Vit à : Marseille , France
Axel Fried (1996) is an art critic and independent exhibition curator. Member of the CEA – French Association of Exhibition Curators -, he was first in charge of programming at Cube Garges, where he co-curated about ten new media art exhibitions, focusing on the political and aesthetic mutations induced by new technologies. Among these, IA, qui-es-tu ? (2021) takes the form of a conversation with a chatbot about the machine condition, Le miroir d’un moment Mirror of a Moment (2023) explores the regime of the face as a technical object, Derrière les étoiles (2024) questions the links between optical techniques and spatial imaginaries. He writes for specialized media (Institut Mines-Télécom, Paris, Revue EAC de l’Académie de Versailles, Fisheye Immersive, etc.), cultural institutions (French Institute of Rome, Espace d’Art contemporain Le Carré, Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Galerie Pact, etc.) and artists (Younès ben Slimane, Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Iri Berkleid, Yosra Mojtahedi, Benjamin Sabatier, Théo Viardin…). He is currently developing curatorial devices at the crossroads of exhibition and spatially deployed novels. In 2025, he received the Wicar Prize from the French Institute of Rome and the City of Lille. From his residency in Rome, the exhibition Les Anamnèses and the collection of texts of the eponymous collection of texts will be presented in Lille in February 2026.