Biography, Cécile Bourne-Farrell

Based in London since September 2013, Cécile Bourne-Farrell is a curator and advisor for public and private structures. She has excellent connections in the field of contemporary art, she is fluent in English and Spanish, and has a good understanding of German and Italian.

Advisor for AIC in 2004, in AIA 2006 and from Oct. 09 till Jan. 2010; Coordinator at Drac Ile de France & for the CNAP (2002-08); Committee member of the Fondation Nmac/Montenmedio, Spain (2003-01) and Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2008-07). Teaches regularly at Paris School of Art, Paris. Aica and C-E-A active member.

Cultural mediator for the Fondation de France for the implementation of the New Patrons from 2003-08 in Spain, and since 2013 for the suburb of Paris, in collaboration with Mari Linnman, accredited mediator for the Ile de France region.

2018 Invited by AIR351 residency program to make some research on post-colonial issues in Portugal.http://www.cecile-bourne-farrell.com/wp-admin/edit.php

2019 Curator Special projects and advisor of Arts Cabinet, London

CURATING

2020 to date

Curator of “Resilience, an Aptitude“, with Iván Argote, Younes Baba-Ali, Shiraz Bayjoo, Eirene Efstathiou, Michèle Magema, Corinne Silva and Yonamine, at Irène Laub gallery, Brussels, Belgium (March.10^th.-May 15^th2020).

Curator of “Puxar Pela Lingua/Breaking the Rule of Silence“, AIR351, Cascais, Portugal (with (Sofia Aguiar, Vasco Araújo, Daniel Barroca, António Bolota, Manuel Botelho, Luís Campos e Cunha, Márcio Carvalho, Tomás Colaço, Ângela Ferreira, Virgílio Guimarães, João Marçal Carrega, Nuno Nunes-Ferreira, Edgar de Oliveira, Carlos Restolho, Julião Sarmento, Leonor Veiga, Ana Vidigal and Yonamine).
Invited Curator “La Place de l’Humain”, Douala SUD2017 triennale, Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon (with Mustapha Akrim , Iván Argote , Sylvie Blocher , Justin Ebanda Ebanda, Justine Gaga, Erik Goëngrich, Lucas Grandin, Chourouk Hriech, Jean-Jacques Kanté, Michèle Magema, Jean-David Nkot, The Trinity Session, Kamiel Verschuren, Hervé Yamguen, Emile Youmbi and Hervé Youmbi).

2015/16

Invited Curator for “Traces of War” (2016), residency and exhibition-project for King’s College War department, with Vivienne Jabri, director of research.Participating artists are: Jananne Al-Ani, Baptist Coelho and Shaun Gladwell. (Catalogue)
Invited Curator for “Mare Medi Terraneum/La Mer au Milieu des Terres”, Es Baluard Museum, La Palma, Spain, March-August. (Catalogue: Catalan, English and Spanish, isbn:978 94 9232 1114,www.merpaperkunsthalle.org).

2013

Curator of “Une pièce de monnaie de Monsieur Risso”, by Baptist Coelho, Commune Image, Saint-Ouen.
Invited curator for the Pavillon of the Palais de Tokyo, invited to take part to the Anglet Biennale with the 2012-2013 resident artists: Carlotta BAILLY-BORG, Feiko BECKERS, Julie BENA, Daiga GRANTINA, Francesco FONASSI,Peter MILLER, Julien PEREZ, Agnieszka RYSZKIEWICZ, Gonçalo SENA and Theo TURPIN.
Curator of ”Stagedivine/Flashforward & Co”, a project by Jérôme Poret, Lavomatic Studio, Saint-Ouen

2012

Invited Curator of “Shuffling Cards”, with Mohssin Harraki, Katia Kameli, Farah Khelil, Grace Ndiritu, Otobong Nkanga, Catherine Poncin, Karim Rafi, Andrea Stultiens, Achraf Touloub and James Webb, à Art-Cade, Nov. 15th – January 30th 2013.
Invited Curator of “Contained Measures, Tangible Memories: Indigo Regina”, a site-specific project by Otobong Nkanga at L’appartement22, Rabat, Marocco. From Feb 25th – April 29th.
Curator of “Solid Objects” by Sanna Marander, from February 3rd – March 10th.Lavomatique Studio, 6 rue Claude Monet, 93400 Saint-Ouen.

2011

Curator of “Proximity”, by Charlotte Moth, Lavomatique Studio, 6 rue Claude Monet, 93400 Saint-Ouen, till October 18th.,www.lavomaticseamusfarrell.com
Curator of “ L’inattendu du Tout Monde, an Hommage to Goddy Leye with Joel Andrianomearisoa, Mohssin Harraki, Katia Kameli, Perrine Lacroix, Jesús Palomino, Otobong Nkanga, Younès Rahmoun”, L’appartement22, Rabat, invited by Art-O-Rama, Marseille, Sept. 2nd-19th., http://www.art-o-rama.fr/
Invited curator of “Histoires non encore racontées avec José Arnaud Bello, Santiago Borja, Jonathan Hernandez“, Maison Daura et Centre d’art de Cajarc, Summer 2011.
Curator of the presentations of Mohssin Harraki, Timothy Mason, Peter Fillingham, Mohamed Fekraoui at Lavomatique Studio, Saint-Ouen, 6 rue Claude Monet. Opening April 18th. Shaun Gladwell

2010

Participates to “Snowball effect”, a project by Charlotte Moth & Peter Fillingham at Mains d’Oeuvres, with the presentation of the work of Achraf Touloub (http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org/rubriq...), Dec. 8th-11th.
Invited curator of “Contingences” at the Marie of IX, Paris, October 15-29th. One Year residency programme (www.orangerouge.org)
Co-curator with Muriel Lardau of “the Spring of the Poets”, Salon de lecture, Musée du quai Branly, Paris.
2009 [ Invited curator of “http://issuu.com/cecilebf/docs/doss…Other measures->http://chooseone.org/spip.php?rubrique29]”, a selection of artists dealing with scale in Photography and Cinema at the Centre de la Photographie Ile de France and for Pointligneplan at la Fémis.

2008

Curator of “This is Now, 1& 2“, for L’appartement22, Rabat for Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South africa and Rabat, with the financial support of Artlogic, AMC and Cultures France.
Conception and edification of a “Interpretation Centre of the Wind” in the Province of Cadiz, conceived by Doctor Aurora Herrera Gomez, Architect, Madrid (with Feder funds and regional supports) according to the Methodology of the New Patrons.

2006-05

Co-curator of “Copresences“, with Abdellah Karroum and Anne-Marie Morice for one year multidisciplinary projects between Saint-Denis (Synesthésie), Rabat (L’appartement22) and Vejer de la Frontera (AMC), production of the film «Hermanados» by Bouchra Khalili.

2003

Curator of “Echo Blossom”, featuring Hsia-Fei Chang, espacio El Gallo, Salamanca, Spain

2002

Curator of the exchange residency programme “RondPoint” between the fine arts school of Nantes and Kinshasa (Démocratic Republic of Congo), with the support of Afaa and the Prins Claus Foundation.

2001

Curator of Ken Lum public project for the Mois de la Photo de Montréal, in collaboration with Museum in Progress, Vienna.

1999-00

Curator of the travelling show “+8+7+3+1-1-5” based on time differences, according to where the artists are living. The project took place at: the Malinki Manege in Moscow Glassbox , in Paris; Project 304, Bangkok, Thailand; San Casciano dei Bagni in Toscani, Italy. (tri-lingual leaflet+ www.chooseone.org).

1999-98

Curator of ‘You Talked/I Listen’, a project that included 10 artists living in Europe and 10 living in Taiwan. Artists were invited to come first to Taiwan for 3 weeks and then to France to produce site-specific projects. She also organised a film programme with young Taiwanese filmmakers at The Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Ferme du Buisson, with the support of AFAA/DAP/DAI/Goethe Institut/Fondation Merian, Ministerio de asuntos exteriores and Shiseido, Taiwan. (tri-lingual catalogue).

1998-92

Exhibitions and Communications Coordinator at Arc/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris for the following shows: ‘Lieux Communs/Figures Singulières’, (J.F.Chevrier, curator); ’Ateliers 94’ ; ‘La Belle et la Bête’(L.Gumpert, curator ); ‘Life/Live’; Annette Messager ; Koo Jeong-A, Agnès Martin, Jean-Luc Moulène, ‘Migrateurs’, by Hans Ulrich Obrist (on Gabriel Orozco, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mika Vaino…), ‘Instants Donnés’, etc.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & PARTICIPATIONS

“Retourner le gant de l’Histoire”, for ‘Europa Oxalá’, MRAC, Tervuren; Mucen, Marseille and Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon
“Antoher connection to colonial time”, (Convocarte, n°8 p. 91-106), research made at the occasion of a residency at AIR351, Cascais, Portugal on the “Retornados” and specifically on the works of Manuel Botelho, Daniel Barroca, Monica de Miranda, Nuno Nunes Fereira, Ana Vidigal and Yonamine
Interviews related to the notion of Sugar with Llona Nemeth, Zineb Sedira, Julian Germain, on https://www.artscabinet.org/contributors/cecile-bourne-farrell
Union Jacking, the Voice of the Voice£ess, Yonamine, Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, JulyOct.2019.http://www.cecile-bourne-farrell.com/union-jacking-the-voice-of-thevoies/?lang=en
Yapci Ramos, “Nothing is true, everything is living”, Caac Las Palmas and Casa Africa, Gran Canarias, 2019
Douglas Gordon, Frac Montpellier, 2018

“Interview with Soufiane Ababri”, in Some Things We Africans Got, #6
Intervention for MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins
Delphina Foundation, invited to visit the residents
Some Things We Africans Got, #4, interview with Syham Weigan on SUD2017
War for Presence: Conflict and Identity at the Art-IR Nexus, June 2018, King’s college London
“Near and Far: Desynchronised Perspectives of Our Contemporary History”, Catalogue de la Collection du Frac Normandie Caen, 2002/2014“, Editions Dilecta, 2018; Isbn: 978 2373 720518
Co-producer of Charlotte Moth’s project for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2017;
Introduction aux « Non-Dits » de l’artiste Jean-David Nkot, à propos du discours de Ruben Um Nyobè devant l’Onu en 1952 , Publication SUD2017;
Art Public in Africa, Art et Transformations urbaines à Douala, Metis Press, 2017;
Hrair Sarkissian, Armenian Pavillon, Venice (http://www.armenity.net/),
Interview with Jananne Al-Ani, n°59 Multitudes, (http://www.multitudes.net/la-frappe…),
“Did Someone Say European Cultural Responsibility?”, Exhibition catalogue “Prophetia”, Fundacion Miro, Barcelona, Opening, March 12th. – June 7th 2015 http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/exp..;
« Révélations au crayon papier, Bic et feutre sur nécrologies, 200 de dessins de Txuspo Poyo » à propos de 200 dessins de Txuspo Poyo réalisés sur une séléction d’articles de journaux de 2001 à 2014.
« Sous nos Yeux, d’autres Cartographies du Rif », Macba, published in Art Papers, July/August issue 2014, “PARCEQU’IL faudrait poser un autre regard sur la notion d’espace public”, June 2014, Isbn 2-916654-02-X ;
“Roses et Camélias”, April 2014, Editions P, Isbn 978-2-917768-36-5; Contributing editor of Art Papers.
Arturo Hernandez Alcazar,15 février 2014; “Escombro”, ed. El Mojado,
Paris;GR2013. [plastik] [en ligne], Plastik #04 Art et biodiversité : un art durable ?;
Farah Khelil, “Impression en Noir ou impression à l’usage de ceux qui voient”;
“Pourquoi l’artiste n’a-t-il pas fait u ne sculpture sur le Rond Point?“, ed. PARCEQUE project, Marseille;
AtWork27.org for Lettera 27;
’French Connection’,’Global Multitude’, Luxemburg,
Idensidad, Barcelona;
Frac Lorraine,
Berlin Biennale for Pascale Marthine Tayou, Huang Yong Ping,
Tsuneko Tanuichi’s, monographies, for Hermine Bourgadier, Younes Rhamoun, Hsia-Fei Chang, Otobong Nkanga, Pilar Albarracin and Alice Maher, etc. Writes for magazines: Artco, Art Papers, Esete, Flash Art, Exporevue.com, Sculptures, Metalocus, Periférica, RevistaArco, Yishu.
Participations to professional meetings and judging panels: Publico, Que Publico?, Es Baluard Museum, Palma; Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Metz, Pavillon08 (Palais de Tokyo), Symposium Appartement22, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture, Rabat and Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Marrakech (Oct. 07), Universidad Politecnica de Madrid para la escuela tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, 2007-08; IKT Lab3, Gulbenkian Foundation Paris (13), IKT congres in Vaduz (07) and Montreal (08), Ensba Paris; Interaccio06, Barcelona, La Force de l’Art, Paris; Technarte in Bilbao, Idensitat in Manresa http://www.idensitat.org/, Cipac in Metz, o Urban 4 Market at Arteleku, San Sebastian.
2018 invited curator AIR351, Cascais, Lisbon, Portugal
Invited for curatorial residency at Iaspis in 2008 and in 2006 received a grant from the city of Xiamen, China for setting up public projets, in 1996 received a grant from the Chinese Foundation of Taïwan for prospecting new filmmakers and artists.

EDUCATION

Ecole du Louvre (1984-1987), Ecole des Médiateurs du Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble (1987-88). 1991/88 Coordination of F.Armaly show in Saint-Etienne (Y. Aupetitallot, curator) and of ‘Le Diaphane’, Tourcoing (D.Zacharopoulos, curator). Coordination and production of artist’s works of ( Rodney Graham, Juan Muñoz, Antoni Muntadas,…) for the Marga Paz gallery , Madrid. Assitant of F. Kaiser for the exhibition ‘Meltem’ (L.Baumgarten, J. Kounelis, S.Lewitt), in Oiron castle.