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Thierry FOURNIER
Artiste, curateur et auteur

Biography


Centre-Val de Loire

Thierry Fournier is a visual artist, curator, author and publisher. He trained as an architect, graduating from the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Lyon. His practice (photography, imagery, video, installations) reappropriates everyday objects or situations to create moments of radical otherness that challenge the boundaries between the human and the non-human. His works are regularly exhibited in France and internationally.

Often linked to research and/or publishing projects, his curatorial approach explores the ways in which works coexist with one another and with their locations and contexts.

Thierry Fournier is also a publisher in the field of arts and sciences. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris, where he leads the contemporary art workshop *L’Exercice du regard*.

In 2024, *Thierry Fournier, L’Espace de l’entre* was published, the first monograph on his practice (edited by Claire Chatelet and Juliette Fontaine, Pandore Éditions x Les Presses du réel).

Thierry Fournier lives and works in the Perche region and in Paris.

Exhibitions


2026

Pandore, a listening journal #11

Curated by Thierry Fournier. With : Hiromi Asai & Dominique Bacle, Annick Bureaud, Bernard Calet, Juliette Fontaine, Laurent Lacotte, Eric Maillet, Jacqueline Marre, Julie C. Michael, Mylène Pardoën, Simona Polvani & Damiano Meacci, Enrique Ramírez, David Sanson, Armelle Tulunda and Sigolène Valax. Duration: 57’38.

Pandore, a listening journal is a curatorial project taking the form of a free online audio journal that showcases the research of the contributors it invites. Its aim is to create a space for shared attention through listening. It is available free of charge on the Pandore Éditions website and during public listening sessions. Thierry Fournier founded Pandore in 1997 and relaunched it in 2025.

2025

Pandore, a listening journal #10

Curated by Thierry Fournier. With : André Avril, Pierre Beloüin, Roland Cahen, Manou Charpente, Stéphane Cousot, Juliette Fontaine, Thierry Fournier, Théo Girard, Gaëtan Gromer, Laurent Lacotte, Sandrine Nicolas, Manon Nicolay, François Parra, Nahun Saldaña, David Sanson, Xiaojun Song et Antoine Alma, Stéphane Thidet, Marianne Villière, Vassilis Salpistis, Emmanuel Simiand et Claire Williams. Duration 1h03.

Pandore, a listening journal is a curatorial project taking the form of a free online audio journal that showcases the research of the contributors it invites. Its aim is to create a space for shared attention through listening. It is available free of charge on the Pandore Éditions website and during public listening sessions. Thierry Fournier founded Pandore in 1997 and relaunched it in 2025.

 

2024

Lauren Lee McCarthy, Que puis-je pour vous ? (What Can I Do For You?), solo show, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes

Curator and scenographer Thierry Fournier
thierryfournier.net/que-puis-je-pour-vous

What Can I Do for You? is the first solo exhibition in France by the Californian artist Lauren Lee McCarthy, held at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes. It is also one of the first international solo exhibitions dedicated to the artist.

 

2022

This Land Is Your Land, group show, Château de Goutelas, Marcoux

Curated by Thierry Fournier. With Cécile Beau, Joseph Beuys, Céline Cléron, Juliette Fontaine, Bruno Gadenne, Harold Guérin, Laurent Lacotte, Luce Moreau, Flavie Pinatel, Enrique Ramírez, Erik Samakh, Stéphane Thidet and Marie Voignier (cat) : thierryfournier.net/this-land-is-your-land

The group exhibition This Land Is Your Land addresses the landscape as a place of otherness and potential common space, both between humans and with all living things. It evokes the always possible displacement outside our limits, the freedom to migrate, to invest new spaces, between humans and for other species. It also evokes, by way of consequence, the responsibility which results from it towards our environments. It is at the same time a question of freedom, welcome and care.

 

2020

Selphish, group show, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète

Co-curators Thierry Fournier and Pau Waelder. With Martin John Callanan, Alix Desaubliaux et Lauren Lee McCarthy (cat) : thierryfournier.net/selphish

Selphish addresses the exhibition of oneself on the internet, through three new works that change every week to form the portrait of a new person in the audience.

 

2015-2020

Collection Artem, creation of a public art collection in an art school, Ecole nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy, Artem

Co-curators: Thierry Fournier & Jean-François Robardet
https://collection-artem.ensad-nancy.eu

Avec :
In 2020: Victoria Clemens, Anna Coulet, Garance Henry, Rémy Pommeret, Eva Pruciewicz, Marlène Simon, Marie Tralci and Armelle Tulunda – Acquisition panel: Armand Behar, artist and deputy director of the ENSCI Les Ateliers Design Research Centre, and Leïla Simon, art critic and curator
In 2019: Camille Berniard, Anna Coulet, Toân Daubin, Zoé Febvre-Utrilla, Aurélio Gonzalez, Inès Grégoire, Maëlle Hélias, Garance Henry, Gauthier Julié and Mickaël Brun, Clara Maugin, Manon Nicolay, Io Papadatos, Maïmouna Silla, Marianne Thibault and Moïse Vermeil – Acquisition panel: Fabienne Bideaud (art historian and independent curator), Raphaëlle Friot (coordinator and general secretary of Alliance Artem) and Florentine Lamarche-Ovize (artist).
In 2018: Pierre André, Quentin Gaudry, Mathilde Gérard, Juliette Hippert, Élodie Paupe, Cécile Pétry, Rémy Pommeret, Louison Rivière, Clara Sobieski, Tiphaine Stainmesse, Marianne Thibault, Marina Uribe and Alexandre Vilvandre – Acquisition panel: Maude Maris, Stéphane Thidet (artists) and Raphaëlle Friot (coordinator and general secretary of Alliance Artem)
In 2017: Marie Biaudet, Nabila Halim, Marie Léon, Charlotte Munsch, Élodie Paupe, Joana Pécastaings, Hadrien Pelletier, Cécile Pétry, Lise Queïnnec, Justine Rigal, Louison Rivière, Charlotte Tournet, Albéric Vuillemin – Acquisition jury: Marie Bechetoille (independent curator and acting director of the La Synagogue de Delme art centre), Olivier Crancée (chair of Artem Entreprises), Raphaëlle Friot (coordinator and general secretary of Alliance Artem) and Marine Pagès (artist and lecturer at the École supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence).

 

2019

The Watchers, group show, Mori Tower, Tokyo

Curator and apparatus Thierry Fournier. With: Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Marine Pagès and Antoine Schmitt

Tokyo City View, 52nd floor of the Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. Digital Choc Festival, Institut Français de Tokyo x Festival Media Ambition Tokyo
From February 23 to March 3, 2019, 10am-22pm

The Watchers shows three works of Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Marine Pagès and Antoine Schmitt, on the 52nd floor of the Mori Tower, overlooking the entire city of Tokyo. Each of them transforms the image of a camera that films the city live, and is displayed on a screen. The audience watches works that themselves watches at the landscape.

 

2015-2019

Displays, curatorial research group, EnsadLab / Ensad, Paris 

Coordination : Thierry Fournier and J. Emil Sennewald
http://displays.ensadlab.fr

The research group Displays aims to question and experiment with the exhibition forms in a post-digital context, that is pervaded by the presence of digital technology and the Internet throughout both culture and practices.

 

2018

Andrés Baron: Mirror Travelling, solo show, Cité internationale des arts, Paris

Curator Thierry Fournier

The Cité internationale des arts presents Mirror Travelling, Andrés Baron’s first solo exhibition in France, which brings together a collection of works created by the artist between 2016 and 2018: films, videos, prints, objects.

 

2016

Data on view [Données à voir], group show, La Terrasse, Centre d’art de Nanterre

Curators Sandrine Moreau and Thierry Fournier

With Martin John Callanan, Marie-Pierre Duquoc, Hasan Elahi, Öyvind Fahlstrom, Ashley Hunt, Mark Lombardi, Philippe Mairesse, Claire Malrieux, Julien Prévieux, Ward Shelley, Ali Tnani et Lukas Truniger. Publications and editions by James Bridle, Bureau d’études, Eli Commins, Albertine Meunier, On Kawara, Jacopo da Pontormo et Erica Scourti. Performance by Magali Desbazeille. La Terrasse window: The Promise, work in situ by Thierry Fournier.

The exhibition Data on view brings together a selection of international artists and works that offer interpretations of public or personal data through drawing or code: graphs, drawings, network installations, sculptures, publications… These works are addressing various stakes, sensitive and poetic but also critical or political. They question in particular what we expect from data, and how these expectations are likely to define our vision of the world.

2011-2015

Augmented Window [Fenêtre augmentée], series of group exhibitions and site-specific interactive installations

Curator and apparatus by Thierry Fournier. Venues: Centre Pompidou (Paris) 2011; Fort Lagarde / Prats de Mollo 2012; Friche La Belle de Mai (Marseille) 2013, Collioure Royal Castle 2014, La Panacée (Montpellier) 2015.

With: Christelle Bakhache and Clément Feger (social science researchers), David Beytelmann (historian and philosopher), Christine Breton (heritage curator), Pierre Carniaux (filmmaker), Jean Cristofol (philosopher), Céline Flécheux (philosopher and art historian), Benjamin Laurent Aman, Ivan Argote, Marie-Julie Bourgeois, Grégory Chatonsky, Juliette Fontaine, Thierry Fournier, Simon Hitziger, Marie Husson, Tomek Jarolim, Luce Moreau, Marine Pagès, François Parra, Jean-François Robardet, Marcos Serrano and Antoine Schmitt (artists).

The Augmented Window project offers an interactive window onto a landscape as a collective exhibition space. A camera films a live view of a selected landscape. The invited artists present works that take this view as their starting point: videos, interactive works, drawings…

 

2014

What is Missing: curatorial workshop and group show, La Panacée, Montpellier

Curated by Thierry Fournier. Works by Armand Béhar, Laura Gozlan, Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin

In collaboration with students from the University of Montpellier 3: Lydie Blanc, Laura Dauzat, Floriane Davin, Marion Gaudillère, Mariko Koetsenruijter, Simon Kounovsky, Marion Paul, Coralie Puyau, Thomas Fourcroy, Annaëve Saïag, Mossi Soltan, Céline Valiente, and with the participation of Jean-Damien Gros, Jean-Sébastien Colas and Thibaut Lozenguez.

In partnership with the University of Montpellier 3 Paul Valéry, the École de La Panacée offers an art experience to a group of students each year, creating a space for the transmission and sharing of knowledge, as part of a process of research and experimentation. In 2013–2014, La Panacée entrusted the curatorship to Thierry Fournier, who proposed the project *Ce qui manque*. The invited artists were Armand Béhar, Laura Gozlan, Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin. The project invited students to participate in the entire creative process behind this exhibition, its artworks and a publication dedicated to the project.

 

2010-2012

Cohabitation, workshops and group exhibitions, Galerie NaNiMa, École nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy

Co-ordinators and curators: Thierry Fournier and Jean-François Robardet

Works by Alice Adenis, Romain Hantz et Jérôme Gonzales ; Anne-Sophie Banach, Laureline Maudet and Guillaume Cadot ; Wei Chang, Charlotte Moreau and Se Won Hwang ; Benoît Henry ; Brice Mantovani ; Xiao-Jun Song & Guilhem Mariotte ; Marianne Villière (2012) Mathieu Sarrasin & Sylvain Spanu ; Mélanie Jayantha, Laura Kwan, Florence Pewzer et Marie Rollin ; Aurélia Lucchesi ; Kathy Denise, Coralie Forissier & Jenny Partouche ; Thierry Fournier ; Jean-François Robardet (2011)

The Cohabitation project is dedicated to works that incorporate digital media and presents five installations sharing the same space, each of which offers an interactive experience for visitors and/or an interaction with the other installations.

 

2006-2007

Echolalie, curatorial collective

With Thierry Fournier, Marie Husson, Jean-François Robardet (artists), Myriam Marzouki (director), Daniel Migairou (producer), Valérie Pihet (Sciences Po – School of Political Arts), Isabelle Pellegrini (author), Gérald Gauguier (communications officer).

A collective dedicated to interdisciplinary creations, active from 2006 to 2008, Écholalie explored the intersections between the visual arts, the performing arts, digital media and writing. Its project was based on a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge, information and resources available to artists engaged in these fields of research. In 2007, Écholalie organised a series of five lectures featuring Miguel Benasayag (philosopher and psychoanalyst), Samuel Bianchini (artist), Céline Flécheux (philosopher), Per Hüttner (artist) and Bruno Latour (philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist), as well as the Open 2007 event, which showcased works by Samuel Bianchini, Manuel Coursin and Théo Kooijman, Emma Dusong, Juliette Fontaine, Pascal Kirsch, Bénédicte Le Lamer and artists who were members of the collective.