LATEST EXHIBITIONS

Diffracted Self with Younes Baba-Ali, Lucile Bertrand, Cathryn Boch and Michèle Magema

November 8, 2024

‘Diffracted Self’ at Irène Laub Gallery prompts a reflection on the stakes brought about by memory, identity, and exposure in a world stained by conflicts.

Antson’ ny tontolo miaina/Interpeller le vivant 1 & 2

October 18, 2024

Ce projet met en avant la capacité de l'art et de la culture à agir en faveur de l'environnement à Madagascar, les artistes choisis questionnent l'urgence climatique de Madagascar où la sagesse locale peut apporter des solutions adaptées.

A Dobradiça biennale 2, Mação, Portugal

July 3, 2023

La jeune biennale A Dobradiça – Encontros Contemporâneos, créée en 2021, se situe au carrefour des arts visuels et du débat d’idées. L’édition 2023 vise à combler le fossé entre l’évidence des catastrophes environnementales imminentes.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Peter Fillingham Basil Dress, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

July 26, 2025

Peter Fillingham has been the custodian of Basil Dean belonging to Tacida Dean's grand father. At the start of WW2 in 1939 Basil Dean and others put their collective expertise together for ENSA, to create the biggest entertainment facilities.

Interview between Jean-David Nkot and Cécile Bourne-Farrell at the ooccasion of Jean David Nkot exhibition 'Théâtre des Corps – Drame de la Matière', Galerie Afikaris , Paris

July 26, 2025

Entretien entre Jean-David Nkot and Cécile Bourne-Farrell at the occasion of the artist show 'Théâtre des Corps – Drame de la Matière', Galerie Afikaris , Paris curated by Christine Eyene, 22 May - 21 June 2025 https://afikaris.com/exhibitions/51-

Screening of Kumjana Novakova’s award winning film, 'Silence of Reason' (2023)

January 13, 2025

Join us for this special screening of Kumjana Novakova’s award winning film, 'Silence of Reason' (2023) followed by a Q&A and discussion with the film’s director.

Europa Oxalá

December 16, 2024

This exhibition presents around 60 works by 21 artists with family backgrounds originating in the former colonies in Africa. Born and raised in a post-colonial context, these are artists who became essential in European contemporary art.

Interview between Shivanjani Lal and Cécile Bourne-Farrell

December 10, 2024

At the occasion of Arts Cabinet new editorial theme related to Migration, we commissioned Shivanjani Lal to collaborate with her artistic proposition 'Water is the Longest Separation' and I conducted an inspiring interview with the artist.

Elisa Moris Val, Bittersweet France

November 4, 2024

'Bittersweet France', follows the traces left by the massive arrival of sugar from colonised territories to hexagonal France at the times of slavery (1642-1848 for the official dates). What are the traces of it we have today around us? Our interview

BIOGRAPHY

Cécile Bourne-Farrell is an exhibition curator for public and private structures.

Since 2015, she is a fellow curator in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and at Arts Cabinet, London.

Her curatorial projects focus on decolonial practices based on a curatorial ethos between artists, institutional and private infrastructures. Current curatorial projects include:

- ’Seas, Lands and Bodies Crossed’, April 28th. till May 21 @ La Traverse, Marseille with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Francis Alÿs, Shivanjani Lal, Louisa Marajo, Tuli Mekondjo, Otobong Nkanga and Jean-Paul Thibeau.

- 'Antson’ ny tontolo miaina/Interpeller le vivant', Antananarivo, Madagascar, May 20-June 5th., with Malala Andrialavidrazana, Cyrille Cornu, Andrée Ethève, Miora Rajaonary, Richiany Ratovo, a collaboration with Ihoby Rabarijohn, co-curator and

- A Dobradiça Biennale, Mação, Portugal, July 6th.-August 11th. 2023

- ‘Mapping Injury’, a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (Horizon Europe Guarantee) working with Vivienne Jabri in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Cécile Bourne-Farrell is a member of AICA, AWITA and CIMAM and writes regularly about contemporary artists.