Larys Frogier

Post-gratuated in Art History, Larys Frogier was also a researcher at the Archives for Art Criticism (Rennes) and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris).
For many years, he has taught contemporary art history and curatorial studies in different academies.
From 2000 to 2010, he was the Director of the contemporary art centre La Criée France.
In 2010-2011, he has been selected by the British Council as Cultural Leader inside their “Cultural Leadership International” program.
In 2011, he made successful the funding for Culture from the European Commission for conceiving and unfolding the researches, residencies, exhibitions programs Art Cooperation Transmission (A.C.T.) Democ(k)racy in Belgrade (Serbia), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Rennes (France), Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
He has been the Director of Rockbund Art Museum (RAM) in Shanghai since 2012.
Since 2013, he has been the Chair of the HUGO BOSS ASIA ART jury and he conceived this new award, exhibition and research program as an evolving platform to question Asia as a construction to investigate rather than a monolithic area or fixed identities.
In 2020, he engaged Rockbund Art Museum in the long term research program conceived by the independent curator Biljana Ciric As you go... roads under your feet, towards a new future.
He facilitated multiple partnerships with international institutions such as Berardo Foundation Lisbon, Dancing Museum-Boris Charmatz Rennes, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino, Department of Chalcography Louvre Museum Paris, NTU CCA Singapore, Maumaus School of Visual Arts Lisbon, Palais de Tokyo Paris, Para Site Hong Kong, Tramway Glasgow, Portikus Frankfurt...
Around the international Atlantic arc, Larys Frogier has curated long term artistic projects (residencies, exhibitions, publications) exploring the links and ruptures between Africa, Europe, and the Americas: Just A Walk (2006), Pipedream (2007-2009), Social Landscape (2010), Allan Sekula (2011-2012), Algerian openings (2003).
He (co)curated exhibitions with international artists: Adel Abdessemed (2021, 2003), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (2016 with Li Qi), Paola Pivi (2012, 2007) , Philippe Parreno (2017), Trinh T. Minh-ha (2021-22), Ugo Rondinone (2014, 2003 with Odile Lemée, David Perreau), Tobias Rehberger (2019 with Billy Tang), Barthelemy Toguo (2000), Yang Jiechang (2011)... as well as research projects and group exhibitions such as Curtain (2020-22 with Cosmin Costinas, Celia Ho, Anqi Li, Billy Tang, Xu Tiantian), Walking on the Fade Out Lines (2018 with Hsieh Feng Rong), From Gesture to Language (2013 with Pascal Torres Guardiola), Risk The Real (2009), Campy Vampy Tacky (2002 with Alain Buffard), Ex-Change (1999).
He has organized different symposiums like the following :
. Contemporary art, Curating and Social Engagement in XXth Century China, 2014, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
. Asia Art Mutations, Language and Social Practice, 2013, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China.
. Contemporary art and history of the arts : Anachronisms, References & Documents, Archives for Art Criticism, Rennes, France.
. Ex-Tensions, African creations and post-colonialism, 2009, Champs Libres, Rennes, France.
. Acting on AIDS, Cultural and Political Activism in France, 1996, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom.
. Art History and Art Criticism : The task of Description, 1994, Archives de la critique d’art, 1994, University of Rennes, France.
. Images of Disease 1790-1990, 1995, Musée d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France.
In 2020, with Alfie Chua, he founded the duo artists Ocean & Wavz engaged in text, sound and image creation.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
EXHIBITION
- John Armleder: Again, Just Again
- Curtain
- HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2019
- Tobias Rehberger : If you don’t use your eyes to see, you will use them to cry
- Walking On The Fade Out Lines
- HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2017
- Philippe Parreno: Synchronicity
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2015
- UGO RONDINONE: BREATHE WALK DIE
- HUGO BOSS ASIA ART
- From Gesture To Language
- Paola Pivi: Share, But It's Not Fair
PROGRAM
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- RAM Conversation: Tobias Rehberger: If you don’t use your eyes to see, you will use them to cry--Artist & Curators’ Talk
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- From a History of Exhibitions towards a Future of Exhibition-Making---“Second Assembly: Exhibition-Making Practices in China and Southeast Asia in the 1990s”
- CPA Talk | Researching on Exhibitions Histories: A Decisive Challenge for the Development of Contemporary Art in Asia
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- Dialogue: Meeting “the Other” in Art
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- Members Night丨Exclusive Guide Tour by the Curators
- Artist Talk: Failure and Responsibility in Photography
- RAM Talk: Opening Dialogue| Curating and Collecting on the Fade Out Line
- Exhibition Plus: Tours by RAM Team
- Members Event: Director Talk
- RAM Talk: Screens, a Historical Survey into Art Exhibitions
- RAM Talk: Opening Talk and Tour
- Exhibition Plus · Guided Tour by the Director
- Rockbund Art Museum and Shanghai Project present the international conference “AUDIENCES”
- Exhibition Plus·Guide Plus
- RAM Talk: Becoming Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- “Felix Gonzalez-Torres” Curators’ Dialogue
- RAM Members' Guided Tour by the Director
- RAM Members' Guided Tour by the Director
- 【Exhibition Plus · Guided Tour】Tour by the director of RAM
- 【Exhibition Plus · Guided Tour】Tours by the curatorial team of RAM
- 【HUGO BOSS ASIA ART 2015】Home-City Conversation │Body as a medium and Myanmar performance art history
- 【RAM校园】讲座:艺术制造:从美术馆到艺术家
- 【RAM Member Special · Tours】Tours by directors of RAM
- 【Postponed】【RAM Member Special · Tours】Tours by directors of RAM
- 【Exhibition Plus · Guided Tour】Tours by the curatorial team of RAM
- 【Night @ RAM · Lecture】Vive Le Capital, an evening where art meets global commerce
- Tours by the curatorial team of RAM
- BREATHE WALK DIE Curator’s talk
- Curator's Tours
- Curator’s Tours
- Panel discussion: The art of Bharti Kher: (dis)locations and mutations
- Curator‘s Tour
- 2013 RAM FORUM
- Curator's Guide
- Curator's Guide
- RAM Forum 2012: Education at Contemporary Art Museums in China