Sarah Lolley, born in 1996.
Lives and works between Paris and Nouméa.
Co-founder and president of the curatorial collective emploi fictif
Co-founder and vice-president of the curatorial collective espace projectif
Sarah Lolley is a young independent curator and art critic with a degree in Art History & Archaeology (ICP), a Master’s 1 & 2 in Contemporary Art History Research (Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), and a professional Master’s 2 in “Contemporary Art and its Exhibition” (Sorbonne University). She co-founded the curatorial collective espace projectif in 2019, serving as its vice-president until 2023. In 2020, she co-founded emploi fictif with Camille Velluet, a curatorial duo that highlights emerging art and curation through various exhibition and publication projects.
Alongside these initiatives, she contributes to numerous projects in mainland France, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and beyond. She dedicates part of her research to issues in contemporary art in the South Pacific, where she lived for many years, and to post-colonial art more broadly. Her interests also include liminal spaces, those who take alternative paths, and intimate architectures, among other topics.
In 2021, she was awarded the AWARE research grant on the history of women artists. In 2023, she received one of the two Travel and Research Grants for Young Curators from the Bureau des Arts Plastiques of the French Institute in Berlin. In June 2024, she was co-awarded the Dauphine Prize for Contemporary Art and received the Jury Prize.
In January 2023, she co-founded the exhibition space nonono, serving as its artistic co-director until January 2024. Since 2023, she has regularly supported the projects of the curatorial duo Anna Labouze & Keimis Henni as an artistic coordinator. In January 2024, she co-founded the pôle emploi fictif with Camille Velluet, a support network for young curators in France.