Curators

The figure of the "curator" is decisive in the system of contemporary art. For that reason, the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard invites young curators to organize collective exhibitions every year as part of a broader ambition to support the art scene in all its diversity and accompany its development as closely as possible.
In order to continue dialoging and exchanging with curators and art critics, the Fondation has decided to provide a networking tool for curators on its website, as well as a database on the careers and projects of these young exhibition organizers. The new section is notably intended for art professionals (directors of institutions and biennial events, gallery owners, etc.), but is more generally open to everyone interested in keeping up to date with the most recent evolutions of the art world.

The section will also regularly feature the "critical vision" of one of these curators. To receive updates about this, please subscribe to the newsletter.
You may also find the project developed by Jean-Max Colard, an art critic and exhibition curator, who will regularly write on his dreams of art. Whether dreams of exhibitions, performances, events, or discussions in art circles, these short texts are like the nightly, floating surface of a daytime, logical critical activity - but also the dream of another art criticism.

In keeping with these invitations, the Fondation d'entreprise Ricard and the FIAC (Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain) support the YCI program (Young Curators Invitational). Young art critics from all countries, the most promising personalities in the emerging generation of intellectuals, critics, and exhibition curators are thus invited during the FIAC to discover the Parisian art scene and to meet artists, collectors, gallery owners, curators, and critics. The Fondation d'entreprise Ricard aims to promote the international visibility of the young art scene with the rising figures in art criticism.

Members of YCI Program 2009 :

• Vincenzo de Bellis & Bruna Roccasalva (Milan)
• ohannes Fricke Waldthausen (Berlin)
• Christina Linden (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
• Sarah Robayo Sheridan (Toronto)
• Zhang Yaxuan (Beijing)

Selected by :

• Ann Ellegood, Hammer Museum - Los Angeles
• Jens Hofmann, Wattis Institute - San Francisco
• Beatrix Ruf, Kusnthalle - Zurich
• Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou - Paris
• Hu Fang, Commissaire indépendant - Guangzhu