denis, June 24
2017 – Performed lecture, Public Pool #3, C-E-A Commissaires d’Exposition Associés, FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, March 25
2017 – Panel, IMéRA, Marseille, February 15
2017 – Panel, Orange Labs, January 17
2017 – Lecture, ENSCI Les Ateliers, January 11
2016 – Performed lecture, Public Pool #2, C-E-A Commissaires d’Exposition Associés, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, December 6
2016 – Lecture, Ecole nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, November 25
2016 – Lecture, Ecole d’architecture Paris Malaquais, 21 novembre 2016
2016 – Rencontre, Tram, La Terrasse Espace d’art de Nanterre, 5 novembre 2016
2016 – Lecture, Ecole supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence, November 2
2016 – Panel, YIA Art Fair, October 22
2016 – Panel (moderator) with Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, October 11
2016 – Panel Versions (co-organiser), EnsadLab Displays, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, September 5 to 16
2016 – Table ronde (moderator) with J. Emil Sennewald, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, June 24
2016 – Panel with Pierre Carniaux, Le Cadran, Evreux, April 16
2016 – Panel (moderator) with Marion Zilio, Maison Populaire, March 18
2016 – Lecture, Université Paris 1 La Sorbonne, February 17
2016 – Lecture, Ecole supérieure d’art d’Orléans, March 23th
2016 – Master Class, Synesthésie, January 9
2015 – Lecture, Université Paris 7, November 25th, invited by Céline Flécheux
2015 – Lecture, Université Montpellier 3, November 23th, invited by Claire Châtelet
2015 – Lecture, Centre d’arts plastiques d’Aubervilliers, November 13th
2015 – Lecture at Maison des arts de Créteil, April 1st
2015 – Panel: Phenorama research group, ENSCI, Paris, March 23th
2015 – Lecture at ESACM – Clermont-Ferrand College of arts, March 6th
2015 – Panel: Art and economy , Transmediale, Berlin, January 31th
2014 – Lecture at Taxi Tram, Maison Populaire de Montreuil, November 25th
2014 – Lecture, Synesthésie, Médiathèque de Saint Denis, September 27th
2014 – Panel: Les Écrans tactiles mobiles, Université de Poitiers, June 13th
2014 – Panel: Les Ecrits du numérique, Alphabetville, Marseille, March 6th
2014 – Lecture at Japanese French Institute, Sapporo, February 27th
2014 – Lecture at Japanese French Institute, Tokyo, February 25th
2013 – Lecture at La Panacée, Montpellier, November 22th
2013 – Lecture at Paul Valéry University, Montpellier, November 5th
2013 – Lecture at New Cinema Festival, Montréal, October 16th
2013 – Lecture at Expérimenta, Grenoble, October 11th
2013 – Lecture at Rendez-vous électroniques Festival, Pau, June 15th
2013 – Panel: Augmented window 03 project, Friche La Belle de Mai, May 18th
2013 – Lecture at Bouillants #5 Festival, Les Champs Libres, Rennes, May 3th, sur Soundcloud
2013 – Panel: Nice to meet you, Zinc / Marseille with Nicolas Feodoroff, march 10th
2013 – Lecture at Festival 100%, Montpellier, February
2012 – Panel: iDate, Montpellier, November
2012 – Panel: Dizain, Designers interactifs, Le Divan du Monde / Paris, November
2012 – Panel at UTC Compiègne, Espace Legendre, Compiègne, April
2012 – Lecture at Scène nationale d’Evreux with Pierre Carniaux, January
2011 – Lecture at Rennes II University, Digital Creation Master, November
2011 – FITG2 – ArtLab panel, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporaine, September
2011 – Nice to meet you panel, Zinc / Marseille with Jean Cristofol, June
2011 – Panel: History and transmission, Valence College of Arts, May
2010 – Panel: Pierre Schaeffer, an archeology of the future, CCAM, Vandœuvre les Nancy, December 9th
2010 – Panel: Research and Creation, Ensa Nancy, April 30th
2009 – Lecture at École Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, Poitiers, December 4th
2009 – Lecture at ENSAD – École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris, March 18th
2009 – Panel: Images en scène, Lux – Scène nationale de Valence, march 27th
2009 – Lecture at Images en scène, Lux – Scène nationale de Valence, march 28th
2009 – Lecture at Metz College of Arts, introduction and moderator Christian Globensky, December 1st.
2008 – Lecture at Rennes College of Arts, introduction and moderator Luc Larmor, septembre 24th
2008 – Lecture at Sciences Po Paris, introduction and moderators Frédérique Aït-Touati and Valérie Pihet, May 15th
2008 – Panel: Sonde 08 # 02 – Ecriture et dispositifs, La Chartreuse – CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon, April 22th
2008 – Panel: Sonde 08 # 01 – Mutations de l’écriture, La Chartreuse – CNES, February 15th
2008 – Lecture at Rennes College of arts, moderator Luc Larmor, January 22th
2007 – Lecture at La Chartreuse – CNES, Villeneuve lez Avignon, moderator Franck Bauchard, October 26th
2007 – Panel: Outlab 2007 / CITU, La Bellevilloise, Paris, moderation Martine Bour and Christophe Leclerc, November 19th
2007 – Panel: Art oriented programming, LAM-LETA, Nancy College of arts, moderator Samuel Bianchini, October 20th
2007 – Lecture at Kawenga, Montpellier, moderator Grégory Diguet, February 6th
2006 – Lecture at 4th Monaco International Dance Biennale, December 10th
2006 – Panel: Pixel : Computer graphics, softwares and anthropology, Art-Map, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, moderators E. Grimaud, S. Houdart and A. Deshayes (Avignon College of Arts), October 5th
2006 – Lecture, The Feedback and the Musical Creation, GRAME, Lyon, March 17th
2006 – Lecture at Rennes Colege of arts, moderator Luc Larmor, March 9th
2006 – Lecture at Documentation Center for Contemporary Music, moderator Catherine Vayne and Jean-Baptiste Barrière, January 12th
2005 – Lecture at Emergence festival, Confluences, Paris with Samuel Bianchini, September 25th
2005 – Lecture at Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux, moderator Carine Le Malet, April 10th
2004 – Lecture at Navel Museum, Pougnes-Hérisson, moderator Cécile Renault, May 6th
2002 – Lecture at Lyon Natural History Museum, moderators and discussion Michel Côté and Hervé Groscarret, December 5th
2001 – Lecture at Goethe Institut, Boston (USA) with O. Auber, E. Berriet and B. Hoge, moderator Claudia Ahn-Rahbe, May 5th